Understanding Police Use of Force
Subtitle: Officers, Suspects, and Reciprocity (Cambridge Studies in Criminology)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 16, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780521837736
Subjects: Police & security services; Restraint of prisoners; Police brutality; Social Science; Sociology; United States; Criminology; Political Freedom & Security - Law Enforcement; Social Science / Criminology; Arrest (Police methods); Police discretion
First sentence: THE DIFFICULTIES associated with conducting research on a group such as the police that, historically, has had great power and autonomy should not be underestimated.