Deadly Force, Colonialism, and the Rule of Law
Subtitle: Police Violence in Guyana (Contributions in Comparative Colonial Studies)
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: September 30, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780313311048
Subjects: Colonization & independence; Police & security services; Violence in society; Political Science; Legal Reference / Law Profession; Politics/International Relations; Guyana; Criminology; Ethnic Studies - General; General; Social Science / Criminology; Political Freedom & Security - Law Enforcement; History; Police; Police brutality
First sentence: The importance of historical antecedents in generating explanatory insights into current phenomena has been consistently argued by social commentators ranging from Marx and Engels in the early nineteenth century, to Huntington and Tilly.
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