Do Police Need Guns?: Policing and Firearms: Past, Present and Future

ISBN-13: 9789811595257 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 141 str.

Richard Evans; Clare Farmer

Spis treści

Chapter 1 The edge of the knife: force, the state and police power.- Chapter 2 Friendly persuasion: The minimum force tradition.- Chapter 3 As well armed as the criminal: the armed tradition.- Chapter 4 Is the community safer if police are routinely armed?.- Chapter 5 Are police safer if they are routinely armed?.- Chapter 6 The Devil’s Right Hand: the place of guns in culture.- Chapter 7 The impossible dream? Towards minimum-force policing.

O autorze

Dr. Richard Evans is a Lecturer in criminology at Deakin University. Richard is the author of four books including Disasters that Changed Australia (MUP 2009) and The Pyjama Girl Mystery (Scribe 2004). A former journalist, his teaching and research interests include drugs and crime, disasters, surveillance, policing, and miscarriages of justice. He believes that criminology can and should help build a more just society.

Dr. Clare Farmer has been a member of the Deakin Criminology team since 2010. Her research interests include the challenge of balancing the competing needs of offenders, victims and the wider community within/across the criminal justice system; responses to anti-social behaviour; police powers; human rights; young offenders; and sentencing principles and practices. Clare’s Ph.D. examined the growth of discretionary police powers in Victoria: their rationale, scrutiny and the consequences for due process and individual rights.