Understanding Police Use of Force: Officers, Suspects, and Reciprocity

ISBN-13: 9780521546751 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 191 str.

Geoffrey P. Alpert; Roger G. Dunham

Opis

Although most police activities do not involve the use of force, those that do reflect important patterns of interaction between officer and citizen. After a brief survey of prior research, this study presents new data and findings to examine these patterns. The force factor applied and the sequential order of incidents of force is included in the analysis. The authors also examine police use of force from the suspect's perspective, and create a new conceptual framework, the Authority Maintenance Theory, for examining and assessing police use of force.

Recenzje

'This book is a valuable resource. The contents could well be useful for officers, instructors and policy makers as well as academics …'. British Journal of Sociology

Spis treści

Introduction: the context of police use of force; 1. Police use of force: the history of research; 2. The crucial element: finding research sites; 3. Findings from Miami-Dade Police Department study; 4. The sequential steps in use of force incidents; 5. MDPD: inconsistencies between officer and suspect accounts of the use of force; 6. Findings from Prince George's County Police Department; 7. Findings and summary; 8. Explaining police use of force: the breakdown of an authority maintenance ritual.