When police kill
When Police Kill is the first comprehensive analysis of police use of lethal force in the United States. The first seven chapters of this volume provide a summary and analysis of the known facts about killings by police. Who dies from police gunfire? What circumstances provoke police to shoot? Why i...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press
2017.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b47411491*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I. The character and causes of police violence: The double transformation of police killings in America
- Killings by police: the numbers game
- Who dies, where and why? : on the social characteristics of victims, the settings and the explanations of killings by police
- Only in America? : police killings in other modern nations
- The problem of police safety
- Trends over time in killings of and by police in the United States
- On costs and consequences: how much do black lives (and white lives) matter?
- Part II. Prevention and control of police killings: The missing links: reporting, documentation, and evaluation in a federal system
- Mission impossible? : the limits and potential of criminal law
- Cops and cameras
- The heart of the matter: governance and training for local policing
- American possibilities, American limits.
