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

    Understanding Police Use of Force by Alpert, Geoffrey P.; Dunham, Roger G.;

    Officers, Suspects, and Reciprocity

    Series: Cambridge Studies in Criminology;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Cambridge University Press
    • Date of Publication 9 August 2004

    • ISBN 9780521546751
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages202 pages
    • Size 226x150x15 mm
    • Weight 270 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 10 b/w illus. 24 tables
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    Short description:

    This book presents important data and findings about the police use of force.

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    Long description:

    Whenever police officers come into contact with citizens there is a chance that the encounter will digress to one in which force is used on a suspect. Fortunately, most police activities do not involve the use of force. But those that do reflect important patterns of interaction between the officer and the citizen. This book examines those patterns. It begins with a brief survey of prior research, and then goes on to present data and findings. Among the data are the force factor applied - that is, the level of force used relative to suspect resistance - and data on the sequential order of incidents of force. The authors also examine police use of force from the suspect's perspective. In analyzing this data they put forward a conceptual framework, the Authority Maintenance Theory, for examining and assessing police use of force.

    '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

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    Table of Contents:

    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.

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