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2018
The ability of the police to assert social control and reproduce social order depends, crucially, on the capacity to use force to achieve these ends—whether when restraining someone attempting to self-harm or shooting dead an armed terrorist. But what do we know about police use of force in the United States and England and Wales?
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The ability of the police to assert social control and reproduce social order depends, crucially, on the capacity to use force to achieve these ends—whether when restraining someone attempting to self-harm or shooting dead an armed terrorist. But what do we know about police use of force in the United States and England and Wales?
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Representative Policing and Violence Towards the Police
Policing, 2014Conflict theories suggest that groups lacking access to the political process, such as racial minorities, may resort to violence to achieve their goals and protest against injustice perpetuated by the state. Given their visibility, police officers may be particularly vulnerable to striking out by politically excluded groups; however, no research of ...
K. Barrick, M. J. Hickman, K. J. Strom
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Police violence is the pandemic
2023Widespread outrage at police violence, fatal shootings, and deaths in police custody created the current international protest movements and calls to Defund the Police. However, as shown in previous chapters, there is a long history to protests against police violence, and there are multiple movements to change policing globally which draw on localised
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2023
Abstract This book makes the case that increasing the effectiveness of the police in gun-violence prevention is both possible and essential. It is essential because in many cities, gun violence is the most pressing crime problem, making cities less liveable and negatively affecting economic development.
Anthony A. Braga, Philip J. Cook
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Abstract This book makes the case that increasing the effectiveness of the police in gun-violence prevention is both possible and essential. It is essential because in many cities, gun violence is the most pressing crime problem, making cities less liveable and negatively affecting economic development.
Anthony A. Braga, Philip J. Cook
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American Journal of Sociology, 1953
A case-study of a municipal police force in the United States suggests that the illegal use of violence by the police is a consequence of their occupational experience and that the policeman's colleague group sanctions such usage. Policemen see this use of violence as morally acceptable and legitimate it in terms of ends defined by the colleague group ...
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A case-study of a municipal police force in the United States suggests that the illegal use of violence by the police is a consequence of their occupational experience and that the policeman's colleague group sanctions such usage. Policemen see this use of violence as morally acceptable and legitimate it in terms of ends defined by the colleague group ...
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2003
Egon Bittner defines the role of the police as “a mechanism for the distribution of nonnegotiably coercive force employed in accordance with the dictates of an intuitive grasp of situational exigencies” (Bittner, 1970/1990:131).1 This definition should be read in conjunction with Max Weber’s dictum that the State is defined by its monopoly on the use ...
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Egon Bittner defines the role of the police as “a mechanism for the distribution of nonnegotiably coercive force employed in accordance with the dictates of an intuitive grasp of situational exigencies” (Bittner, 1970/1990:131).1 This definition should be read in conjunction with Max Weber’s dictum that the State is defined by its monopoly on the use ...
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2021
Police violence leads to worse educational outcomes and youth mental health in the immediate vicinity of incidents.
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Police violence leads to worse educational outcomes and youth mental health in the immediate vicinity of incidents.
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Policing Male Violence — Policing Women
1987This chapter, based on existing literature concerning women and violence and the Wandsworth Violence Against Women — Women Speak Out Survey, examines the nature and extent of men’s violence to women and the police response. Its starting point is the recognition that men’s violence to women is a political issue, expressing the basic power relations of ...
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Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management, 2014
Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to generate information about the contours of police responsiveness, focussing on how quickly and precisely police make firearm arrests after a shooting incident.Design/methodology/approach– Using a modified version of the Knox close pair method, a spatio-temporal clustering technique, over 11,000 shooting ...
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Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to generate information about the contours of police responsiveness, focussing on how quickly and precisely police make firearm arrests after a shooting incident.Design/methodology/approach– Using a modified version of the Knox close pair method, a spatio-temporal clustering technique, over 11,000 shooting ...
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The Police and Sexual Violence
2021Feminists in France have been denouncing police officers’ behavior towards victims of sexual violence since the 1970s. Police were accused of trying to dissuade women from filing complaints, of showing hostility towards them, and of systematically questioning their testimony.
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