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Understanding Police Use of Force : Officers, Suspects and Reciprocity

Alpert Geoffrey P

Understanding Police Use of Force : Officers, Suspects and Reciprocity - Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2004 - 191p IX

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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