Publisher's Synopsis
For upper-level undergraduate/graduate courses in Introduction to Policing, Introduction to Criminal Justice, and Special Topics in Policing.
This comprehensive, accurate, and timely account of police violence provides students with a complete understanding of the concept and all that it entails-covering its history to future directions, and ten different areas of police violence. Each chapter in the reader addresses police violence as it is used by and against officers, and all highly competent contributing authors (including both practitioners and academics) have a strong background in the various areas.
