When police kill / Franklin E. Zimring.
Zimring, Franklin E., author.
2017
HV8031 .Z56 2017eb
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Title
When police kill / Franklin E. Zimring.
Author
Zimring, Franklin E., author.
ISBN
9780674978058 (electronic book)
0674978056 (electronic book)
9780674972186
067497218X
Published
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017.
Copyright
©2017
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xii, 305 pages)
Item Number
99972492055
Call Number
HV8031 .Z56 2017eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
363.2/32
Summary
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 is the death rate from shootings by police so high? Why are civilian deaths from police attacks so much higher in the United States than in other developed nations? Why are police also so much more at risk of death by assault than police in other nations? The final five chapters of the book provide an account of how federal, state and local governments can reduce killings by police without risking the lives of police officers. There are many strategies that federal and state government can use to motivate changes by police chiefs and sheriffs, but local law enforcement agencies are the main arena for reducing the carnage from police violence in the United States.-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.

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