Understanding police use of force : officers, suspects, and reciprocity

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Title:

Understanding police use of force : officers, suspects, and reciprocity

Author:

Dunham, Roger G.

ISBN:

9780521546751

9780521837736

Publication Information:

Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Physical Description:

x, 191 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Series:

Cambridge studies in criminology

Series Title:

Cambridge studies in criminology

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 in the Miami-Dade police department -- 5. Miami-Dade police department : 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 -- App. Frequencies of force sequences for first through tenth actions.

Abstract:

"This volume presents a brief survey of prior research on police use of force as well as original data reported for the first time. The original data on police use of force include the Force Factor, or the relative use of force compared to the level of suspect resistance. The data also include the sequential order of the event and a view from the suspect's perspective. The book proposes a new conceptual framework for examining and assessing police use of force: the Authority Maintenance Theory."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject Term:

Arrest (Police methods)

Restraint of prisoners -- United States.

Police brutality -- United States.

Police discretion -- United States.

Added Author:

Dunham, Roger G.

Alpert, Geoffrey P.

Electronic Access:

Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/cam051/2003063883.html
Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam041/2003063883.html

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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.