Drawing on years of field research, the country's leading expert examines police brutality in six major urban centers. Chevigny searches for the sources of official violence--and for ways of controlling it. Ultimately, he concludes that persistent government action against crime, including accountability for police violence, discourages vigilantism as well as offical violence.
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Drawing on years of field research, the country's leading expert examines police brutality in six major urban centers. Chevigny searches for the sources of official violence--and for ways of controlling it. Ultimately, he concludes that persistent government action against crime, including accountability for police violence, discourages vigilantism as well as offical violence.
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Near Fine jacket. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. In this study of the use of violence by police forces in Latin America and the United States as well as in the Caribbean, Paul Chevigny investigates torture and the use of deadly force, in addition to less drastic forms of police violence.
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Good, ex-lib., good. 25 cm, 319, usual library markings The country's leading expert examines police brutality in New York, Los Angeles, Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, and Kingston, Jamaica.
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