Comparing the use of violence by police forces in Latin America and the United States as well as in the Caribbean, and drawing on considerable field research, Chevigny investigates torture and the use of deadly force, in addition to less drastic forms of police violence, in six major urban centres. He examines military and community models of policing and the connection between corruption and violence. The author also compares institutions of accountability as diverse as criminal and civil courts, administrative disciplines ...
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Comparing the use of violence by police forces in Latin America and the United States as well as in the Caribbean, and drawing on considerable field research, Chevigny investigates torture and the use of deadly force, in addition to less drastic forms of police violence, in six major urban centres. He examines military and community models of policing and the connection between corruption and violence. The author also compares institutions of accountability as diverse as criminal and civil courts, administrative disciplines, civilian review boards, internal controls and external auditors, and the pressure exerted by international human-rights standards. Searching for the sources of official violence, and ultimately for ways of controlling it, he argues that the way in which criminal matters are patrolled and investigated correlates with the city's social order. Chevigny arrives at the conclusion that when citizens have little confidence in their government, do not participate in it or look to it for protection, they turn to violent self-help, and thus police violence becomes the mirror of vigilantism. A growing fear of crime, combined with a sense of powerlessness and lack of participation also lends public support to extra-legal violence by the police themselves, whose activities are often fostered and protected by official corruption. Conversely, persistent government action against crime, including accountability for police violence, discourages vigilantism as well as official 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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Good in Good jacket. 1st Printing. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. pp. 319. Minor edge and corner wear to the dj; lightly scuffed and scratched; corners are gently bumped and rubbed; some light shelf wear; ex-library with the usual library markings; overall a nice used copy! Blue boards with silver lettering on the spine. 319 historical and informative pages! "In Edge of the Knife, noted authority Paul Chevigny draws on years of field research to investigate torture and the use of deadly force, in addition to less drastic forms of violence, in New York, Los Angeles, Sïo Paulo, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, and Kingston. Chevigny, author of the classic Police Power, examines the sources of official violence and offers possibilities for controlling it. What emerges from his work is an image of police violence as a reflection of the larger order of a city, and a convincing argument for persistent government action against crime--including accountability for police violence....."
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This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear. This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear.