Everyone has seen disturbing video footage, of police brutality against prisoners, suspects and even innocent bystanders. The record of police shootings, police beatings, deaths in custody - both black and white - and violent police tactics against peaceful demonstrators is a long and sorry one.
Violence and Police Culture makes a significant contribution to the debate that has arisen around some specific cases, while analysing the much broader problem-a police culture that permits and even encourages such behaviour among its members. The relationship between the internal culture of police forces and the unacceptable use of violence remains a burning public issue.
In Violence and Police Culture, a group of eminent practitioners and theoreticians collaborate to discuss the problems associated with the use of violence by police.
