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This work argues that there are features of police culture which foster abuse of the right to use violence. The text makes positive suggestions about institutional changes that might alleviate the problems bedevilling what the philosopher Thomas Hobbes called ““the right of the sword”“.

Violence and Police Culture

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    256 pages

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    13 May 1997

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A collection of papers by a group of eminent writers on questions associated with the police use of violence in the course of police work.Violence and policing are inevitably associated. Criminals use violence not only against innocent members of the public, but also against the police themselves. For our own protection and theirs, we have given police a licence to use force, sometimes with lethal consequences.But the exercise of this licence is fraught with risk to the community. The disturb…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780522847888
ISBN-10:0522847889
Author:Tony Coady, Steve James, Seumas Miller
Publisher:Melbourne University Press
Imprint:Melbourne University Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:256
Edition:1st
Release Date:13 May 1997
Weight:390g
Dimensions:215mm x 140mm x 27mm
Series:Ethics in Public Life
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Tony Coady

Professor Tony Coady is ARC Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Director of the Australian Research Council Commonwealth Special Research Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics. Dr Steve James is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Melbourne. Professor Seumas Miller is Director of the Australian Research Council Commonwealth Special Research Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (Charles Sturt University).

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