
Violence And Police Culture
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But the exercise of this licence is fraught with risk to the community. The disturbing record of police shootings in Victoria, and irresponsible police violence elsewhere in recent years, vividly illustrate this risk. The public outcry against such events is understandable. To find a solution, we need to analyse the contexts and the cultural background of the use of police violence, and to think hard about its causes and proper limits.
In Violence and Police Culture, eminent contributors offer valuable insights and experience to the growing debate. While Australian in origin and emphasis, the book addresses a public issue that resonates as far afield as London, New York, Tokyo and Belfast.
Violence and Police Culture argues that there are features of police culture which foster abuse of the right to use violence. The book makes positive suggestions about institutional changes that might alleviate the problems bedevilling what the philosopher Thomas Hobbes called 'the right of the sword'.
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- Intro
- Violence and Police Culture
- Ethics in Public Life
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Historical Influences on Australian Policing
- 2 The Police Use of Force: Contexts and Constraints
- 3 Positive Police Culture: Correcting Perceptions
- 4 Backstage Punishment: Police Violence, Occupational Culture and Criminal Justice
- 5 An Impotent Conceit: Law, Culture and the Regulation of Police Violence
- 6 Legal Regulation of the Police Culture of Violence: Rhetoric, Remedies and Redress
- 7 Keeping the Peace and Making War: The Police and Military-Rhetoric and Reality
- 8 Shootings by Police in Victoria: The Ethical Issues
- 9 Police Violence and the Loyal Code of Silence
- 10 Dirty Harry and Dirty Hands
- 11 What Dirt?
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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