Title: Above the Law Police and the Excessive Use of Force by Jerome Skolnick Paperback
Publisher: Free Press
Publication Date: 1994
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0029291534
ISBN 13: 9780029291535
Binding: paperback
Edition: 2nd Edition
Condition: Good
Weight: 37 ounces

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The now-famous videotape of the beating of Rodney King precipitated a national outcry against police violence. Skolnick and Fyfe, two of the nation's top experts on law enforcement, use the incident to introduce a revealing historical analysis of such violence and the extent of its survival in law enforcement today.

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Jerome Skolnick is Clare Clements Dean’s Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkely. He is the author of The Politics of Protest and co-author of The New Blue Line.

James Fyfe is Professor of Criminal Justice at Temple University. He was a member of the New York City Police Department for sixteen years as patrolman, sergeant, and lieutenant, and also taught at the Police Academy.

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