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Review: Violence and Police Culture

Review: Violence and Police Culture REVIEWS point. It is also a superb text for teaching courses on youth crime as well as providing an invaluable resource for policy makers and practitioners working with young offenders. Reece Walters Yiaona University ofWellington Violence and Police Culture By Tony Coady, Steve James, Seumas Miller, and Michael O'Keefe Melbourne University Press (2000), Carlton South, 340 pages, paperback $38:45, ISBN 0-522-84788-9. iolence and Police Culture is an edited collection of eleven chapters that aims V to examine the association between policing and violence. The editors and contributors, mostly from Victoria and New South Wales, are leading researchers and academics in the fields of policing, applied philosophy and public ethics, solie .. itors, police officers and community activists. On the one hand, they acknowledge that police are given power to use force in order to maintain law and order in their day ..to ..day work. On the other hand, they not only challenge the abuse of police power but also offer suggestions for regulating police violence. Nonetheless, it should be emphasized at the outset that changing the culture which fosters police violence within an institution is not an easy task and the boundaries between legitimate coercion and unwarranted violence are http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology SAGE

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SAGE
Copyright
©2000 The Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology Inc. and Authors
ISSN
0004-8658
eISSN
1837-9273
DOI
10.1177/000486580103400309
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REVIEWS point. It is also a superb text for teaching courses on youth crime as well as providing an invaluable resource for policy makers and practitioners working with young offenders. Reece Walters Yiaona University ofWellington Violence and Police Culture By Tony Coady, Steve James, Seumas Miller, and Michael O'Keefe Melbourne University Press (2000), Carlton South, 340 pages, paperback $38:45, ISBN 0-522-84788-9. iolence and Police Culture is an edited collection of eleven chapters that aims V to examine the association between policing and violence. The editors and contributors, mostly from Victoria and New South Wales, are leading researchers and academics in the fields of policing, applied philosophy and public ethics, solie .. itors, police officers and community activists. On the one hand, they acknowledge that police are given power to use force in order to maintain law and order in their day ..to ..day work. On the other hand, they not only challenge the abuse of police power but also offer suggestions for regulating police violence. Nonetheless, it should be emphasized at the outset that changing the culture which fosters police violence within an institution is not an easy task and the boundaries between legitimate coercion and unwarranted violence are

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Australian & New Zealand Journal of CriminologySAGE

Published: Dec 1, 2001

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