Police Abuse in Contemporary Democracies

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bonner, Michelle D. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Seri, Guillermina (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Kubal, Mary Rose (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Kempa, Michael (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Democracy.; Police.; Citizenship.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Peace.; Policing.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.; Conflict Studies.

This volume offers a much-needed analysis of police abuse and its implications for our understanding of democracy. Sometimes referred to as police violence or police repression, police abuse occurs in all democracies. It is not an exception or a stage of democratization. It is, this volume argues, a...