A landmark work by twelve leading critics and community leaders—essential reading for
anyone interested in the history of American race relations. Ignited by the infamous shooting of …

The Rodney King beating of March of 1991 has become one of the most infamous cases of
contemporary police brutality to date. 1 On February 4, 1999, Amadou Diallo, a twenty-two-…

This thesis combines theoretical and practical reasoning behind police brutality and draws
on methodologies and frameworks from a range of academic disciplines, including …

This article explores the Coalition Against Police Abuse (CAPA) and the resistance to police
abuse in Los Angeles during the 1970s. It argues that the use of force directed at social …

The new edition of Andrew Ashworth’s textbook has been fully revised and updated to
incorporate all recent changes in the field of criminal law since the publication of the last edition in …

Terrorism is the use of violence to intimidate another. Using this definition, there appears to
be a national problem of police officers who are violence addicts. Going merely by televised …