Above the Law: Police and the Excessive Use of Force

by Jerome H. Skolnick

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0029291534
• ISBN13: 9780029291535
• Release Date: February 1994
• Publisher: Free Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A good book

If you are interested in learning about the brutality of the police force and what can be done to prevent it, I highly recommend this book