The Politics of Protest: Task Force on Violent Aspects of Protest and Confrontation of the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of

by Jerome H. Skolnick

Book Overview

Triggered by the massive and often violent civil rights and anti-Vietnam War protests of the 1960s, in 1968 the Johnson Administration created the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence to analyze violent protest and to make recommendations on how to reduce it. The report that Jerome H. Skolnick and his team of researchers produced in the remarkably short time span of seven months had a significant influence on policymakers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814740987
• ISBN13: 9780814740989
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.4" x 8.2"