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

Skolnick, Jerome H.

 
9780814740989: The Politics of Protest: Task Force on Violent Aspects of Protest and Confrontation of the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0814740987 ISBN 13 : 9780814740989
Editeur : New York University Press, 2010

Synopsis

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 and law enforcers, and also sold over 100,000 copies before going out of print in the early 1980s. The book examined antiwar, student, and black protest, and studied the responses of the law enforcement and judicial communities to violent protest.
Forty years later and long out of print, the book remains a classic. In light of new twenty-first-century confrontations including anti-Iraq War demonstrations, face-offs between environmentalists and developers, and the continued specter of street violence between cops and people of disadvantaged communities, the time is ripe to reconsider the report's findings. In his new preface and introduction, Skolnick compares the trends and events documented in the original report to their present-day forms of protest.

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À propos de l?auteur

Jerome H. Skolnick is co-director of the Center for Research in Crime and Justice at NYU Law School. In addition to The Politics of Protest he is the author or co-author of numerous books, including Crisis in American Institutions; Above the Law: Police and the Excessive Use of Force; Justice Without Trial: Law Enforcement in Democratic Society; Criminal Justice: A Casebook; and The New Blue Line: Police Innovation in Six American Cities.

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Éditeur
New York University Press
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0814740987
ISBN 13 
9780814740989
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
480
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Personne responsable
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