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Cop watch : spectators, social media, and police reform / Hans Toch.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Psychology, crime, and justice seriesPublication details: Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, c2012.Description: xxiv, 186 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781433811197:
  • 1433811197 (alk. paper : print ed.)
  • 9781433811197 (alk. paper : print ed.)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: OriginalDDC classification:
  • 363.20973
LOC classification:
  • .T63 2012
Online resources: Also issued in print.
Contents:
The clamorous chorus -- The concern with the injustice or unfairness of police interventions -- A concern about police brutality or disproportionate police response -- Sensing an unbridgeable divide -- Rank-and-file resistance to community relations reforms -- The birth of modern policing -- A video clip in Seattle -- A posthumous chorus and street justice in Seattle -- Learning to live with due process -- Volatile scenarios in the ghetto.
Summary: "This book discusses alterations in the role of the new media in amplification of (primarily) negative views of policing. It also shows changes in the sources that shaped public opinion in the last 30 years. It later highlights changes in policing and the views of the police and their craft in this same period. Alterations in the police occupational culture and public political activities of police spokespersons were described as well as changes in the role of police and policing in the 'high politics' of the city. Lastly changes in police leadership and presentational rhetoric in recent years were pointed out"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved).
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The clamorous chorus -- The concern with the injustice or unfairness of police interventions -- A concern about police brutality or disproportionate police response -- Sensing an unbridgeable divide -- Rank-and-file resistance to community relations reforms -- The birth of modern policing -- A video clip in Seattle -- A posthumous chorus and street justice in Seattle -- Learning to live with due process -- Volatile scenarios in the ghetto.

"This book discusses alterations in the role of the new media in amplification of (primarily) negative views of policing. It also shows changes in the sources that shaped public opinion in the last 30 years. It later highlights changes in policing and the views of the police and their craft in this same period. Alterations in the police occupational culture and public political activities of police spokespersons were described as well as changes in the role of police and policing in the 'high politics' of the city. Lastly changes in police leadership and presentational rhetoric in recent years were pointed out"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved).

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Electronic reproduction. Washington, D.C. American Psychological Association 2012 Available via World Wide Web Access limited by licensing agreement s2012 dcunns

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