Download or read book Extreme Justice written by Frank Sacks and published by SP Books. This book was released on 1994-05 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The official book tie-in to the film Extreme Justice, starring Lou Diamond Phillips, Scott Glenn, and Chelsea Field, this is the true story of the L.A.P.D.'s "Special Investigation Section" and their assignment to stop dangerous repeat offenders.
Download or read book Justice Without Trial written by Jerome H. Skolnick and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1975 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An empirical study of police shows how value conflicts of democratic society create conditions that undermine the capacity of police to respond to the rule of law. Data for the study were drawn from an examination of criminal law officials in a city of approximately 400,000 with a nonwhite population of about 30 percent. The gathering of data began in the summer of 1962 and extended into the summer of 1963. The city involved is reputed to have an exemplary criminal justice structure. Through a questionnaire and direct observation, patterns of police behavior were examined in a variety of areas of law enforcement, including traffic violations, prostitution, and narcotics. A sketch of the policeman's "working personality" is presented, along with a description of his operational environment and use of discretion. His use of informers is also treated. Police attitudes toward criminal law and views of the exclusionary rule are examined. Facts presented in the study were deemed accurate by all individuals questioned and observed, although there was not always agreement on interpretations given to the data. It is concluded that the tension between the operational goals of order, efficiency, and initiative on the one hand and the protection of the legal rights of individual citizens on the other constitutes the principle problem of police as a democratic legal organization. The appendix includes a brief survey of the character of the city studied, comparative data on the police, a history and organization of the offices of public defender and district attorney in La Loma County, California, and the questionnaire given to the police.
Download or read book Police and Judicial Co operation in the European Union written by Fédération internationale pour le droit européen. Congrès and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-06-17 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How EU members are adapting their laws to provide for inter-state judicial and police co-operation.
Download or read book The Bonnot Gang written by Richard Parry and published by Rebel Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the infamous Bonnot Gang: the most notorious French anarchists ever, and the inventors of the motorized get-away. It is the story of how the anarchist taste for illegality developed into illegalism - the theory that theft is liberating. And how a number of young anarchists met in Paris in the years before the first world war, determined to live their lives to the full, regardless of the inevitable - and tragic - consequences. A gripping historical thriller, Parry narrates their lives and background - a Paris of riots, strikes and savage repression. A stronghold of foreign exiles and home-grown revolutionaries. Victor Serge and 'l'anarchie' the individualist weekly. Their robberies, daring and violent, would give them a lasting notoriety in France. Their deaths, as spectacular as their lives, would make them a legend amongst revolutionaries the world over. Not only that, but they were all vegetarians, who drank only water!
Download or read book And Justice for All written by Samuel Walker and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains ordinances, statutes, executive orders, departmental orders, and other documents pertaining to citizen review from over 30 police departments.
Download or read book Trust in the Law written by Tom R. Tyler and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 2002-10-10 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public opinion polls suggest that American's trust in the police and courts is declining. The same polls also reveal a disturbing racial divide, with minorities expressing greater levels of distrust than whites. Practices such as racial profiling, zero-tolerance and three-strikes laws, the use of excessive force, and harsh punishments for minor drug crimes all contribute to perceptions of injustice. In Trust in the Law, psychologists Tom R. Tyler and Yuen J. Huo present a compelling argument that effective law enforcement requires the active engagement and participation of the communities it serves, and argue for a cooperative approach to law enforcement that appeals to people's sense of fair play, even if the outcomes are not always those with which they agree. Based on a wide-ranging survey of citizens who had recent contact with the police or courts in Oakland and Los Angeles, Trust in the Law examines the sources of people's favorable and unfavorable reactions to their encounters with legal authorities. Tyler and Huo address the issue from a variety of angles: the psychology of decision acceptance, the importance of individual personal experiences, and the role of ethnic group identification. They find that people react primarily to whether or not they are treated with dignity and respect, and the degree to which they feel they have been treated fairly helps to shape their acceptance of the legal process. Their findings show significantly less willingness on the part of minority group members who feel they have been treated unfairly to trust the motives to subsequent legal decisions of law enforcement authorities. Since most people in the study generalize from their personal experiences with individual police officers and judges, Tyler and Huo suggest that gaining maximum cooperation and consent of the public depends upon fair and transparent decision-making and treatment on the part of law enforcement officers. Tyler and Huo conclude that the best way to encourage compliance with the law is for legal authorities to implement programs that foster a sense of personal involvement and responsibility. For example, community policing programs, in which the local population is actively engaged in monitoring its own neighborhood, have been shown to be an effective tool in improving police-community relationships. Cooperation between legal authorities and community members is a much discussed but often elusive goal. Trust in the Law shows that legal authorities can behave in ways that encourage the voluntary acceptance of their directives, while also building trust and confidence in the overall legitimacy of the police and courts. A Volume in the Russell Sage Foundation Series on Trust
Download or read book Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Louisiana written by Louisiana. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Louisiana Reports written by Louisiana. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Before the California State Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Peace Officer Conduct written by California. Legislature. Senate. Committee on Judiciary. Subcommittee on Peace Officer Conduct and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Policing Los Angeles written by Max Felker-Kantor and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts erupted in violent protest in August 1965, the uprising drew strength from decades of pent-up frustration with employment discrimination, residential segregation, and poverty. But the more immediate grievance was anger at the racist and abusive practices of the Los Angeles Police Department. Yet in the decades after Watts, the LAPD resisted all but the most limited demands for reform made by activists and residents of color, instead intensifying its power. In Policing Los Angeles, Max Felker-Kantor narrates the dynamic history of policing, anti–police abuse movements, race, and politics in Los Angeles from the 1965 Watts uprising to the 1992 Los Angeles rebellion. Using the explosions of two large-scale uprisings in Los Angeles as bookends, Felker-Kantor highlights the racism at the heart of the city's expansive police power through a range of previously unused and rare archival sources. His book is a gripping and timely account of the transformation in police power, the convergence of interests in support of law and order policies, and African American and Mexican American resistance to police violence after the Watts uprising.
Download or read book Criminal Justice Agencies in Louisiana 1971 written by National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rechtskultur 8 written by Emmanuel Berger and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2019-11-29 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past decade, the problem of popular justice has been the subject of a major historiographic renewal. In particular, the conferences at Trento (2012) and Regensburg (2015) advanced on many fronts in our understanding not only of the multiplicity of fields covered by the concept of popular justice but also of the historical processes that conditioned the transformation, the emergence or the extinction of its various forms, from the late 18th century to the present day. With the affirmation of nation-states, this led to the legitimization and institutionalization of the exercise of justice by the ́people ́under the close control of government. The people's jury is probably the judicial institution most representative of this historical process. However, the establishment of ́institutional ́ popular justice has had a far from a linear trajectory. On one hand, the legitimacy of the exercise of justice by the people was continually challenged in Europe by conservative governments and by legal professionals alike throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. On the other hand, institutional popular justice does not suddenly erase other types of popular justice. These experience a resurgence, especially during periods of political transition or conflict in the face of the failure or collapse of the State. From an analysis of both the crisis contexts and the political, economic and social changes in European societies, it is clear that the concept of people's justice needs to be understood beyond the strictly judicial field and be integrated into the broader horizon of the various forms of policing.This process raises numerous questions: how are local citizens involved into the police systems controlled by the State? What forms do these ́people's police forces ́ take? What relationships do they establish with professional bodies? How do citizens succeed in influencing public order policy? The importance of these questions reflects the need to study the popular components of policing, their evolution over time throughout Europe, and their interaction - or lack thereof - with the bodies of State. By analysing these different dynamics, the contributions this volume will contribute to a reflection that moves beyond the traditionally separate treatment of police force and judiciary. Seen from this perspective, the polysemic nature of popular participation calls for a global and ́connected ́ reading of the problem of maintaining public order.
Download or read book Criminal Justice Agencies in Region 6 written by United States. National Criminal Justice Information and Statistics Service and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book L A Justice written by Bob Vernon and published by Focus on the Family Publishing. This book was released on 1993 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a riveting account of the Rodney King incident and the L.A. riots, Assistant Chief of Police (L.A.P.D.) Bob Vernon examines the societal ills that fan the flames of unrest across our land. Sifting through the rubble of American dreams, Vernon shoots straight and offers readers solutions and hope for a nationa in crisis.
Download or read book Police Brutality written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Policing Space written by Steven Kelly Herbert and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1996-11-15 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Policing Space is a fascinating firsthand account of how the Los Angeles Police Department attempts to control its vast, heterogeneous territory. As such, the book offers a rare, ground-level look at the relationship between the control of space and the exercise of power. Author Steve Herbert spent eight months observing one patrol division of the LAPD on the job. A compelling story in itself, his fieldwork with the officers in the Wilshire Division affords readers a close view of the complex factors at play in how the police define and control territory, how they make and mark space. A remarkable ethnography of a powerful police department, underscored throughout with telling on-the-scene vignettes, this book is also an unusually intensive analysis of the exercise of territorial power-and of territoriality as a key component of police power. Unique in its application of fieldwork and theory to this complex subject, it should prove valuable to readers in urban and political geography, urban and political sociology, and criminology, as well as those who wonder about the workings of the LAPD.
Download or read book Louisiana Reports written by Louisiana. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
