Above the Law: Police and the Excessive Use of Force by Jerome H. Skolnick

Above the Law: Police and the Excessive Use of Force

Jerome H. Skolnick

336 pages first pub 1993 (editions)

nonfiction education politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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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 ...

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