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Title Violence and police culture / edited by Tony Coady ... [and others]
Published Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Press, 2000
©2000

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Description xi, 326 pages ; 22 cm
Series Ethics in public life
Ethics in public life.
Contents Historical influences on Australian policing -- The police use of force: contexts and constraints -- Positive police culture: correcting perceptions -- Backstage punishment: police violence, occupational culture and criminal justice -- An impotent conceit: law, culture and the regulation of police violence -- Legal regulation of the police culture of violence: rhetoric, remedies and redress -- Keeping the peace and making war: the police and military - rhetoric and reality -- Shootings by police in Victoria : the ethicals issues -- Police violence and the loyal code of silence -- Dirty Harry and dirty hands -- What dirt?
Analysis Attitudes
Corruption
Federal issue
Morals
Organisational behaviour
Police brutality
Police powers
State issue
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 302-320
Subject Police shootings -- Australia.
Police subculture -- Australia.
Police -- Australia -- Attitudes.
Police -- Australia.
Professional socialization -- Australia.
Violence -- Australia.
Author Coady, C. A. J.
LC no. 00002159
ISBN 0522847889