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?