Policing & Firearms : New Perspectives and Insights
Policing and firearms: it is a crucial relationship. Should police be routinely armed? If so, what restrictions should be imposed on the use of firearms? Where police are not routinely armed, there is still a need for specialist armed police: how do these units operate, and are they effective? This...
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| Formato: | Livre numérique |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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Springer International Publishing
2023.
Cham : Springer Nature |
| Acceso en liña: | Accès sur la plateforme Springer Accès sur la plateforme ISTEX Accès Université d'Orléans |
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Springer e-books droit et criminologie (Licence nationale) |
| Autres localisations: | Voir dans le Sudoc |
| Edition sous un autre format: | • Policing & Firearms, Texte imprimé, 9783031130120 • Policing & Firearms, Texte imprimé, 9783031130144 • Policing & Firearms, Texte imprimé, 9783031130151 |
Table des matières:
- 1. Introduction
- Part 1: Policing, Firearms and Human Rights
- 2. Unarmed Police: Myths, Rights and Realities
- 3. Are the Brazilian Police Forces lethal weapons?
- 4. The Routine Arming of the Police in Britain, the Right to Life and the Security Theory of John Locke and Benedict de Spinoza
- 5. Armed responses and Critical Shots: Learning lessons from Police involved shootings in England and Wales
- Part 2: Policing, Firearms and Militarization
- 6. 'Gung-ho'? An examination of the move to militarise policing in Australia
- 7. Direct and indirect militarization of public security in Mexico and gun use during arrests
- 8. The myth of 'routinely unarmed' policing
- 9. Racism down the Barrel of the Colonial Gun
- Part 3: Policing, Firearms and Risk
- 10. Access to firearms - A risk factor for police suicide?
- 11. How do police die in Venezuela? A comprehensive analysis of the death by homicide of State security force/policing officials
- 12. Pathways to preventing fatal police-involved shootings of people in mental health crisis
- 13. 'Facing death gave him new life': On-screen police gun violence and Weapon Product Placement
- Part 4: Policing, Firearms and Legitimacy
- 14. Predictors of public reactions to armed police: Findings from the UK
- 15. Armed police in an unarmed country: Legitimacy and self-legitimacy of English firearms officers
- 16. Public Acceptance of Police Use of Deadly Force: An Exploratory Study
- 17. Connecting officer appearance with officer safety: A survey of police officers' perceptions of uniforms and accoutrements.