Above the Law: Police and the Excessive Use of Force

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 such violence and the extent of its survival in law enforcement today.

Author: Skolnick Fyfe
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 02/07/1994
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.90w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780029291535