Police Violence and Its Public Support

Police Violence and Its Public Support By WILLIAM A . GAMSON AND JAMES MCEVOY

William A. Gamson is professor of Sociology and a staff member of the Center for Research on Conflict Resolution at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Power and Discontent for which he received the 1969 Sorokin Award of the American Sociological Association. He is also the author of a teaching game, SIMSOC : Simulated Society and a forthcoming book with André Modigliani, Unt...

Characterizing perceived police violence: implications for public health.

Despite growing recognition of violence's health consequences and the World Health Organization's recent classification of police officers' excessive use of force as a form of violence, public health investigators have produced scant research characterizing police-perpetrated abuse. Using qualitative data from a study of a police drug crackdown in 2000 in 1 New York City police precinct, we exp...

[Hospital- and police-reported violence].

The police view of violence and the control of violence.

Police attitudes toward domestic violence offenders.

Police attitudes are important in facilitating a sense of safety and comfort in women seeking justice-system support for protection from partner violence. This study examined police attitudes toward sanctions and treatment for domestic violence offenders compared with other violent and nonviolent offenders. In addition, police attitudes toward domestic violence offenders who do and do not use s...