Beyond Control: A Mutual Respect Approach to Protest Crowd-Police Relations

By Vern Neufeld Redekop and Shirley Pare

How can large protest crowds be better and more respectfully managed by police? This topical book applies the principles of community-based conflict resolution to the policing of large crowds, suggesting a completely new approach that moves away from the discourse of rabble-rousing mobs towards negotiated management, and a paradigm of mutual respect for protesters as principled dissenters and for police as non-repressive agents of public order. Both are needed, the authors argue, in order for democracy to flourish. The book opens with a foreword from Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1849660042
• ISBN13: 9781849660044
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"