Do Police Need Guns?: Policing and Firearms: Past, Present and Future (SpringerBriefs in Criminology)

By Richard Evans and Clare Farmer

Chapter 1 The edge of the knife: force, the state and police power.- Chapter 2 Friendly persuasion: The minimum force tradition.- Chapter 3 As well armed as the criminal: the armed tradition.- Chapter 4 Is the community safer if police are routinely armed?.- Chapter 5 Are police safer if they are routinely armed?.- Chapter 6 The Devil's Right Hand: the place of guns in culture.- Chapter 7 The impossible dream? Towards minimum-force policing.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9811595259
• ISBN13: 9789811595257
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 141 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"