Item details: Stop and frisk : the use and abuse of a controversial policing tactic - 48113677

Stop and frisk : the use and abuse of a controversial policing tactic

text Stop and frisk : the use and abuse of a controversial policing tactic

White, Michael D. (Michael Douglas)

Summary: No policing tactic has been more controversial than "stop and frisk," whereby police officers stop, question and frisk ordinary citizens, who they may view as potential suspects, on the streets. As Michael White and Hank Fradella show in Stop and ... Read more

Contents: Two tales of stop and frisk -- The historical context -- The contemporary legal context -- Crime-control benefits and collateral consequences -- (with Weston Morrow) -- Beyond a few bad apples -- The future of stop and frisk.

Format: text

Description: 256 pages ; 24 cm

Publisher: New York University Press 2016

Library	Location	Status
Woodmere (Main Branch)	363 WHI in Adult Non-fiction	Available

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TADL-WOOD	363 WHI in Adult Non-fiction	Available

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White, Michael D. (Michael Douglas) Fradella, Henry F

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