RT Article
T1 Singing the same tune? International continuities and discontinuities in how police talk about using force
A1 Waddington, Peter A. J. 1947-
A2 Adang, Otto 1956-
A2 Baker, David
A2 Birkbeck, Christopher
A2 Feltes, Thomas 1951-
A2 Gabaldón, Luis Gerardo 1949-
A2 Machado, Eduardo Paes
A2 Stenning, Philip C.
LA English
YR 2008
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1588523551
AB This article focuses on a research project conducted in six jurisdictions: England, The Netherlands, Germany, Australia, Venezuela, and Brazil. These societies are very different ethnically, socially, politically, economically, historically and have wildly different levels of crime. Their policing arrangements also differ significantly: how they are organised; how their officers are equipped and trained; what routine operating procedures they employ; whether they are armed; and much else besides. Most relevant for this research, they represent policing systems with wildly different levels of police shootings, Police in the two Latin American countries represented here have a justified reputation for the frequency with which they shoot people, whereas at the other extreme the police in England do not routinely carry firearms and rarely shoot anyone. To probe whether these differences are reflected in the way that officers talk about the use of force, police officers in these differe
CN 360 301
DO 10.1007/s10611-008-9176-7