Social media, police excessive force and the limits of outrage: Evaluating models of police scandal

Recent criminological research has developed a processual conceptualisation of scandal to analyse policing and criminal justice transgression and its attempted management. Through media content analysis and in-depth interviews with police and non-police respondents, this article applies criminologic...

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Main Author: Ellis, Justin R. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2023
In: Criminology & criminal justice
Year: 2023, Volume: 23, Issue: 1, Pages: 117-134
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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