Why Arrest?

Arrests are the paradigmatic police activity. Though the practice of arrests in the United States, especially arrests involving minority suspects, is under attack, even critics widely assume the power to arrest is essential to policing. As a result, neither commentators nor scholars have asked why p...

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1. VerfasserIn: Harmon, Rachel A. (Verfasst von)
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Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2016
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