Above the Law: Police and the Excessive Use of Force

The now-famous videotape of the beating of Rodney King precipitated a national outcry against police violence. Skolnick and Fyfe, two of the nation's top experts on law enforcement, use the incident to introduce a revealing historical analysis of such violence and the extent of its survival in law enforcement today.

• Author
• Jerome H. Skolnick, James J. Fyfe

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 336

• Publisher
• Free Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 978-0-02-929153-5

• EAN
• 9780029291535

• Release date
• 1994