{"product_id":"police-brutality-in-greece-the-rotten-tree-paperback","title":"Police Brutality in Greece: The Rotten Tree - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnastassia Tsoukala\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book addresses police brutality from an angle still unexplored in academia. In opting for an interactionist approach, it focuses on a multi-actor field, the police-government-justice nexus, to show how its dynamics impact on police brutality, deactivate its control and create political and legal disorder.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCrosschecking police officers' motivational patterns with public discourses, the rationale of internal and criminal investigations, Court's rulings and rank-and-file accountability-avoiding practices shows how their interaction ensures quasi-impunity that allows excessive force to become perennial.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnalysis of the manifestation and handling of police brutality in 136 cases is grounded, inter alia, on 128 interviews conducted with victims of excessive force - lawmakers, presspersons, attorneys, protesters, ordinary civilians, members of socially vulnerable groups - or their attorneys and eyewitnesses.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAnastassia Tsoukala\u003c\/strong\u003e is a senior researcher at University Paris Cité, former Associate Professor of Criminology at University Paris-Saclay and Vice President at the Hellenic Police Centre of Security Studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 286\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.62 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 17, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53551168389427,"sku":"9781803746814","price":109.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/s3xxpj-vy.myshopify.com\/products\/police-brutality-in-greece-the-rotten-tree-paperback","provider":"The Celestial Starlit Phoenix ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}