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Lädt ... The Politics of Protestvon Jerome Skolnick
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. The escalation of violence between police and dissenters is a cause of alarm and concern to all Americans. From the quiet "teach-ins" to protest the war in Vietnam to the fullscale conflict between angry police and jeering demonstrators in Chicago, the hatred and ugliness on both sides has grown. This factual report, prepared for the national Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence by a staff of leading social scientists and scholars, deals with political violence in American history, student activism in the '60s, the direction of black militancy, white racism, and the dangerous use of the police as a rpressive force against social change. Most importantly, it relates the outbreaks of violence to the current crises in American institutions and asserts that official violence on the part of law enformcement officers is a major cause of escalated conflict for which the authorities themslves must take responsibility. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
Triggered by the massive and often violent civil rights and anti-Vietnam War protests of the 1960s, in 1968 the Johnson Administration created the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence to analyze violent protest and to make recommendations on how to reduce it. The report that Jerome H. Skolnick and his team of researchers produced in the remarkably short time span of seven months had a significant influence on policymakers and law enforcers, and also sold over 100,000 copies before going out of print in the early 1980s. The book examined antiwar, student, and black protest, and studied the responses of the law enforcement and judicial communities to violent protest.Forty years later and long out of print, the book remains a classic. In light of new twenty-first-century confrontations including anti-Iraq War demonstrations, face-offs between environmentalists and developers, and the continued specter of street violence between cops and people of disadvantaged communities, the time is ripe to reconsider the report's findings. In his new preface and introduction, Skolnick compares the trends and events documented in the original report to their present-day forms of protest. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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