Above the Law


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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.







Government Code


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Compendium of Federal Justice Statistics (1993)


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Describes the progress of Federal criminal suspects through prosecution, pretrial release, adjudication, sentencing, & supervision & corrections. Tables follow the text of each chapter. Both individual & corporate cases are included in the tables, as are both felonies & misdemeanors. Covers from Ô84-'92, describing each aspect of processing in relation to suspects or defendants who completed a pertinent stage of processing during CY Ô93. During Ô93, 63,000+ defendants were prosecuted by U.S. attorneys in U.S. courts. Charts & tables.




Criminal Victimization in the United States, 1993


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Essential facts on victims, crimes, & offenders. Includes: crime trends since 1973; victim characteristics; characteristics of rapes, robberies, assaults, larcenies, burglaries, motor thefts, etc.; violent offender characteristics; victim households, & much more. Chapters include the national crime victimization survey, a demography of victims, victims & offenders, geography & the crime event. Charts & tables.