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The iron fist and the velvet glove

by Tony Platt, Center for Research on Criminal Justice (Berkeley, Calif.), Institute for the Study of Labor and Economic Crisis (San Francisco, Calif.)

1977 232 pages eng

This book presents a concept of the role of police in society as basically repressive. The authors give a historical account of the rise of police from early slave patrols to the present to bolster their position that the police are a repressive force. Instances of police brutality and police contro…

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