Police Brutality in Greece

The Rotten Tree

Anastassia Tsoukala (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

286 Seiten

2025 | New edition
Peter Lang International Academic Publishers (Verlag)
9781803746814 (ISBN)

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Police brutality is addressed from an interactionist approach to highlight the dynamics of a police-government-justice nexus. Crosschecking of motivational patterns, public discourses, internal and criminal investigations, Court’s rulings and accountability-avoiding practices shows how their interaction allows excessive force to become perennial.

The 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.

Crosschecking 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.

Analysis 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.

Anastassia Tsoukala 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.

Contents: Groups impacted by police brutality – Handling groups entitled to constitutional or derogatory protection – The policing of protests and other mass gatherings – Ordinary public order policing – Control mechanisms – The Hellenic Police – External police oversight – Police brutality on trial – Accountability-escaping practices.

Erscheinungsdatum	19.02.2025
Reihe/Serie	Explosive Politics ; 6
Mitarbeit	Herausgeber (Serie): Emanuel Guittet, Julien Pomarède
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	436 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
Schlagworte	Accountability • Anastassia • Anthony • authoritarianism • brutality • Deep State • Emanuel • external police oversight • far-right • Greece • Guittet • Human Rights • Internal Investigation • Judicial System • Julien • Mason • Police • Police brutality • police sub-culture • Pomarède • Press Freedom • Protest policing • public law • public order policing • Racism • rotten • Rule of Law • Social Movements • Tree • Tsoukala
ISBN-13	9781803746814 / 9781803746814
Zustand	Neuware