This book provides valuable information and recommendations for current and future officers and correctional system employees, introducing them to civil liability and federal law, as well as recommending strategies that can be taken to minimize risks.
This book provides valuable information and recommendations for current and future officers and correctional system employees, introducing them to civil liability and federal law, as well as recommending strategies that can be taken to minimize risks.
Darrell L. Ross, Ph.D. is a Professor and Department Head of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice, and the Director of the Center for Applied Social Sciences (CASS) at Valdosta State University. Ross worked for the Michigan Department of Corrections as an officer, cell block supervisor of mentally impaired prisoners, probation officer, and instructor in the training academy. He also taught in the Police Academy at Ferris State University as a certified instructor, teaching subject control techniques, human factors, mechanics of arrest, and responding to the mentally ill person. He served as the Director of the School of Law Enforcement and Justice Administration at Western Illinois University and was a professor in the Criminal Justice Program at East Carolina University. Ross has published five books and more than 120 articles, book chapters, and monographs on the use of force, stress, and human factors during use of force incidents, liability issues, officer-involved shootings, excited delirium syndrome, prone restraint and asphyxiation, sudden arrest-related deaths, and custodial suicides. Ross has provided technical assistance and consultation to local, county, state, federal, and private criminal justice agencies nationally and internationally, as well as to various branches of the military. He regularly provides training to line-level officers and administrators and makes presentations at national and international conferences on officer and supervisor liability issues, officer-involved shootings and investigations, use of force issues, sudden arrest-related deaths, and custodial deaths. Since 1987 Ross has provided expert witness services regarding these and other topics.
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Preface Acknowledgments 1. Overview of Civil Liability 2. Foundations for Liability 3. Civil Liability under State and Federal Tort Law 4. Civil Liability and Federal Law: Section 1983 Litigation 5. Defenses to Civil Litigation and Risk Management 6. Administration and Supervisory Liability 7. Liability for Failure to Train 8. Operating Criminal Justice Agencies under Consent Decree 9. Personnel Issues and Liability 10. Use of Force in Law Enforcement and Corrections 11. Section 1983 and Correctional Liability Issues 12. Section 1983 Actions in Law Enforcement 13. Liability and Arrest-related Deaths 14. Liability and Suicides in Detention Table of Cases Index
Preface Acknowledgments 1. Overview of Civil Liability 2. Foundations for Liability 3. Civil Liability under State and Federal Tort Law 4. Civil Liability and Federal Law: Section 1983 Litigation 5. Defenses to Civil Litigation and Risk Management 6. Administration and Supervisory Liability 7. Liability for Failure to Train 8. Operating Criminal Justice Agencies under Consent Decree 9. Personnel Issues and Liability 10. Use of Force in Law Enforcement and Corrections 11. Section 1983 and Correctional Liability Issues 12. Section 1983 Actions in Law Enforcement 13. Liability and Arrest-related Deaths 14. Liability and Suicides in Detention Table of Cases Index
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