Peter Scharf, Arnold Binder

The Badge and the Bullet

Police Use of Deadly Force

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

It may seem ironic to conclude a study of police use of deadly force with surprise that more people are not shot by police. Yet, Scharf and Binder's observation typifies the insights in their excellent book, The Badge and the Bullet. Their assessment of the complexity of the issue, organizaton and examination of the contextual causes and effects and the realism of proposed solutions distinguish this as an outstanding volume. Contemporary Sociology This excellent book provides a serious discussion of a highly controversial issue . . . exceedingly well written, with significant anecdotal episodes to capture and hold reader interest. Destined to become the standard work in its subject area . . . highly recommended to students of human behavior, especially students in police science and criminal justice, sociology, psychology, and the law . . . also recommended to concerned police practitioners and others who are involved in policy-making decisions regarding the police. Choice

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 1983
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 412g
• ISBN-13: 9780275917784
• ISBN-10: 0275917789
• Artikelnr.: 25565152

Autorenporträt

Peter Scharf earned his B.A. in philosophy at Wesleyan University and his doctorate in Sanskrit at the University of Pennsylvania, after which he taught Sanskrit at Brown University for 19 years and conducted research on the linguistic and philosophical traditions of India. Since 2011, he has held several visiting professorships and fellowships: Visiting Professor at the Maharishi International University Research Institute, International Blaise Pascal Research Chair at the University of Paris Diderot, Visiting Professor in the Department of Sanskrit Studies at the University of Hyderabad, Visiting Professor of Sanskrit in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Visiting Professor in the Language Technologies Research Center at the International Institute of Information Technology in Hyderabad, Fellow at the Houghton Library at Harvard University, and Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study in Shimla. He is currently the director of the Sanskrit Library (sanskritlibrary.org), an international digital Sanskrit library which he founded in 2002, and Adjunct Professor at the International Institute of Information Technology in Hyderabad. While his research focuses on the linguistic traditions of India, Vedic Sanskrit, and Indian philosophy, he has devoted considerable attention over the past several years to Sanskrit computational linguistics and building a digital Sanskrit library. He is now developing computational implementations of P¿¿inian grammar and P¿¿inian models of verbal cognition. Scharf is the author or editor of several books and over a hundred articles. His authored books include the first-year Sanskrit textbook ¿abdabrahman: a linguistic introduction to Sanskrit; R¿mop¿khy¿na - the story of R¿ma in the Mah¿bh¿rata: an independent-study reader in Sanskrit; ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿-The Mah¿bh¿rata in a nutshell: a one-chapter narration in forty-three verses presented as an independent-study reader in Sanskrit; and The denotation of generic terms in ancient Indian philosophy: grammar, Ny¿ya, and M¿m¿¿s¿. He recently edited a collection of research papers on Sanskrit linguistics, Vedic and related subjects in two volumes entitled ¿abd¿nugamä: Indian linguistic studies in honor of George Cardona. For more information about the author and his publications, see https://sanskritlibrary.org/cv/profile.html.