Police, Picket-Lines and Fatalities

Lessons from the Past
2014. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-137-35805-9
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 109 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 299 g

Police, Picket-lines and Fatalities explores public protests and their management by the police, focusing on the fatalities of strikers at the hands of police and outlining practices towards preventing such tragedies. Uniquely examining the only three worker fatalities in Australian industrial history due to police use of deadly force, this book analyses the frenzied policing involvement that led to the deaths; the lack of accountability of police leadership and individual actions; government and press partisanship; and the deficiencies in criminal justice administration. Baker ultimately questions: were the police merely performing their duty by enforcing the law or were they agents complicit in reckless violence and collusion? With analysis of the recent police shooting of 34 platinum miners at Marikana, South Africa in 2012, Baker looks at the lessons of these case-studies, both past and contemporary, to provide specific applications for developing best practice of police and unionpeace-keeping protocols during industrial protests and the wider issues pertinent to public order policing of demonstrations in general.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Baker, D.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Author Preface 1. Police Management of Pickets and Protests: A Global Perspective 2. Police and the Marikana Massacre 3. Death by Panic: 'Bloody Sunday' on the Fremantle Wharf 4. Death by Deliberate Aim: Shootings at Port Melbourne 5. Death by Misadventure during the Rothbury Riot 6. Lessons for Managing Pickets and Protests ?

Über Autor(innen)

David Baker is Head of Criminal Justice at Federation University Australia. After employment at the Victoria Police Academy, David worked at Monash University from 1991 to 2013 and is author of Batons and Blockades (2005).