T K Vinod Kumar

Public Events and Police Response

Understanding Public Order Policing in Democratic India

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Produktbeschreibung

Public events are at the heart of civic discourse in modern societies. Surveying the data of public events in cities and police response to them, detailed case studies of selected major events, and advanced statistical analyses, this book looks at the relationship between public events and police response in India.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 150mm x 224mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 513g
• ISBN-13: 9780198090335
• ISBN-10: 0198090331
• Artikelnr.: 59179132

Autorenporträt

T.K. Vinod Kumar is currently Deputy Director of Sardar Ballabhbhai Patel National Police Academy, Hyderabad. He is a member of the Indian Police Service (IPS) and has worked as Commissioner of Police of Calicut, and Deputy Inspector General and Inspector General of Police in Kerala. His publications have appeared in Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice and Journal of Police Practice and Research, among others.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Theories on Public Events
3. Nature of Public Events
4. Police Response to Public Events
5. Communal Violence: A Case Study
6. Political Violence: An Analysis of Events
7. Statistical Model of Relationship between Public Event and Police Response
8. A Holistic Model of Events Characteristics and Police Response
9. Public Events, Police Response, and Democratic Discourse
Appendix: Data Entry Protocol
References
Index