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Preventing Crowd Violence / ed. by Tamara D. Madensen, Johannes Knutsson.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Crime Prevention StudiesPublisher: Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2022]Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (243 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781588269416
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 363.3237
LOC classification:
  • HV6474
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 From Crisis to Opportunity: New Crowd Psychology and Public Order Policing Principles -- 3 Crowd Dynamics and Public Order Policing -- 4 Initiation and Escalation of Collective Violence: An Observational Study -- 5 Police Use of Active and Passive Mitigation Strategies at Crowd Events -- 6 Policing the British G8 Protests: A Contextualized Analysis -- 7 Crowd-Related Crime: An Environmental Criminological Perspective -- 8 The Police and Major Event Planning: A Case Study in Las Vegas, Nevada -- 9 Trick or Treat? Policing Halloween in Madison, Wisconsin -- 10 Dialogue Policing: A Means for Less Crowd Violence? -- Bibliography -- The Contributors -- Index -- Books in This Series -- About the Book
Summary: From jubilant sports fans celebrating a victory to angry political protestors, crowds create volatile situations that can all too often result in violence or property destruction. Preventing Crowd Violence offers a lucid examination of crowd behavior and of law enforcement tactics designed to deescalate tensions and promote cooperative interactions.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781588269416

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 From Crisis to Opportunity: New Crowd Psychology and Public Order Policing Principles -- 3 Crowd Dynamics and Public Order Policing -- 4 Initiation and Escalation of Collective Violence: An Observational Study -- 5 Police Use of Active and Passive Mitigation Strategies at Crowd Events -- 6 Policing the British G8 Protests: A Contextualized Analysis -- 7 Crowd-Related Crime: An Environmental Criminological Perspective -- 8 The Police and Major Event Planning: A Case Study in Las Vegas, Nevada -- 9 Trick or Treat? Policing Halloween in Madison, Wisconsin -- 10 Dialogue Policing: A Means for Less Crowd Violence? -- Bibliography -- The Contributors -- Index -- Books in This Series -- About the Book

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From jubilant sports fans celebrating a victory to angry political protestors, crowds create volatile situations that can all too often result in violence or property destruction. Preventing Crowd Violence offers a lucid examination of crowd behavior and of law enforcement tactics designed to deescalate tensions and promote cooperative interactions.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022)

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