The Task Force on Violent Aspects of Protest and Confrontation of the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence Skolnick, Jerome H. 1931- creator United States Task Force on Demonstrations, Protests, and Group Violence. United States National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence. text bibliography nyu New York New York University Press 2010 monographic eng

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liii, 419 pages ; 21 cm. Triggered by the massive and often violent civil rights and anti-Vietnam War protests of the 1960s, in 1968 the Johnson Administration created the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence to analyze violent protest and to make recommendations on how to reduce it. The report that Jerome H. Skolnick and his team of researchers produced in the remarkably short time span of seven months had a significant influence on policymakers and law enforcers, and also sold over 100,000 copies before going out of print in the early 1980s. The book examined antiwar, student, and black protest, and studied the responses of the law enforcement and judicial communities to violent protest.Forty years later and long out of print, the book remains a classic. In light of new twenty-first-century confrontations including anti-Iraq War demonstrations, face-offs between environmentalists and developers, and the continued specter of street violence between cops and people of disadvantaged communities, the time is ripe to reconsider the report's findings. In his new preface and introduction, Skolnick compares the trends and events documented in the original report to their present-day forms of protest. a report submitted by Jerome H. Skolnick ; with a new preface and introduction by Jerome H. Skolnick. Earlier ed. published in 1969. Includes bibliographical references and index. n-us--- Violence United States Movimientos de protesta Violencia Estados Unidos United States Social conditions 1960-1980 Estados Unidos Condiciones sociales 1960-1980 HN 90 S628p 2010 303.6/2097309045 9780814740989 (pb : alk. paper) 0814708919 (pb : alk. paper) 2009041131 DLC 091009 20240112145820.0 15938169 spa