Skip to content
Rider Library Catalog
You are not logged in |Login  
Add to My Lists Export MARC Display Return To Browse
     
Limit search to available items
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
Bestseller
BestsellerE-book
Author Williams, Howard E.

Title Taser Electronic Control Devices and Sudden In-custody Death : Separating Evidence from Conjecture.

Publication Info. Springfield : Charles C Thomas Publisher, LTD, 2008.
Online access
Online eBook. Access restricted to current Rider University students, faculty, and staff.
Instructions for reading/downloading this eBook

Item Status

Description 1 online resource (219 pages)
text file
Contents TASER® AND SUDDENIN-CUSTODY DEATH; CONTENTS; Chapter 1 SUDDEN IN-CUSTODY DEATH; Chapter 2 CONDUCTED ENERGY WEAPONS; Chapter 3 CASE STUDIES; Chapter 4 ANALYSIS OF CASE STUDY DATA; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C; GLOSSARY; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.
Summary Negative sentiment regarding conducted energy weapons is due largely to a lack of understanding about the technology behind such weapons and a misunderstanding of those weapons' physiological effects. Media accounts that speculatively associate sudden in-custody deaths with the use of conducted energy weapons only add to the confusion. TASER ELECTRONIC CONTROL DEVICES AND SUDDEN IN-CUSTODY DEATH documents 310 deaths in the United States proximate to the application of TASER electronic control devices from 1983 through 2006. The study examines the phenomenon of sudden death as it relates to ele.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Restraint of prisoners -- United States -- Case studies.
Restraint of prisoners.
United States.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Subject Prisoners -- United States -- Death -- Case studies.
Prisoners.
Death.
Stun guns -- United States -- Evaluation.
Stun guns.
Evaluation.
Nonlethal weapons -- United States -- Evaluation.
Nonlethal weapons.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Case studies.
Other Form: Print version: Williams, Howard E. Taser Electronic Control Devices and Sudden In-custody Death : Separating Evidence from Conjecture. Springfield : Charles C Thomas Publisher, LTD, ©2008 9780398077754
ISBN 9780398085025 (electronic book)
0398085021 (electronic book)

Library Links

Example

Search Tools