{ "item_title" : "Policing and Homicide, 1976-98", "item_author" : [" Office of Justice Programs", "Bureau of Justice Statistics", "Penny Hill Press "], "item_description" : "This report brings together in a single publication national statistics on two distinct types of homicide: the justifiable homicide of felons by police, and the murder of police officers by felons.Although the two are fundamentally different - the use of deadly force against a police officer is almost never justified, while the use of deadly force by police often is - certain connectionscan be made between them beyond the fact that both always involve the police. Sometimes one directly results in the other: 1 in 6 murders of a police officer result in the justifiable killing of themurderer. (Still, of all the justifiable homicides by police only about 3% occur in connection with the murder of a police officer.) The two also sharedemographic similarities. For example, almost all the felons justifiably killed by police (98%) and almost all of the felons who murdered a police officer (97%) are males; in both types of homicidejust over half of the felons are ages 18 to 30; and in both types just over half of the felons are white.The first section of the report deals with the justifiable homicide of felons by police; the second, with the murder of police officers by felons. Together, the two types account for around 2% of all intentional killings in the United States.The types of homicide not covered in this report are: negligent homicides; justifiable homicides by private citizens; and murders in which the victim issomeone other than an officer slain in the line of duty.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers1.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/1/53/716/195/1537161954_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "12.95", "online_price" : "12.95", "our_price" : "12.95", "club_price" : "12.95", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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