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452 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. 1 (1980)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0452 and id is 1 raw text is: ANNALS, AAPSS, 452, November 1980 Perspectives on Police and Violence By LAWRENCE W. SHERMAN ABSTRACT: Police and violence are central to our con- ception of government, yet they form a troublesome paradox: in their efforts to stop violence, police must often be violent themselves. This paradox leads to the three related questions addressed in this volume. First, how can the police act more effectively and justly against violence in society? Second, how can we better understand and reduce the violence com- mitted against police? Third, what accounts for the wide varia- tions in police use of violence, and what can we learn from that variation to reduce police violence to the lowest possible level? The three questions are to some degree artificially distinguished, since most of what they encompass are police encounters with citizens from which violence emerges. But to understand the whole of police and violence, we need first understand its component parts. Lawrence W. Sherman is an associate professor of criminal justice at the State University of New York, Albany, and is director of research for the Police Founda- tion. As the executive director of the foundation's National Advisory Commission on Higher Education for Police Officers, he was a senior author of the commis- sion's report, The Quality of Police Education. He is also the author of Scandal and Reform: Controlling Police Corruption and is preparing a book on his two-year study for the National Institute of Mental Health on homicide by police officers. Among other research, he is currently directing an experimental evaluation of police responses to violence between spouses. The research on which this article is based was supported in part by a grant to the Criminal Justice Research Center, Albany, NY, from the Center for Studies in Crime and Delinquency, National Institute of Mental Health, entitled Homicide by Police Officers: Social Forces and Public Policy. 1

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