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Article: Official Negligence: How Rodney King and the Riots Changed Los Angeles and the NYPD.(Review)
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- Criminal Justice Ethics
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- January 1, 2000
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Lou Cannon, Official Negligence: How Rodney King and the Riots Changed Los Angeles and the NYPD New York: Times Books/Random House, 1997, xi + 679 pp.
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There is little justice talk in criminal justice although practitioners show their concern by attending seminars and training trainers. Perhaps this is because, unlike sociology, which arose at a time of despair and nurtured a deep and abiding concern for morality and ethics, criminal justice reflects interests in administration and policy. Both seek recognition and scientific status. Criminal justice and criminology, wedded to the practical and pragmatic, atheoretical and empiricist, derive their ...