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Policing Advance Access originally published online on September 8, 2007
Policing 2007 1(3):284-292; doi:10.1093/police/pam037
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Copyright © The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press.

Ethical Constraints on Taser Use by Police

John Kleinig*,

* Department of Law and Police Science, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, New York, USA E-mail: jkleinig{at}jjay.cuny.edu
Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Charles Sturt University, Canberra, Australia E-mail: John.Kleinig{at}anu.edu.au

Though the development of non-lethal law enforcement technologies has improved the capacity of the police to take control of situations with fewer injuries all round, it has also created opportunities for their overuse. This paper refocuses the issue of taser use from lives saved to unnecessary force, and calls for greater attention to the latter.


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