This book takes a fresh approach to the subject of police brutality, one that remains unexplored in academia. Adopting an interactionist perspective, it examines the dynamics of the police-government-justice nexus to demonstrate their impact on police brutality, the failure of control mechanisms, and the resulting political and legal disorder.
By cross-referencing police motivational patterns with public discourse, the logic of internal and criminal investigations, court rulings, and the practice of avoiding hierarchical responsibility, it demonstrates how these factors interact to ensure quasi-impunity, allowing excessive force to become entrenched.
The analysis of the manifestation and treatment of police brutality in 136 cases is based on 128 interviews with victims of excessive force, including legislators, journalists, lawyers, demonstrators, ordinary civilians and members of socially vulnerable groups, as well as with their lawyers and eyewitnesses.

Police Brutality in Greece
The Rotten Tree
by Anastassia Tsoukala (Author)
© 2025 Monographs, 286 pages.
History and Political Science
Collection: Explosive Politics, Volume 6