Tactical Handcuffing for Chain and Hinged Style Handcuffs

This is the most comprehensive & authoritive text ever to be written on handcuffs & metallic restraints. Its 24 chapters are filled with several hundred photographs, & also contain over 200, clear, line drawings. Chapter I contains the most comprehensive history of restraint equipment ever to be written. Starting in 4004 BC, the author brings the reader--through line art, photographs, & artistic drawings--into the 20th Century with a very complete written & illustrated history of all types of restraints. The balance of the text shows the reader how to apply the handcuffs in a variety of situations. Other topics include the medical implications of handcuffing, hogtying, & the use of thumbcuffs. There is also a chapter on the transportation of prisoners. At 304 pages, the bibliography is one of the best ever to be compiled on restraints. It is more like an encyclopedia than a "how-to" text on handcuffing. This text contains everything a police officer, defensive tactics instructor, lawyer, or general reader needs to know about handcuffs & their application. Criminal justice professors & students will find the book an excellent resource, too.Peters, John G., Jr. is the author of 'Tactical Handcuffing for Chain and Hinged Style Handcuffs', published 1989 under ISBN 9780923401009 and ISBN 0923401008.