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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Police use of force"”.
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Police Use of Force Databases: Sources of Bias in Lethal Force Data Collection
Understanding police use of lethal force requires the collection of reliable data. Due to bias present in police-use-of-lethal-force databases, researchers typically triangulate using multiple data sources to compensate for this bias; however, triangulation is restricted when the bias present in …
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Woke : internet news and social media on recent attitudes towards police use of force
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] News media has long featured high-profile incidents of police use of force; however, exposure to these incidents may be increasing because of the accessibility of smartphones, social media, and Internet news. Police are …
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A Case Study of Police Use of Force on Juveniles in a Southeastern Police Department
<p>Officer characteristics, situational factors, and organizational factors are common predictors in identifying and explaining police use of force (Friedrich, 1980). While these domains are important, the separation of juveniles in use of force studies is an essential component that is lacking in …
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Perceptions on Police Use of Force: A General Strain Theory Approach to Explicate Use of Force Incidents
<p>This mixed method study focused on stress and its influence on police officers’ use of force. As a theoretical frame, Agnew’s General Strain Theory (GST) was applied to measure police officers’ decision making process in use of force, and the evaluation was compared to the college population. …
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Black, white, and blue : media and audience frames from visual news coverage of police use of force and unrest
… between media and audience frames. This work uses recent media coverage of police brutality and social unrest to understand how audiences interpreted visual messages and frames, highlighting the differences in these interpretations for Black and White audiences. A secondary content analysis …
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Perceptions of police use of force: the role of context-specific factors, police legitimacy, and belief in a just world
… that could explain variations in how acceptable police use of force is perceived to be among a Canadian sample. Four text-based vignettes depicting a police use of force encounter were used in the current study. The vignettes manipulated two factors that were hypothesized to influence perceptions …
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Automatically identifying people shot by police from media sources
Despite several instances of societal attention and widespread protests, there is no database of police-involved fatal shootings. To this end, it is extremely important to develop a system that will monitor media reports of police use of force in nearly real time. In particular, my thesis leverages …
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Procedural conflict and conflict resolution: a cross-national study of police officers from New Zealand and South Australia
… takes a cross-national approach to explore how police officers attempt conflict resolution in their day-to-day activities. Using comparisons of the behaviour of routinely armed officers from South Australia and routinely unarmed officers from New Zealand, this thesis chronicles a research …
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Aversive Racism and Use of Force: Perceived Threat and Justification Decisions
… study examined racial bias in attitudes towards police officers’ decisions to use force in the context of aversive racism theory. Previous research on aversive racism has established that individuals often resort to racial stereotypes as heuristic devices to guide judgments under ambiguous …
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Essays on Place-Based Interventions: The Effects of Neighborhood Investments on Public Safety
Investments in police and punitive sanctions can reduce crime, but they are costly solutions and can lead to harmful consequences, mainly for historically marginalized communities. The recent protests against police use of force and racism, compounded with the pervasiveness of unfading concentrated …
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Essays on Race in Policing
<p>In recent years, a number of high-profile policing controversies have led to global indignation over racial disparities in policing and perceived police brutality. This paper explores three different dimensions of race in policing. The first chapter of this dissertation examines whether the …