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Showing 1 to 20 of 135 for “"Use of Force"”.
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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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The Use of Force in Mass Evictions
This dissertation focuses on the use of force during evictions, particularly in the context of mass evictions (where mass evictions are defined as the eviction of a group of people from unlawfully occupied property). The South African approach to the use of force during evictions is evaluated …
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The Use of Force on Humanitarian Grounds: Illegal but Legitimate?
… thesis critically addresses the legality of armed interventions by states, who, for the most part, defend their actions based on authority from the UN in the form of UN Resolutions. This thesis also investigates, in particular, uses of force that lack a clear legal authority. It then …
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The protection of neutrals in the continuing use of force
As an aspect of international law, the law of neutrality is surrounded by a cloud of uncertainty. Professor Kuntz, in 1956, made the observation that the law of neutrality is perhaps one of the most uncertain parts of international law. This holds true, even today, approximately fifty years after …
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Diversionary temptations : presidential incentives and the political use of force
… for diversionary war. The political benefits of the use of force were measured and compared to the benefits of other dramatic foreign policy activities. Gains from force were modest, not unique, and discounted in many circumstances of political need. Statistical tests measured the changes in …
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Aversive Racism and Use of Force: Perceived Threat and Justification Decisions
… 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 situations …
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The legality of the use of force against Iraq in 2003
The object of this thesis is to assess the legality of the use of force against Iraq in 2003. To do so, the study examines the validity of the justifications put forward by the US and the UK for their action in light of the existing regulations on the use of force. These justifications are as …
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United States Use of Force against Terrorism and the Threat of Terrorism: An Analysis of the Past Four U.S. Presidents¿ Use of Force to Combat International Terrorism.
The thesis analyzes how the administrations of Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush used force in response to incidents of international terrorism. Key players in each administration and whether they advocated a law enforcement approach or a war paradigm approach to …
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Threat Perception Alteration as an Effect of Use-of-Force Simulation Training
<p>Due to the nature of police work police officers are often placed in life threatening situations. To prepare officers for these interactions police academies employ use-of-force simulations to train relevant skills such as situational awareness and judgement. Repeated exposure to threatening …
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The Legality of the USA s Use of Force to Counter Terrorism
The United States of America (“USA”) has often resorted to the use of force as a means to counter terrorism citing the right to use force in self-defence as the justification for it. A history of the USA's use of force against other states in the name of countering terrorism portrays that the …
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Perceptions Of Female Police Officer Use Of Force: Stereotypes And Gender Role Expectations
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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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Assessing the legality of the use of force by Ethiopia and Kenya in Somalia
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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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Role Expectations and State Socialization: Germany's Rediscovery of the Use of Force 1990–1995
<p>This dissertation engages the question of why German political elites accepted the use of force during the 1990s and started to commit the country's armed forces to multilateral peacekeeping missions. Previous governments of the Federal Republic had opposed foreign deployment of the military and …
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‘State failure’ and the extraterritorial use of force in self-defence against non-state actors
The thesis is first and foremost the examination of the notion and consequences of ‘state failure’ in international law. The disputes surrounding criteria for creation and recognition of states pertain to efforts to analyse legal and factual issues unravelling throughout the continuing existence of …
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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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The Commander's Sword & the Executive's Pen: Presidential Success in Congress and the Use of Force.
Post-force congressional rally effects are presented as a new incentive behind presidential decisions to use diversionary behavior. Using all key roll call votes in the House and Senate where the president has taken a position for the years 1948 to 1993, presidents are found to receive sharp …
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Exploratory Investigation of Police Attitudes Toward Violence (Aggression, Law Enforcement, Use of Force, Criminal Justice)
The primary purposes of the study were: (1) to explore relationships among personal and background characteristics and attitudes toward violence of sworn police officers; and (2) to determine the possible relationships of individual measures of attitudes toward violence with length of police …
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