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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"deadly force"”.
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Heart Rates of Law Enforcement Officers During Deadly Force Scenarios
Law enforcement officers are forced into stressful encounters when having to protect their lives and the lives of others. They must be at peak performance in these situations. An active shooting situation is among the most stressful law enforcement officers will encounter. One effect of stress is …
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Police Use of Deadly Force: A Look at the Birmingham Police Department.
The public is well aware of the use of deadly force by police. Daily, news programs carry images of such violence in vivid color. Whether the force exhibited by police officers in the course of their work is excessive is a question for which an answer is sought in every phase of the political …
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The criminal disparity between African American and Caucasian males: Police use of excessive and deadly force in the United States, 1991 - 2014
… research focuses on the use of excessive and deadly force executed by law enforcement agencies in the context of a racial bias operating throughout the United States and its criminal justice systems. America's criminal system past and present, openly displays an enormous amount of inequality …
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The Influence of Personality Traits and Officer Variables on Perception of Excessive Force
… reports of people being the victims of excessive force from law enforcement officers. Despite the occurrence of documented cases of excessive force, there is a possibility that accusations of excessive force are exaggerated. Personality and situational theories have been applied to the study of …
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Conflicting Narratives and Frames in Media Reporting on Deaths of Racialized Men with Mental Health Issues at the Hands of the Criminal Justice System
… with mental illness at the hands of law enforcement officers in Ontario in 2016. This study draws on the concepts of framing and narratives to examine how news media reporting of law enforcement deaths involving racialized men suffering from mental illnesses may produce conflicting …
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Re-examining typologies of sexually violent offenders
… rather than offender motive since law enforcement often needs to begin their approach to a case investigation and offender identification and apprehension based on what is viewed at a crime scene. Data collected from the ViCAP database were analyzed to explore the heterogeneity of 4,476 …
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Fatal and Non-Fatal Police Shootings in the United States, 2015: An Examination of Open-Source Data
… practitioners a guideline to develop a use of deadly force data reporting and collection system. Using this database, the study aims to identify incident-, context-, and agency-level factors that distinguish FNFPS. Findings can help us better understand how selected features of police agencies, …
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Zapped: A Typology Of Use And Misuse Of The Taser
<p>Police use of TASER force is currently a hot topic of controversy in the intersections of society and the criminal justice system. Proponents, including manufacturers and law enforcement, value the TASER as a less than lethal alternative to deadly force; providing increased safety for officers …
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On the Edge of a Knife; The Early Migration into Middle Tennessee and the Heroine Charlotte Reeves Robertson
… indigenous Americans, became a formidable and deadly force against all newcomers in Middle Tennessee. The settlers, including Charlotte and her camp, repeatedly sparred with the Cherokee and Dragging Canoe’s Chickamauga tribes. James Robertson did accomplish many treaty signings with the local …