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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"police encounters"”.
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Living with Serious Mental Illness, Police Encounters, and Relationships of Power: A Critical Phenomenological Study
… to provide meaningful mental health care. Police often serve as gatekeepers to the criminal legal system in the midst of encounters involving people living with serious mental illness. The literature that examines police decision-making amid these highly discretionary encounters has been …
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Improving Police and Criminal Court Data Transparency in the United States: A Case Study
… data is generated and recorded on individual police encounters, arrests, charges, court cases, sentences, and more, most of it is inaccessible to the public, or to researchers who could study this data and produce actionable insights. In the past decade, government officials in many major …
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The Ferguson Effect in Contemporary Policing: Assessing Police Officer Willingness to Engage the Public
… and video recording of violent/tumultuous police encounters increase, police would back away from proactive enforcement, resulting in an increase in crime—the Ferguson Effect. Recent scholarship refined these concerns over police disengagement with the study of de-policing, while other …
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A Reasonable Officer: Examining the Relationship between Stress, Training, and Performance in Use of Force Encounters
High-stress police encounters can evoke psychological and physiological stress reactions in officers, which can result in cognitive and perceptual deficits, as well as inferior performance. These effects can be particularly detrimental during a critical incident, when officers are expected to …