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Explaining Police Bias
2007
Criminal Justice and Behavior
This article proposes a theory of individual police behavior that is grounded in socialpsychological research on stereotype formation and that assumes a nonmotivational but biased response to minority ...
citizens by the police. ...
For example, in a simulated performance-evaluation exercise, Feldman and Hilterman (1977) found no relationship between Whites' stereotypes of Blacks and their evaluations of Black workers. ...
doi:10.1177/0093854807304484
fatcat:jq2angv72nb5fiobomegypbxgq
How Private Insurers Regulate Public Police
2016
Social Science Research Network
., The Effect of Brief Situational Awareness Training in a Police Shooting Simulator: An Experimental Study, 18 MIL. PSYCHOL. ...
Bishopp
et al., An Examination of the Effect of a Policy Change on Police Use of TASERs, 26 CRIM. JUST. ...
doi:10.2139/ssrn.2733783
fatcat:c64tlodxabd7pjwtqtdszfevd4
Organizational stressors and police performance
2010
Journal of criminal justice
Instead, organizational stressors may be the greatest source of stress in police officers. ...
over a longer time period and over the course of different police administrations to provide better insight into how management practices correlate with stress and performance; and 3) widening the participant ...
of a work shift that will include a shooting simulator, a driving simulator, a video simulation, and other practical/tactical exercises. • Surveys completed off-duty. ...
doi:10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2010.05.008
fatcat:oqfv6cwiwffgzix7w2lnpzu6qe
Police Body-Worn Cameras
2017
Social Science Research Network
It does so by first reviewing the historical justifications for, implementation of, and lessons learned from an earlier iteration of police video recording technology: in-car cameras. ...
Since the summer of 2014, community members, politicians, and police executives across the country have called for greater police accountability and improvements in police-community relations. ...
I demonstrate the application of this phenomenon in the police context using a video of a simulated foot pursuit in which I play the role of an officer, wearing a Bodycam brand BWC, chasing a fleeing suspect ...
doi:10.2139/ssrn.3094334
fatcat:zaw4m5jl3jhxvebcjhfvwosvnq
The Aspiration of Scientific Policing
2018
Law and Social Inquiry
Evidence-based policing embodies a utilitarian approach to policy evaluation, one that judges policies on the basis of their "net social costs and benefits" (p. 300). ...
in some areas of the city but not in others (pp. 133-34); an early foot patrol experiment had no effect on crime but a more recent one did (Police Foundation 1981; p. 150); a police newsletter in 8. ...
doi:10.1111/lsi.12367
fatcat:24pp4m55qzfsvjp4cattykvobq
Police Reorganization and Crime: Evidence from Police Station Closures
2018
Social Science Research Network
We study the effects of police reallocation via station closures on municipal crime by exploiting a quasi-experiment where a centrally administered reform substantially reduced the number of police stations ...
Policy makers often try to optimize local law enforcement by reorganizing police forces. ...
In this paper, we provide new evidence on local crime effects of police station mergers in a quasi-experimental set-up. ...
doi:10.2139/ssrn.3272123
fatcat:zqa4fviggvdhxdbsi2hv6efx5e
The Economics of Policing and Public Safety
2021
Journal of Economic Perspectives
Policing strategies that are socially efficient at the city level may be harmful at the local level, because the distribution of direct costs and benefits of police actions that reduce victimization is ...
In the United States, the local misallocation of police resources is disproportionately borne by Black and Hispanic individuals. ...
Evaluation of the quality of academy courses is generally based on cadet performance on an in-class exam, or virtual simulation environment, rather than the on-the-job performance of officers who completed ...
doi:10.1257/jep.35.4.3
fatcat:c6yjs32gf5gd3i66ulmtmhjaxm
An Insurance-Based Typology of Police Misconduct
2016
Social Science Research Network
In particular, the Article distinguishes varieties of police misconduct based on (1) the dollar-value of the legal claims to which they give rise and (2) the length of the delay between when the misconduct ...
In assuming the financial risk of bad police behavior, the insurers become motivated to prevent it. ...
., The Effect of Brief Situational Awareness Training in a Police Shooting Simulator: An Experimental Study, 18 MILITARY PSYCH. S3 (2006). 16 William Micklus, Assoc. Dir., Upper Midwest Cmty. ...
doi:10.2139/ssrn.2808106
fatcat:uwheymgehzcwpirkt4qrtgi7km
Reciprocity, Collective Action, and Community Policing
2002
California Law Review
experimental in nature. ...
Ledyard, Public Goods: A
Survey of Experimental Research, in THE HANDBOOK OF EXPERIMENTAL ECONOMICS 111, 139-40
(John H. Kagel & Alvin E. Roth eds., 1995).
18. ...
doi:10.2307/3481363
fatcat:klpcygwzqncndb7hmuxbe3kha4
What Can Police Do to Reduce Crime, Disorder, and Fear?
[chapter]
2007
International Handbook of Penology and Criminal Justice
changes in the funding and administration of prison-based drug abuse programs in Florida, and perhaps elsewhere. ...
The authors then give an overview of a range of methods that states have adopted in an attempt to structure the exercise of this discretion and evaluate their efficacy with respect to a variety of issues ...
Appendix 17.A ...
doi:10.1201/9781420053883-17
fatcat:ue3g74iez5bkpgpxoqv6btv22i
Restoring trust in the police: Why female officers reduce suspicions of corruption
2017
Governance. An International Journal of Policy, Administration and Institutions
Using a survey question about adding women to a police force, with an embedded experimental treatment, we examine three distinct stereotypes that might explain the power of women to reduce concerns about ...
Recent studies show a clear link between women in government and reduced concerns about corruption. ...
the police department in Mexico City recently hired a number of women in traffic enforcement to try to combat corruption in the department. ...
doi:10.1111/gove.12281
fatcat:pczez3aunzch3hxad25hdwbgna
Policy and Training Recommendations Related to Police Use of CEDs: Overview of Findings From a Comprehensive National Study
2010
Police Quarterly
This article helps us understand how and why injuries occur to police and citizens during these use-of-force events and recommends a comprehensive set of policies and principles for training police officers ...
literature, into a comprehensive set of policy and training recommendations. ...
Declaration of Conflicting Interests The author(s) declared that they had no conflicts of interest with respect to their authorship or the publication of this article.
Funding ...
doi:10.1177/1098611110373993
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Innovations in Policing: Meanings, Structures, and Processes
2011
Annual Review of Law and Social Science
For example, Tolbert and Zucker demonstrated that early adopter cities of civil
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/BJA/evaluation/evidence-based.htm ...
A host of environmental considerations might be evaluated for predicting police innovativeness. ...
doi:10.1146/annurev-lawsocsci-102209-152835
fatcat:uwxhecx6x5bgfo4nfk5fsqmwwu
Proactive policing and equal treatment of ethnic-minority youths
2014
Policing and Society: An International Journal of Research and Policy
This contribution reports on an empirical investigation among 231 youths, interviewed on the street and in youth centres, to establish whether this proactive policing results in unequal treatment of ethnic ...
Proactive policing aims at suppressing delinquency at an early stage. ...
In addition, the authors want to express their gratitude to Annemieke Venderbosch and Kees Loef of Police and Science, and to Ruby Gerdsen, Slaven Piljic, Malou Puijenbroek, Omar Soums and Mahmut Sungur ...
doi:10.1080/10439463.2013.875015
fatcat:rzzde3weercrpid6eor37gpf5m
Risky Situations: Sources of Racial Disparity in Police Behavior
2020
Annual Review of Law and Social Science
Swencionis & Goff identified five situations that tend to increase the likelihood that an individual police officer may behave in a racially disparate way: discretion, inexperience, salience of crime, ...
This article applies their framework to the realities of police work, identifying situations and assignments in which these factors are likely to influence officers' behavior. ...
For example, clinical studies of weapon identification and shooting decisions have found that, in laboratory simulations, both civilians and police officers are more likely to shoot at an image of a Black ...
doi:10.1146/annurev-lawsocsci-101518-042633
fatcat:72rkv37lgzhx3g6cswe5dnt5sy
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