Levels of Nonlethal Force: An Examination of Individual, Situational, and Contextual Factors

This work examines the determinants of the levels of nonlethal force employed by Philadelphia police using 1 year of archival self-reports N = 747. Integrated, ordinal multilevel models attend to officer, situational, and contextual determinants of levels of force. The current work seeks to improve...

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Contributors: Najaka, Stacy Brooke (Other) ; Rocha, Carlos M. (Other) ; Kearley, Brook W. (Other)
Format: Print Article
Language:English
Published: 2007
In: Journal of research in crime and delinquency
Year: 2007, Volume: 44, Issue: 2, Pages: 163-184
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Keywords:
Gewaltanwendung
Polizei
Polizei-Bürger-Verhältnis
Rasse
Zwangsmaßnahmen