Integrating the Literature on Police Use of Deadly Force and Police Lethal Victimization: How Does Place Impact Fatal Police–Citizen Encounters?

Use of lethal force by police officers has incited riots, inspired social movements, and engendered socio-political debate. Police officers also assume a high level of risk during police-citizen encounters. Yet, existing studies tend to center on these two phenomena independently. Additionally, the...

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Main Author: Fridel, Emma E. (Author)
Contributors: Zimmerman, Gregory M. ; Sheppard, Keller G.
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2020
In: Journal of quantitative criminology
Year: 2020, Volume: 36, Issue: 4, Pages: 957-992
Online Access: Volltext (Resolving-System)
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Keywords:
Concentrated disadvantage
Context
Firearm use
Police lethal victimization
Police use of lethal force
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Summary:Use of lethal force by police officers has incited riots, inspired social movements, and engendered socio-political debate. Police officers also assume a high level of risk during police-citizen encounters. Yet, existing studies tend to center on these two phenomena independently. Additionally, the under-utilization of multilevel research in these areas of inquiry has hampered attempts to empirically disentangle the individual, agency, and contextual correlates of fatal police-citizen encounters. This study integrates the predominantly distinct research bases on these phenomena to examine the contexts in which police use lethal force, relative to the contexts in which officers are killed in the line of duty.
ISSN:1573-7799
DOI:10.1007/s10940-019-09438-5