Quantifying law in police-citizen encounters

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The way researchers have traditionally measured police action limits their capacity to test legal theories and shed light onto the determinants of law at the initial stage of the criminal justice process. This paper describes extant police action measures and their limitations, offers a new measure...

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Main Author: Klinger, David A. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 1994
In: Journal of quantitative criminology
Year: 1994, Volume: 12, Issue: 4, Pages: 391-415
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Keywords:
Police
Law
Quantification
Measurement
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Summary:The way researchers have traditionally measured police action limits their capacity to test legal theories and shed light onto the determinants of law at the initial stage of the criminal justice process. This paper describes extant police action measures and their limitations, offers a new measure that taps variation in the amount of law police officers use in encounters with citizens, presents the results of an analysis that utilizes the new measure, and discusses the implications of this new measure for legal research.
ISSN:1573-7799
DOI:10.1007/BF02354425