Influence of community characteristics on serious police use of force events in an Australian policing jurisdiction: a test of minority threat, social disorganisation, and ecological contamination theories

Extant research on police use of force has established that force is not distributed evenly across communities, with minority threat, ecological contamination, and social disorganisation some of the most common theories used to understand the distribution of police use of force in the US. The curren...

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Authors: McCarthy, Molly (Author) ; Alpert, Geoffrey P. 1948- (Author) ; Townsley, Michael (Author) ; Porter, Louise (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2019
In: Policing and society
Year: 2019, Volume: 29, Issue: 9, Pages: 1091-1108
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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Keywords:
Police use of force
Community characteristics
Minority threat
Social disorganisation
Violent Crime