‘Taser, Taser’! Exploring factors associated with police use of Taser in England and Wales

Police use of Taser in England and Wales has received little academic attention, despite being the topic of much public controversy. Much of our knowledge comes from the United States of America, but these findings are based on a small number of data sets and little testing has been done to see whet...

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Main Author: Dymond, Abi (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: [2020]
In: Policing and society
Year: 2020, Volume: 30, Issue: 4, Pages: 396-411
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Keywords:
Taser
consensus theory
Multivariate Analysis
Police use of force

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