Police shooting mortality: Investigating individual, incident, and contextual factors differentiating fatal and non-fatal police shootings

Research on relevance of race and community context for police shooting mortality is underdeveloped. We collected data on 623 police-involved shootings in the state of Texas to examine which incident- and county-level factors are associated with shooting outcomes. In doing so, we incorporate a novel...

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Authors: Sheppard, Keller (Author) ; Tucker, Riley (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2022
In: Journal of ethnicity in criminal justice
Year: 2022, Volume: 20, Issue: 4, Pages: 319-344
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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Keywords:
Community context
Race
shooting lethality
Police deadly force
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Summary:Research on relevance of race and community context for police shooting mortality is underdeveloped. We collected data on 623 police-involved shootings in the state of Texas to examine which incident- and county-level factors are associated with shooting outcomes. In doing so, we incorporate a novel incident-level variable: distance from incident to trauma hospitals. Results from hierarchical linear models suggest that the lethality of police-involved shootings is positively correlated with the number of officers and citizen possession a deadly weapon. Additional models indicate that community violent crime rates are the only contextual factor associated with both fatal and non-fatal shootings.
ISSN:1537-7946
DOI:10.1080/15377938.2022.2122648