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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1. VerfasserIn: Sheppard, Keller (VerfasserIn)
Beteiligte: Tucker, Riley
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2022
In: Journal of ethnicity in criminal justice
Jahr: 2022, Band: 20, Heft: 4, Seiten: 319-344
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Community context
Race
shooting lethality
Police deadly force
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Zusammenfassung: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