RT Article
T1 Police shooting mortality: Investigating individual, incident, and contextual factors differentiating fatal and non-fatal police shootings
JF Journal of ethnicity in criminal justice
VO 20
IS 4
SP 319
OP 344
A1 Sheppard, Keller
A2 Tucker, Riley
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1819975932
AB 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.
K1 Community context
K1 Race
K1 shooting lethality
K1 Police deadly force
DO 10.1080/15377938.2022.2122648