Challenging the Ordinality of Police Use-of-Force Policy

Most use-of-force policies utilized by U.S. police agencies make fundamental ordinal assumptions about officers’ force responses to subject resistance. These policies consist of varying levels of force and resistance along an ordinally ranked continuum of severity. We empirically tested the ordinal...

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Authors: Mourtgos, Scott M. (Author) ; Adams, Ian T. (Author) ; Baty, Samuel R. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2022
In: Criminal justice policy review
Year: 2022, Volume: 33, Issue: 2, Pages: 119-147
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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