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Contacts Between Police and the Public, 2005

NCJ Number

215243

Date Published

April 2007

Agencies

BJS

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Levels of Nonlethal Force: An Examination of Individual, Situational, and Contextual Factors

NCJ Number

218243

Journal

Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency

Date Published

May 2007

Officer Force Versus Suspect Resistance: A Gendered Analysis of Patrol Officers in an Urban Police Department

NCJ Number

218180

Journal

Journal of Criminal Justice: An International Journal

Date Published

March 2007

Authorizing State Crime in Mexico: The Importance of a Destructive Social Milieu

NCJ Number

218173

Journal

Crime, Law and Social Change

Date Published

2006

Women Police: The Use of Force by and Against Female Officers

NCJ Number

218090

Journal

Women & Criminal Justice

Date Published

2005

Conducted Energy Devices: Development of Standards for Consistency and Guidance--The Creation of National CED Policy and Training Guidelines

NCJ Number

217901

Date Published

November 2006

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Police Education, Experience, and the Use of Force

NCJ Number

217461

Journal

Criminal Justice and Behavior

Date Published

February 2007

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

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Evaluation of Pepper Spray, Research in Brief

Date Published

1997

Series

NIJ Research in Brief

Publication Type

Survey

Agencies

NIJ

Police Attitudes Toward Abuse of Authority: Findings From a National Study, Research in Brief

Date Published

June 2000

Series

NIJ Research in Brief

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

Agencies

NIJ

Ventilatory and Metabolic Demands During Aggressive Physical Restraint in Healthy Adults

NCJ Number

217236

Journal

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Date Published

January 2007

Social Geometry and Force: A Partial Test of Black's Theory of Law With Mexican, U.S., and Venezuelan Police

NCJ Number

217121

Journal

Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice

Date Published

November 2006

Dealing with the Use of Force and Stress-Related Violence by Members of the Police: Some Observations From Selected Case Studies in Gauteng Province, South Africa

NCJ Number

217074

Journal

Acta Criminologica

Date Published

2006

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Litigation and Surviving Lawsuits and Prosecution (From Patrol Response to Contemporary Problems: Enhancing Performance of First Responders Through Knowledge and Experience, P 217-226, 2006, John A. Kolman, ed. -- See NCJ-215624)

NCJ Number

215639

Date Published

2006

Understanding the Legal Process (From Patrol Response to Contemporary Problems: Enhancing Performance of First Responders Through Knowledge and Experience, P 247-256, 2006, John A. Kolman, ed. -- See NCJ-215624)

NCJ Number

215640

Date Published

2006

Canines and Patrol Operations (From Patrol Response to Contemporary Problems: Enhancing Performance of First Responders Through Knowledge and Experience, P 121-140, 2006, John A. Kolman, ed. -- See NCJ-215624)

NCJ Number

215632

Date Published

2006

Assessing the Performance of Pepper Spray in Use-of-Force Encounters: The Dutch Experience

NCJ Number

215362

Journal

Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management

Date Published

2006

Citizen Complaints About Police Use of Force

NCJ Number

210296

Date Published

June 2006

Agencies

BJS

Publication Link

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Deadly Force: Constitutional Standards, Federal Guidelines and Officer Standards

NCJ Number

214290

Date Published

2003

Use of Force: Expert Guidance for Decisive Force Response

NCJ Number

214180

Date Published

2003

Use of Force: The Correlation Between Law Enforcement and Clinical Care

NCJ Number

213326

Journal

Corrections Today Magazine

Date Published

February 2006

"Making Their Own Rules:" Police Beatings, Rape, and Torture of Children in Papua New Guinea

NCJ Number

213283

Date Published

September 2005

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Racial Threat, Urban Conditions and Police Use of Force: Assessing the Direct and Indirect Linkages Across Multiple Urban Areas

NCJ Number

212990

Journal

Justice Research and Policy

Date Published

2005

Excited Delirium Syndrome: Cause of Death and Prevention

NCJ Number

212684

Date Published

2006

From Idea to Invention

NCJ Number

211849

Date Published

2001

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

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New Position on Positional Asphyxia

NCJ Number

211754

Date Published

1998

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

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