Police use of deadly force

Local Police Departments: Policies and Procedures, 2016

NCJ Number

254826

Date Published

August 2020

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BJS

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Lethal Force as a Police Response

Journal

Criminal Justice Abstracts

Date Published

1984

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Measuring and Assessing Police Use of Force and Suspect Resistance

Date Published

1998

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Policy and Training Recommendations Related to Police Use of CEDs: Overview of Findings From a Comprehensive National Study

Journal

Police Quarterly

Date Published

2010

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National Data on Citizen Complaints About Police Use of Force: Data Quality Concerns and the Potential (Mis)Use of Statistical Evidence To Address Police Agency Conduct

Journal

Criminal Justice Policy Review

Date Published

July 2015

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NIJ-Sponsored

Toward the Uniform Reporting of Police Use of Force: Results of a National Survey

Journal

Criminal Justice Review

Date Published

1995

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NIJ-Sponsored

Situational and Officer-Based Determinants of Police Coercion

Journal

Justice Quarterly

Date Published

June 2002

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NIJ-Sponsored

Deadly Force in Law Enforcement

Journal

Crime and Delinquency

Date Published

1982

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NIJ-Sponsored

Citizen Complaints as Threats to Police Legitimacy: The Role of Officers' Occupational Attitudes

Journal

Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice

Date Published

February 2015

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NIJ-Sponsored

Conducted Energy Devices (CEDs) and Citizen Injuries: The Shocking Empirical Reality

Journal

Justice Quarterly

Date Published

April 2011

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NIJ-Sponsored

Police Officers' Perceptual Distortions During Lethal Force Situations: Informing the Reasonableness Standard

Journal

Criminology & Public Policy

Date Published

February 2009

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NIJ-Sponsored

Effect of Less-Lethal Weapons on Injuries in Police Use-of-Force Events

Journal

American Journal of Public Health

Date Published

December 2009

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NIJ-Sponsored

Officer Behavior in Police-Citizen Encounters: A Descriptive Model and Implications for Less-Than-Lethal Alternatives

Date Published

September 1996

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NIJ-Sponsored

Characteristics Associated with the Prevalence and Severity of Force Used by the Police

Journal

Justice Quarterly

Date Published

December 2002

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NIJ-Sponsored

Results From Experimental Trials Testing Participant Responses to White, Hispanic and Black Suspects in High-Fidelity Deadly Force Judgment and Decision-Making Simulations

Journal

Journal of Experimental Criminology

Date Published

June 2013

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NIJ-Sponsored

Neighborhood Context and Police Use of Force

Journal

Research in Crime and Delinquency

Date Published

August 2003

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NIJ-Sponsored

Violent Police-citizen Encounter

Journal

Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Date Published

1980

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NIJ-Sponsored

Review of "Split-Second Decisions - Shootings of and By Chicago Police"

Journal

Journal of Criminal Justice

Date Published

1983

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NIJ-Sponsored

Analyzing Characteristics of Police-Citizen Encounters in High-Risk Search Warrant Issuances, Domestic Disturbances, Hostage and/or Barricaded Persons Incidents, and Encounters With Fleeing Felony Suspects

Date Published

1996

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NIJ-Sponsored

Police Use of Force: An Analysis of Organizational Characteristics

Journal

Justice Quarterly

Date Published

June 2001

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NIJ-Sponsored

Confronting Excessive Force in the Police Culture - Final Report: Phase Two Research on Excessive Force

Date Published

1997

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NIJ-Sponsored

Pepper Spray: A Safe and Reasonable Response to Suspect Verbal Resistance

Journal

Date Published

2000

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NIJ-Sponsored

Determinants of Citizen Complaints Against Police Abuse of Power

Journal

Journal of Criminal Justice

Date Published

2000

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NIJ-Sponsored

Police Officer Decisionmaking in Potentially Violent Confrontations

Journal

Journal of Criminal Justice

Date Published

1992

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NIJ-Sponsored

Police Use of Less Lethal Force: Does Administrative Policy Matter?

Journal

Justice Quarterly

Date Published

2017

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NIJ-Sponsored