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Best Practices in the Use of Restraints with Pregnant Women and Girls Under Correctional Custody

Date Published

April 2014

Publication Type

Report (Technical Assistance), Legislation/Policy Description, Instructional Material

Agencies

BJA-Sponsored

Police Education, Experience, and the Use of Force

Date Published

February 2007

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

What Is Patrol Work?

Date Published

1981

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

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

Date Published

February 2015

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Protecting Our Protectors: Using Science to Improve Officer Safety and Wellness Brochure

Date Published

May 2012

Publication Type

Guideline

Agencies

NIJ

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

Date Published

February 2009

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Test of Lundman's Organizational Product Thesis with Data on Citizen Complaints

Date Published

2000

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

How Does Reactivity Affect Police Behavior?: Describing and Quantifying the Impact of Reactivity as Behavioral Change in a Large-Scale Observational Study of Police

Date Published

July 2007

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Relationship Between Self-Control and Police Misconduct: A Multi-Agency Study of First-Line Police Supervisors

Date Published

July 2016

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Less Than Lethal Force Technologies in Law Enforcement and Correctional Agencies

Date Published

1994

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Assessing the Efficacy of the Protective Action-Completion Nexus for Sexual Victimizations

Date Published

2007

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Police Officer Decisionmaking in Potentially Violent Confrontations

Date Published

1992

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

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

Date Published

September 1996

Publication Type

Legislation/Policy Analysis

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Violent Police-citizen Encounter

Date Published

1980

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Body-Worn Cameras and Citizen Interactions With Police Officers: Estimating Plausible Effects Given Varying Compliance Levels

Date Published

2017

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Technical Assistance), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Demonstrating the Analytical Utility of GIS for Police Operations: A Final Report

Date Published

2000

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Influence of Organizational Climate on Detention Officers' Readiness to Use Force in a County Jail

Date Published

1999

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

National Survey of Pursuits and the Use of Police Force: Data From Law Enforcement Agencies

Date Published

1997

Publication Type

Survey

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Influence of Professional Orientation on Detention Officers' Attitudes Toward the Use of Force

Date Published

2002

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Less Lethal Force Policy and Police Officer Perceptions: A Multisite Examination

Date Published

October 2013

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Local Police Departments: Policies and Procedures, 2016

Date Published

August 2020

Publication Type

Statistics, Report (Annual/Periodic), Policy

Agencies

BJS

Exploring Physical Force and Subject Resistance in Police Encounters With People With Behavioral Health Issues

NCJ Number

253711

Journal

Victims & Offenders

Date Published

2018

Publication Link

HTML

Race and the Police Use of Force Encounter in the United States

NCJ Number

253356

Journal

British Journal of Criminology

Date Published

January 2018

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Link

HTML

The Effects of Body-worn Cameras on Police Activity and Police-Citizen Encounter: A Randomized Controlled Trial

NCJ Number

253138

Date Published

2018

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Link

HTML

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