Objectives Police use of excessive—even fatal—force is a significant social issue, one at the
symbolic heart of the Black Lives Matter civil rights movement. However, a substantial …

The use of force by police in a democratic society continues to be controversial. Despite the
theoretical and practical importance of police use of force, little is known about the sources …

University of Alabama at Birmingham mplications about racialized, biased, selective, and
unequal policing are longstanding national discussions in American policing. The history of …

T he last 2 years have been a turbulent time for policing in the United States. The challenges
to police authority generally, and police use of force specifically, have been front and center …

Police use of force is a topic of longstanding and ongoing concern in the criminal justice
literature. Carter & Corra (2016) studied citizen perceptions of police use of force …

On the heels of recent police shootings of an unarmed Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri,
Walter Scott in North Charleston, South Carolina, and the death of Freddy Gray in Baltimore …

The inappropriate use of force by police officers has received a serious discussion in the
media and across the nation for some time. For this research, the relationship between race …

This paper uses data from the National Opinion Research Center's General Social Survey
(GSS) to assess the effects of beliefs about race on whites' attitudes toward police use of …

America is in the midst of an extraordinary public debate about police policy.“Conflicted
conservatives,” who are symbolically conservative but operationally liberal, may have a …

Instances of excessive force by police officers, most notably the Rodney King incident in Los
Angeles and the Malice Green fatality in Detroit, suggest that the race of the suspect may …