Public perceptions of police legitimacy and effectiveness have been challenged by recent
high-profile use of fatal force incidents by the police. Prior scholarship suggests that that …

In recent years, police brutality has attracted the attention of the American public and media.
Using the frameworks of cognitive accessibility and transportation, this study analyzes how a …

Little research examines the communication work that public police do following police
shootings. Based on an analysis of 85 press releases, press conferences, and media …

Research has been conducted for several decades on the framing of stories in the media.
This article looks at the way newspaper articles report on and frame the deaths of unarmed …

Ethnicity influences perceptions of the fairness and legality of police actions. However, most
studies focused on Black and White individuals with less attention to Hispanics, most studies …

Police organizations in many Western democracies had been experiencing reductions in
serious and violent crime rates through 2020 and the unfortunate commencement of anti …

Actuarial risk assessment has shaped the landscape of the juvenile justice system
substantially over the past several decades. Risk assessment is intended to improve and …

Law enforcement officers are chronically exposed to traumatic events and work-related
stressors. The consistent exposure to physical, cultural, and psychological stressors may be …

This dissertation explores the relationship between the crisis of capitalism and the working
class as a whole and the racialized sections of the working class in the United States from …

Since the 2014 death of an unarmed black teenager, Michael Brown by a white Ferguson
police officer, there has been a string of similar incidents that have occurred in a relatively …