An estimated 61.5 million Americans encounter police annually and more than one million
are threatened or subjected to police use of force during these encounters. Much research …

Research on behavioral misconduct and ethics across many fields has provided important
managerial and policy implications, but has primarily relied on laboratory experiments and …

Police culture creates an “us versus them” dynamic, which, at its worst, treats threats to the
“thin blue line” as worthy of group response. Prior research documents such a group threat …

Research Summary The notion that the unjustified use of force by police officers is
concentrated among a few “bad apples” is a popular descriptor that has gained traction in …

We propose and test the overconfidence transmission hypothesis, which predicts that
individuals calibrate their self-assessments in response to the confidence others display in …

Research Summary Despite the widespread interest that de‐escalation training has
attracted in law enforcement contexts over the past few years, we know little about its …

Despite calls for police reform to address lethal use of force, there has been little empirical
evaluation of consent decrees—settlement agreements that address police departments' …

Most research finds that individuals are drawn to the correctional officer occupation for the
pay and benefits or because it provides a new and exciting opportunity. However, these are …

Explanations for police misconduct often center on a narrow notion of “problem officers,” the
proverbial “bad apples.” Such an individualistic approach not only ignores the larger …

This study applies the growing field of network science to explore whether police violence is
associated with characteristics of an officer's social networks and his or her placement within …