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 …

Body-worn cameras (BWCs) are an increasingly common tool for police oversight,
accountability, and transparency, yet there remains uncertainty about their impacts on …

" Twenty years ago, when The Politics of Force was first published, the issue of police
brutality was rarely covered in the news. This book was inspired by events following the Los …

Abstract Research Summary This study uses interviews with 23 police officers from a small
police department to conduct an in‐depth examination of their perceptions of three critical …

In light of the defund the police movement, it is imperative we consider what police reform
could and potentially should look like. Some, for example, have called for a reduced police …

Area-based prevention studies often produce results that can be represented in a 2-by-2
table of counts. For example, a table may show the crime counts during a 12-month period …

Background Body-worn cameras are increasingly being used as a violence prevention tool
in inpatient mental health wards. However, there is a dearth of research on their use in these …

Evidence on how hot spot policing affects community members' views of police is very
limited and inconclusive. Scholars have thus called for further study of community attitudes …

Background Police‐initiated pedestrian stops have been one of the most widely used crime
prevention tactics in modern policing. Proponents have long considered police stops to be …

Despite substantial recent developments in body‐worn camera (BWC) research, little is
known about the effect of BWC footage on downstream criminal justice actors and agencies …