Contemporary Issues in American Policing

ISBN-13: 9780367714871 / Miękka / 2023 / 104 str.

Opis

This book presents the latest research on policing in United States, as well as related topics noted in the Presidential Task Force on 21st Century Policing, such as police use of technology, transparency, oversight, and building trust with the community.

Spis treści

Introduction to Contemporary Issues in American Policing

Richard K. Moule Jr. and Bryanna Fox

1. State-mandated transparency: a discussion and examination of deadly force data among law enforcement agencies in Texas

John A. Shjarback

2. Disparity does not mean bias: making sense of observed racial disparities in fatal officer-involved shootings with multiple benchmarks

Brandon Tregle, Justin Nix and Geoffrey P. Alpert

3. The effects of procedural justice on civil disobedience: evidence from protesters in three cities

Jeffrey B. Snipes, Edward R. Maguire and David H. Tyler

4. Public support for police use of SWAT: examining the relevance of legitimacy

Richard K. Moule Jr., Megan M. Parry and Bryanna Fox

5. Leveraging wireless broadband to improve police land mobile radio programming: estimating the resource impact

Jeremy G. Carter, Eric L. Piza and Eric Grommon

6. Behind the lens: police attitudes toward body-worn cameras and organizational justice

Nathan L. Lawshe, George W. Burruss, Matthew J. Giblin and Joseph A. Schafer

O autorze

Richard K. Moule Jr., PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of South Florida, Tampa, USA. He earned his PhD from Arizona State University, Phoenix, USA. His research interests include criminological theory and the social causes and consequences of technology adoption and use.

Bryanna Fox is an associate professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of South Florida, Tampa, USA. Dr. Fox earned her PhD from the University of Cambridge, UK. She is a former FBI Special Agent and former research fellow in the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit. Her research interests relate to the psychological and developmental risk factors for criminal behavior and developing evidence-based tools for law enforcement.