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Legitimating police violence

Theoretical Criminology, 2010
Newspaper coverage of police-perpetrated homicides may reflect and promote public and official tolerance for police violence. Interpretive content analysis was performed on 105 news articles appearing in 23 major daily newspapers between 1997 and 2000 that center on incidents of deadly force.
Paul J Hirschfield
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Living near violence: How proximity to violence shapes perceptions of police effectiveness and confidence in police [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Environmental Psychology, 2017
Living in close proximity to violent crime is associated with a number of negative outcomes including increased fear of crime and perceived risk of victimization. Living near violence may also undermine confidence in police.
Renee Zahnow   +2 more
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Police Violence and Public Health

Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 2022
Despite their enormous potential impact on population health and health inequities, police violence and use of excessive force have only recently been addressed from a public health perspective. Moving to change this state of affairs, this article considers police violence in the USA within a social determinants and health disparities framework ...
Jordan E, DeVylder   +4 more
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Attitudes of Police toward Violence

Psychological Reports, 1985
A questionnaire on attitudes toward violence by police was administered to 25 police trainees, 53 on-duty police officers, and a control group of 48 firemen. The two samples of police reported similar disapproval of violence by police, while the firemen were significantly more approving.
S L, Brodsky, G D, Williamson
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Family Violence and Police Utilization

Violence and Victims, 1994
This study examines the utilization of police service for domestic incidents. Contrary to the popular image of serious violence perpetrated upon a spouse, the data show that most calls involve less serious incidents that are almost as likely to involve cohabitants as married couples.
I W, Hutchison   +2 more
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Police Violence

2018
The ability of the police to assert social control and reproduce social order depends, crucially, on the capacity to use force to achieve these ends—whether when restraining someone attempting to self-harm or shooting dead an armed terrorist. But what do we know about police use of force in the United States and England and Wales?
Jenna Milani   +2 more
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Representative Policing and Violence Towards the Police

Policing, 2014
Conflict theories suggest that groups lacking access to the political process, such as racial minorities, may resort to violence to achieve their goals and protest against injustice perpetuated by the state. Given their visibility, police officers may be particularly vulnerable to striking out by politically excluded groups; however, no research of ...
K. Barrick, M. J. Hickman, K. J. Strom
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Police violence is the pandemic

2023
Widespread outrage at police violence, fatal shootings, and deaths in police custody created the current international protest movements and calls to Defund the Police. However, as shown in previous chapters, there is a long history to protests against police violence, and there are multiple movements to change policing globally which draw on localised
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