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“Return of the repressed”: Exposure to police violence increases protest and self-sacrifice intentions for the Yellow Vests

Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 2020
Worldwide, it is not uncommon to observe violent police reactions against social movements. These are often rationalized by decision makers as efficient ways to contain violence from protesters.
J. Adam‐Troian, Elif Çelebi, Yara Mahfud   +2 more
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Policing firearm violence

Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management, 2014
Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to generate information about the contours of police responsiveness, focussing on how quickly and precisely police make firearm arrests after a shooting incident.Design/methodology/approach– Using a modified version of the Knox close pair method, a spatio-temporal clustering technique, over 11,000 shooting ...
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Police Violence and Associations With Public Perceptions of the Police

Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research, 2020
Objective: Police violence (PV) continues to be a national and global concern. Empirical inquiries focus on its prevalence, those who are most at risk, and associated mental health effects and frequently include all-male samples.
Ashley N Jackson, L. Fedina, J. Devylder, R. Barth   +3 more
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The wounds that do not heal: Black expendability and the traumatizing aftereffects of anti-Black police violence

, 2020
PurposeThe murders of Black people at the hands of police in 2020 have led to global protests that have called on public officials to defund or abolish the police.
I. Waldron
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Police Violence among Adults Diagnosed with Mental Disorders.

Health & Social Work, 2020
Police violence is reportedly common among those diagnosed with mental disorders characterized by the presence of psychotic symptoms or pronounced emotional lability.
H. Jun, J. Devylder, L. Fedina
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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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Policing Male Violence — Policing Women

1987
This chapter, based on existing literature concerning women and violence and the Wandsworth Violence Against Women — Women Speak Out Survey, examines the nature and extent of men’s violence to women and the police response. Its starting point is the recognition that men’s violence to women is a political issue, expressing the basic power relations of ...
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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, J D, Hirschel, C E, Pesackis   +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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Law, Police Violence, and Race: Grounding and Embodying the State of Exception

Theory & Event, 2020
:This paper theorizes police violence by elucidating the relationship between racialized violence and law. We contrast Giorgio Agamben's generalized state of exception with Walter Benjamin's targeted and localized account, which we complement with ...
Inés Valdez, M. Coleman, Amna A. Akbar
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