Police Requests for Compliance: Coercive and Procedurally Just Tactics (Criminal Justice)

McCluskey, John D.

ISBN 10: 1931202613 ISBN 13: 9781931202619

Publisher: Lfb Scholarly Pub Llc, 2003

Synopsis

Kaminski seeks to explain murders of police in 190 cities and four time periods (1987, 1990, 1993, and 1996). His hypotheses are that differences in levels of officer exposure (e.g., arrests) and physical and social guardianship (e.g., mandatory vest-wear policies; proportion of one- vs. two-officer patrol units) influence opportunities for homicides after the effects of proximity to motivated offenders are accounted for (i.e., criminogenic conditions and field officer density). Social and physical guardianship are not significant factors. Homicides of police are primarily a function of exposure and proximity to motivated offenders. In addition, police departments employing more female officers and those located in the south experience more homicides. The results indicate that murders of police are largely determined by criminogenic structural conditions, arrest activity, and the number officers deployed in the field.

About this title

About the Author:

John D. McCluskey is an Assistant Professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Lfb Scholarly Pub Llc
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1931202613
• ISBN 13: 9781931202619
• Binding: Library Binding
• Number of pages: 222