SOCI 3410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Use Of Force Continuum
12 Apr 2016
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Police use of force data, force was used in 2. 3 suspect encounters the individual oicers with negaive aitude towards ciizens were more likely to use force. More likely to use force on african american males under inluence. 22% of all adult arrests involved force factors inluencing force: whether or not the suspect used force, whether they were involved in gangs, whether they were under the inluence, whether the suspect had a weapon. We can id characterisics related to use of force. Albert & dunham explored whether police used use of force coninuum found that they did. Many situaional variables used force more frequently with non white, young, poor suspects. Lee and colleagues police more likely to use force in poor communiies with employment issues. Gerald robin published one of the irst studies on police use of deadly force all but 2 incidents were deemed jusiiable.
