COVID-19 has wreaked havoc on the lives of persons around the world and social scientists
are just beginning to understand its consequences on human behavior. One policy that …

Purpose A wide body of research has demonstrated that police officers are profoundly
affected by their exposure to violence and the traumatic events viewed commonly as part of …

The larger literature on police stress indicates that much of their stress emanates from two
sources: organizational and environmental. These sources coexist in officers' lives but …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the utility of general strain theory in
explaining the relationship between organizational stress and police deviance …

The controversy surrounding recent high-profile police shootings (eg, Michael Brown in
Ferguson, Missouri; Laquan McDonald in Chicago) has prompted inquiry into the possible …

Objectives. To examine how sublethal use-of-force patterns vary across officer–civilian
race/ethnicity while accounting for officer-, civilian-, and situational-level factors. Methods …

A large body of research demonstrates the toll stress takes on police. However, with recent
high-profile force incidents that have fueled distrust of police especially within minority …

We analyze a set of 207 Dallas Police Department officer-involved shooting incidents in
reference to 1,702 instances in which officers from the same agency drew their firearms but …

Background The unpredictable, and sometimes dangerous, nature of the occupation
exposes officers to both acute and chronic stress over law enforcement officers'(LEO) tenure …

Researchers are working to identify appropriate benchmarks for exploring racial bias in the
officer-involved shooting (OIS) context. Two recent studies benchmarked OIS against …