When no one is watching: evaluating the impact of body-worn cameras on use of force incidents

WM Koslicki, DA Makin, D Willits - Policing and society, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Outcomes associated with police body-worn cameras (BWCs) and their influence on use of
force is chiefly known from large-scale implementation studies and randomised controlled …

Scripting police escalation of use of force through conjunctive analysis of body-worn camera footage: A systematic social observational pilot study

VA Sytsma, VF Chillar, EL Piza - Journal of criminal justice, 2021 - Elsevier
Purpose To date script analysis has not been used in the field of criminology to further
understand processes behind events involving non-offending criminal justice system actors …

Research on body worn cameras: Meeting the challenges of police operations, program implementation, and randomized controlled trial designs

WH Sousa, JR Coldren Jr, D Rodriguez… - Police …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
As police departments across the United States equip officers with body worn cameras
(BWCs), research has focused on the technology's impact on police interactions with …

Facilitating police reform: Body cameras, use of force, and law enforcement outcomes

T Kim - Use of Force, and Law Enforcement Outcomes …, 2019 - papers.ssrn.com
Body-worn cameras (BWCs) have emerged as a crucial reform to restore police legitimacy.
However, mixed results from previous single-agency studies have raised concerns about the …

A randomized controlled trial of the impact of body-worn camera activation on the outcomes of individual incidents

J Huff, CM Katz, EC Hedberg - Journal of experimental criminology, 2020 - Springer
Objectives Evaluate the impact of body-worn cameras (BWCs) on officer-initiated activity,
arrests, use of force, and complaints. Methods We use instrumental variable analysis to …

Measuring procedural justice policy adherence during use of force events: The body-worn camera as a performance monitoring tool

VA Sytsma, EL Piza, VF Chillar… - Criminal justice policy …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
This study capitalizes on a successful researcher–practitioner partnership to conduct a
systematic social observation (SSO) of police body-worn camera (BWC) footage in Newark …

The 'civilizing effect'and 'deterrence spectrum'revisited: results of a national study of body-worn cameras on fatal police force

WM Koslicki, D Willits, M Simckes - Policing and society, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Body-worn cameras have, since their rapid emergence from 2014 onward, long been touted
as an important part of police reform efforts, given their hypothesised effects. The two most …

Do body‐worn cameras reduce disparities in police behavior in minority communities? Evidence of nuanced influences across Black and Hispanic neighborhoods

J Huff - Criminology & Public Policy, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Research Summary The adoption of body‐worn cameras (BWCs) is often promoted
in response to contentious police use of force incidents involving minority civilians. BWCs …

The effects of body-worn cameras on violent police victimization

S Douglas - Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Body-worn cameras (BWCs) have been presented as a technological innovation to cultivate
greater civility in police–citizen interactions. Attempts have been made to clarify the impact of …

Body-worn cameras and citizen interactions with police officers: Estimating plausible effects given varying compliance levels

EC Hedberg, CM Katz, DE Choate - Justice quarterly, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Recent citizen deaths involving police use of force have increased discussion surrounding
police accountability and community relations. One piece of this discussion is the use of …