Purpose Despite a considerable body of research on police misconduct, findings have been
mixed, with little consensus regarding its causes and best practices for prevention. Emerging …

The Baton Rouge Area Violence Elimination (BRAVE) Project is a group violence reduction
strategy based on the Boston Gun Project's Operation Ceasefire. This violence reduction …

Prior research has identified several individual, organizational, and community-level
correlates of police misconduct, but studies based on theoretical explanations have only …

Prior research has not sufficiently explained the various pathways that lead to career-ending
misconduct among police officers, most notably the timing of misconduct in officers' careers …

From the time that he endured a brutal beating by Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD)
officers on March 3, 1991, Rodney Glen King instantly became the face of police brutality in …

Objectives Understanding if police malfeasance might be “contagious” is vital to identifying
efficacious paths to police reform. Accordingly, we investigate whether an officer's propensity …

The problem of violence within police families has been increasingly recognized as an
important sociolegal issue, but there is a lack of empirical data on what has commonly been …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to investigate the factors which contribute to, or
mitigate against, both the likelihood and timing of the onset of police misconduct …

The power to use force is a defining characteristic of policing, one that is accompanied by a
responsibility to exercise these powers in the circumstances deemed necessary. This study …

Despite decades of research considering police misconduct, there is still little consensus on
officer characteristics associated with misconduct, and best practice for detection and …