The use of body-worn cameras (BWCs) by the police is rising. One proposed effect of BWCs
is reducing complaints against police, which assumes that BWCs reduce officer …

Although recent advancements have been made in the understanding and studying of
police culture, several significant gaps remain, including deficiencies in theoretical …

Crime is an expensive aspect of society, and each year huge amounts of public money are
spent on the courts, police, probation services, and prisons, while the human costs in terms …

Although numerous studies have attempted to understand the causes of various forms of
police misconduct, there is still no clear theoretical explanation of police misbehavior. Akers' …

Contentious debate is currently taking place regarding the extent to which public scrutiny of
the police post‐Ferguson has led to depolicing or to a decrease in proactive police work …

Building on prior research involving citizen complaints, the current inquiry seeks to add to
the literature by examining citizen complaint data from eight US cities. We assess the …

A survey of the literature shows that researchers have assessed the social processes of
retaliation among adversarial crime prone populations. However, notably absent from this …

Conventional explanations of police misconduct generally adopt a microlevel focus on
deviant officers or a macrolevel focus on the top-down organization of police departments …

This paper presents a systematic review of studies which consider the causes of police use
of improper force, both in terms of which officers are more likely to use it, and against whom …

In response to high-profile cases of police misconduct, reformers are calling for greater use
of civilian allegations in identifying potential problem officers. This paper applies an …