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POLICE VIOLENCE AS A FUNCTION OF COMMUNITY CHARACTERISTICS
Author(s) -
KANIA RICHARD R. E.,
MACKEY WADE C.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
criminology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.467
H-Index - 139
eISSN - 1745-9125
pISSN - 0011-1384
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-9125.1977.tb00047.x
Subject(s) - normative , criminology , variation (astronomy) , psychology , function (biology) , social psychology , human factors and ergonomics , sociology , poison control , political science , medicine , medical emergency , law , physics , evolutionary biology , astrophysics , biology
The authors find that existing models concerning police violence are not i designed to explain variation among the states in the rates of police use ‘of deadly force. This variation correlates significantly with numerous cultural attributes of the public. The strongest correlates are with the public rates of violence. Therefore, the authors propose to moody existing modeb, and explain the police use of violence as a response to community characteristics. Where public violence is neither normative nor commonly occurrent. the police will be self‐restrained. Where the incidence of violence reveals a common means of conflict resolution, the police will adopt its use. Thus, the police use of violence is a culturally determined characteristic and not a police pathology .