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Role of Police Psychology in Controlling Excessive Force in 50 Large Cities in the United States, 1992

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Principal Investigator(s): Scrivner, Ellen M.

Summary: As part of the development of an information base for subsequent policy initiatives, the National Institute of Justice sponsored a nationwide survey of police psychologists to learn more about the characteristics of officers who abuse force, the types of measures police psychologists recommend to control police violence and the role of police psychologists in preventing and identifying individual police officers at risk for use of excessive force. Police personnel divisions in 50 large ci... (view details)

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06402.v1

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