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Geoffrey P. Alpert

Researcher at University of South Carolina

Publications -  169
Citations -  5476

Geoffrey P. Alpert is an academic researcher from University of South Carolina. The author has contributed to research in topics: Use of force & Law enforcement. The author has an hindex of 40, co-authored 162 publications receiving 4824 citations. Previous affiliations of Geoffrey P. Alpert include University of Miami & Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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A bird's eye view of civilians killed by police in 2015: further evidence of implicit bias

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed 990 police fatal shootings using data compiled by The Washington Post in 2015 and examined the data for evidence of implicit bias by using multivariate regression models that predict two indicators of threat perception failure: (1) whether the civilian was not attacking the officer(s) or other civilians just before being fatally shot and (2) whether a civilian was unarmed when fatally shot.
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Police suspicion and discretionary decision making during citizen stops

TL;DR: This article examined the influence of racial, demographic and situational variables on types of police suspicion and the ancillary decision to stop and question suspicious persons in an observational study of police decision making in Savannah, Georgia.
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Explaining Police Bias: A Theory of Social Conditioning and Illusory Correlation

TL;DR: Although recent empirical research has shown that Blacks and Hispanics are consistently overrepresented among police stops, searches, and arrests, few criminologists have attempted to provide a the... as mentioned in this paper.
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Understanding Police Use of Force: Officers, Suspects, and Reciprocity

TL;DR: In this article, a conceptual framework is proposed for examining and assessing police use of force, based on the Authority Maintenance Theory (AMT), and the authors also examine police use-of-force from the suspect's perspective.