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William Terrill
Researcher at Arizona State University
Publications - 64
Citations - 4351
William Terrill is an academic researcher from Arizona State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Use of force & Poison control. The author has an hindex of 32, co-authored 59 publications receiving 3733 citations. Previous affiliations of William Terrill include Michigan State University & Northeastern University.
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Neighborhood Context and Police Use of Force
TL;DR: This article examined the influence of neighborhood context on the level of force police exercise during police-suspect encounters using hierarchical linear modeling techniques and found that police officers are significantly more likely to use higher levels of force when suspects are encountered in disadvantaged neighborhoods and those with higher homicide rates, net of situational factors and officer-based determinants.
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Situational and officer-based determinants of police coercion
TL;DR: In this paper, an ordered probit analysis of 3,116 police-suspect encounters shows that officers often respond to legal stimuli (e.g., suspects' resistance, safety concerns) when applying force.
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Police culture and coercion
TL;DR: This paper examined the relationship between traditional views of police culture and coercion from a behavioral perspective and found that those officers who closely embody the values of the police culture are more coercive compared with those that differentially align with the culture, suggesting that police use of force is a function of officers' varying attitudinal commitments to the traditional view of policing culture.
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Police Education, Experience, and the Use of Force
TL;DR: The findings indicate that varying levels of education and experience are related to differences in the use of coercion in encounters with citizens.
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Police use of force: a transactional approach
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine 3,544 police-suspect encounters from an observational study of the police in an attempt to better understand the transactional process of an encounter.