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Explaining Suspect Resistance in Police-Citizen Encounters:
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In this paper, the authors used logistic regression to explore the association between several demographic factors and a binary outcome measuring suspect resistance, and found that black suspects were more likely to resist relative to their white and Hispanic counterparts.Abstract:
The authors analyzed police records to explore why suspects resist arrest. The analysis was based on a sample of 400 police reports from a mid-size urban police department in Southern California. Two hundred cases involved suspects who were charged with resisting arrest. The remaining 200 cases involved arrested suspects who did not resist. The authors used logistic regression to explore the association between several demographic factors and a binary outcome measuring suspect resistance. They found that suspects arrested in police beats characterized by a disproportionate number of calls for service were more likely to resist. They further found that Black suspects were more likely to resist relative to their White and Hispanic counterparts. The authors also explored interaction effects.read more
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Trust and legitimacy: Policing in the USA and Europe
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue for the value of new approaches to policing in the United States and Europe, focusing upon building police legitimacy among members of the public with the goal of encouraging widespread voluntary compliance with the law, acceptance of police authority and deference to police decisions, as well as a general willingness to cooperate with the police to fight crime.
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Street Stops and Police Legitimacy: Teachable Moments in Young Urban Men’s Legal Socialization
TL;DR: In this paper, an examination of the influence of street stops on the legal socialization of young men showed an association between the number of police stops and a diminished sense of police legitimacy.
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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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Street Stops and Police Legitimacy: Teachable Moments in Young Urban Men's Legal Socialization
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the influence of street stops on the legal socialization of young men and found that the impact of involuntary contact with the police was mediated by evaluations of the fairness of police actions and judgments about whether the police were acting lawfully.
Legitimacy and Criminal Justice: The Benefits of Self-Regulation
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue for the value of a self-regulatory approach to law and criminal justice, focusing on engaging people's values as a basis for motivating voluntary deference to the law.
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Applied Logistic Regression
David W. Hosmer,Stanley Lemeshow +1 more
TL;DR: Hosmer and Lemeshow as discussed by the authors provide an accessible introduction to the logistic regression model while incorporating advances of the last decade, including a variety of software packages for the analysis of data sets.
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TL;DR: Applied Logistic Regression, Third Edition provides an easily accessible introduction to the logistic regression model and highlights the power of this model by examining the relationship between a dichotomous outcome and a set of covariables.
Politeness : Some Universals in Language Usage
TL;DR: Gumperz as discussed by the authors discusses politeness strategies in language and their implications for language studies, including sociological implications and implications for social sciences. But he does not discuss the relationship between politeness and language.
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Politeness: Some Universals in Language Usage
TL;DR: This paper presents an argument about the nature of the model and its implications for language studies and Sociological implications and discusses the role of politeness strategies in language.
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Why people obey the law
TL;DR: This paper found that people obey the law if they believe it's legitimate, not because they fear punishment, which is the conclusion of Tom Tyler's classic study, "People obey law primarily because they believe in respecting legitimate authority".