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Causes of Police Behavior: the Current State of Quantitative Research
Lawrence W. Sherman
This paper is a first attempt to organize and codify the findings of quantitative research on four aspects of police behavior: detection, arrest, service, and violence. A framework of five explanatory approaches is used to organize the findings: individual characteristics of police officers; situational, organizational, and community characteristics; and legal variables. The findings generally show weak relationships between a wide range of the hypothesized causes and police behavior, the implica tions of which for building a substantive theory of policing are briefly considered.
Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Vol. 17, No. 1,
69-100 (1980)
DOI: 10.1177/002242788001700106
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