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Aaronson, Ethan. Understanding police use of force in New Jersey: do civilian demographics influence police behavior?. Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-tp2v-hm11

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TitleUnderstanding police use of force in New Jersey: do civilian demographics influence police behavior?
NameAaronson, Ethan (author); Stansfield, Richard (chair); Herrschaft-Eckman, Bryn (internal member); Okulicz-Kozaryn, Adam (internal member); Rutgers University; Camden Graduate School
Date Created2020
Other Date2020-05 (degree)
SubjectPolice brutality -- New Jersey, Criminal Justice
Extent1 online resource (ii, 74 pages) : illustrations
DescriptionIn recent years, there has been increased scrutiny around the ways police officers use physical force while carrying out their duties. Though it is often necessary for officers to use force during arrests, there have also been innumerable cases of officers going beyond their mandate and inflicting unreasonable amounts of violence on civilians. In 2017, NJ Advance Media produced a groundbreaking report detailing the way New Jersey police officers use force while on the job. This paper will use the Force Report and other data to test for relationships between demographic factors and uses of force by police. Using multivariate regression analyses and GIS mapping software, the relationships between rate of use of force and race, income, education, political affiliation, and violent crime rate will be quantified and visually displayed for over 400 New Jersey municipalities. Using these methods, strong relationships between income, violent crime rate, and the use of force rate were found. The other independent variables had weaker relationships with the use of force rate.
NoteM.A.
NoteIncludes bibliographical references
Genretheses, ETD graduate
Persistent URLhttps://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-tp2v-hm11
LanguageEnglish
CollectionCamden Graduate School Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Organization NameRutgers, The State University of New Jersey
RightsThe author owns the copyright to this work.
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