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Understanding police use of force in New Jersey: do civilian demographics influence police behavior?
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Understanding police use of force in New Jersey: do civilian demographics influence police behavior?
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Aaronson
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Ethan
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1992-
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Rutgers University
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Camden Graduate School
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In 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.
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Police brutality -- New Jersey
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Criminal Justice
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1 online resource (ii, 74 pages) : illustrations
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M.A.
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Includes bibliographical references
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ETD graduate
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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