Under what conditions do people support police use of force? In this paper we assess some
of the empirical links between police legitimacy, political ideology (right-wing …

Stress and memory: a systematic state-of-the-art review with evidence-gathering
recommendations for police | Emerald Insight Books and journals Case studies Expert Briefings …

In the 50 years since its inception, racial threat theory has gained substantial traction across
the social sciences and been widely embraced by scholars studying race, power structures …

A little more than a century ago, the famous social scientist WEB Du Bois asserted that a true
understanding of African American offending must be grounded in the" real conditions" of …

Objectives Similar to researchers in other disciplines, criminologists increasingly are using
online crowdsourcing and opt-in panels for sampling, because of their low cost and …

Research Summary We administered a survey experiment to a national sample of 1068 US
adults in April 2020 to determine the factors that shape support for various policing tactics in …

This book provides a sociological perspective on crime and criminal justice by treating social
structure and social inequality as central themes in the study of crime—and major factors in …

Procedural justice theory posits that people will view law and legal institutions as more
legitimate and will be more willing to cooperate and comply with these institutions and their …

Prior research has consistently demonstrated the salience of minority status in
understanding racial and ethnic differences in perceptions of the police. This research has …

A growing literature finds that nonviolence is more successful than violence in effecting
political change. We suggest that a focus on this association is incomplete, because it …