Body‐worn cameras' effects on police officers and citizen behavior: A systematic review

C Lum, CS Koper, DB Wilson, M Stoltz… - Campbell …, 2020 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Overall, there remains substantial uncertainty about whether BWCs can reduce officer use of
force, but the variation in effects suggests there may be conditions in which BWC could be …

Research on body‐worn cameras: What we know, what we need to know

C Lum, M Stoltz, CS Koper… - Criminology & public …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Research Summary In this article, we provide the most comprehensive narrative review to
date of the research evidence base for body‐worn cameras (BWCs). Seventy empirical …

Wearing body cameras increases assaults against officers and does not reduce police use of force: Results from a global multi-site experiment

B Ariel, A Sutherland, D Henstock… - European journal of …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Police use of force is at the forefront of public awareness in many countries. Body-worn
videos (BWVs) have been proposed as a new way of reducing police use of force, as well as …

Police body-worn cameras: Effects on officers' burnout and perceived organizational support

I Adams, S Mastracci - Police quarterly, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Police departments in the United States are rapidly adopting body-worn cameras (BWCs).
To date, no study has investigated the effects of BWCs on police officers themselves, despite …

“Contagious accountability” a global multisite randomized controlled trial on the effect of police body-worn cameras on citizens' complaints against the police

B Ariel, A Sutherland, D Henstock… - Criminal justice and …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
The use of body-worn cameras (BWCs) by the police is rising. One proposed effect of BWCs
is reducing complaints against police, which assumes that BWCs reduce officer …

Report: Increases in police use of force in the presence of body-worn cameras are driven by officer discretion: A protocol-based subgroup analysis of ten randomized …

B Ariel, A Sutherland, D Henstock, J Young… - Journal of experimental …, 2016 - Springer
Objectives Our multisite randomized controlled trial reported that police body-worn cameras
(BWCs) had, on average, no effect on recorded incidents of police use of force. In some …

A field experiment of the impact of body-worn cameras (BWCs) on police officer behavior and perceptions

AM Headley, RT Guerette, A Shariati - Journal of criminal justice, 2017 - Elsevier
Amidst the backdrop of considerable citizen unrest in the US stemming from perceived
injustices within police-citizen interactions in recent years, many government leaders have …

Body worn cameras, procedural justice, and police legitimacy: A controlled experimental evaluation of traffic stops

M Demir, R Apel, AA Braga, RK Brunson, B Ariel - Justice quarterly, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Police legitimacy is generally regarded as a view among community members that police
departments play an appropriate role in implementing rules governing public conduct …

Body‐worn cameras as a potential source of depolicing: Testing for camera‐induced passivity

D Wallace, MD White, JE Gaub, N Todak - Criminology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Contentious debate is currently taking place regarding the extent to which public scrutiny of
the police post‐Ferguson has led to depolicing or to a decrease in proactive police work …