Brian Lawton
Biographic Data
| ID | 4437603 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian Lawton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian |
| FAMILY NAME | Lawton |
| SIGNATURE | LAWTON B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sam Houston State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7062-9192 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The impact of officer and supervisor training in police use of force incidents
Mean Streets and Mental Health
This study explores the relationship between mental health and place at microgeographic units of analysis. We examine self‐reported symptomology for depression and PTSD for 2,724 survey respondents interviewed in three types of randomly selected street segments: violent crime hot spots, cool spots, and cold spots. We find that the mean symptomology score is 61% higher for depression in violent crime hot spots than cold spots, and 85% higher for P…
Campus Police Cooperation and Legitimacy
This paper extends the procedural justice model to campus policing, examining both the antecedents of legitimacy as well as the relative influence of student legitimacy evaluations on their likelihood of reporting campus crimes to the public safety department. A simple random sample of 31 undergraduate sections (n = 554) responded to a paper survey instrument. Undergraduate respondents indicate general procedural justice ratings are significantly…
The prevalence of fatal police shootings by U.S. police, 2015–2016
Place Matters
Over the last two decades, there has been increased interest in the distribution of crime and other antisocial behavior at lower levels of geography. The focus on micro geography and its contribution to the understanding and prevention of crime has been called the 'criminology of place'. It pushes scholars to examine small geographic areas within cities, often as small as addresses or street segments, for their contribution to crime. Here, the au…
Juvenile arrest rates for burglary
Effect of broken windows enforcement on clearance rates
Levels of Nonlethal Force
This work examines the determinants of the levels of nonlethal force employed by Philadelphia police using 1 year of archival self-reports ( N= 747). Integrated, ordinal multilevel models attend to officer, situational, and contextual determinants of levels of force. The current work seeks to improve on earlier work in several ways. The use of multilevel models reveals whether levels of force vary across locales. In addition, treating the outcome…
Roles of neighborhood race and status in the middle stages of juror selection
Mean Streets and Mental Health
This study explores the relationship between mental health and place at microgeographic units of analysis. We examine self‐reported symptomology for depression and PTSD for 2,724 survey respondents interviewed in three types of randomly selected street segments: violent crime hot spots, cool spots, and cold spots. We find that the mean symptomology score is 61% higher for depression in violent crime hot spots than cold spots, and 85% higher for P…
The prevalence of fatal police shootings by U.S. police, 2015–2016
Effect of broken windows enforcement on clearance rates
Juvenile arrest rates for burglary
Levels of Nonlethal Force
This work examines the determinants of the levels of nonlethal force employed by Philadelphia police using 1 year of archival self-reports ( N= 747). Integrated, ordinal multilevel models attend to officer, situational, and contextual determinants of levels of force. The current work seeks to improve on earlier work in several ways. The use of multilevel models reveals whether levels of force vary across locales. In addition, treating the outcome…
Roles of neighborhood race and status in the middle stages of juror selection
Effect of broken windows enforcement on clearance rates
Juvenile arrest rates for burglary
Place Matters
Over the last two decades, there has been increased interest in the distribution of crime and other antisocial behavior at lower levels of geography. The focus on micro geography and its contribution to the understanding and prevention of crime has been called the 'criminology of place'. It pushes scholars to examine small geographic areas within cities, often as small as addresses or street segments, for their contribution to crime. Here, the au…
The prevalence of fatal police shootings by U.S. police, 2015–2016
Mean Streets and Mental Health
This study explores the relationship between mental health and place at microgeographic units of analysis. We examine self‐reported symptomology for depression and PTSD for 2,724 survey respondents interviewed in three types of randomly selected street segments: violent crime hot spots, cool spots, and cold spots. We find that the mean symptomology score is 61% higher for depression in violent crime hot spots than cold spots, and 85% higher for P…
Campus Police Cooperation and Legitimacy
This paper extends the procedural justice model to campus policing, examining both the antecedents of legitimacy as well as the relative influence of student legitimacy evaluations on their likelihood of reporting campus crimes to the public safety department. A simple random sample of 31 undergraduate sections (n = 554) responded to a paper survey instrument. Undergraduate respondents indicate general procedural justice ratings are significantly…
The impact of officer and supervisor training in police use of force incidents
Crime Patterns and Interventions (8 works) · Criminology (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Policing Practices and Perceptions (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (3 works) · Demography (3 works)