Controlling Police Use of Deadly Force
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9755285 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Albert J Reiss (Yale University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1980 |
| Volume | 452 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 122-134 |
| Publication date | 1980-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/000271628045200112 |
| OpenAlex | W2065403859 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 20 |
A central problem for democratic government is how to limit their own use of force, particularly their use of deadly force. Government control of force can be accom plished in a number of ways, but principally by controlling opportunities for its exercise and decisions to use it. To con trol opportunities for the use of deadly force, institutions and their organization must be altered, whereas to control decisions to use it, organizations must manage them. Some major ways to control the use of deadly force by structuring opportunities and decisions are explored. Restricting op portunities for the legitimate use of force appears effective in reducing its use and the harmful consequences of injury and death. Current decision models for managing the use of deadly force rely too much upon a micromodel detailing the sequential "choice" points in decisions to use deadly force. Such models have distinct limits. Among the more serious ones are that they ignore the ways that the use of deadly force in police encounters with citizens may be averted or precluded and of how the behavior of police organizations can effect its use
Business · Computer security · Control (management · Deadly force · Democracy · Economics · Government (linguistics · Management · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Special forces · Use of force · Computer Science · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Law
Police (canteen) sub-culture. An appreciation
Compliance on Demand
Police Officer Characteristics and the Likelihood of Using Deadly Force
And the law relaxed the rules – A quasi-experimental study of fatal police shootings in Europe
Lost in transition
Ensuring the validity of police use of force training
How Police Justify the Use of Deadly Force
Racial discrimination in the criminal justice system
Reducing Fatal Police Shootings as System Crashes
Vocabularies of Legitimation
Toward a National Estimate of Police Use of Nonlethal Force
Critical Assessment of an Analysis of a Journalistic Compendium of Citizens Killed by Police Gunfire
Police officer decisionmaking in potentially violent confrontations
Justifiable use of measures in research on deadly force
Organizational factors that contribute to police deadly force liability
A new training approach to complex decision making for police officers in potentially dangerous interventions
Situational factors and police use of force across micro‐time intervals
The Sociology of Police Behavior
Preventing Avoidable Deaths in Police Encounters with Citizens
No Justice, No Peace
| Unique citing works | 20 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,48 |
| Citation span | 1984 - 2025 (42) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 20 |