| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 205 pages) : illustrations |
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Criminal justice recent scholarship |
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Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
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| Contents |
Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chap. 1. Criminal opportunity theory and the murder of police -- Chap. 2. Literature review -- Chap. 3. Data and operationalization of variables -- Chap. 4. Method and analysis -- Chap. Discussion and conclusions -- Endnotes -- References -- Appendix -- Index |
| Summary |
This study advances research on violence against the police by incorporating both structural covariates and routine work activity factors in a model of police homicide victimization. Based on criminal opportunity theory, it is hypothesized that differences in levels of exposure to motivated offenders and officer physical and social guardianship across 190 municipal law enforcement agencies in four time periods influence opportunities for murders of police, once the effects of criminogenic structural conditions of the jurisdictions in which agencies are located have been taken into account (i.e., proximity to motivated offenders). Given the generally inconsistent results obtained in previous research, particular attention is paid to statistical modeling issues, such as collinearity among regressors, clustering, and the rare-event count nature of the dependent variable |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Police murders -- Social aspects -- United States
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Police murders -- Research -- Methodology
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TRUE CRIME -- Murder -- General.
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1593321104 |
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9781593321109 |
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1593320078 |
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9781593320072 |
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