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Performance Measures for Evaluating One vs Two Officer Cars

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Date Published

1986

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Multi-Criterion decision Procedures and the Assessment of Police Department Performance

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Date Published

March 2026

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Research (Applied/Empirical)

Use of Operational Models in Considering Implementation Strategies for Combined Use of Two and One Officer Cars

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Date Published

1985

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Effective and Ineffective Uses of Patrol Officer Discretion

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Date Published

1982

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Police Response to Drugs and Gangs: Case Studies of Police Decisionmaking

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Date Published

1992

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Report on Prospects for Future Research on Policing

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Date Published

1988

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Issue Overview

Criminal Careers and 'Career Criminals' - Conference Proceedings

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Date Published

1987

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It All Just Piles Up: Challenges to Victim Credibility Accumulate to Influence Sexual Assault Case Processing

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Journal of Interpersonal Violence

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Date Published

2019

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Research (Applied/Empirical)

Just the Right Size: Data Helps New Orleans Rebuild its Prison

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Date Published

April 2012

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Case Study

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When the Perpetrator Is a Partner: Arrest and Charging Decisions in Intimate Partner Sexual Assault Cases-A Focal Concerns Analysis

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Violence Against Women

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Date Published

2017

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Sexual Assault Case Outcomes: Disentangling the Overlapping Decisions of Police and Prosecutors

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Justice Quarterly

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Date Published

February 2018

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Unfounding Sexual Assault: Examining the Decision To Unfound and Identifying False Reports

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Law & Society Review

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Date Published

March 2014

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Moving On or Dropping Out: Police Processing of Adult Sexual Assault Cases

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Women & Criminal Justice

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Date Published

January 2013

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When an Arrest Is Not an Arrest: Exceptionally Clearing Cases of Intimate Partner Violence

Journal

Police Quarterly

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Date Published

December 2012

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Influence of "Working Rules" on Police Suspicion and Discretionary Decision Making

Journal

Police Quarterly

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Date Published

September 2008

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Police Use of Force: Tales from Another City

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Journal of Crime & Justice

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Date Published

November 2011

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Identifying Variation in Police Officer Behavior Between Juveniles and Adults

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Journal of Criminal Justice

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Date Published

April 2009

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Producing Official Crimes - Verified Crime Reports as Measures of Police Output

Journal

Social Science Quarterly

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Date Published

1980

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Violent Police-citizen Encounter

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The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

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Date Published

1980

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Police Suspicion and Discretionary Decisionmaking During Citizen Stops

Journal

Criminology

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Date Published

May 2005

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Concerns About Safety, Observer Sex, and the Decision to Arrest: Evidence of Reactivity in a Large-Scale Observational Study of Police

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Criminology

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Date Published

August 2003

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Factorial Analysis of Police Pursuit Driving Decisions: A Research Note

Journal

Justice Quarterly

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Date Published

1998

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Police Officer Decisionmaking in Potentially Violent Confrontations

Journal

Journal of Criminal Justice

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Date Published

1992

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Revisiting the Decision to Arrest: Comparing Beat and Community Officers

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Crime & Delinquency

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Date Published

January 2002

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Specific Deterrent Effects of Arrest For Domestic Assault

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American Sociological Review

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Date Published

1984

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