Underreporting of Justifiable Homicides Committed by Police Officers in the United States, 1976-1998

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 93, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1117-1121

  Loftin, Colin ^a   Wiersema, Brian ^b   McDowall, David ^a   Dobrin, Adam ^c  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; JUSTICE; MORTALITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POLICE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; VITAL STATISTICS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; DEATH CERTIFICATE; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH SURVEY; LAW ENFORCEMENT; LEGAL ASPECT; MANDATORY REPORTING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL CONTROL; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; DEATH CERTIFICATES; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; LAW ENFORCEMENT; MANDATORY REPORTING; MIDDLE AGED; POLICE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL CONTROL, FORMAL; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; UNITED STATES; VITAL STATISTICS;

EID: 0042243528     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.93.7.1117     Document Type: Article

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