Contagious fire? an empirical assessment of the problem of multi-shooter, multi-shot deadly force incidents in police work

Crime and Delinquency

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 196-221

  White, Michael D ^a   Klinger, David ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

contagious fire; deadly force; police shootings

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857401422     PISSN: 00111287     EISSN: 1552387X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0011128708319581     Document Type: Article

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