Officer Risk Factors Associated with Police Shootings: A Matched Case–Control Study

Statistics and Public Policy

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 1-6

  Ridgeway, Greg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditional likelihood; Firearm injury; Police shootings

Indexed keywords

EID: 84994109230     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2330443X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/2330443X.2015.1129918     Document Type: Article

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