Quick on the Draw: Assessing the Relationship Between Low Self-Control and Officer-Involved Police Shootings

Police Quarterly

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 213-234

  Donner, Christopher M ^a   Maskaly, Jon ^b   Piquero, Alex R ^b   Jennings, Wesley G ^c  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

police; self control; shootings; use of force

Indexed keywords

EID: 85018741533     PISSN: 10986111     EISSN: 1552745X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1098611116688066     Document Type: Article

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