Citation

Bailey WC. Crime Delinq. 1996; 42(4): 535-552.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1996, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0011128796042004003

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

There appears to be general consensus in law enforcement circles that less-than-lethal weapons are effective in reducing police-citizen killings, but this "common wisdom" has not been subject to systematic empirical analysis. Considering a large sample of U.S. cities for 1990, this article examines the association between the availability to the police of various types of less-than-lethal weapons and general and race-specific justifiable homicide rates. The analysis produces no evidence that police killing rates are affected by the availability of less-than-lethal weapons.

Language: en