TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2012//
TI  - Examining officer and citizen accounts of police use-of-force incidents
JO  - Crime and delinquency
A1  - Rojek, Jeffrey
A1  - Alpert, Geoffrey P.
A1  - Smith, Hayden P.
SP  - 301
EP  - 327
VL  - 58
IS  - 2
N2  - This study contributes to the body of knowledge of police-citizen contacts by investigating perceptions and behaviors during encounters that result in physical resistance and force. The authors use the accounts literature as a way to understand police-citizen interactions. The data include interviews with citizens who resisted or were accused of resisting lawful police commands and those officers who used force to control these citizens. The goals are to understand the dynamics of police-citizen interactions that use force, to make sense of the actors' perspectives, and, finally, to examine the processes within the deference-resistance continuum. The data show that officers and citizens focus on different issues when interacting and justify their behavior by the identification and maintenance of their self-prescribed roles.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0011-1287
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0011128710386206
ID  - ref1
ER  -