TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1996//
TI  - "Less-than-lethal" weapons and police-citizen killings in U.S. urban areas
JO  - Crime and delinquency
A1  - Bailey, W. C.
SP  - 535
EP  - 552
VL  - 42
IS  - 4
N2  - 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.     <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0011-1287
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0011128796042004003
ID  - ref1
ER  -