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Policing

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Arrest Efficiency And The Fourth Amendment, Song Richardson Jan 2011

Arrest Efficiency And The Fourth Amendment, Song Richardson

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In recent years, legal scholars have utilized the science of implicit social cognition to reveal how unconscious biases affect perceptions, behaviors, and judgments. Employing this science, scholars critique legal doctrine and challenge courts to take accurate theories of human behavior into account or to explain their failure to do so. Largely absent from this important conversation, however, are Fourth Amendment scholars. This void is surprising because the lessons of implicit social cognition can contribute much to understanding police behavior, especially as it relates to arrest efficiency or hit rates - the rates at which police find evidence of criminal activity …


Racializing Disability, Disabling Race: Policing Race And Mental Status, Camille Nelson Jan 2010

Racializing Disability, Disabling Race: Policing Race And Mental Status, Camille Nelson

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No abstract provided.


Improving Police Discretion: Rationality In Handling Public Inebriates Part Ii, David Aaronson , C. Dienes, Michael Musheno Jan 1978

Improving Police Discretion: Rationality In Handling Public Inebriates Part Ii, David Aaronson , C. Dienes, Michael Musheno

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In 1913 Eugene Ehrlich spoke of the living law when he stated that "[a]t the present as well as at any other time, the center of gravity of legal development lies not in legislation, nor in juristic science, nor in judicial decision, but in society itself.' This article is premised on the belief that Ehrlich's perception is as valid today as it was then. If you want to know the law relating to public intoxication you cannot be content with the statutes and ordinances, in the court decisions nor even the administrative rules and regulations of those charged with enforcing …


Improving Police Discretion Rationality In Handling Public Inebriates Part Ii, David Aaronson Jan 1978

Improving Police Discretion Rationality In Handling Public Inebriates Part Ii, David Aaronson

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No abstract provided.