... deployment time on two outcomes, stage results of the crime response model, clearance by arrest and suspension of an incident. The associations between dispatch and deployment time on clearance by arrest and suspended status are compared between violent and property crime incidents to account for differences...

...James Markey; Thomas Scott; Crystal Daye; Kevin J. Strom Purpose Sexual assault investigations present uniquely challenging circumstances to detectives, and a small proportion result in arrest. Improving sexual assault investigations requires expanding the evidence base to improve our...

...Yan Zhang; Lening Zhang Purpose The present study assesses the contextual racial effects on police decisions to arrest in traffic stops. Design/methodology/approach A hierarchical logistic regression model is conducted using data collected from the Houston Police Department and US census...

...Yuning Wu; Kai Lin; Luye Li; Xiying Wang Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine Chinese police officers’ general support for police intervention into domestic violence, emphasizing adequate protection of the victims, and specific support for utilizing arrests to deal with the offenders...

...Joongyeup Lee; Yan Zhang; Larry T. Hoover Purpose Police factor in extra‐legal as well as legal context in their decision to arrest a suspect. The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of extra‐legal factors at both situational and neighborhood levels. Design/methodology/approach...

...Steve Moffatt; Wai‐Yin Wan; Don Weatherburn Purpose The purpose of this paper is to determine whether trends in arrests for heroin, amphetamine‐type substances (ATS) and cocaine can be used as indicators of trends in the use of these drugs. Design/methodology/approach The question...

...Kenneth J. Novak; Robert A. Brown; James Frank Purpose The current research seeks to examine whether officer gender influences the decision to arrest, and whether correlates of officer decision making vary across gender. Design/methodology/approach Data on police‐public encounters were...

... and comparative methods, the paper illustrates how Gant changed settled case law on searches of automobiles incident to arrest, while at the same time leaving important questions unanswered in its wake. Findings In Arizona v. Gant (2009), the US Supreme Court held that police may...

...Richard R. Johnson Purpose The purpose of this paper is to use expectancy motivation theory to test the influence of organizational work environment on aggregate patrol officer arrest activity with regard to domestic violence incidents. Design/methodology/approach According to expectancy...

...Jay Levinson In the period of this study, arrest procedures in the NYPD were cumbersome and often took some ten hours as police officers filled out redundant paperwork and had to cope with an unfriendly computer system. In a scenario of almost comical proportions if it were...

... unanswered. The paper addresses this deficit in the criminal justice literature. Yu‐Sheng Lin can be contacted at: linuslin@mail.ntpu.edu.tw © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Police Law enforcement Arrest Injuries Coercive force Police use of coercive force lies at the core...

...Bruce D. Johnson; Andrew Golub; Eloise Dunlap; Stephen J. Sifaneck Purpose During the 1990s, the New York City Police Department (NYPD) instituted a policy of arresting and detaining people for minor offenses that occur in public as part of their quality‐of‐life (QOL) policing initiative...

... relative to others. A decrease in the proportion of stop/searches resulting in arrest; and the distribution of arrests being patterned by the ethnicity of a suspect stopped and searched. Research limitations/implications The same time periods in the previous year are used as comparison groups since...

...Richard G. Greenleaf Brian L.   Withrow . Racial Profiling: from Rhetoric to Reason . Pearson‐Prentice Hall , 2006 . 270 pp. , ISBN: 0‐13‐127379‐5 8 chapters Rhetoric, Data collection, Arrest © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 --> Rhetoric Data collection...

... disordered suspects are more likely to demonstrate disrespectful or hostile behavior. The paper also finds that disrespect and hostility increases the likelihood of arrests. However, results also demonstrate that despite behavioral differences, persons with mental disorders are significantly less likely...

...Lening Zhang; Jianhong Liu Building upon the conflict paradigm, the present study examines the impact of official status on the swiftness of criminal arrest in China and derives two major hypotheses from the Chinese culture and system: first, an individual's official status has a negative effect...