Further exploration of the demeanor hypothesis: The interaction effects of suspects' characteristics and demeanor on police behavior

By Robin S. Engel, James J. Sobol, R. Worden. 2000

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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The Use of Force between the Police and Persons with Impaired Judgment (2004, methodology): “%) were intoxicated on alcohol.4 Similar to several previous studies on use of force, we use a combined measure of impairment for most analyses in this article (see Engel et al., 2000; Garner et al., 2002; Terrill & Mastrofski, 2002).”
Procedural Justice and Order Maintenance Policing: A Study of Inner‐City Young Men’s Perceptions of Police Legitimacy (2010, background): “Prior research shows that citizen demeanor can influence police actions and, therefore, help determine whether an encounter is civil or confrontational (Engel et al., 2000; Klinger, 1996; Lundman, 1996; Worden & Shepard, 1996).”
Just Following Orders: A Meta-Analysis of the Correlates of American Police Officer Use of Force Decisions (2014, background): “A number of studies have reported contradictory findings regarding whether a hostile demeanor increases the likelihood of use of force (Engel et al., 2000; Garner et al., 2002; Johnson, 2011; McCluskey & Terrill, 2005; Paoline & Terrill, 2004, 2007; Rydberg & Terrill, 2010; Sun & Payne, 2004;…”
UNDERSTANDING POLICE USE OF FORCE: A REVIEW OF THE EVIDENCE (2010, background): “…of officers involved increases (Garner et al., 2002; Paoline & Terrill, 2007; and Terrill & Mastrofski, 2002), others reported that force is negatively related to the presence of officers (Lawton, 2007), and some suggested that there is no relationship (Engel et al., 2000; McCluskey, et al., 2005).”
Report: increases in police use of force in the presence of body-worn cameras are driven by officer discretion: a protocol-based subgroup analysis of ten randomized experiments (2016, background): “Similarly, we know that some citizens’ demeanor promulgates use of force, often through verbal or physical assault of officers (Reisig et al. 2004; Terrill and Mastrofski 2002; but cf. Engel et al. 2000); these instances are likely to result in aggressive arrests and use of more police force.”
A bird's eye view of civilians killed by police in 2015: further evidence of implicit bias (2017, background): “, 2014), according to some researchers, whereas others have indicated no relationship exists between the decision to use force and suspect gender (Engel et al., 2000; Lawton, 2007).”
The impact of police culture on traffic stop searches: an analysis of attitudes and behavior (2005, background): “Like culture, traffic stops (Bayley, 1986; Engel et al., 2000; Lundman, 1979, 1994; Lundman and Kaufman, 2003; Novak, 2004; Rojek et al., 2004; Petrocelli et al., 2003; Smith and Petrocelli, 2001; Whitaker, 1982; Worden, 1989) and police searches (Becker, 2004; Gould and Mastrofksi, 2004; Schafer et”