NCJ Number
93830
Journal
Criminal Justice and Behavior Volume: 11 Issue: 1 Dated: (March 1984) Pages: 101-113
Date Published
1984
Length
13 pages
Annotation
The rates at which police officers were murdered in American cities were calculated. City characteristics and police department characteristics were correlated with these rates, and a number of significant correlates were identified.
Abstract
City characteristics were more often associated with the police officer murder rate than were police department characteristics. Various multiple correlational techniques accounted for between 32% and 74% of the variation in the rates at which police officers were murdered. (Author abstract)