Citation

Spano R, Reisig MD. J. Crim. Justice 2006; 34(6): 619-629.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2006.09.015

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Much of the knowledge about police behavior on the streets is based on observational research. Little research, however, had examined the impact of reactivity in police observational data. One theme in the field research literature was that observer behavior could act as a source of bias in observational data. This article uses data from a large-scale observational study of police to predict this form of reactivity during encounters with suspects. In other words,