@article{ref1,
title="Assault of police",
journal="Crime and delinquency",
year="2017",
author="Bierie, David M.",
volume="63",
number="8",
pages="899-925",
abstract="The assault of law enforcement officers is an important but understudied topic. To better understand this form of violence, this study drew on the National Incident-Based Reporting System--the nation's largest data set tracking assaults against police alongside detailed information on situations surrounding attacks. Risk factors were examined within a fixed-effects logistic regression framework via a case-control method in which all incidents involving assault against police (n = 20,140) were compared with a random sample of arrest encounters that did not involve this form of aggression (n = 20,118). The data showed that a number of victim, offender, and situational characteristics predicted violence against officers, and the models were able to explain a substantial portion of the variance. Implications for research are discussed.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0011-1287",
doi="10.1177/0011128715574977",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0011128715574977"
}