@article{ref1,
title="Causes of Police Behavior: the Current State of Quantitative Research",
journal="Journal of research in crime and delinquency",
year="1980",
author="Sherman, Lawrence W.",
volume="17",
number="1",
pages="69-100",
abstract="This paper is a first attempt to organize and codify the findings of quantitative research on four aspects of police behavior: detection, arrest, service, and violence. A framework of five explanatory approaches is used to organize the findings: individual characteristics of police officers; situational, organizational, and community characteristics; and legal variables. The findings generally show weak relationships between a wide range of the hypothesized causes and police behavior, the implica tions of which for building a substantive theory of policing are briefly considered.<p />",
language="",
issn="0022-4278",
doi="10.1177/002242788001700106",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002242788001700106"
}