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This study primarily examined the association of police officer college education to the level of force used to gain compliance of a suspect in arrest situations. Other factors that were included as independent variables have been previously researched to show their effects on the level of force used. Furthermore, contextual measurements were determined through the use of survey questions to further explain the context of not only the police officer’s view of their education, but the situation to which force was or was not used while making an arrest, specifically, the level of crime associated with the arrest. The dependent variable, the level of force was treated as a nominal one as this study is concerned with which force level was used, and the order of severity of force as mentioned earlier, is not consistent across all police departments. To explore multiple independent variables and their association to the dependent variable, a multinomial logistic regression was used to analyze the data from the surveys.
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Vespucci, J. (2020). Contemporary Research. In: Education Level and Police Use of Force. SpringerBriefs in Criminology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42795-5_6
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