Criminal Justice Faculty Publications
Document Type
Article
Abstract
Scholarship on police misconduct has almost exclusively focused on urban police working within large cities. This study utilizes media-based data to describe 2,592 arrests for crimes committed by rural and small-town police officers working in non-metropolitan counties across the United States. We compared these cases of police crime to those committed by officers working within more urbanized metropolitan counties. Findings demonstrate: 1) the dispersion of cases of police crime across a continuum of geographic places and types of police agencies including the most rural counties, and 2) significant differences between metropolitan and non-metropolitan cases of police crime including both type of crime and organizational dispositions. The study contributes to the scholarly literature on police misconduct and the study of rural and small-town policing.
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Stinson, Philip M.; Liederbach, John; Watkins, Adam; and Wentzlof, Chloe, "Rural & Small-Town Police Crime: A National Scale Description and Comparison to Urban Places" (2024). Criminal Justice Faculty Publications. 152.
https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/crim_just_pub/152
Publication Date
2024
Publication Title
Online Journal of Rural Research & Policy
Publisher
New Prairie Press
DOI
https://doi.org/10.4148/1936-0487.1128
Volume
19
Issue
2