Regional Variations in Fatal Police Shootings: An Empirical Examination of the Southern Subculture of Violence Hypothesis

• In Event: Longitudinal Predictors of Delinquent Behavior, Adolescent Decision Making, and Firearm Fatalities

Abstract

The present study provides an empirical examination of the southern subculture of violence hypothesis by disaggregating the effects of US region on the situational and contextual determinants of police officer involved firearm fatalities using the Washington Post Police Shootings data for 2015 and 2016.

Authors

• Robert S Moschgat, Bloomsburg

• Scott Duncan, Bloomsburg University