Self-Control and Police Decision-Making in a Simulated Environment

• In Event: Poster Session II

Abstract

Researchers have been studying police behavior for decades and a key potential benefit of this topic is a deeper and more nuanced understanding of variation in decision-making. More importantly is the realization that numerous extra-legal factors have been identified as correlates of police decision-making. The present study continues in this tradition by using the criminological concept of self-control to understand the use of force on a sample of officers in a study using a police simulator in a shoot/don't-shoot situation.

Authors

• James J. Sobol, SUNY Buffalo State

• Scott W. Phillips, SUNY Buffalo State

• S. Marlon Gayadeen, SUNY Buffalo State