"This dissertation addresses the following three research objectives: 1) Determining how often officers are subjected to aggressive physical resistance, 2) Testing the effects of situational features and officer-based characteristics on the likelihood of aggressive physical resistance, and 3) Testing the effect of environmental characteristics of census tracts (i.e., structural disadvantage, residential mobility, and violent crime) on the likelihood of aggressive physical resistance while controlling for situational features and officer-based characteristics."--From abstract.
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