The Future of Municipal Police Violence in Advanced Industrialized Democracies: Towards a Structural Causal Model

Abstract

Research on the future of policing generally ignores the problem of police violence. The author articulates a series of important structural level factors predicted to influence situational variables connected to the type, amount, and severity of police violence in the future. Relationships among the variables are posited, then assembled into a tentative causal model. The author concludes by discussing alternative methodologies for testing propositions from this model.