Objective: With the rise in the Movement for Black Lives, police departments have come under
scrutiny for issues related to police officer racial diversity. Some experts have argued that …

The murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer triggered US and worldwide
protests—protests that raised questions about police funding, use of force, and whether police …

Increased citizen interaction with the criminal justice system on digital platforms renders
citizens more vulnerable to breaches of information to third parties. We introduce the concept of …

We develop an explicitly organizational and relational approach to examine the problem of
police violence, focusing empirically on prominent policy recommendations to increase …

… 1 Please direct comments to Kpreitohodge@gmail.com This research was supported by
a NSF Graduate Fellowship to Preito-Hodge. Early versions of this paper received helpful …

Roscigno and Preito-Hodge (2021, RPH) compare police and non-police in the 1984-2018
GSS to support claims that police “uniquely believe they should receive more funding and …

Police officer use of force in the United States is a growing concern to the American people.
Although not based on solid empirical evidence, President Obama’s Task Force on 21 st …

The 2012 murder of unarmed Black teen Trayvon Martin etched into the American conscience,
the undeniable history of race and policing. While Martin was not in fact killed by police, …

In this study, the author tests whether one form of big data, tweets about feminism, provides
a useful measure of public opinion about gender. Through qualitative and naive Bayes …

… We thank Tukufu Zuberi and Kayla Preito-Hodge for their feedback on earlier drafts of this
manuscript. We also thank Derrick Brooms and Marcelle Medford for their work on this special …