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Overview

Geoffrey P. Alpert is affiliated with the University of South Carolina in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on social sciences, with specific attention to political science and international relations, sociology and political science, law, social psychology, and health.

The main areas of study addressed in their work include policing practices and perceptions, crime patterns and interventions, criminal law and evidence, gun ownership and violence research, social and intergroup psychology, wildlife conservation and criminology analyses, and European criminal justice and data protection.

Geoffrey P. Alpert's recent papers include:

  • Social Interaction Training to Reduce Police Use of Force (2020) published in The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
  • Randomized controlled trial of social interaction police training (2020) published in Criminology & Public Policy
  • Advancing police use of force research and practice: urgent issues and prospects (2021) published in Legal and Criminological Psychology
  • Re-examining the Use of Force Continuum: Why Resistance is Not the Only Driver of Use of Force Decisions (2022) published in Police Quarterly
  • Recruiting for change: shifting focus to address a workforce crisis (2022) published in Police Practice and Research

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Geoffrey P. Alpert are:

  • Seth W. Stoughton
  • Jeffrey J. Noble
  • Kyle McLean
  • Jeff Rojek
  • Ian T. Adams

They have published extensively in venues such as CrimRxiv, Police Quarterly, Police Practice and Research, Policing & Society, and Criminal Justice and Behavior. Among these, CrimRxiv has the highest number of publications by the scientist.

Geoffrey P. Alpert has also authored a book titled Evaluating Police Uses of Force, published in 2020 by New York University Press eBooks.

Best Publications

  • Understanding Police Use of Force: Officers, Suspects, and Reciprocity

    Geoffrey P. Alpert;Roger G. Dunham

  • A bird's eye view of civilians killed by police in 2015: further evidence of implicit bias

    Justin Nix;Bradley A. Campbell;Edward H. Byers;Geoffrey P. Alpert

  • POLICE SUSPICION AND DISCRETIONARY DECISION MAKING DURING CITIZEN STOPS

    Geoffrey P. Alpert;John M. Macdonald;Roger G. Dunham

  • Explaining Police Bias: A Theory of Social Conditioning and Illusory Correlation

    Michael R. Smith;Geoffrey P. Alpert

  • Policing urban America

    Geoffrey P. Alpert

  • How Reasonable Is the Reasonable Man?: Police and Excessive Force

    Geoffrey P. Alpert;William C. Smith

  • Police Use of Force: An Analysis of Organizational Characteristics

    Geoffrey P. Alpert;John M. MacDonald

  • Neighborhood Differences in Attitudes Toward Policing: Evidence For a Mixed-Strategy Model of Policing in a Multi-Ethnic Setting

    Roger G. Dunham;Geoffrey P. Alpert

  • Police research, officer surveys, and response rates

    Justin Nix;Justin T. Pickett;Hyunin Baek;Geoffrey P. Alpert

  • INVESTIGATING RACIAL PROFILING BY THE MIAMI‐DADE POLICE DEPARTMENT: A MULTIMETHOD APPROACH

    Geoffrey P. Alpert;Roger G. Dunham;Michael R. Smith

  • Interactive Police-Citizen Encounters that Result in Force:

    Geoffrey P. Alpert;Roger G. Dunham;John M. MacDonald

  • Police Officers as Warriors or Guardians: Empirical Reality or Intriguing Rhetoric?

    Kyle McLean;Scott E. Wolfe;Jeff Rojek;Geoffrey P. Alpert

  • Working with high-risk youth in prevention and early intervention programs: toward a comprehensive wellness model.

    R. C. Mills;Roger G. Dunham;Geoffrey P. Alpert

  • Sex and Occupational Socialization among Prison Guards: A Longitudinal Study

    Ben M. Crouch;Geoffrey P. Alpert

  • Keeping Academically Marginal Youths in School: A Prediction Model

    Geoffrey Alpert;Roger Dunham

  • Policing Multi-Ethnic Neighborhoods: The Miami Study and Findings for Law Enforcement in the United States

    John Sibley Butler;Geoffrey P. Alpert;Roger G. Dunham

  • Early Warning Systems: Responding to the Problem Police Officer

    Samuel Walker;Geoffrey P. Alpert;Dennis J. Kenney

  • The impact of conducted energy devices and other types of force and resistance on officer and suspect injuries

    Michael R. Smith;Robert J. Kaminski;Jeffrey Rojek;Geoffrey P. Alpert

  • Police use of force: examining the relationship between calls for service and the balance of police force and suspect resistance

    John M MacDonald;Patrick W Manz;Geoffrey P Alpert;Roger G Dunham

  • Examining Officer and Citizen Accounts of Police Use-of-Force Incidents

    Jeff Rojek;Geoffrey P. Alpert;Hayden P. Smith

  • Attitude Structures of Different Ethnic and Age Groups Concerning Police

    Peggy S. Sullivan;Roger G. Dunham;Geoffrey P. Alpert

  • American Prison Systems: Punishment and Justice

    Richard Hawkins;Geoffrey P. Alpert

Frequent Co-Authors

John M. MacDonald
John M. MacDonald University of Pennsylvania
Shawn D. Bushway
Shawn D. Bushway University at Albany, State University of New York
George D. Wilson
George D. Wilson Beaumont Health
Robin S. Engel
Robin S. Engel University of Cincinnati
Alex R. Piquero
Alex R. Piquero University of Miami
Justin T. Pickett
Justin T. Pickett University at Albany, State University of New York
Ted Chiricos
Ted Chiricos Florida State University
William Terrill
William Terrill Arizona State University
Raymond Paternoster
Raymond Paternoster University of Maryland, College Park
Wesley G. Jennings
Wesley G. Jennings University of Mississippi

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