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Overview

Michael D. White is affiliated with Arizona State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Medicine, with a focus on Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science, Health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality.

The topics addressed in their work include:

  • Policing Practices and Perceptions
  • Gun Ownership and Violence Research
  • Crime Patterns and Interventions
  • Traffic and Road Safety
  • Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
  • Occupational Health and Safety Research
  • Opioid Use Disorder Treatment

Michael D. White has published research in several venues, notably:

  • CrimRxiv
  • Policing An International Journal
  • American Journal of Criminal Justice
  • Journal of Criminal Justice
  • Applied Police Briefings

Frequent coauthors in their work include:

  • Seth Watts
  • Aili Malm
  • Carlena Orosco
  • Dina Perrone
  • Janne E. Gaub

Among Michael D. White's recent published papers are:

  • "Policing a Pandemic: Stay-at-Home Orders and What they Mean for the Police" (2020), published in American Journal of Criminal Justice
  • "Advancing police use of force research and practice: urgent issues and prospects" (2021), published in Legal and Criminological Psychology
  • "Open to Interpretation: Confronting the Challenges of Understanding the Current State of Body-Worn Camera Research" (2020), published in American Journal of Criminal Justice
  • "Can police shootings be reduced by requiring officers to document when they point firearms at citizens?" (2021), published in Injury Prevention
  • "Moving the needle: can training alter officer perceptions and use of de-escalation?" (2021), published in Policing An International Journal

Michael D. White has also authored a book titled Cops, Cameras, and Crisis published by New York University Press eBooks in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Police Officer Body-Worn Cameras: Assessing the Evidence

    Michael D. White

  • Do Drug Courts Work? Getting inside the Drug Court Black Box

    John S. Goldkamp;Michael D. White;Jennifer B. Robinson

  • Race, gender, and motivation for becoming a police officer: Implications for building a representative police department

    Anthony J. Raganella;Michael D. White

  • Officer Perceptions of Body-Worn Cameras Before and After Deployment: A Study of Three Departments

    Janne E. Gaub;David E. Choate;Natalie Todak;Charles M. Katz

  • Motivations for becoming a police officer: Re-assessing officer attitudes and job satisfaction after six years on the street☆

    Michael D. White;Jonathon A. Cooper;Jessica Saunders;Anthony J. Raganella

  • Making good cops in the twenty-first century: Emerging issues for the effective recruitment, selection and training of police in the United States and abroad

    Michael D. White;Gipsy Escobar

  • Controlling Police Decisions to Use Deadly Force: Reexamining the Importance of Administrative Policy

    Michael D. White

  • Exploring the Potential for Body-Worn Cameras to Reduce Violence in Police–Citizen Encounters

    Michael D. White;Janne E. Gaub;Natalie Todak

  • Stop and Frisk: The Use and Abuse of a Controversial Policing Tactic

    Henry F. Fradella;Michael D. White

  • Assessing citizen perceptions of body-worn cameras after encounters with police

    Michael D. White;Natalie Todak;Janne E. Gaub

  • Identifying good cops early: Predicting recruit performance in the academy

    Michael D. White

  • The TASER as a Less Lethal Force Alternative: Findings on Use and Effectiveness in a Large Metropolitan Police Agency

    Michael D. White;Justin Ready

  • Arrestees’ Perceptions of the Police Exploring Procedural Justice, Legitimacy, and Willingness to Cooperate With Police Across Offender Types

    Michael D. White;Philip Mulvey;Lisa M. Dario

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  • Examining Body-Worn Camera Integration and Acceptance Among Police Officers, Citizens, and External Stakeholders

    Michael D. White;Natalie Todak;Janne E. Gaub

  • Exploring the Use of DNA Evidence in Homicide Investigations: Implications for Detective Work and Case Clearance

    David A. Schroeder;Michael D. White

  • BODY‐WORN CAMERAS AS A POTENTIAL SOURCE OF DEPOLICING: TESTING FOR CAMERA‐INDUCED PASSIVITY

    Danielle Wallace;Michael D. White;Janne E. Gaub;Natalie Todak

  • A Hero’s Welcome? Exploring the Prevalence and Problems of Military Veterans in the Arrestee Population

    Michael D. White;Philip Mulvey;Andrew M. Fox;David Choate

  • Race, Ethnicity, and Policing: New and Essential Readings

    Stephen K. Rice;Michael D. White

  • Identifying situational predictors of police shootings using multivariate analysis

    Michael D. White

  • Departmental Professionalism and Its Impact on Indicators of Violence in Police–Citizen Encounters

    John A. Shjarback;Michael D. White

  • Current Issues and Controversies in Policing

    Michael D. White

  • The school-police partnership. Identifying at-risk youth through a truant recovery program.

    Michael D. White;James J. Fyfe;Suzanne P. Campbell;John S. Goldkamp

  • Exploring inmate reentry in a local jail setting implications for outreach, service use, and recidivism

    Michael D. White;Jessica Saunders;Christopher Fisher;Jeff Mellow

  • The Impact of the Taser on Suspect Resistance Identifying Predictors of Effectiveness

    Michael D. White;Justin Ready

Frequent Co-Authors

Geoffrey P. Alpert
Geoffrey P. Alpert University of South Carolina

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