Resurrecting Individual Differences: Toward a Theory of Police Officer Behavior
Published online on January 19, 2026
Abstract
Crime & Delinquency, Ahead of Print.
The past century has produced abundant scholarship on policing. Glaringly absent, despite thousands of studies, has been an explicit attempt to build an interdisciplinary and causal theory of police behavior. Although theories about various aspects of ...
The past century has produced abundant scholarship on policing. Glaringly absent, despite thousands of studies, has been an explicit attempt to build an interdisciplinary and causal theory of police behavior. Although theories about various aspects of ...