‘They should have just taken a gun and shot my son’: Taser deployment and the downtrodden in Canada

Oriola, Temitope B.; Neverson, Nicole; Adeyanju, Charles T.

doi:10.1080/13504630.2012.629514

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“…This is particularly important as the correlates of use of force decisions are 'much less well established' than other areas of use of force research (Bolger 2015, p. 468), and multivariate models are few and far between. Indeed, many of these previous studies have used little empirical evidence or, in the case of Oriola et al (2012), have looked only at deaths involving Taser without controlling for confounding factors, or comparing Taser to other use of force options.…”

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‘Taser, Taser’! Exploring factors associated with police use of Taser in England and Wales

Dymond

2018

Policing and Society

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Police use of Taser in England and Wales has received little academic attention, despite being the topic of much public controversy. Much of our knowledge comes from the United States of America, but these findings are based on a small number of data sets and little testing has been done to see whether such findings apply internationally. This article uses a novel dataset from a police agency in England and Wales, and pilots new covariates, to conduct a multivariate analysis of factors associated with Taser use: the first time such analysis has been conducted outside of North America. This analysis also provides an ideal opportunity to test long-standing theoretical debates about whether police use of force is affected by 'who the citizen is', as the conflict approach would predict, or 'what the citizen does', in keeping with the consensus tradition. Variables from both the former (namely gender and mental health issues) and the latter category (including presence or use of a weapon) were found to be statistically significant after the inclusion of controls. The results highlight limitations to the application of the American based literature internationally and demonstrate stronger support for consensus than conflict theories. They also highlight that, under certain conditions, it may be appropriate for officers to take civilian characteristics into account when making use of force decisions.

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‘Taser, Taser’! Exploring factors associated with police use of Taser in England and Wales

Dymond

2018

Policing and Society

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“…The race of victims and televisual representation of episodes of police violence are fundamental to whether affected persons benefit from Canadian cultural feeling rules vis‐à‐vis receipt of victim status and public sympathy (see Loseke 2003). The video of Polish immigrant Robert Dziekański's death provided incontrovertible evidence of his tragic death but his ethnoracial origins—Eastern Europe—ensured he was not othered and held responsible for his fate like minority victims (Oriola, Neverson, and Adeyanju 2012). Public sympathy is rarely accorded to Black victims.…”

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“…My colleagues and I warned against a “new urban terrorism” (Oriola et al. 2012:76) particularly within the amphitheater of sociopolitical contestation—city spaces. We problematized the gaze of law enforcement on poor, mentally challenged, racialized individuals rendered concurrently visible, and invisible by law enforcement.…”

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Police Use of Force against Minorities and Academic Chatter

Oriola

2020

Canadian Review of Sociology

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“…To belong to an emotional subculture is not a passive achievement. Simply claiming a particular gender (Hochschild ; Kleinman ; Pierce ), nationality (Oriola et al ), race (Harlow ; Wilkins ; Wingfield ), or ethnic group (Kang ) may influence which feeling and display rules one must follow, but subcultural boundaries can cut across multiple social categories. Inhabiting a particular physical setting is not enough, either.…”

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Emotional Subcultures

Kolb

2014

Sociology Compass

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Scholars of emotional subcultures have produced a rich body of evidence in regard to how these communities operate and what makes them distinct from the mainstream. To assess the state of the field, I review in‐depth, qualitative investigations into how emotional subcultures indicate their collective identity by abiding by a shared set of norms regarding how members should feel – and display those feelings – in a given context. I organize my review along four dimensions of subcultural identity work (defining, coding, affirming, and policing) in order to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the subfield. In general, the current scholarship has successfully established the role that emotional subcultures play in the reproduction of inequality. However, it has not adequately explored an important domain of social life (namely, religion), it has not treated its core concepts with enough analytic precision, nor has it sufficiently addressed how subcultural feeling and display rules are generated in relation to local and broad structural constraints.

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‘They should have just taken a gun and shot my son’: Taser deployment and the downtrodden in Canada

Cited by 13 publications

References 29 publications

‘Taser, Taser’! Exploring factors associated with police use of Taser in England and Wales

‘Taser, Taser’! Exploring factors associated with police use of Taser in England and Wales

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