Publications

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Scott M. Mourtgos, Ian T. Adams, Kyle McLean, Geoffrey P. Alpert (2026). Risk and Public Judgments on Police Pursuits: A Nationally Representative Conjoint Experiment. Police Quarterly.

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Ian T. Adams (2025). “And I would have got away with it, too, if it weren’t for you meddling kids”: Experimentally falsifying Ghost Criminology. CrimRxiv.

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Hunter M. Boehme, Ian T. Adams, Matt Barter, Irick A. Geary, Kyle McLean (2025). Writing at the speed of hype: officers’ post-experimental perceptions of AI report writing. CrimRxiv.

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Hunter M. Boehme, Ian T. Adams, Matt Barter, Irick A. Geary, Kyle McLean (2025). Writing at the speed of hype: officers’ post-experimental perceptions of AI report writing. Journal of Experimental Criminology.

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Hunter M. Boehme, Ian T. Adams, Matt Barter, Irick A. Geary, Kyle McLean (2025). Writing at the Speed of Hype: Officers’ Post-Experimental Perceptions of AI Report Writing. CrimRxiv.

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Brandon del Pozo, Rose E. A. Nevill, Javier Cepeda, Ian T. Adams, Alina Whiteside, Erin L. Thompson (2025). Why innovations in policing don’t work or don’t translate: An implementation science survey of US police leaders. Police Practice and Research.

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Marc Olson, Ian T. Adams (2025). Tough Shift: The Temporal Dynamics of Police Discretion. CrimRxiv.

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Logan J. Somers, Natalie Todak, Scott M. Mourtgos, Ian T. Adams (2025). Through Thick and Thin: Comparing Traditional Qualitative Analysis and Natural Language Processing Techniques Using Narrative Data from Police Officers. CrimRxiv.

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Logan J. Somers, Natalie Todak, Scott M. Mourtgos, Ian T. Adams (2025). Through Thick and Thin: Comparing Traditional Qualitative Analysis and Natural Language Processing Techniques Using Narrative Data from Police Officers. Justice Quarterly.

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Hunter M. Boehme, Scott M. Mourtgos, Sohee Jung, Ian T. Adams, Justin Nix (2025). The Unintended Consequences of State-Level Drug Decriminalization Laws: Implications for Arrest and Crime Rates. CrimRxiv.

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Hunter M. Boehme, Marc Olson, Ian T. Adams, C. Ashley Fulmer (2025). Shootings, seizures, and speed: a quasi-experimental study of gunshot detection technology in a mid-sized capital city. CrimRxiv.

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Hunter M. Boehme, Marc Olson, Ian T. Adams, C. Ashley Fulmer (2025). Shootings, seizures, and speed: a quasi-experimental study of gunshot detection technology in a mid-sized capital city. Crime Science.

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Scott M. Mourtgos, Ian T. Adams, Kyle McLean, Geoffrey P. Alpert (2025). Risk and Public Judgments on Police Pursuits: A Nationally Representative Conjoint Experiment. CrimRxiv.

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Scott M. Mourtgos, Ian T. Adams (2025). Reasonable Doubt: Quantifying the Risk of Police Interrogation Tactics in False Confession Wrongful Convictions. CrimRxiv.

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Ian T. Adams, Scott M. Mourtgos, Geoffrey P. Alpert (2025). Police use of force. Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks.

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Kaylyn Jackson Schiff, Daniel Schiff, Ian T. Adams, Joshua McCrain, Scott M. Mourtgos (2025). Institutional factors driving citizen perceptions of AI in government: Evidence from a survey experiment on policing. CrimRxiv.

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Ian T. Adams, Kyle McLean, Geoffrey P. Alpert (2025). Improving police behavior through artificial intelligence: Pre‐registered experimental results in two large US agencies. Criminology.

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Ian T. Adams, Marc Olson, Lois James, Brandon Tregle, Hunter M. Boehme (2025). Fuck: Public Opinion. Police Quarterly.

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Ian T. Adams, Marc Olson, Lois James, Brandon Tregle, Hunter M. Boehme (2025). Fuck: Public Opinion. CrimRxiv.

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Seth W. Stoughton, Ian T. Adams, Brandon del Pozo, Geoffrey P. Alpert, Irick A. Geary, Marc Olson (2025). Forced Science: A Critical Appraisal of the Scientific Rigor of ‘Force Science’ Policing Research. SSRN Electronic Journal.

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Ian T. Adams, Seth W. Stoughton, Brandon del Pozo, Irick A. Geary, Marc Olson, Geoffrey P. Alpert (2025). Forced Science: A Critical Appraisal of the Scientific Rigor of ‘Force Science’ Policing Research. Police Quarterly.

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Kathleen E. Padilla, Ian T. Adams (2025). Emerging tools and technologies and the future of policing Research: an introduction. Police Practice and Research.

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Kaylyn Jackson Schiff, Daniel Schiff, Bryant Moy, Joshua McCrain, Scott M. Mourtgos, Ian T. Adams (2025). Does civilian oversight impact police legitimacy?. CrimRxiv.

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Kaylyn Jackson Schiff, Daniel Schiff, Bryant Moy, Joshua McCrain, Scott M. Mourtgos, Ian T. Adams (2025). Does civilian oversight impact police legitimacy?. PNAS Nexus.

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Irick A. Geary, Ian T. Adams, Matt Barter, Kyle McLean, Hunter M. Boehme (2025). Does Artificial Intelligence Speed Up Police Report Writing Times? No.. Applied police briefings :.

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Irick A. Geary, Ian T. Adams, Matt Barter, Kyle McLean, Hunter M. Boehme (2025). Does Artificial Intelligence Speed Up Police Report Writing Times? No.. Applied police briefings :.

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Ian T. Adams (2025). Automation and artificial intelligence in police body-worn cameras: Experimental evidence of impact on perceptions of fairness among officers. CrimRxiv.

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Ian T. Adams (2025). Automation and artificial intelligence in police body-worn cameras: Experimental evidence of impact on perceptions of fairness among officers. Journal of Criminal Justice.

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Chandler G. Robinson, Ian T. Adams, Matthew W. Logan, J. Pete Blair (2025). AI-Generated Human Stimuli for Experimental Social Science. CrimRxiv.

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Justin Nix, Ian T. Adams, Josh McCrain (2025). 99 Problems but a Clean IV Ain’t One: Measuring and Studying Officer-Involved Shootings. CrimRxiv.

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Brandon del Pozo, Rose E. A. Nevill, Javier Cepeda, Ian T. Adams, Alina Whiteside, Erin L. Thompson (2024). Why innovations in policing don’t work or don’t translate: An implementation science survey of US police leaders. CrimRxiv.

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Brandon del Pozo, Steven Belenko, Faye S. Taxman, Robin S. Engel, Jerry H. Ratcliffe, Ian T. Adams, Alex R. Piquero (2024). Then a miracle occurs: cause, effect, and the heterogeneity of criminal justice research. CrimRxiv.

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Brandon del Pozo, Steven Belenko, Faye S. Taxman, Robin S. Engel, Jerry H. Ratcliffe, Ian T. Adams, Alex R. Piquero (2024). Then a miracle occurs: cause, effect, and the heterogeneity of criminal justice research. Journal of Experimental Criminology.

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Scott M. Mourtgos, Ian T. Adams, Justin Nix (2024). Staffing levels are the most important factor influencing police response times. Policing A Journal of Policy and Practice.

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Scott M. Mourtgos, Ian T. Adams, Justin Nix (2024). Staffing Levels are the Most Important Factor Influencing Police Response Times. CrimRxiv.

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Scott M. Mourtgos, Ian T. Adams, Joshua McCrain, Kaylyn Jackson Schiff, Daniel Schiff (2024). Speaking of reform: Experimental insights into influencing police executives' perspectives on civilian oversight. Criminology & Public Policy.

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Joshua McCrain, Ian T. Adams, Justin Nix, Brandon del Pozo (2024). Reconsidering a prominent finding on the spillover effects of police killings of unarmed Black Americans. CrimRxiv.

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Ian T. Adams (2024). Power Simulations of Rare Event Counts and Introduction to the ‘Power Lift’ Metric. CrimRxiv.

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Ian T. Adams, Joshua McCrain, Daniel Schiff, Kaylyn Jackson Schiff, Scott M. Mourtgos (2024). Police reform from the top down: Experimental evidence on police executive support for civilian oversight. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management.

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Ian T. Adams, Matt Barter, Kyle McLean, Hunter M. Boehme, Irick A. Geary (2024). No man’s hand: artificial intelligence does not improve police report writing speed. Journal of Experimental Criminology.

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Ian T. Adams, Matt Barter, Kyle McLean, Hunter M. Boehme, Irick A. Geary (2024). No Man’s Hand: Artificial Intelligence Does Not Improve Police Report Writing Speed. CrimRxiv.

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Sharon H. Mastracci, Ian T. Adams (2024). Managing Identity Using Emotional Labor in Sex-Typed Public Service Occupations. Unknown venue.

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Ian T. Adams (2024). Large Language Models and Artificial Intelligence for Police Report Writing. CrimRxiv.

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Ian T. Adams, Kyle McLean, Geoff Alpert (2024). Improving Police Behavior through Artificial Intelligence: Pre-Registered Experimental Results in Two Large US Agencies. CrimRxiv.

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Ian T. Adams, Scott M. Mourtgos, Jeremy M. Wilson (2024). Guest editorial: Police staffing: global perspectives and local realities. Policing An International Journal.

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Ian T. Adams (2024). Fuck: The Police. CrimRxiv.

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Ian T. Adams (2024). Fuck: The Police. Police Quarterly.

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Scott M. Mourtgos, Ian T. Adams, Justin Nix (2024). Elevated Police Turnover Following the Summer of George Floyd Protests. Applied police briefings :.

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Ian T. Adams (2024). Automation and Artificial Intelligence in Police Body-Worn Cameras: Experimental Evidence of Impact on Perceptions of Fairness Among Officers. CrimRxiv.

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Hunter M. Boehme, Ian T. Adams, Peter Leasure (2023). Weeding out the Truth: A Survey Experiment on the Role of Scientific Evidence in Shaping Public Opinion on Marijuana Policy. Journal of Criminal Justice.

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Ian T. Adams, Geoffrey P. Alpert (2023). Use of Force in Policing. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice.

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Ian T. Adams, Scott M. Mourtgos, Justin Nix (2023). Turnover in large US policing agencies following the George Floyd protests. Journal of Criminal Justice.

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Ian T. Adams, Scott M. Mourtgos, Justin Nix (2023). Turnover in Large US Policing Agencies Following the George Floyd Protests. Unknown venue.

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Ian T. Adams, Scott M. Mourtgos, Justin Nix (2023). Turnover in Large US Police Agencies Following the George Floyd Protests. Unknown venue.

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Matthew W. Logan, Ian T. Adams, Sharon H. Mastracci (2023). The protective effects of prior military service on burnout in criminal justice professions: A multiagency comparison.. Psychology Public Policy and Law.

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Peter Leasure, Hunter M. Boehme, Ian T. Adams, Douglas A. Berman (2023). The Impact of Empirical Research on Public Opinion Regarding Marijuana-Related Policies. SSRN Electronic Journal.

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Scott M. Mourtgos, Ian T. Adams (2023). Police Proactivity in an Era of Pandemic and Protest. Sociology of crime, law and deviance.

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Ian T. Adams, Josh McCrain, Kaylyn Jackson Schiff, Daniel Schiff, Scott M. Mourtgos (2023). Patrolling the Police: Experimental Evidence on Police Executives' Support for Oversight. CrimRxiv.

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Ian T. Adams, Justin Nix, Scott M. Mourtgos (2023). Memphis police numbers dropped by nearly a quarter in recent years – were staffing shortages a factor in the killing of Tyre Nichols?. Unknown venue.

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Kaylyn Jackson Schiff, Daniel Schiff, Ian T. Adams, Joshua McCrain, Scott M. Mourtgos (2023). Institutional factors driving citizen perceptions of <scp>AI</scp> in government: Evidence from a survey experiment on policing. Public Administration Review.

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Ian T. Adams, Scott M. Mourtgos, Christopher A. Simon, Nicholas P. Lovrich (2023). If the face fits: predicting future promotions from police cadets’ facial traits. Journal of Experimental Criminology.

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Ian T. Adams (2023). Fuck: The Police. Unknown venue.

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Hunter M. Boehme, Ian T. Adams, Christi Metcalfe, Peter Leasure, Melissa S. Nolan (2023). Does scientific research change minds? Linking criminology and public perceptions of policing. Criminology & Public Policy.

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Ian T. Adams, Scott M. Mourtgos, Kyle McLean, Geoffrey P. Alpert (2023). De-fanged. Journal of Experimental Criminology.

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Kyle McLean, Justin Nix, Seth W. Stoughton, Ian T. Adams, Geoffrey P. Alpert (2023). An experimental look at reasonable suspicion and police discretion. CrimRxiv.

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Kyle McLean, Justin Nix, Seth W. Stoughton, Ian T. Adams, Geoffrey P. Alpert (2023). An experimental look at reasonable suspicion and police discretion. Policing An International Journal.

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Ian T. Adams, Joshua McCrain, Daniel Schiff, Kaylyn Jackson Schiff, Scott M. Mourtgos (2022). Public Pressure or Peer Influence: What Shapes Police Executives' Views on Civilian Oversight?. Unknown venue.

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Ian T. Adams (2022). Modeling Officer Perceptions of Body-worn Cameras: A National Survey. Unknown venue.

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Ian T. Adams, colleagues (2022). If The Face Fits: Predicting Future Promotions from Police Cadets’ Facial Traits. CrimRxiv.

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Ian T. Adams, Scott M. Mourtgos, Christopher A. Simon, Nicholas P. Lovrich (2022). If The Face Fits: Predicting Future Promotions from Police Cadets’ Facial Traits. Unknown venue.

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Ian T. Adams, colleagues (2022). Defanged. CrimRxiv.

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Ian T. Adams, Scott M. Mourtgos, Kyle J McLean, Geoffrey P. Alpert (2022). Defanged. Unknown venue.

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David Carter, Ian T. Adams, Seth Wright, Tyler A. Scott (2022). Appraising the administrative burden of USDA organic certification: A descriptive analysis of Notice of Noncompliance data. Journal of Agriculture Food Systems and Community Development.

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Scott M. Mourtgos, Ian T. Adams, Justin Nix, Tara N. Richards (2021). Mandatory Sexual Assault Kit Testing Policies and Arrest Trends: A Natural Experiment. CrimRxiv.

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Scott M. Mourtgos, Ian T. Adams, Justin Nix, Tara N. Richards (2021). Mandatory Sexual Assault Kit Testing Policies and Arrest Trends: A Natural Experiment. Justice Evaluation Journal.

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Scott M. Mourtgos, Ian T. Adams, Sharon H. Mastracci (2021). Improving Victim Retention and Police-Victim Interactions in Rape Investigations. IGI Global eBooks.

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Scott M. Mourtgos, Ian T. Adams, Sharon H. Mastracci (2021). Improving victim engagement and officer response in rape investigations: A longitudinal assessment of a brief training. Journal of Criminal Justice.

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Sharon H. Mastracci, Ian T. Adams (2021). Fitter, Happier: Display Rules in Policing. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology.

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Scott M. Mourtgos, Ian T. Adams, Justin Nix (2021). Elevated police turnover following the summer of George Floyd protests: A synthetic control study. Criminology & Public Policy.

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Scott M. Mourtgos, Ian T. Adams (2021). COVID-19 vaccine program eliminates law enforcement workforce infections: a Bayesian structural time series analysis. Police Practice and Research.

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Tara N. Richards, Justin Nix, Scott M. Mourtgos, Ian T. Adams (2021). Comparing 911 and emergency hotline calls for domestic violence in seven cities: What happened when people started staying home due to COVID‐19?. Criminology & Public Policy.

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Tara N. Richards, Justin Nix, Scott M. Mourtgos, Ian T. Adams (2021). Comparing 911 and Emergency Hotline Calls for Domestic Violence in Seven Cities: What Happened When People Started Staying Home Due to COVID-19?. CrimRxiv.

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Scott M. Mourtgos, Ian T. Adams, Samuel Baty (2021). Challenging the Ordinality of Police Use-of-Force Policy. Criminal Justice Policy Review.

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Ian T. Adams, Sharon H. Mastracci (2020). Hidden in plain sight. Unknown venue.

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Ian T. Adams, Kristin F. Hurst, Nicole D. Sintov (2020). Experienced guilt, but not pride, mediates the effect of feedback on pro-environmental behavior. Journal of Environmental Psychology.

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Ian T. Adams, Sharon H. Mastracci (2020). Contrasting emotional labor and burnout in civilian and sworn law enforcement personnel. Policing An International Journal.

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Ian T. Adams, Scott M. Mourtgos, Sharon H. Mastracci (2020). <scp>High‐Stakes</scp> Administrative Discretion: What Drives <scp>Body‐Worn</scp> Camera Activations?. Public Administration Review.

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Sharon H. Mastracci, Ian T. Adams (2019). Understanding Emotional Labor at the Cultural Level. Unknown venue.

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Sharon H. Mastracci, Ian T. Adams (2019). Trending Interconnectedness: The Value of Comparative Analysis. Unknown venue.

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Sharon H. Mastracci, Ian T. Adams, Ning Kang (2019). The UK. Unknown venue.

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Scott M. Mourtgos, Ian T. Adams (2019). The rhetoric of de-policing: Evaluating open-ended survey responses from police officers with machine learning-based structural topic modeling. Journal of Criminal Justice.

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Scott M. Mourtgos, Ian T. Adams (2019). The Effect of Prosecutorial Actions on Deterrence: A County-Level Analysis. Criminal Justice Policy Review.

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Ian T. Adams, Sharon H. Mastracci (2019). Police Body-Worn Cameras: Development of the Perceived Intensity of Monitoring Scale. Criminal Justice Review.

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Sharon H. Mastracci, Ian T. Adams (2019). It's not depersonalization, It's emotional labor: Examining surface acting and use-of-force with evidence from the US. International journal of law, crime and justice.

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David Carter, Samantha L. Mosier, Ian T. Adams (2019). How Values Shape Program Perceptions: The “Organic Ethos” and Producers’ Assessments of U.S. Organic Policy Impacts. Review of Policy Research.

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Sharon H. Mastracci, Ian T. Adams (2019). Emotional labour in non-governmental organisations: narrative analysis and theory expansion. International Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion.

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Sharon H. Mastracci, Ian T. Adams (2019). Emotional labour in non-governmental organisations: narrative analysis and theory expansion. International Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion.

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Ian T. Adams, Sharon H. Mastracci, Scott M. Mourtgos (2019). Body-Worn Camera Activations: Demographic, Attitudinal, and Job Function Predictors. Preprints.org.

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Scott M. Mourtgos, Ian T. Adams (2019). Assessing Public Perceptions of Police Use-of-Force: Legal Reasonableness and Community Standards. Justice Quarterly.

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Ian T. Adams (2019). <i>Andrew G</i>. <i>Ferguson</i>, The Rise of Big Data Policing: Surveillance, Race, and the Future of Law Enforcement <i>(New York, NY: NYU Press, 2017). 272 pp. $28.00 (hardcover), ISBN: 1479892823</i>. Public Administration Review.

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Sharon H. Mastracci, Ian T. Adams (2018). “That’s What the Money’s for”: Alienation and Emotional Labor in Public Service. Administrative Theory & Praxis.

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Ian T. Adams, Sharon H. Mastracci (2018). Police Body-Worn Cameras: Effects on Officers’ Burnout and Perceived Organizational Support. Police Quarterly.

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Sharon H. Mastracci, Ian T. Adams (2018). Is Emotional Labor Easier in Collectivist or Individualist Cultures? An East–West Comparison. Public Personnel Management.

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Ian T. Adams, Sharon H. Mastracci (2017). Visibility is a Trap: The Ethics of Police Body-Worn Cameras and Control. Administrative Theory & Praxis.

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