All posts by Phil Stinson

About Phil Stinson

Philip M. Stinson, Sr., J.D., Ph.D. joined the Bowling Green faculty in 2009. He worked previously as a police officer, juvenile detention counselor, attorney, and most recently taught in the Criminology Department at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP). Dr. Stinson serves on the Editorial Board of Criminal Justice Policy Review. His research interests include police behaviors (including police crime, police corruption, and police misconduct) as well as program evaluation and mental health issues in the criminal justice system

Findings from a 7-Year Study on Police Crime

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This episode of the Police Integrity Lost podcast features a webinar that was held on June 23 2016 to discuss the major findings of the final technical report submitted to the National Institute of Justice on Phil Stinson’s 7-year study on crime committed by sworn law enforcement officers.

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Police Crime in America: Phil Stinson at Porcfest 2015

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This episode of the Police Integrity Lost podcast features the presentation of Phil Stinson at Porcfest, the Porcupine Freedom Festival of the Free State Project in Lancaster, New Hampshire on June 27, 2015. The audio recording was produced by Vibrant Works and is used by permission from the Free State Project.

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Police Crime: Grand Juries, Juries and Conviction of Officers

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This episode of the Police Integrity Lost podcast features an interview of Bowling Green State University criminal justice professor Phil Stinson on the Kelley and Company radio show from 710 KNUS News Talk Radio in Denver, Colorado, on December 9, 2014.

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Constitutional Torts, Section 1983 and Police Misconduct

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The purpose of this study is to explore whether being named as a party-defendant in federal civil rights litigation is correlated with other types of police misconduct. As part of a larger study of police officers who were arrested during the years 2005-2011, the names of each officer arrested (N = 5,545) were cross-checked against the master name index in the federal court Public Access to Courts Electronic Records (PACER) system. The findings indicate that more than one-fifth of the arrested officers (22.2%, n = 1,232) were named as a party-defendant in one or more federal court civil actions pursuant to 42 USC 1983 at some point during their law enforcement career. Additional findings and policy implications are discussed relating to strategies that could better identify problem officers and those at risk for engaging in police misconduct and its correlates.

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Gun-Involved Police Crime Arrests

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Hard statistics on police officers arrested for crimes related to on-duty shootings. In this episode of the Police Integrity Lost, Bowling Green State University criminal justice Professor Phil Stinson discusses his data on gun-involved police crime arrests.

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Victims of Police Sexual Misconduct: Presentation at 2014 ACJS Conference

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This research study was presented at the 2014 annual conference of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Little is known about officers arrested for crimes related to police sexual misconduct and their victims. This study is a quantitative content analysis of news articles reporting 771 arrests of 555 police officers for sex-related crimes during the years 2005-2008. The arrested officers were employed by 449 nonfederal state, local, and special law enforcement agencies located in 349 counties and independent cities in 44 states and the District of Columbia. Multivariate analyses include logistic regression and classification tree regression models. Findings and policy implications are discussed, with an emphasis on the victims of police sexual misconduct.

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Research Performance Progress Report for July to December 2013

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All federally funded research project grantees are required to file semi annual Research Performance Progress Reports with the funding agency. In this episode of the Police Integrity Lost podcast, BGSU professor Phil Stinson discusses the Research Performance Progress Report his NIJ-funded police integrity research project recently filed with the National Institute of Justice for the reporting period July through December 2013.

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Crime by School Resource Officers

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School resource officers (SROs) have become a permanent presence in many K-12 schools throughout the country. As a result, an emerging body of research has focused on SROs, particularly on how SROs are viewed by students, teachers, and the general public. In this episode of the Police Integrity Lost podcast, Bowling Green State University professors Phil Stinson and Adam Watkins discuss their recent study on crime by school resource officers. This exploratory and descriptive research employs a different focus by examining the nature of crimes for which SROs were arrested in recent years with information gathered from online news sources. The current findings are encouraging insofar as they reveal that SROs are rarely arrested for criminal misconduct. When SROs were arrested, however, they are most often arrested for a sex-related offense involving a female adolescent. These sex-related incidents generally occurred away from school property or during nonschool hours and rarely involved the use of physical force. The implications of these findings for SRO programs are discussed.

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Police Integrity Lost: Presentation at 2013 ASC Conference

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Police crimes are those crimes committed by sworn law enforcement officers who are given the general powers of arrest at the time the offense was committed. Surprisingly little is known about the crimes committed by police officers, and there are no comprehensive statistics available on the phenomenon. This study reports on the findings of a large scale project to collect data on the arrest of police officers in the United States. The study is a quantitative content analysis of archived records consisting of news articles and court records reporting the arrests of approximately 5500 police officers during the years 2005 through 2011. The overall purpose of the study is to identify and describe crimes committed by police officers. The primary information source was the internet-based Google News search engine and Google Alerts email update service. The findings are organized within a conceptual framework that incorporates five key dimension of police crime including police crimes that are drug related, alcohol related, violence related, sex related, and/or profit motivated.

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