Using U.S. census data and a multi-source database on officer-involved killings, the current study extends previous research by exploring the influence of measures of weak social control in economic, educational, and familial institutions on state rates of police homicide. States with lower levels of institutional control are found to have higher overall rates of police homicides and police killings involving Black, Hispanic, and White decedents. The significant effects of institutional control on these police homicide rates are generally found to exhibit contextual invariance across different levels of various control variables (e.g., comparisons of states with low or high violent crime rates, low vs high economic inequality, low vs high levels of urbanization). These results and the limitations of this study are discussed in terms of implications for future research and public policy on police homicides and the role of social institutions in minimizing the occurrence of these incidents.

本研究使用美国人口普查数据和涉及官员杀人的多源数据库，通过探索经济、教育和家庭机构中薄弱的社会控制措施对州警察杀人率的影响，扩展了先前的研究。机构控制水平较低的州被发现涉及黑人、西班牙裔和白人死者的警察杀人和警察杀人的总体比率较高。制度控制对这些警察凶杀率的显着影响通常被发现在各种控制变量的不同水平上表现出背景不变性（例如，暴力犯罪率低或高的州的比较，低与高的经济不平等，低与高水平的城市化）。