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Personal profile
About
David A. Klinger is a Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice. He has received a B.A. in history from Seattle Pacific University in 1980, a M.A. in justice from American University in 1985, and a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Washington in 1992. Prior to joining the Criminology and Criminal Justice faculty at UMSL, Professor Klinger was Assistant (1992-1998) and Associate (1998-1999) Professor of Sociology at the University of Houston.
Prior to pursuing his graduate degrees, Professor Klinger worked as a patrol officer for the Los Angeles and Redmond, WA Police Departments. In 1997, he was the recipient of the American Society of Criminology's Inaugural Ruth Cavan Young Scholar Award for Outstanding Early Career Contributions to the Discipline of Criminology. Professor Klinger's research interests include a broad array of issues in the field of crime and justice with an emphasis on the organization and actions of the modern police. He has published scholarly manuscripts that address arrest practices, the use of force, how features of communities affect the actions of patrol officers, and terrorism. He has conducted three federally-funded research projects dealing with the use of force by police officers; officer-involved shootings, and police special weapons and tactics (SWAT) teams.
Dr. Klinger serves as the current Chair of the Department.
Contact Information
Phone: 314-516-7012
Fax: 314-516-5048
Related documents
Education/Academic qualification
Sociology, PhD, University of Washington
1986 → 1992
Justice, MS, American University
… → 1985
History, BA, Seattle Pacific University
… → 1980
External positions
Senior Fellow, Police Foundation
Jan 1 2009 → …
Research Interests
- Police Officer Shootings
- Police Department Policy Issues
- Tasers
- Terrorism
- Police Field Operations
- Police Use of Deadly Force
- Longitudinal Data Collection & Analysis
- Survey Design
- Interviews
- Ethnography: Participant Observation
- Ethnography: Qualitative Interviews
- Path Analysis
- OLS
- Logit
- SPSS
- Evaluation: Randomized Control Studies
- Evaluation: Experimental Studies
- Evaluation: Quasi Experimental Design
- Evaluation: Case Studies
- Evaluation: Mixed Methods
Disciplines
- Sociology
- Criminology
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Assessing Data Completeness, Quality, and Representativeness of Justifiable Homicides in the FBI’s Supplementary Homicide Reports: A Research Note
Finch, B. K., Thomas, K., Beck, A. N., Burghart, D. B., Klinger, D. & Johnson, R. R., Feb 4 2021, In: Journal of Quantitative Criminology.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Prioritization of Life as a Guiding Principle for Police Use of Deadly Force
Klinger, D., 2021, The Ethics of Policing.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Organizational Accidents and Deadly Police-Involved Violence: Some Thoughts on Extending Theory, Expanding Research, and Improving Police Practice:
Klinger, D., Feb 13 2020, In: Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Science. 687Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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When Police Use Force: Context, Methods, and Outcomes. By Craig Boylstein. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2018. Pp. xi+169. $69.95.
Klinger, D. A., Sep 1 2019Research output: Other contribution
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“Using Crowd-Sourced Data to Explore Police-Related-Deaths in the United States (2000–2017): The Case of Fatal Encounters”
Klinger, D., Finch, B. K., Beck, A., Burghart, D. B., Johnson, R. & Thomas, K., May 7 2019, In: Open Health Data. 6Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile