Publications

Complex Social Interactions Lab Publications

Makin, D.A., Willits, D.W., Parks, M. (2025). Examining Emotion Regulation Failure within Police-Community Interactions: Testing Individual, Situational, and Environmental Predictors. International Journal of Police Science and Management.
Chatburn, K., Makin D.A. (2024). Screening for Cues: Bridging the Gap: Isolating Observable Signs of Cognitive Impairment in Police-Public Interactions”, Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology (Forthcoming).
Makin, D. A., Wilson, T., Parks, M., Howell, E. (2024). Policing During a Pandemic: An Analysis of Body-Worn Camera Footage from COVID-19 Ordinance Violations. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction.
Koslicki, W. M., Makin, D. A., & Willits, D. (2019). When no one is watching: evaluating the impact of body-worn cameras on use of force incidents. Policing and Society, 1-14.
Makin, D. A., Willits, D, Koslicki, W., Brooks, R., Dietrich, B, Bailey, R. (2019). Contextual Determinants of Observed Negative Emotional States in Police-Community Interactions. Criminal Justice Behavior.
Willits, D. W., & Makin, D. A. (2018). Show Me What Happened: Analyzing Use of Force through Analysis of Body-Worn Camera Footage. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency. 55(1), pp. 51–77.
Makin, D. A., Willits, D., Brooks, R. (2021). Systematic Social Event Modeling: A Methodology for Analyzing Body-Worn Camera Footage. International Journal of Social Research Methodology.
Holladay, B.P., Makin, D.A., (2021). Baselining Incivility: The Interaction of Gender, Race, and Contact Type in One-On-One Police-Suspect Interactions. Police Practice and Research.
Bailey, R., Read, G., Yan, J., Lui, H., Makin, D.A., & Willits, D. (2021). Camera Point-of-View Exacerbates Racial Bias in Viewers of Police Use of Force Videos. Journal of Communication.
Makin, D. A. (2016). When the Watchers Are Watched: An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis of Body Worn Cameras. Journal of Qualitative Criminal Justice & Criminology, 4(1), pp.113-151.

Patents

2022 Quantifying Police Interactions (QPI) (Inventor). Tech ID 23-00015
2021 Semi-Automated Data Flow for Supervised Learning in Supervisory Review (Inventor). Tech-22/3450
2016 Program for Automating the Detection of Anomalous Interaction from Collected Data (Co-inventor). Provisional Patent. Tech ID 1742