Publications

Makin, D. A., Willits, D. W., & Parks, M. (2025). Examining emotion dysregulation within police–community interactions. International Journal of Police Science & Management, 27(2), 229-243. https://doi.org/10.1177/14613557241311054
Chatburn, K. M., & Makin, D. A. (2025). Bridging the gap: Isolating observable signs of cognitive impairment in police-public interactions. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology, 40(2), 451-467. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11896-024-09697-4
Makin, D. A., Howell, E., Wilson, T., & Parks, M. (2024). Policing during a pandemic: A case study analysis of body-worn camera footage from suspected COVID-19 ordinance violations in Washington state. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 104, 104387. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.104387
Makin, D. A., Willits, D. W., & Brooks, R. (2021). Systematic social event modeling: A methodology for analyzing body-worn camera footage. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 24(2), 163-176. https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2020.1766775
Holladay, B. P., & Makin, D. A. (2021). Baselining incivility in one-on-one police encounters from BWC archival footage: Exploratory study of race, gender and contact type effects. Police Practice and Research, 22(6), 1618-1636. https://doi.org/10.1080/15614263.2021.1914040
Bailey, R. L., Read, G. L., Yan, Y. H., Liu, J., Makin, D. A., & Willits, D. (2021). Camera point-of-view exacerbates racial bias in viewers of police use of force videos. Journal of Communication, 71(2), 246-275. https://doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqab002
Koslicki, W. M., Makin, D. A., & Willits, D. (2020). When no one is watching: evaluating the impact of body-worn cameras on use of force incidents. Policing and Society. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2019.1576672
Makin, D. A., Willits, D. W., Koslicki, W., Brooks, R., Dietrich, B. J., & Bailey, R. L. (2019). Contextual determinants of observed negative emotional states in police–community interactions. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 46(2), 301-318. https://doi.org/10.1177/0093854818796059
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), 51-77. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022427817701257
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), 113-151. https://doi.org/10.21428/88de04a1.6f823c02

Technical Reports

Gabriele, M., Evans, K., Kohri, K., Lancaster, R., Makin, D.A., Parks, M., Parkin, L., Rendon, J., Vogel, R., (2020). Understanding Body-Worn Camera Perceptions and Impact for Law Enforcement Stakeholders. Funding provided by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate (Contract Number N00024-13-D-6400; Task Order 8013, Task Number S8934, Integrated Technologies for Public Safety Communications). J. Hopkins University.
Willits, D., Makin, D. A., Koslicki, W (2018). Procedural Justice and Traffic Stops: Analyzing Police and Community Perspectives through Survey and Recorded Observational Research. Final Report to Washington Traffic Safety Commission.
Babin S., Koslicki, W., Vogel, R., Contestabile, J., Kohri, K., Makin D. A. (2018). Resilient Communications Project: Body Worn Camera Perception Study Phase 1. Funding provided by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate (Contract Number N00024-13-D-6400; Task Order 0372, Task Number S8906, Resilient Systems for Public Safety Communication. J. Hopkins University.

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