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The impact of illegal immigration and enforcement on border crime rates [PDF]

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Border crime rates lie consistently below the national average. In the 1990s, however, while there as a large decline in property-related crime along the U.S.-Mexico border, violent crime rates began to converge to the national average. At the same time,
Pia M. Orrenius, Roberto Coronado
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Constructing the “moralization shock”: The role of contingency in the translation of anticorruption policy in France

open access: yesEuropean Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
Abstract This article applies the concept of transaction to the process of policy transfer, through the case of conflict of interest regulation in France, using archives, documentary sources, and interviews with stakeholders. It contributes to the literature on policy translation by clarifying the role of contingency, which remains underspecified.
Sofia Wickberg
wiley   +1 more source

Differential methylation patterns in cord blood associated with prenatal exposure to neighborhood crime: an epigenome-wide association study and regional analysis. [PDF]

open access: yesEpigenetics
Martin CL   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Non‐State Regulators? Civil Society as Extension of the State in a Context of a Regularization Scheme for Undocumented Migrants

open access: yesEuropean Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT “Opération Papyrus” was implemented in the Swiss Canton of Geneva between 2017 and 2018 with the aim of granting residence permits to undocumented migrants who met pre‐established criteria. This program serves as an exemplary case of involving nongovernmental actors to facilitate what were originally state‐controlled procedures.
Jan‐Erik Refle   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Crime Prevention Programs: Evidence for a Developing Country [PDF]

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This paper analyzes the impact of two anti-crime programs implemented in Chile in the late 1990s. The first (Quadrant Plan) is related to enhancing the quality of police work and the second one (Secure County Plan) to the involvement of the community in ...
Rodrigo Vergara.
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