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Crime policy and municipal police expenditures

, 2015
Work in progress. Please do not cite without author permission. This paper tests a number of socio-economic, political and criminological determinants of police expenditures in an integrated model. Results confirm the importance of population and economic variables, while no significant effects were found for political (legislature, ideology, coalliton)
Burssens, Junior, Goeminne, Stijn
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Faith, gender and financial investment: Providence and Presbyterianism in Scotland and abroad

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Mid‐nineteenth century fictional representations of misdirected investment by widows and clergy position them as ignorant in financial matters and hence pitiable. While scholars have recognised female agency in nineteenth century commerce, insufficient attention has been paid to religious belief in financial decision‐making.
Jennifer Jones, Susan Poole
wiley   +1 more source

A Community-Up Approach to Improve Health and Wellbeing in a Dutch Neighbourhood. A Case Study. [PDF]

Int J Integr Care
Guijt LJ, Siemonsma PC, Hesselink AE, Van Der Pas S.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Australian Royal Commissions Into Child Welfare, Abuse and Protection

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Both nationally and internationally, the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (RCIRCSA) is widely viewed as a remarkably successful public inquiry. Unlike many other commissions, it was stable, attracted little controversy, was highly regarded, and led to extensive legal, regulatory and policy reform ...
Shurlee Swain, Katie Wright
wiley   +1 more source

The Portuguese police experience with drug decriminalisation. [PDF]

Policing Soc
Moniz M, Ribeiro B, Thompson E, Del Pozo B.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Municipal Police Performance Rating

The Journal of Criminal Law, Criminology, and Police Science, 1961
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Balancing bossism: State expansion in the face of elite capture

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Central states have often relied on local elites to implement policies in peripheral areas. These strategies may allow otherwise weak states to impose their directives, but they can also be inefficient, particularly when a single elite commands total control over local politics (monopolist capture).
Anna F. Callis, Christopher L. Carter
wiley   +1 more source

Developing an approach to estimate the number of road traffic crashes at the national level using media-reported data. [PDF]

Glob Health Res Policy
Zhao M, Cheng P, Schwebel DC, Xiao W, Yang L, Zhao S, Li L, Ning P, Rao Z, Hu G.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Police department design, political pressure, and racial inequality in arrests

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper theorizes a source of bias in discretionary arrests: strategic limits on police officer learning. Officers have a variety of tactics at their disposal besides arrest that they use for less serious offenses when they judge the underlying behavior to be less severe. In departments led by a chief with special expertise in crime control,
Andrew J. McCall
wiley   +1 more source

Heightened risk of fatal police violence in and around reservations for American Indian/Alaska Native peoples in the United States. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Schwartz GL, Rocha Beardall T, Jahn JL.
europepmc   +1 more source