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Interrogating Colonialism: The Native Police Officer and His Case Files

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2021
The Indian police officers employed under the British Government during the colonial period experienced first-hand interactions with both the natives and the English simultaneously, among whom were included people belonging to different parts and positions of the society, such as ordinary citizens, criminals and government officials.
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Police persuasion: making battered women file a complaint

International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, 1998
A common theme in sociological literature on "domestic violence" is that police officers view such cases as private problems and not as objects for proper policework. Thus, it is argued that police officers interactionally discourage arrest in domestic disturbance cases.
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Sexual Offences in Police Reports and Court Dossiers: A Case‐File Study

Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2006
Background  In many cases, sexual abuse involving a person with an intellectual disability (ID; as a victim and/or as a perpetrator) is not reported to the police. There are very few studies addressing police procedures in these cases, and even fewer addressing procedures at the Public Prosecutor level.
Peter M. Bergh, Joop Hoekman
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Beyond Belief: Police Files on Rape

2004
In the year 2000, many of the New Zealand public were outraged at publicity that a historic charge of rape had been made against then Cabinet Minister Dover Samuels. Others were sceptical, and believed their perspective was supported by the police’s decision that there was insufficient evidence to prosecute the accused, who was loudly proclaiming his ...
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Police, perversion and privacy: managing access to confidential files of the South African Police

Innovation, 2004
The Gay and Lesbian Archives of South Africa (GALA) obtained access to a series of police files on homosexuality. As these files are of historical value they were taken into the custody of the National Archives of South Africa. Records of this nature raise ethical concerns particularly relating to privacy.
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contextualizing the sexual assault event: images from police files

Deviant Behavior, 2005
This study focuses on sexual assault from a criminal event perspective, using case files to examine why elements of a crime emerge. Beyond how elements of a crime converge, as proposed by routine activities theory, statements extracted from police files shed light on the precursors to the criminal transaction and contextual elements, allowing insight ...
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The management of secret Police files in Eastern Europe

Records Management Journal, 1991
The communist political system in Eastern Europe rested not upon consent but upon coercion. As an ‘important centre of administrative repression’, the secret police proved vital in ensuring the survival of the regimes which they served. In the earliest phase of communist rule, during the late 1940s and 50s, the secret police were primarily employed as ...
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My life as a spy: investigations in a secret police file

Journal of Intelligence History, 2020
This unique book is an informative study for scholars and the wider public. To the Romanian Securitate, the author was a ‘spy’ working for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and then a Hungarian...
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Police seize computer files of euthanasia campaigner in cancer case

BMJ, 2002
Australian euthanasia campaigner Dr Philip Nitschke, who was subjected to police raids in two states last week, has threatened Queensland police with legal action if …
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Documents as weapons: secret police files in Communist and post-Communist Romania

Journal of Documentation, 2022
PurposeThis study examined dossiers of informative pursual (DIPs), a particular type of secret police files, before and after the fall of Communism in Romania. These DIPs were often weaponized against citizens perceived to be anti-government.Design/methodology/approachBased on Buckland's (2017) concept of a document as an object with physical, mental ...
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