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Theorising and illustrating plural policing models in countering armed banditry as hybrid terrorism in northwest Nigeria

Cogent Social Sciences, 2023
Banditry constitutes about 40% of national insecurity in Nigeria. It is a composite crime manifesting in wanton killing, cattle rustling, kidnapping for ransom, levying of illegal tax on farming communities, sexual violence and trafficking of arms and ...
Oluwole Ojewale
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Conceptualising quality early childhood education: Learning from young children in Brazil and South Africa through creative and play‐based methods

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Early childhood has increasingly been acknowledged as a vital time for all children. Inclusive and quality education is part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, with the further specification that all children have access to quality pre‐primary education.
Laura H. V. Wright, Irene Rizzini, Malibongwe Gwele, Lynn McNair, Cristina Laclette Porto, Marsha Orgill, E. Kay M. Tisdall, Malcolm Bush, Linda Biersteker   +8 more
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Policing Actors, Plural Processes and Hybridisation: Histories of Everyday Policing Practice in Central Nigeria

Stability : International Journal of Security and Development, 2018
The focus of this paper is to account for plural and hybrid dynamics of everyday policing practice in selected areas of central Nigeria. I argue that it is the plurality of actors and the plurality of practice that constitute hybrid context of security ...
Jimam Lar
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Whose Safety is the Priority?

The International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion, 2021
Police and policing have tacitly, and at times explicitly, been normalized as aspects of library service in the U.S. As American forms of policing are exported at an international scale, this has international implications.
Allie Fry, Jeanie Austin
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Peeling the paradigm: Exploring the professionalization of policing in Canada

Journal of Community Safety and Well-Being, 2021
Maintaining public trust, legitimacy, and credibility in a constantly evolving society has proven challenging for police in the 21st century. Rising public concerns regarding police accountability are driving the need to advance the paradigm of policing
Kelly Sundberg, Christina Witt, Graham Abela, Lauren M. Mitchell   +3 more
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Student paramedic experiences of group-based simulation activities used in assessment: a qualitative UK study

BMJ Open
Objectives This research aimed to explore student paramedics’ experiences of participating in group-based simulation activities used as part of their summative assessment.
Rebecca A Colthup, Gavin N Johnson, Rebecca J Jenkins, Jessica Runacres   +3 more
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Diversity Policing–Policing Diversity: Performing Ethnicity in Police and Private-Security Work in Sweden

Social Inclusion, 2014
This article draws upon two separate studies on policing in Sweden, both investigating “ethnic diversity” as a discourse and a practice in the performance of policing functions: one interview study with minority police officers from a county police ...
Cecilia Hansen Löfstrand, Sara Uhnoo
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Nanopore sequencing technology in forensic science: status quo and tendency

Annals of Human Biology
Context Next-generation sequencing (NGS) is widely used in forensics for high throughput but limited by short reads and high non-batch testing costs. Third-generation sequencing (TGS), especially Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) nanopore sequencing ...
Tianzhen Gao, Wang He, Xin Feng, Bing Long, Deming Zhang   +4 more
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A Police Response Effort Index to complement counts and harm indices in understanding crime and policing demand

Crime Science
Responding to crime and non-crime policing demand in the increasingly complex policing environment calls for increasingly nuanced means of measuring demand. Complementing traditional crime counts, the recent development of crime harm indices provides one
Sophie Curtis-Ham, Ryan Jones, Emily Dunstan, Renee Looc, Cathrin Jordan   +4 more
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Behind the Scheme: Challenges Faced by Professionals Addressing Safeguarding Issues in Housing for Ukrainian Refugees in the United Kingdom

Social Sciences
The rapid escalation of Russia’s war in Ukraine prompted many European countries to implement emergency sponsorship schemes for displaced Ukrainians. In the United Kingdom, the Homes for Ukraine scheme emerged as a prominent example enabling non-related ...
Ashley Perry, Anna Markovska, Carter Smith   +2 more
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