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Policing [PDF]

open access: yesCurrent Biology, 2019
Ashleigh Griffin introduces policing behaviors with which animals enforce cooperation.
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Book review:Conor O’Reilly (ed.), Colonial policing and the transnational legacy: the global dynamics of policing across the Lusophone community [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
First paragraph: Traces of the past are found in the present, in the continued (re)construction of identities and in practices built around them. Explorations of these legacies offered in O’Reilly’s edited collection provide valuable insights into not ...
Rogers, Ashley
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A test of evolutionary policing theory with data from human societies. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2011
In social groups where relatedness among interacting individuals is low, cooperation can often only be maintained through mechanisms that repress competition among group members. Repression-of-competition mechanisms, such as policing and punishment, seem
Rolf Kümmerli
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Policing in nonhuman primates: partial interventions serve a prosocial conflict management function in rhesus macaques. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Studies of prosocial policing in nonhuman societies traditionally focus on impartial interventions because of an underlying assumption that partial support implies a direct benefit to the intervener, thereby negating the potential for being prosocial in ...
Beisner, Brianne A, McCowan, Brenda
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Theorising and illustrating plural policing models in countering armed banditry as hybrid terrorism in northwest Nigeria

open access: yesCogent 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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Whose Safety is the Priority?

open access: yesThe 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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Policing Actors, Plural Processes and Hybridisation: Histories of Everyday Policing Practice in Central Nigeria

open access: yesStability : 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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Progress in community policing [PDF]

open access: yes, 1997
This article examines the development of community-based policing in the\ud United States and the Netherlands. These two countries were selected because\ud the United States has been the forerunner of research into the police and one\ud of the first ...
Aronowitz, Alexis A.
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Experimentation and innovation in police reform: Timor-Leste, Solomon Islands and Bougainville [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The plural character of policing provision in most countries is now widely acknowledged, though rarely reflected in the practical police reform programming undertaken by donors.
Dinnen, Sinclair, Peake, Gordon
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Diversity Policing–Policing Diversity: Performing Ethnicity in Police and Private-Security Work in Sweden

open access: yesSocial 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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