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How New York City Reduced Mass Incarceration: A Model for Change? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
In this report, leading criminologists examine the connection between New York City's shift in policing strategies and the dramatic decrease in the City's incarcerated and correctional ...
James Austin, Michael P. Jacobson
core   +1 more source

‘Turkeys Cannot Vote for Christmas’: Why Epistemic Disobedience in an Anti‐Black World Matters

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Never in the history of global coloniality has the idea of epistemic disobedience been as important as in the 21st century. This is not only because the struggle for decolonisation has shifted from physical confrontation between the coloniser and the colonised into a battle of ideas but also because the former has deployed the idea of ...
Morgan Ndlovu
wiley   +1 more source

The Legislation for Providing Animal Access in Australian Residential Aged Care: It's Not a Zoo

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Providing meaningful animal contact to residential aged care facility (RACF) residents is problematic due to a lack of animal policies and National Guidelines. This paper examines how Australian Legislation could influence access to animal contact in RACFs and aims to answer the question, ‘Could current Legislation facilitate the development ...
Wendy Newton   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Perspectives on policing education and careers: insights from undergraduate students of China’s police academies

open access: yesHumanities & Social Sciences Communications
This study delves into the perspectives of Chinese police academy undergraduate students concerning their education and career paths within police academies.
Jianxin Wang, Feng Jiang, Xin Fang
doaj   +1 more source

“Crisis and Control: The Militarization of Protest Policing (Book Review)” by Lesley J. Wood [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Review of Crisis and Control: The Militarization of Protest Policing by Lesley J ...
Wentzell, Tyler
core   +1 more source

‘The System Can't Cope’: The Service System Response to Alcohol and Other Drug‐Facilitated Sexual Violence

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Alcohol and other drug‐facilitated sexual violence can have significant impacts on victim‐survivors, yet little is known about what support service providers offer them. To understand the experiences and perceptions of service providers, interviews with counsellors, health workers, forensic toxicologists and harm reduction workers were ...
Jessica Ison   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The politics of the transformation of policing [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The politics of policing transformation in Northern Ireland, the nature and timing of the Agreements that created the the atmosphere for such transformation, and the difficulty in reaching them, are clear evidence that policing powers and structures are ...
Doyle, John
core  

The Cost of the National Disability Insurance Scheme: Australia's Print‐Media Discourse

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the way that Australian newspapers have framed the cost of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Introduced in 2013, the NDIS represented a major change in Australia's disability support policy, moving for the first time to a nationwide universal insurance model.
Meera Chinnappa   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The role of community policing in the Addis Ababa City Administration's efforts to maintain community safety and security

open access: yesCommunity Development Journal
This study aimed to assess the role of community policing in maintaining community safety and security in the Addis Ababa city administration and to assess the role of community policing in maintaining community safety and security community policing ...
Derese Alehegn   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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