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Police Brutality in Kenya: is it “utumishi kwa wote ama utumishi kwa wanasiasa” (service to all or to politicians)?

, 2018
This research explores cases of police brutality in Kenya during the election period. It explores cases of police brutality in post-police reform period from 2010-2018. The study is done qualitatively, through content analysis, mainly a review of newspaper and articles detailing cases of police brutality in Kenya.
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Conceptualizing the Street‐Level Bureaucrat Construct

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Differences among street‐level bureaucrats—across professions, institutional settings, regions, and countries—are largely overlooked in research. We propose conceptualizing the street‐level bureaucrat construct as a general variable that varies across institutional settings, professions, cultures, times, and locations. We analyze variations in
Faisal S. Cheema, Euipyo Lee, Rajneesh Gupta, James L. Perry   +3 more
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A Bayesian spatio-temporal model of variation in homicide rates for El Salvador. [PDF]

PLoS One
Carcach C.
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Police: Streetcorner Politicians, by William Ker Muir

Political Science Quarterly, 1977
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Stabilising Routines in Complex Emergencies: How Basic Service Continuity Shapes Perceived Security

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how locally embedded actors describe the relationship between basic service continuity and perceived security in complex emergencies, with particular attention to the stabilisation of everyday routines. Using Proximity‐Predictability‐Attributability (PPA) as an analytic lens, we trace how interviewees relate access to water,
Abdullah Gökhan Yaşa, Orçun İmga
wiley   +1 more source

Immunitas magistra vitae : The time has come to replace humanity's teacher of life. [PDF]

EMBO Rep
Leksa V.
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Transforming a Poaching Hotspot: Embedded NGO Governance Between State and Community in Southern China

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how a local environmental NGO in southern China transformed Guantouling Hill, once a prominent poaching hotspot along the East Asian–Australasian Flyway, into a recognised model of community‐based biodiversity conservation.
Zheng Lin, Miao Chen
wiley   +1 more source

Navigating the boundary between 'normative' and 'non-normative' collective action: A British case study of the removal of a public statue associated with racism. [PDF]

Br J Soc Psychol
Dixon J, Young M, McKeown S, Stenner P, Stathi S, Di Bernardo GA, Vezzali L.   +6 more
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Urban wild meat and pangolin consumption across southern forested Cameroon: The limited influence of COVID‐19

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Overexploitation of wildlife is pervasive in many tropical regions, and in addition to being a significant conservation and sustainability concern, it has received global attention given discussions over the origins of zoonotic disease outbreaks.
Franklin T. Simo, Ghislain F. Difouo, Christian N. Tchana, Alain Christel Wandji, Alfiery Laurel Djomnang‐Nkwala, Marcelle Mbadjoun Nziké, Sévilor Kekeunou, Markéta Swiacká, Daniel J. Ingram   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Law enforcement responses to mental illness in rural Uganda: A qualitative study of practices, challenges, and opportunities for training. [PDF]

PLOS Ment Health
Lee YJ, Nakaziba KS, Agwang G, Sweet E, Ragoonanan D, Steel C, Han M, Nkolo T, Namugaya R, Kazungu R, Rosenheck R, Tsai AC.   +11 more
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