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The influence that politicians, community leaders and the media have on confidence in the police in Northern Ireland [PDF]
, 2014 n January 2014, the Northern Ireland Policing Board (NIPB) commissioned the University of Ulster to conduct research into public confidence in policing to help inform the work of the Board and its oversight of police service delivery.
Topping, John; id_orcid +3 more
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American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Community action focused on sociocultural and environmental influences to prevent alcohol and other drug (AOD) use and related harms is a global priority. Despite this recognition, understanding of effective community‐level approaches is limited.
Peter Gates, Andrea Zocco, Sara Farnbach
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International Journal of Conflict and Violence, 2011 The increase in juvenile violence in Argentina since the 1990s results from a combination of economic and socio-structural change and the reinstatement of repressive traditions that became particularly engrained in the armed and security forces during ...
Alejandro Isla, Daniel Pedro Míguez
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Why Police Kill: An Investigation into the Causes of and Solutions to Law Enforcement's Excessive Use of Lethal Force [PDF]
, 2021 Lethal force, and the debate surrounding its legitimacy, has been an impassioned part of society in the United States for decades. With over 600 civilian lives taken every year by police officers, the issue of police-involved homicides is at the ...
Hertzer, Margo
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The Political Returns of Police Chief Appointments: Evidence from Brazil and Mexico
, 2021 Despite the relative frequency with which politicians appoint military members as police chiefs, we know little about what drives elected officials to appoint military chiefs and even less about how citizen preferences might encourage this form of police
Jessica Zarkin
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American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract This study employs a schizocartographic approach to explore community narratives of space, memory, and violence in Kraaifontein, Cape Town. Through participants' accounts, ordinary places—gardens, shops, blocks, sports grounds, and streets—emerge as ambivalent geographies where trauma, resilience, and belonging intersect.
Guido Veronese +2 more
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The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
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, 2017 Every modern democracy in our increasingly complex world must confront a fundamental problem: how should politicians manage police, ensuring that they act in the public interest while avoiding the temptation to utilize them in a partisan manner?
Philip C. Stenning +3 more
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‘Turkeys Cannot Vote for Christmas’: Why Epistemic Disobedience in an Anti‐Black World Matters
Australian 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
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