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Police reform in Thailand post-2006 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Peer reviewedPublisher ...
Glendinning, Tony   +1 more
core   +2 more sources

The Politics of Crime and Militarised Policing in Brazil

open access: yesInternational Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2020
This article queries the effects of international police assistance in the Global South, focusing specifically on Brazil. Utilising recently declassified documents accessed in Washington, DC, this article shows how United States officials sought to ...
Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti, Jeff Garmany
doaj   +1 more source

Special Issue. Towards Global Green Criminological Dialogues: Voices from the Americas and Europe. Guest Editors' Introduction

open access: yesInternational Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2019
The aim of this dual special issue project—simultaneously published in two languages in two distinguished international journals (International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy and Critica Penal y Poder) —is to support the goal of Southern
David Rodríguez Goyes   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

New housing/new crime? Changes in safety, governance and everyday incivilities for residents relocated from informal to formal housing at Hammond's Farm, eThekwini [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
New state-subsidised ‘RDP’ housing in South Africa aims to provide former informally-housed residents with a better quality of life, stronger community and decreased levels of crime.
Armitage   +32 more
core   +2 more sources

The Theoretical Contributions of Asian Criminology in Reconstructing Criminology

open access: yesInternational Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy
A recent primary development in criminology is a growing recognition that there has been Western domination in knowledge production and dissemination. The imbalance of knowledge in criminology is a significant weakness of the discipline.
Pin Yu, Jianhong Liu
doaj   +1 more source

Policing Vulnerable People in Island Contexts

open access: yesInternational Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy
This special issue is dedicated to research that contributes to understanding, improving, and critiquing the policing of vulnerable people in island contexts. Democratic policing values emphasise a human rights approach that protects all persons equally.
Loene Howes, Wendell C Wallace
doaj   +1 more source

Conceal Carry and Race: A Test of Minority Threat Theory in Law Generation

open access: yesSocial Sciences, 2017
Conceal carry weapon (CCW) laws have generated a great deal of public discussion in the past decades, but little social science attention. Scholarly work on the topic has been focused on finding potential effects of such laws on crime and victimization ...
Christopher Mullins, Daniel Kavish
doaj   +1 more source

How Women’s Police Stations Empower Women, Widen Access to Justice and Prevent Gender Violence

open access: yesInternational Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2020
Women’s police stations are a distinctive innovation that emerged in postcolonial nations of the global south in the second half of the twentieth century to address violence against women.
Kerry Carrington   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Tension Between Combating Terrorism and Protecting the Right to a Fair Trial in Indonesia

open access: yesLentera Hukum, 2023
A consistent criticism of the Indonesian criminal justice system indicates its dysfunctional judicial system plagued by systemic corruption and government interference.
Milda Istiqomah, Armin Alimardani
doaj   +1 more source

An Ecological Assessment of Property and Violent Crime Rates Across a Latino Urban Landscape: The Role of Social Disorganization and Institutional Anomie Theory [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
The present research put forth an integrated theoretical framework aimed at providing a more holistic community- level approach explaining crime across a heavily populated Latino city.
Cancino, Jeffrey Michael   +3 more
core   +1 more source

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