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The Portuguese police experience with drug decriminalisation. [PDF]

open access: yesPolicing Soc
Moniz M   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Understanding Non‐Compliant Work and Employment in the United Kingdom? The Field of Research and Policy Limitations

open access: yesIndustrial Relations Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Official discourse suggests that 12% of Britain's workforce engages in precarious work where non‐compliance is concentrated. Research reported here suggests this provides a partial picture and that, in specific sectors, non‐compliant employers, organized crime groups and criminalized employment are ceded by the state, where many ...
Ian Clark   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A synthetic control study of the effects of comprehensive background check policies on non-fatal firearm crime in five states. [PDF]

open access: yesInj Epidemiol
Charbonneau A   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Multidimensional Militarisation, Evidence From Mexico's War on Drugs

open access: yesInternational Social Science Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article documents different dimensions of militarisation observed in Mexico since the start of the war on drugs. It argues that militarisation is a multidirectional phenomenon that is characterised by rationales that justify the use of illegal means to address complex issues, promising expediency and efficiency but rarely delivering on it.
Agustin Hernandez Berea
wiley   +1 more source

Governing Marginality Through Crime: The Cameron Government's ‘Thug State’ Responses to the August 2011 English Riots

open access: yesInternational Social Science Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the British government's response to the August 2011 English riots through the lens of state crime, drawing on Richards and Avery's ‘Thug State’ concept. It addresses the relative neglect of the state's response itself as a potential form of criminality and social harm.
Monia O'Brien Castro
wiley   +1 more source

What matters where: multi‐scalar citizen satisfaction in Brussels via cross‐group multicriteria satisfaction analysis

open access: yesInternational Transactions in Operational Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Understanding how citizen satisfaction varies within a fragmented metropolis requires more than a single pooled index. This paper develops a transferable cross‐group MUlticriteria Satisfaction Analysis (MUSA) framework that fits comparable preference‐disaggregation models for municipalities and socio‐geographically grouped municipalities ...
River Huang
wiley   +1 more source

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