associated with more violence directed towards police. We do, however, note a nationwide positive correlation between the …Police accountability is essential to uphold the social contract. Monitoring the monitors is, however, not without … difficulty. This paper reveals how police departments exploit specific laws surrounding death investigations to facilitate the …

to the police in the United States. Using daily domestic violence calls from 31 police departments for the January …We examine the effects of social distancing in response to the COVID-19 pandemic on the reporting of domestic violence …-September 2020 (compared to 2019), we find that the early spike in police calls disappears around mid-April, coinciding with the …

We examine the impact of establishing women police stations (WPS) on reporting of gender- based violence. Using … with an increase in police reports of crimes against women of 29 percent, a result driven by domestic violence. This … appears to reflect reporting rather than incidence as we find no changes in femicide or in survey-reported domestic violence …

Around the world, policymakers and news reports have warned that domestic violence (DV) could increase as a result of …-opening. DV calls to police and to the hotline increased during the initial shutdown, but DV crimes decreased, as did arrests for … calls to the police and to the hotline. Our results highlight the heterogeneous effects of the pandemic across DV measures …

Domestic violence remains a serious public problem, especially in Hispanic communities, where one in three women are … victims of domestic violence in their lifetimes. Yet, less than 50 percent of Hispanic women report the incidents, indicating … lack of confidence in the police and fear they might be asked about their immigration status or that of relatives and …

Domestic violence is a serious under-reported crime in the United States, especially among immigrant women. While the … Violence against Women Act (VAWA) allows battered immigrants to petition for legal status without relying on abusive U … self-petition rate. In contrast, sanctuary policies limiting the cooperation of police with immigration authorities have …

ticketing officers, male motorists, those driving old vehicles, and minority neighborhoods. -- Police discretion ; disparate …

Sparked by the killing of George Floyd in police custody, the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests have brought a new wave … persistent protests and those accompanied by media reports of violence. Furthermore, we find no evidence that urban protests …

question is how events of xenophobic violence in the host country affect the integration of immigrants. For this purpose, I …-in-differences matching strategy, I find that macro exposure to xenophobic violence has an impact on several dimensions of socio …-immigrant violence can have indirect costs by impairing the integration of those immigrants who belong to the target group of xenophobic …

property crimes and 13% in personal crimes. There is also evidence that the IGESP is associated with improved police response … represented by the program may constitute a first-order factor in a successful policy for fighting crime. -- crime ; police …