efficiency of the provision of police services at the state level. …

We present evidence that more ethnically fragmented communities spend, all else equal, more on police services than … less fragmented communities. We introduce a model of spending on police services which we use to interpret the data. In … spending on police services reduces the attractiveness of committing a crime. We also assume that being a victim of crime …

Engagement der internationalen Staatengemeinschaft reduziert werden kann, im Gegenteil: Der Ausbau von Streitkräften und Polizei …

property crimes and 13% in personal crimes. There is also evidence that the IGESP is associated with improved police response …

This paper exploits dictated delays in local police hiring by a centralized national authority to break the … simultaneity between police and crime. In Italy police officers can only be hired through lengthy national public contests which … requested police officers are recruited and become operational. We show that this endogeneity vanishes once, controlling for …

) by increasing the presence and activity of the police force, and (ii) causing more people to stay at home rather than … "disrupting the police." Taken as a whole, the results are consistent with a stronger deterrence effect produced by an increased … police presence after a terror attack. A higher level of policing is likely to catch more people trespassing, and at the same …

This paper analyzes the opportunities for greater participation of Brazilian police officers in United Nations peace … component, the text introduces the tasks, doctrine and challenges of past police participation in these operations, using … concrete examples, and discusses the national institutional arrangements that govern police components, including recruitment …

the Liberia National Police's innovative efforts to create a more gender-sensitive police service and describes the … international and domestic support it received in doing so. In particular, the paper analyses Liberia National Police's efforts to … (1) recruit female police officers and (2) train a specialized unit to address gender-related crimes. Ambitious …

An influential literature has used the aftermath of terrorist attacks to estimate large effects of police street … circumstances. This paper exploits a natural experiment that aimed to increase police presence in more than 6,000 well-defined areas … by police officers, we first document exogenous and discontinuous changes in patrolling intensity. We do not find that …

corruption. We compare the influences of latent enforcement (police, judicial, and prosecutorial employment) versus actual …