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Police reorganization and crime: Evidence from police station closures
Blesse, Sebastian; Diegmann, André - 2019
effects arise from incapacitation, crime displacement, or changes in employment of local police forces. Our results suggest …
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Police reorganization and crime: Evidence from police station closures
Blesse, Sebastian; Diegmann, André - 2019
effects arise from incapacitation, crime displacement, or changes in employment of local police forces. Our results suggest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012110833
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Partially identified treatment effects under imperfect compliance: the case of domestic violence
Siddique, Zahra - 2009
During the 1980s a set of randomized experiments were carried out to determine the usefulness of a mandatory arrest policy for domestic assault offenders. The first of these was the Minneapolis Domestic Violence experiment (MDVE), which was carried out in 1981. This paper re-examines the data...
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Do Police Make Too Many Arrests? The Effect of Enforcement Pullbacks on Crime
Cho, Sungwoo; Gonçalves, Felipe; Weisburst, Emily - 2021
Do reductions in arrests increase crime? We study line-of-duty deaths of police officers, events that likely impact police behavior through increased fear but are unlikely to directly impact civilian behavior. Officer deaths cause significant short-term reductions in all arrest types, with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882483
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From easter eggs to anti-police sentiment: Maintaining a balance in policing during the three pandemic lockdowns in England and Wales
Fleming, Jenny; Brown, Jennifer - In: Administrative Sciences 13 (2023) 1, pp. 1-16
retain policing by consent with an increasingly fractious public unsettled by restrictions to their freedom of movement and …
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Strategic Bureaucratic Opacity: Evidence from Death Investigation Laws and Police Killings
Celislami, Elda; Kastoryano, Stephen; Mastrobuoni, Giovanni - 2023
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 underreporting of police killings. Our results show...
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Policing reforms and economic development in African states. Understanding the linkages: empowering change
Marenin, Otwin - 2013
in the international development community. Reforming non-functioning policing systems is an important step toward … achieving security, yet the experience of changing policing systems in Africa is disappointing. Only South Africa and a few post … conditions that would support reforms of policing are absent. Recommendations on what policies could work, drawn from the general …
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Computer network operations and 'rule-with-law' in Australia
Molnar, Adam; Parsons, Christopher; Zouave, Erik - In: Internet Policy Review 6 (2017) 1, pp. 1-15
Computer Network Operations (CNOs) refers to government intrusion and/or interference with networked information communication infrastructures for the purposes of law enforcement and security intelligence. The following article explores how CNOs are lawfully authorised in Australia, and...
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Collective Bargaining Rights, Policing, and Civilian Deaths
Cunningham, Jamein; Feir, Donna; Gillezeau, Rob - 2021
Do collective bargaining rights for law enforcement result in more civilian deaths at the hands of the police? Using an event-study design, we find that the introduction of duty to bargain requirements with police unions has led to a significant increase in non-white civilian deaths at the hands...
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Does substance use affect educational outcomes?
Rees, Daniel I. - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)
A non-trivial portion of traffic fatalities involve alcohol or illicit drugs. But does the use of alcohol and illegal substances—which is linked to depression, suicide, and crime—reduce academic performance? Recent studies suggest that drinking has a negative, if modest, effect on grades,...
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