Similar Search Results

CCTV and policing : public area surveillance and police practices in Britain

Goold, Benjamin J. - 2004

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004445172

Policing the peace in Northern Ireland : politics, crime and security after the Belfast Agreement

Moran, Jon - 2008

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004938600

Democratic policing in transitional and developing countries

Pino, Nathan (contributor) - 2006

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004868864

Zero tolerance policing

Punch, Maurice - 2007

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004925131

Spatial and Temporal Aggregation in Racial Profiling

Ilić, Dragan - In: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics (SJES) 149 (2013) I, pp. 27-56

In the last decade, models of rational choice have chimed into the discussion on racial profiling, the use of race in stop and search decisions of the police. The models describe the behavior of motorists and the police and provide empirical tests to assess the question whether the police...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010986701

The Nigeria Police and Good Community Relationship: A Desideratum

(Barr) OLONG Matthew Adefi - In: International Journal of Asian Social Science 2 (2012) 11, pp. 2049-2060

This article examined how police- community partnership is visible in Nigeria and solves the problem of crime in … home the menace of crime prevention and detection by focusing on neighborhood groups been the panacea to reducing crime in … police and the community was that the police are seen as belonging to the community in this wise crime will be brought to its …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010883793

Mind the Gap: Bridging the Perception and Reality of Crime Rates with Information

Ardanaz, Martín; Corbacho, Ana; Ruiz-Vega, Mauricio - Inter-American Development Bank - 2014

Gains from government crime-reducing programs are not always visible to the average citizen. The media overexpose crime … events, but the absence of crime rarely makes the news, increasing the risk that citizen may have inaccurate perceptions of … objective crime trends could have on such perceptions. The results show that information improves perceptions of safety and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943940

Los determinantes de la percepción de inseguridad frente al delito en México

Perdomo, Carlos J. Vilalta - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

¿Qué determina la sensación de inseguridad frente al delito y qué podemos hacer al respecto? En este estudio se propone y pone a prueba un modelo correlacional que combina diferentes determinantes teóricos de la inseguridad y el miedo al crimen. La prueba se realiza en México y en dos...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944213

The Provision of Local Public Services in a Risky Environment: An Application to Crime

Traub, Stefan - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2006

contributions for the original citizens. As an empirical example, we employ Germany?s crime statistic in order to assess the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005082933

Using Hit Rates to Test for Racial Bias in Law Enforcement: Vehicle Searches in Wichita

Persico, Nicola; Todd, Petra - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2005

This paper considers the use of outcomes-based tests for detecting racial bias in the context of police searches of motor vehicles. It shows that the test proposed in Knowles, Persico and Todd (2001) can also be applied in a more general environment where police officers are heterogenous in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005020648