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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...

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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 …

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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 …

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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...

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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 …

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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...

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The Effect of Additional Police Force on Crime Rate: Evidence from Women's Japan Basketball League

Kawashima, Hiroya - In: Economics Bulletin 33 (2013) 2, pp. 1511-1520

Basketball League (WJBL) in order to examine whether number of police officers affects the crime rate. For the season of 2010 …

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Ethnic Fragmentation and Police Spending: Social Identity and a Public Good

Smith, John; Ajilore, Olugbenga - Department of Economics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick - 2007

this model, we assume that the decision to commit a crime is a rational consideration of the costs and benefits and that … spending on police services reduces the attractiveness of committing a crime. We also assume that being a victim of crime … is increasing at a time in which crime rates are falling. Further, our results provide empirical support for the …

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Passenger Profiling, Imperfect Screening, and Airport Security

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

targeting and better detection. We show that better targeting does not necessarily decrease the overall crime rate, although it … will decrease crime in the group that is targeted. Improved detection rates unambiguously decrease crime. Group … for the possibility that criminal passengers disguise themselves as members of low-crime groups. …

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The Effect of Additional Police Force on Crime Rate: Evidence from Women's Japan Basketball League

Kawashima, Hiroya - Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP), … - 2012

Basketball League (WJBL) in order to examine whether number of police officers affects the crime rate. For the season of 2010 …

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