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When a city experiences a decline in income or population, do all neighborhoods within the city decline equally? Or do some neighborhoods decline more than others? What are the characteristics of the neighborhoods that decline the most? We answer these questions by looking at what happened to...
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contact with the police link to adult outcomes? What associations are there for a range of other parental and childhood …
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assumed that Sethi's concave thief, i.e., a risk-averter, plays against the police, whose objective function incorporates … the case in Sethi's model) but also by the instrumental variable of the police, namely its rate of law enforcement. Our … police increases monotonically whereas for the Nash-optimal pilfering rate three cases may be characterized in which increase …
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This paper presents an algorithm for deploying a crime directed patrol force. The optimization problem is formulated as the allocation of N patrol among R high crime regions so as to maximize the weighted probability of a patrol intercept of a crime. The algorithm has full sensitivity analysis...
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The presentation will be a general overview of the framework of civilian oversight of municipal police forces in Canada …. After a brief discussion of the history of the modern day police force, the three branches of civilian oversight will be … described and discussed: Police Boards (governance), Office of Police Complaints Commissioner (complaints against police) and …
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The policy of accreditation of criminal justice organizations has grown over the last four decades. Some advocates for accreditation claim that it facilitates organizational change at all levels of the organization. To date, however, little empirical research has examined these claims,...
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government service providers, such as police, courts and hospitals. This paper outlines the progress in implementing the new … providers by describing an analysis of the NSW Police Service. The results suggest that NSW police patrols (local police … as location and socioeconomic factors, do not have a significant influence upon the efficiency of police patrols …
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between policing and arrests. During shift changes a peculiar redeployment of police patrols belonging to separate police … that criminals exploit these dips in police performance. A back of the envelope calculation suggests that incapacitation …
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brands and registration numbers issued by the police in the city of Moscow from 2000–2007, as well as a 2014 quantitative … concentration of “cherish” registration numbers among luxury brands is an indicator of higher police corruption. Nevertheless …
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