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The Growth and Social Protection Strategy (GSPS) provides the framework for Dominica’s economic and social policies over the next five years and sets out the macroeconomic framework; the growth strategy, including the enabling environment for private enterprise and sectoral strategies;...
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The reasons for the deficient performance of Ionian Islands tourism in terms of in coming revenues expressed in USD and … were analyzed with the use of the Decision Tree tool. The issue of competitiveness of the tourism product was assessed. The … development of alternative forms of tourism is proposed as a means of improving competitiveness and restoring sustainability in …
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This paper argues that terrorism, beyond its immediate impact on innocent victims, also raises the costs of crime, and … therefore, imposes a negative externality on potential criminals. Terrorism raises the costs of crime through two channels: (i …) by increasing the presence and activity of the police force, and (ii) causing more people to stay at home rather than …
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This report aims to show the distribution of crime in Germany. For this, police crime statistics (polizeiliche … Kriminalstatistik - PKS) are treated so that they integrate dark figures (unreported crime) of crime types along with their specific … treatment methods: First, there is a north- south divide, with the northern regions experiencing a far higher risk of crime …
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Contemporary police scholars have argued that it is important to study “how representations of the police and policing … are produced and received” (Loader, 1997: 5) and what social meanings are created by them. Police scholars have claimed … that police television series produce media images which frame social relations, and social relations, in turn, frame media …
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More policing reduces crime but little is known about the mechanism. Does policing deter crime by reducing its … 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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crime has continued to fall. A key question for the next Parliament is whether further real-terms reductions in police … police workforce, and factors that may have led to the continued fall in reported crime. …The coalition government's austerity programme has resulted in some sizeable reductions in the police workforce, yet …
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interventions, the freeze on transfers and the training, improved police effectiveness and public and crime victims’ satisfaction … be reformed through incremental administrative change. The police department of the state of Rajasthan, India … collaborated with researchers at US and Indian universities to design and implement four interventions to improve police …
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crime, combined with police crime statistics (specifically, adjusted crime statistics which factor in the "dark figure" of …Many people are afraid of falling prey to crime. The present report investigates the extent to which this fear is in … line with the actual regional crime rates. This analysis is based on data from a comprehensive database on the fear of …
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crime, combined with police crime statistics (specifically, adjusted crime statistics which factor in the "dark figure" of …Many people are afraid of falling prey to crime. The present report investigates the extent to which this fear is in … line with the actual regional crime rates. This analysis is based on data from a comprehensive database on the fear of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011207412