This study examines whether representative bureaucracy improves organizational integrity. The evidence is from English and Welsh police forces that implemented ambitious targets to increase ethnic minority officers during the 1999-2010 period. Specifically, we present evidence of an association...

This paper explores the experience of information sharing, coordination, and integration of actions of the Civil and Military Polices in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, in the context of the IGESP program. The IGESP is based on the introduction of information management systems and...

We present evidence that more ethnically fragmented communities spend, all else equal, more on police services than less fragmented communities. We introduce a model of spending on police services which we use to interpret the data. In this model, we assume that the decision to commit a crime is...