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corruption. We compare the influences of latent enforcement (police, judicial, and prosecutorial employment) versus actual …Adding a new dimension to determinants of corruption, this paper examines the effectiveness of enforcement in reducing … enforcement (conviction rates) and enforcing institutions. Results based on data for more than 80 countries show that piecemeal …
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In the United States private contracts are policed using a combination of statutory prohibitions and the doctrine of unconscionable contracts. With the exception of Australia and perhaps Canada, in this the United States stands alone, For the rest of the world, including common law jurisdictions...
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Human rights policing -- Connecting human rights to policing -- Police, agency and human rights -- The sociological …
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Recent contributions using police recorded calls-for-service and/or crime data to estimate impacts of COVID-19 … daily data on DV crimes recorded by the London Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), we propose a method for generating a … incidence. Estimating the same model for the impact of lockdown on police-reported DV crimes and our search-based DV-index, we …
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The study investigates the role of security officers and the police in dampening the effect of insecurity on homicides …. Insecurity dynamics are measured in terms of access to weapons, violent crime, perception of criminality and political … Negative Binomial regressions. Three main findings are established. First , security officers and the police significantly …
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Violence by women is frequently sensationalised, abetting misogynistic tropes that characterise violent women as evil , unnatural and masculine. Favouring more complex analyses of this behaviour, The Emerald International Handbook of Feminist Perspectives on Women s Acts of Violence highlights...
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