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In this book, Bakken puts together a collection of interesting essays on crime, policing and punishment in China, an area which has often been covered more by myth and rhetoric than rational discussion. A significant contribution of the book is its effort to de-mystify the Chinese criminal...
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A recurring question in international criminal procedure is how to ensure that prosecutors are held accountable for their errors and misconduct. When International Criminal Court (ICC) judges encountered the first serious error by the prosecution in Prosecutor v. Lubanga, they opted for an...
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from this holding of terrorist suspects in police stations is the subject of this paper, with a focus on practices in … family and others. The handling of police-media relations and community assurance must also be taken into account …
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research on order maintenance policing in New York City to explain temporal and spatial patterns of police stops of citizens … greatest in predominantly minority neighborhoods where stop activity is highest. We then compare the probabilities of police … the City's minority citizens. The racial-spatial concentration of excess stop activity threatens to undermine police …
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lack of confidence in the police and fear they might be asked about their immigration status or that of relatives and … laws in place. These findings are suggestive of the important role of policies that increase community trust in the police …
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This paper uses a natural experiment to identify the impact of a judicial system reform on police behavior. The study … adolescents in most misdemeanor crimes decreased due to a change in police behavior. The magnitude of this effect ranged between 0 … disciplinary sanctions led police officials to reduce arrest rates. Nonetheless, police forces learned gradually how to operate …
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In 2016 the city of Bogotá doubled police patrols and intensified city services on high-crime streets. They did so … randomly assigned 1,919 streets to either 8 months of doubled police patrols, greater municipal services, both, or neither …
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AbstractThe impacts of violence unleashed by the Islamic sect popularly known as Boko Haram have become a nation-wide concern in Nigeria in recent years. Almost every day television stations broadcast, shows this trend, newspaper, magazine and internet websites run and re-run pictures of the...
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Cities target police patrols and public services to control crime. What are the direct and spillover effects of such …,919 streets to either 8 months of doubled police patrols, greater municipal services, both, or neither. We study how crime …
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