The pace of reforms in policing in India has been extremely sluggish. Despite recommendations made by various committees and directions given by the judiciary, legislatures at both central and state level have avoided introducing police reforms and continue to operate on colonial setups. The...

Policing in the recent years have gone a long way from the traditional law and order police. Now the police have a wide variety of functions, and is seen as the sovereign arm of the state which is a protector of human rights, life, liberty and dignity of every person in the society. However,...

Agriculture provides food security, price stability and livelihood for the majority of Indians. The economic development lies in the development of agriculture in India. Even today, In India, the age old dictum that 'farmers live and die in debt' is true. Hence the government since independence...

This paper analyzes the effectiveness of social capital in reducing the negative externalities associated with stress, as well as the physical and psychological strain indicators among police officers. Despite the fact that there is a large multidisciplinary literature on stress or on social...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the determinants of police officers' intentions to quit their current department. For this purpose, we analysed US survey data that included a large set of police officers from the Baltimore Police Department in Maryland. Our results indicate that...

We state efficiency conditions for the provision of congestable local public goods that diminish individual-specific proprietary risks. The optimum level of such a public service is determined by equating the sum of the reductions of the expected property losses due to a better service level...