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Despite the rhetoric of new public sector management, criminal justice agencies in England and Wales are still driven by a political agenda. Initiatives, such as the setting of targets and increased efficiency objectives, can be over‐ridden not only by reversals of government policy but by...
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Focuses on criminal justice, and especially on the courts, as a case study to illustrate some of the main changes which public sector managerialism has imposed on public sector institutions. Presents both theoretical and empirical evidence to suggest that the relevance of managerialism is now...
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In recent years the “protection of the public” has risen to the top of the law and order agenda, fostered by a populist Home Secretary. Not only has the effect been to raise the stakes in the sentencing process but also to shape the working and managerial agendas of criminal justice...
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Various authors have tested for the presence of a relationship between unemployment and crime, employing time‐series or … cross‐sectional data. However, little use has been made of the British Crime Survey. Consequently, in the present paper, we … test for the presence of a relationship between male unemployment and crime, using regional and area‐level crime data from …
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Purpose There is a lack of understanding in the literature on the spatial relationships between crime and house price … crime and whether effects vary by the type of crime. Design/methodology/approach The analysis initially explores univariate … and bivariate spatial patterns in crime and house price data for the Belfast Metropolitan Area using Moran’s I and Local …
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range of crime experienced by hotels, and how this crime is managed. The paper utilises information from in‐depth interviews … insurance. Hotels are also shown to be unique contexts, facing a broad range of crime problems.  …
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Sexual offences are committed against women tourists in Nepal by men working in tourism. The authorities do not remove known offenders from positions of trust. Women who speak out suffer repeated abuse and trauma. Since complaints are disregarded, these offences are widely denied. Describes an...
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In executing their duties, food service managers are confronted with a number of situations that may challenge their integrity. Using vignettes this study attempted to gauge the ethical concerns that food service mangers have with potential responses to a number of difficult situations. The data...
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a crime in several countries. This begs the question, if persons are fully informed that digital file sharing is a crime …
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fixed effects to the panel data. Practical implications The main Brazilian political parties diverge on the causes of crime … each political party. Political parties have the potential capacity of changing crime trends through economic and social … policies as well as by applying stronger sanctions against crime. Given the law enforcement system, the cycle of crime in …
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