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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"American policing"”.
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The Democratic Deficit in American Policing
<p>This dissertation examines the tools residents have at their disposal to facilitate democratic accountability for carceral state actors more broadly, and municipal police, more narrowly. First, I evaluate an increasingly common institutional reform in municipal governance – civilian oversight …
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Police and Burnout: A Quantitative and Theoretical Analysis of Burnout in American Policing
The bulk of the empirical research examining burnout among police officers has focused on individual outcomes related to officer health and performance. This dissertation study suggests a more comprehensive approach leading in two directions: a quantitative analysis of three individual theories of …
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Blue Lives Memorialized: Collective Memory and the Production of Ideology and Injustice in American Policing
<p>Police memorials are physical objects in public spaces, objects which seed our own cultural and personal ideologies, beliefs, and behaviors and which command our collective attention. Using qualitative research methodology, this visual ethnography looks at the unique and inherent power of police …
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Problem-oriented approach to criminal investigation: implementation issues and challenges
As a proactive, information-based policing approach, problem-oriented policing emphasizes the use of crime analysis techniques in the analysis of the underlying causes of the problems that police deal with. In particular, analysis applications can be powerful tools for criminal investigation, such …
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The Impact Of Community Policing On The Structure And Administration of Police Agencies
… the rise of a new movement called “community policing.” Basic philosophical principles, which focus on improved services to the public through decentralization, better communication and decision-making processes, and more police discretion highlight the community policing movement. …
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Restructuring of State Policing Post 9/11
… These added challenges led to the notion that American policing had entered a new era –Homeland Security. The following research explores the emergence of the new Homeland Security Era and its impact on state policing. More specifically, a case study of the Illinois State Police (ISP) coupled …
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Safety standards for police body armour
… as this is a much less common threat in the American policing environment. Therefore the specification for armour for police use in this country must be set to provide protection against the threats in the UK policing environment. Current knife-resistance standards are based on animal …