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Showing 1 to 20 of 657 for “"Policing"”.
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Community Policing Training Programs and Their Roles in Implementation of Community Policing
… study is to indicate the importance of community policing training programs for implementation of community policing. Community policing requires a transition from traditional policing methods to proactive and problem-oriented policing which is constructed upon police-citizen partnership. For the …
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De-policing queer possibilities
… of the performance and engagements of policing on racialized queer subjects. Through case and textual analysis, this project examines Black and Brown subjectivities that do the work of imagination, survival, and resistance that contest their possibilities of living. Bringing together …
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Policing and Police Reform in Turkey since 1980: Regime Transitions and Policing Transformations
… examining how political transitions affect policing have suggested that police forces in transitional states continue to be characterized by repressive and predatory practices, and have primarily investigated the causes of such continuities. Drawing on a case study of the endurance of …
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Data-driven policing: how digital technologies transform the practice and governance of policing
… and the way they shape and are shaped by policing environments is rare. Drawing on in-depth interviews with officers in a UK police force and ethnographic fieldwork in a large metropolitan police department in the US, this thesis aims to make a significant empirical and conceptual …
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From Community Policing And Crime Control To Security Policing And Citizen Control: Rural And Small-Town Policing In Post 9/11 America
<p>Research is lacking on rural and small-town policing in the post 9/11 era. This is unfortunate in view of changing perceptions of threat and insecurity, the financial crisis of 2008 and curtailments placed on funding for rural and small-town police agencies. This thesis argues that the …
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INNOVATION IN POLICING REGARDING EU MEMBERSHIP IN TURKEY: POLICE OFFICERS’ PERCEPTIONS OF COMMUNITY POLICING
ABSTRACT Innovations in Policing regarding EU Membership in Turkey: Police Officers’ Perceptions of Community Policing by Murat Aksoy The Turkish National Police (TNP) has been undergoing continuous reform and reorganization for over a decade, with many new departments and training facilities being …
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Harbour policing : a criminological investigation
… entails a criminological study of harbour policing in South Africa. Firstly, it is primarily concerned with the historical development of harbour policing prior to its inception in 1916 in terms of the proclamation of The Railways and Harbours Regulation, Control and Management Act, Act 22 …
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An ethnography of gendered policing
It has been suggested that male police officers are the purveyors of a unique form of occupational masculinity. Publicised cases of sexual harassment and discrimination. which have come to light in the past few years, tend to support this assumption. Substantial out of court settlements seem to …
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Essays in Policing and Recidivism
<p>This dissertation consists of three chapters in public economics, with a particular focus on the factors that influence officials in the justice system and the role of deterrence. All three chapters assess, in part, the extent to which traffic penalties influence the behavior of drivers, though …
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Leadership in community oriented policing
Police and the community--COP program.
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Essays on Race in Policing
<p>In recent years, a number of high-profile policing controversies have led to global indignation over racial disparities in policing and perceived police brutality. This paper explores three different dimensions of race in policing. The first chapter of this dissertation examines whether the …
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Policing of ethnic minorities in Britain
… a significant body of published research about policing in general. There are however not many in depth research studies on a particular police setting about the experiences of white and black youths and how they are affected by policing. This research explores young people’s thoughts on exactly …
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Revenue policing, social control, and neoliberalism
… have examined the role of economic structures in policing. These inquiries offer insight into revenue-based law enforcement activities but are simultaneously limited by blind spots in theorization. Reviewing these studies, it is apparent the criminal justice system can and is used to gain revenue …
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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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The Policing of Juveniles in Chicago
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Regulating nightlife, policing race: a critical exploration of public and private policing in a non-metropolitan setting
… main night-time high streets through historical policing practices referred to as ‘no no-ing’. This thesis uncovers how the night is constructed around the ideals of ‘acceptable whiteness’ (Bhopal, 2018, p. 29) in Greenshire, defined by forms of embodiment, practices, behaviours and temporal …
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The image of traffic policing in Transkei
… aims at investigating the image of traffic policing in Transkei. To achieve this goal, questionnaires were distributed to a purposive sample of 600 respondents. Five towns whose people are exposed to traffic policing were targeted, namely: Umtata, Butterworth, Engcobo, Qumbu and Libode. The …
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Theorising evidence based policing: a discourse analysis
This thesis examines the rise of evidence-based policing (EBP) in the UK over the last two decades. EBP is a ‘what works’ initiative, claiming to offer benefits to policing policy and practice based on scientific research graded as ‘evidence’. EBP has exerted growing influence in British policing …
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Policing That Matters: Making Civilian Oversight Work
… shootings. Through understanding the history of policing and the legacy of discretionary practices in the San Francisco Police Department, we better understand why our civilian oversight agency’s implementation into San Francisco police culture has resulted in a non threatening oversight body …
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Restructuring of State Policing Post 9/11
… 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 with a …
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