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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"crime control"”.
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The Globalization of Crime Control: The Use of Non-criminal Justice Responses for Countering Organized Crime
… justice responses to counter organized crime. Examples of responses used to counter outlaw motorcycle gangs in Canada, Germany, and Iceland are provided. These responses are significantly different from most international efforts focusing on criminal norms and cooperation in criminal …
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A Multiple Case Study of Memorial Crime Control Legislation and the Disconnect Between Legislative and Empirical Success
… multiple case analysis by which "memorial crime control" (MCC) laws that were passed (successful) are compared to proposed MCC laws, which were not ultimately passed (unsuccessful). This comparison of MCC laws which were passed with those which were not allows for a better understanding of …
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Social Disorganization and the Public Level of Crime Control: A Spatial Analysis of Ecological Predictors of Homicide Rates in Bogota, Colombia
… the applicability of ecological theories of crime to the spatial distribution of homicides in Bogota, Colombia, while proposing alternative measures of social disorganization that are analogous to those used in the American literature but that are more reflective of both social realities and …
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An exploration of Muslim Canadians’ perceptions towards law enforcement authorities and their willingness to cooperate in general crime control and counterterrorism efforts
… (b) their willingness to cooperate in general crime control and counterterrorism efforts. This thesis seeks to address these two gaps by employing face-to-face interviews with ten Muslim men and women enrolled at a Canadian University in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) between the ages of 19-25. …
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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
… increased security, surveillance and ubiquitous control of citizens. This development not only represents further abandonment of the traditional due process model, but also a transformation of the community-oriented policing ideology prevalent in the 80s and 90s to a citizen control model of …
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‘Over, under and through the walls’: The dynamics of public security, police-community relations and the limits of managerialism in crime control in Recife, Brazil
… of mainstream criminological theories of crime control from the Global North produces large-scale perverse effects in the context of countries of the Global South. The findings are based on interviews with the police and data gathered in two low-income communities, one of which is located …
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Preventivní a právní kontrola kriminality mládeže
… Name: Prevention and Repression In Youth Crime Control Abstract: This thesis addresses the issue of youth crime control. Its aim was to assess whether the existing crime prevention system and the legal regulation of youth in the justice system contain effective tools for dealing with …
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How Central Business Districts Manage Crime and Disorder: A Case Study in the Processes of Place Management in Downtown Cincinnati
… there has been considerable research into urban crime, there is little criminological research and theoretical development on central business districts despite the fact these areas are critical in the functioning of cities. In fact, studies often exclude them because of the lack of residential …
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Can genetic justice survive? : DNA technology and social control in the 21st century
… system as a tool to aid in the "war against crime". As a fairly recent innovative technology DNA evidence has found a place within the state's contemporary process of crime control. This science has not only transformed crime control but has offered the criminal justice system a method of …
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Registering Dangerous Strangers: Psychology and Justice in the Politics of the Sex Offender Registry
… to become the primary target in contemporary sex crime control. I examine the period from the 1960s through the 1990s, the period beginning with the rising awareness of child abuse and criminal and psychiatric patient rights challenges to preventive confinement and ending with institutionalizing …
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Public criminology: Its social construction and policy implications
… criminology, that is, causal explanations of crime employed by the lay public. The thesis is that different styles of public criminology exist, that each is a product of a different social background and each produces a different set of lay attitudes toward crime control policies. Extant …
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From Social Welfare to Social Control: Federal War in American Cities, 1968-1988
The first historical account of federal crime control policy, "From Social Welfare to Social Control" contextualizes the mass incarceration of marginalized Americans by illuminating the process that gave rise to the modern carceral state in the decades after the Civil Rights Movement. The …
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Crime and disorder
… use of civil and public law orders as tools of crime control by crime prevention partnerships. This development has been little explored in criminology. The proliferation of crime prevention partnerships is viewed by many criminologists as forming part of a bifurcation in criminal policy between …
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Scottish based money laundering operations: inter-agency cooperation across jusrisdictions
… emphasis on ‘the follow the money approach’ to crime control, the use of risk, the trend of promoting cooperation at EU level, and considering the police as ‘performers’. <br/> In light of these discussions, this work contends that the territorial financial investigator is central to the …
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Appropriate practice? : a study of the role and co-ordination of volunteer appropriate adults for young suspects
… conflicting, purposes, ranging from due process, crime control, welfare, crime prevention and managerialism. In terms of practice, parents rarely contribute in interviews and, when they do, their contributions tend to be consistent with the crime control model. Social workers may act according to …
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Crime, policing and control in Leeds, c1830-1890
This thesis analyses policing and crime control in nineteenth-century England, through a case study of Leeds. It challenges the notion - central to traditional interpretations of criminal justice history - that the new police forces assumed near-monopolistic control over the governance of crime …
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Policing domestic abuse in Scotland: a social constructionist approach
… the origin and consequences of a specific crime control strategy in Scotland, namely the use of pro-arrest policies with relation to domestic abuse incidents. The researcher conducted interviews with 10 police officers and the narrative evidence seems to support findings of other studies on …
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Public Housing: Examining the Impact of Banishment and Community Policing
… issuing bans and arrests for trespassing aid in crime prevention by removing non-residents who may commit criminal acts if left unguarded. Nonetheless, there has been no scientific evidence to suggest that banishment works to reduce crime. Similarly, the role community policing can play in …
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Culture clash: Making the case for a new paradigm in police cultural training
… Rights Division investigations under the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (42 U.S.C. 14141) was found to support the hypothesis that the interface between the police and urban males is problematic and that cultural training was identified as a training inadequacy in police …
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