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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"crime reduction"”.
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The Prolific and other Priority Offender programme: in search of collaborative public management
… programmes. Research has shown that although crime is multi-causal, a range of agencies separately intervene into service users’ lives. Collaborative Public Management joins up these interventions to improve crime reduction.
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From police to policing : "police reform in Northern Ireland and the vision of partnership"
… partnership pervades the language of policing, crime prevention and crime reduction. In Northern Ireland, policing structures have gone through a substantial transition and period of reform since the Independent Commission on Policing reported in 1999. The language of partnership also pervades …
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Crossing the line: an exploration of the experiences of male athletes who commit crimes.
In terms of research into sport and crime, there has been considerable investigation into the power of sport as a crime reduction tool. Evidence is far from conclusive and within the UK research has predominantly focussed on the links between active participation in sport and reduced criminal …
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RELATIONSHIP POLICING: IMPLEMENTING A NEW MODEL OF THINKING FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT TO BUILD FORMAL COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS
… purpose of building public trust and reducing crime. This study aims to answer the question: “How do local law enforcement agencies structure successful partnerships that earn public trust and contribute to crime reduction?” Using six police partnership cases from the extant literature, success …
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Assessing the Impact of Increased Police Officer Presence In Micro Hot Spots
Crime reduction is a central role of policing in America. To better facilitate an understanding of a hot spot policing approach, the current study defines the specific policing style and how it was used throughout the duration of the project. With this in mind, the Kansas City Missouri Police …
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An ex post facto evaluation of the Philadelphia GunStat model
… Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter outlined the crime fighting measures that his administration would pursue during his second term as mayor. Included was a plan to introduce a multi-agency crime reduction program, which Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey and District Attorney Seth …
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An analysis of the role of firearms control laws in South African society
… on the assumption that it serves the purposes of crime reduction and civil peace. This assumption was shown to be empirically unsupported, and an alternative approach was called for in terms of which legislators should place greater positive emphasis on the individual right to keep and bear arms. …
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Space, place and policing in Scotland's night-time economy
… alcohol to be a significant contributor to crime. A significant portion of this is directly related to the evening and night-time drinking based leisure industry i.e. the night-time economy (NTE). The NTE is often characterised by violent and disorderly behaviour concentrated in and around …
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Challening privacy: Using the national DNA database to support victims of sexed violence
… issues over privacy, consent, human rights, crime prevention and control. Taking these themes as guides, I will develop a critical discussion on the issue of sexed violence to exemplify how the law has failed to provide sanction for victims of this crime due to hegemonic masculinity. …
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Telecommunications Technology Transfer/Diffusion Model Into Rural South Africa
… involves rural awareness, quality of education, crime reduction and a focus alignment when doing rural network expansion and/or investments Telecommunication can no longer remain just as a luxury to the few privileged in big civilised cities and a dream to the rural citizens. If this way of …
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Criminal careers and restorative justice
… a randomised controlled trial testing the crime reduction effects of restorative justice conferences. Burglary and robbery offenders and victims who agreed to participate in the trial were randomly assigned to either a face to face conference (experimental) in addition to normal court …
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Where infrastructure alone is not enough: developing well-functioning non-motorized transport with a focus on cycling in the 'Northern-Inner' district of Cape Town
… linkages between NMT and public transport, crime reduction through strategic placement and design of NMT infrastructure, and promotion of visibility and awareness of the value of NMT through public awareness campaigns constitute broader required interventions to enable well-functioning NMT. …
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Fee-Free Educational Policy for Social Development: Examining the Conditions and the Social Benefits of Cost Elimination at the Upper-Secondary Level in Sub-Saharan Africa
… as having a positive externality in terms of crime reduction. However, the understanding of the education crime nexus in SSA and the role of educational policies is virtually non-existent. Again, the effects of fee-free policies on upper-secondary school enrolment have received very little …
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Estimating provisional causal treatment effects on reoffending for binary and multiple treatments using quasi-experimental methods for people in prison with an alcohol use disorder in England
… that unites public health and effective crime reduction approaches. Quasi-experimental methods provide an alternative to randomisation but require methodological enhancements to reliably calculate a treatment effect.
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Community-Oriented Policing Strategies When Handling Nonviolent Drug Offenders
<p>In this study, I analyze the responses of police officers to questions regarding their involvement in the use of Community-Oriented Policing strategies. When the officer encounters a drug offender they must decide how to deal with the situation. There are a variety of trained responses and …