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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"police reform"”.
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Democratization and police reform
This paper compares police reforms during democratization in Poland, Hungary, and Bosnia-Herzegovina. It analyses the changes to the structure of the democratic control of the police in each reform, paying special attention to the decentralization versus centralization aspect of it. The research …
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Pacifying the Visual: Police Reform and the Promise of Body Worn Cameras
<p>Reform is a political tool, long used to ensure the continuation of specific police practices and the police institution itself. Promising increased transparency and accountability and hence legitimacy, Body Worn Cameras (BWC) purport to show the facts of police work and critical incidents …
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South African Police reform in the 1990s : internal processes and external influences
… with a specific emphasis on South African police reform after 1990. The central focus of this enquiry is the interplay between novel, often externally derived , ideas and practices with a national police force at a time of immense political transition. Selective aspects of South African …
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Policing and Police Reform in Turkey since 1980: Regime Transitions and Policing Transformations
… 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 authoritarian police practices …
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From police to policing : "police reform in Northern Ireland and the vision of partnership"
… through a substantial transition and period of reform since the Independent Commission on Policing reported in 1999. The language of partnership also pervades this transition. Based upon in-depth empirical analysis, this thesis provides a comprehensive, critical and enlightening account of the …
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Local Policing in Transition: Examining the Impacts and Implications of Police Reform in Scotland
… consultations on the most radical programme of police reform for a generation. The consultation process ensued that on 8 September 2011, the Cabinet Secretary for Justice announced the Scottish Government’s intention to introduce legislation to create a single, national police service in …
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Accountability: setting the standards for policing in Northern Ireland
… through a comprehensive literature review on police reform and accountability, whilst Section 2 will comprise a contemporaneous case study based on interviews with senior practitioners involved in policing. This thesis will examine the evolution and impact of police accountability and …
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EVERYONE IS DOING IT: THE EFFECTIVENESS OF BODY-WORN CAMERAS BEYOND RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS
… or attempted to determine whether other police reforms accomplish the same goals. This thesis addresses whether CBP should adopt body-worn cameras. The author employed a comparative case study methodology to examine the impact of the technology within the context of other reform …
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Women in blue: Meaning and identity perspectives of policewomen within the South African Police Services in the Cape Town Metropolitan area.
… solutions to improve policing require holistic police reform, addressing internal issues including gender inequality. This study examines the experiences of policewomen in the South African Police Service (SAPS), uncovering their challenges with their male counterparts in the workplace as well …
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Reforming the Police: Violence, Security, and the Social in Turkey
… and policing in Turkey, as the proliferation of police-related crises once again brings police reform to the global spotlight. Drawing on 18 months of fieldwork in local police stations and neighborhoods in Ankara and Istanbul, Police Academy classes, practicum trainings, governmental and …
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Relationship Among Department Satisfaction, Training, and Police Behavior
<p>The call for police reform has been sparked by incidents involving the shooting and killing of individuals by the police. Public and political scrutiny of police behavior and procedures has created a social identity of “Us Versus Them” mentality among police officers. Proactive policing …
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Flawed Judgment: The Prolonged Failure of Handschu v. Special Services Division, 1971-2022
… </em>settlement has been eclipsed by recent police reform efforts achieved through electoral tactics supported by local mobilization.</p>
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Policing Partnerships: An Investigation into the Police Response to Partnership Working in the Wake of the 1998 Crime and Disorder Act
… upon empirical research, which explores how the police service in one Constabulary area has accommodated the mandate to work in crime prevention partnerships with other agencies, following the implementation of the 1998 Crime and Disorder Act. The focus is specifically upon crime and disorder …
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Toward Inclusive Excellence: Forging Inclusive Police Organizations through Leadership Training and Development
… forefront in society, and intensifying calls for police reform. Police organizations, like many others, have responded with a greater commitment to address these issues through things like DEI training, policy changes, and targeted recruitment of diverse employees. However, these efforts have …
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Performance Management, gaming and police practice: a study of changing police behaviour in England and Wales during the era of New Public Management.
… thesis examines the nature of ‘gaming’ in the police service and the extent to which it distorts policing priorities and performance measures. Performance Management, which formed an integral part of New Public Management, was introduced gradually to the police service in England and Wales …
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Policing That Matters: Making Civilian Oversight Work
… have been 8 fatal shootings by the San Francisco Police Department and no officers have faced any administrative discipline. This paper works to demonstrate how the San Francisco Police Department escapes administrative discipline in situations of officer involved shootings (OIS) through the …
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Public Health involvement in alcohol licensing decisions: policy, partnerships and professional ideology
The Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 added ‘health bodies’ as Responsible Authorities within licensing decisions and, in practice, Directors of Public Health undertook this role. Despite the Act enabling Public Health departments to engage with alcohol licensing decisions to …
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Off Beat: Police as Protestors and use of Twitter as a Tactical Online Public Space
… examines the use of social media by British police officers to protest, often anonymously, and challenge political influences on policing, which they otherwise could not, through tactical use of social media. It studies British police officers acting as online protestors using Twitter to …
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Participation of women in supervisory decision-making positions in the Zambia police service: a case study of Lusaka district.
… by 2020 (SADC, 2005). The implementation of the Police Reform Programme in 1995, and the establishment of the Zambia Police Strategic Development Plan 2001-2006 shows government’s commitment towards ensuring gender equality in the Zambia Police Service (GRZ, 2000; GIDD, 2010). Despite the various …
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Battle of the Corner: Urban Policing and Rioting in the United States, 1943-1971
… States, 1943-1971 provides a national history of police reform and police-citizen conflicts in marginalized urban neighborhoods in the three decades after World War II. Examining more than a dozen cities, the dissertation shows how big-city police brass and downtown-friendly municipal elites in …
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