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Policing and public health calls for service in Philadelphia
This contribution outlines various spatial and temporal aspects of medical or public-health related calls for service from the public to police in...
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Operationalizing deployment time in police calls for service
Analyses of emergency calls for service data in the United States suggest that around 50% of dispatched police deployment time is spent on...
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Effective Strategies to Enhance Police Service Delivery
Over time, police department responsibilities have expanded from prioritizing order maintenance and law enforcement to routinely encompassing tasks...
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Trans-Neutrality in Intimate Partner Violence Service Provision in the USA and Canada
Trans women have distinct dynamics in abusive relationships that cisgender women may not experience (e.g., purposeful misgendering). Therefore, it is...
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Parole Boards, Public Confidence, and the Public
In this chapter, we examine the existing or possible strategies that parole authorities regard as having value for increasing public confidence and...
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A field-experiment testing the impact of a warrant service prioritization strategy for police patrol officers
The objective of this experiment was to test the efficacy of providing prioritized warrant lists to patrol officers. A field experiment was carried...
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Measuring Cybercrime in Calls for Police Service
Conventional police databases contain much information on cybercrime, but extracting it remains a practical challenge. This is because these...
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Public perceptions of courts and cooperation with police
The police depend upon public cooperation to effectively control crime. Understanding factors that impact people’s willingness to cooperate with the...
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Marijuana Legalization and U.S. Postal Inspection Service Seizures: An Exploration of Black Market Activity
Researchers have explored the effects of marijuana legalization on a range of outcomes, including crime and public health. Relatively few, however,...
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Idleness as work? How public defenders do their job by waiting
How can public defenders provide adequate legal representation when they are underbudgeted and overworked? Mexican public defenders represent 75-90%...
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Public Confidence Attitude Formation Toward the Police in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan: Similarities and Differences
While public attitudes toward the police have been extensively researched in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan over the past three decades, no...
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The price of retribution: evidence from the willingness to pay for short-term prison sentences compared to community service orders
ObjectivesThe objective of this study is to estimate the price of retribution.
MethodsBased on administrative data on all sentences in the...
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COVID-19’s Effect on Crisis Intervention Team Calls for Service in Houston
Research examining the effects of COVID-19 on the criminal legal system—including the demand for police services—is accumulating. However, few...
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Trust in the law but beware! The possible corruptogenic effects of the law on public procurement in Malawi
The persistence of corruption in Malawi is well documented as are its heinous effects. Malawi’s response to combating corruption has involved the...
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Making Criminology Public: Public Education and the Student Sex Work Project
In the field of social science, it remains unusual for academics to step outside established methodological research practices. This chapter...
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“100% They Are Destroying Our Beautiful Town”: Toxic Conversations About Homelessness on Public Facebook Community Groups
In this paper, we use a qualitative content analysis to understand how homelessness is discussed in 14 public Facebook groups from three Canadian...
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Trajectories of Offending and Mental Health Service Use: Similarities and Differences by Gender and Indigenous Status in an Australian Birth Cohort
Mental illness is firmly established as a risk factor for criminal legal system contact, particularly for women and Indigenous people. While patterns...
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The helpless defense: Notes on the role of Brazilian public defenders in sentence enforcement proceedings
The article exposes and analyzes the potentialities and limits of the activities of public defenders who work in Brazilian criminal sentence...
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Uncovering patterns of public perceptions towards biodiversity crime using conservation culturomics
This paper examines aspects of the relationship between (1) the recently typified form of biodiversity crime, (2) information made available to the...
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Poverty as a Public Health Concern
This chapter considers the notion of poverty as a public health concern. The chapter offers a brief discussion of the definition of...