We examine the effects of social distancing in response to the COVID-19 pandemic on the reporting of domestic violence to the police in the United States. Using daily domestic violence calls from 31 police departments for the January-September 2020 (compared to 2019), we find that the early...

In this paper we provide an empirical evaluation of the effect that the provision of an arbitration statute has on the wage levels of police officers. We analyze the effect of arbitration on wages by comparing wage levels across political jurisdictions and over time using a sample of states. Two...

The 1984 federal Comprehensive Crime Control Act (CCCA) included a provision that permitted local law enforcement agencies to share up to 80 percent of the proceeds derived from civil asset forfeitures obtained in joint operations with federal authorities. This procedure became known as...

Protection against criminality is a traditional function of government. Where government fails, however, people often turn to the private sector. That is why there are three times as many private security guards as public police. The need for private security is greatest for low-income families,...

In this note the method of Hamiltonian dynamics is used to characterize the time-consistent solution to the optimal control problem in a deterministic continuous time rational expectations model. A linear quadratic example based on the work of Miller and Salmon is used for simplicity. To derive...

In order to encourage anti-drug policing, both the federal government and many state governments have enacted laws that allow police agencies to keep a substantial fraction of assets that they seize in drug arrests. By adjusting their own allocations to police budgets, however, county...

Previous empirical studies have typically uncovered little evidence that police reduce crime. One problem with those studies is a failure to adequately deal with the simultaneity between police and crime: while police may or may not reduce crime, there is little doubt that expenditures on police...

Purpose/Objective: The aim of this paper is to identify why or why not police get support and cooperation from the public. Relational models of authority argue that people evaluate the degree to which the police reflect the group's moral values by assessing the fairness of the procedures they...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine empirically the joint effect of innovation and strategic planning on organizational performance of Dubai Police. Design/methodology/approach To examine the hypothesized model of the study, a survey questionnaire was used. The data were collected...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the multidimensional constructs of smart policing service quality, and the impact of these dimension on the satisfaction levels of UAE residents. An online survey was conducted using a sample of 230 respondents and analyzed using structural equation...

Recent contributions using police recorded calls-for-service and/or crime data to estimate impacts of COVID-19 lockdowns on the incidence of domestic violence (DV) have reported relatively modest effects. This may reflect a low reporting-propensity, exacerbated by the lockdown measures....

Around the world, policymakers and news reports have warned that domestic violence (DV) could increase as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and the attendant restrictions on individual mobility and commercial activity. However, both anecdotal accounts and academic research have found...

Successful police organizations rely on involved, satisfied, and committed workers. The concepts of job involvement (i.e., connection with the job), job satisfaction (i.e., affective feeling toward the job), and organizational commitment (i.e., bond with the employing organization) have been...

Das Buch beschäftigt sich mit der Möglichkeit der Prognose von Wohnungseinbrüchen mit Hilfe von Machine-Learning-Verfahren. Die Analyse beschränkt sich auf die Fragestellung, ob nach einem erfolgten Wohnungseinbruch mit einer Nachfolgetat, den sog. Near-Repeats, zu rechnen ist. Dabei wird...

1 Einleitung -- 2 Das Konzept der Diversität und dessen Anwendung -- 3 Das Bundeskriminalamt -- 4 Das EU-Förderinstrument Twinning -- 5 Methodik der empirisch erarbeiteten Erkenntnisse -- 6 Erfahrungen mit Twinning-Projekten in Kroatien und der Türkei -- 7 Vergleich der Erkenntnisse in Bezug...

IntroductionPart 1: Police Leadership as Practice1. Why a Leadership-As-Practice Perspective?2. What Do Police Leaders Do? 3. When Do Police Leaders Lead? 4. Police Leadership as Practice Part 2: Strategi5. Social Mission, Organizational Structure and Goal Management 6. Strategy as PracticePart...

What institutional features encourage community policing? Many police departments across the US have attempted to implement a community-oriented policing philosophy. The stated goals are to build greater trust between the police and the community, maintain order and quality of life, and solve...

This paper looks carefully at situations in which public and private protection are complementary, that is, when private protection must be coordinated with public protection to be effective. For example, home alarms deter theft by being connected to a local police station: if the police do not...

Context: Learning through scenario training and live simulation in vocational education is generally regarded as an effective tool for developing professional knowledge. However, previous research has largely overlooked the learning of students in secondary roles in scenario training. The...

'Entrepreneurship in Policing and Criminal Contexts' explores the contemporary and under researched themes of 'entrepreneurial policing' and 'entrepreneurialism in criminal justice contexts' which are emerging topics of both theoretical and practical interest in the current rapidly changing...

African-American motorists may adjust their driving in response to increased scrutiny by police. In daylight, when their race is more easily observable, minority motorists are the only group less likely to have fatal motor vehicle accidents. In Massachusetts and Tennessee, we find that...