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...

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...

Gleichstellungsbeauftragte begleiten und fördern die Chancengleichheit von Frauen und Männern im öffentlichen Dienst seit mehr als dreißig Jahren. Ihre Sichtweisen und Erfahrungen stehen im Zentrum dieser Studie, am Beispiel von Gleichstellungsbeauftragten der Polizei. Wie definieren sie...

Adding a new dimension to determinants of corruption, this paper examines the effectiveness of enforcement in reducing corruption. We compare the influences of latent enforcement (police, judicial, and prosecutorial employment) versus actual enforcement (conviction rates) and enforcing...

"Die vorliegende Forschungsarbeit nimmt eine funktionalistische Sicht auf Diversity-Management ein und entwirft eine neuartige Organisationsanalyse, die Diversity-Aspekte in Organisationen systematisch und ganzheitlich untersucht. Dafür wird ein innovatives Konzept von Gestaltungsfaktoren...

Policy makers often try to optimize local law enforcement by reorganizing police forces. We study the effects of police reallocation via station closures on municipal crime by exploiting a quasi-experiment where a centrally administered reform substantially reduced the number of police stations....

Sanctions are a common method to discourage free-riding in the provision of public goods. However, we can usually only sanction those who are detected performing the bad act of free-riding. There has been considerable research on the type of sanctions imposed, but this research almost always...

An influential literature has used the aftermath of terrorist attacks to estimate large effects of police street deployment on crime. However, the elasticities obtained in these settings may not easily extrapolate to more standard circumstances. This paper exploits a natural experiment that...

Since 1995, police forces in England and Wales have obtained the right to raise revenues locally to supplement central government grants in order to fund their activities. The extent to which they have used these local revenue-raising powers varies significantly across area and time. We seek to...

"Over the past few years, opposition to the privatisation in public services in the United Kingdom and elsewhere has grown, especially in areas related to criminal justice. Privatisation has existed within the British criminal justice system at least since the early 1990s, but the privatisation...

This paper provides a county-level investigation of the root causes of gun violence in the U.S. To guide our empirical analysis, we develop a simple theoretical model which suggests that firearm-related offenses in a given county increase with the number of illegal guns and decrease with social...