The article contrasts the richness of academic production on illegal markets in Brazil to the obscurantist context of contemporary Brazilian politics. The text takes up the main topics of the Special Issue and faces a challenging question: considering the knowledge produced by the articles as a...

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...

Am 1. Juni 2008 befürwortete das Stimmvolk der Stadt Luzern ein neues Reglement über die Videoüberwachung im öffentlichen Raum. Infolgedessen wurden Mitte Dezember 2008 sechs Überwachungskameras am Bahnhofplatz Luzern installiert und in Betrieb genommen. Der vorliegende Evaluationsbericht...

"Through a series of studies, the overarching aim of this book is to investigate if and how the digitalization/digital transformation process affects various welfare services provided by the public sector, and the ensuing implications thereof. Ultimately, this book seeks to understand if it is...

This study is part of Brasil 2035 a project whose objective is to provide subsidies to formulate long-term strategies for Brazil through Prospective Scenarios. The present text uses the prospective methodology, in order to present tendencies and uncertainties for public security. The article is...

This article analyzes the technical efficiency, the Total Factor Productivity (TFP) and the technological gap in public security services in Brazilian States. The order—m frontier is used for results estimation. The TFP variation is built by decomposing the Malmquist productivity index into...

This article analyzes the technical efficiency, the Total Factor Productivity (TFP) and the technological gap in public security services in Brazilian States. The order-m frontier is used for results estimation. The TFP variation is built by decomposing the Malmquist productivity index into...

This study is part of Brasil 2035 a project whose objective is to provide subsidies to formulate long-term strategies for Brazil through Prospective Scenarios. The present text uses the prospective methodology, in order to present tendencies and uncertainties for public security. The article is...

Paz y PIB / Marc Hofstetter -- Conflicto, sectores, regiones y crecimiento / Laura Beatriz Gómez y Hernando Zuleta -- Eficiencia del gasto en defensa y seguridad en Colombia : un análisis de envolvente de datos aplicado al Ejército Nacional / Lucas Ernesto Gutiérrez -- Muros permeables en...

Security sector reform (SSR) is central to the democratic transitions currently unfolding across the globe, as a diverse range of countries grapple with how to transform militias, tribal forces, and dominant military, police, and intelligence agencies into democratically controlled and...

The public security field has a late insertion and is still under construction in the participatory institucionalities, such as councils and national conferences, presenting many challenges. This text discuss the legacy of the 1st National Conference on Public Security - Primeira Conferência...

We present a model of transnational terrorism where two countries, home and foreign, face a terrorist threat based in the foreign country. The home country chooses how much to invest in defending itself or in reducing terrorist resources either indirectly by subsidising the foreign country or by...

The public security field has a late insertion and is still under construction in the participatory institucionalities, such as councils and national conferences, presenting many challenges. This text discuss the legacy of the 1st National Conference on Public Security – Primeira Conferência...

Camera surveillance has recently gained prominence in policy proposals on combating terrorism. We evaluate this instrument of counterterrorism as resting on the premise of a deterrence effect. Based on comparative arguments and previous evidence on crime, we expect camera surveillance to have a...

This book widens the current debate on security privatization by examining how and why an increasing number of private actors beyond private military and security companies (PMSCs) have come to perform various security related functions. While PMSCs provide security for profit, most other...