The question of how to use police resources productively, par ticularly in this era of tight municipal budgets, is a major con cern for police chiefs and others responsible for crime control. In Crime Control: The Use and Misuse of Police Resources, David J. Farmer provides new insig...
Sex Offender Policies and Legislation Sex Trafficking Sexual Revictimization Situational Action Theory Snitching and Use of Criminal Informants Social and Intellectual Context of Criminology, The Social Construction of Crime, The Social Control of Tobacco Use Social Control Theory Social Disor...
The Role of Criminology and CJ Expertise in Policy Making (Sense and Non-sense of Common Sense Crime Control Policies)Mesko, Gorazd
This is an important policy parameter that may reflect the amount of additional resources that can be spent on effective crime control policies. Our estimates range between 0.4 and 0.5 percent of national GDP in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico and between 0.1 and 0.2 percent of GDP in...
with the help of police and prosecutors. The real problem is that certain neighborhoods and communities fail to exert proper social control (in part because of family-destroying government policies), to the dismay of many persons in those neighborhoods and communities. And when local thugs run out...
Introduces theorizing of comparative criminology of crime control and community safety. Critically reviews the “preventive turn” of policies and practices under the neoliberal community governance of crime and safety. The analysis highlights the “plural and contradictory” nature of local strategies in ...
The well‐known features of those policies, such as community policing, situational prevention, or local governance are articulated so as to point out their common ideological background. By referring to a large literature stemming from criminology and political science, it strives to promote an ...
In particular we focus on unintended consequences of punitive responses, and the role of NGOs in the formation of criminal policies relating to these fields. We argue that criminology can play a central role in furthering an understanding of global power structures, and suggest important questions...
2001. "Examining the Boundaries of Hate Crime Law: Disabilities and the 'Dilemma of Difference.'"Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 91 (spring): 653.Iganski, Paul, ed. 2002. The Hate Debate: Should Hate be Punished as a Crime? London: Profile Books in association with the Institute ...
Misconceptions about crime rates can seriously affect the decisions of legislative bodies when enacting crime control policies. ... There has been an increasing racial concentration of crimes, and the number of drug-related crimes has definitely increased. ... Police reports of crime rates are also...