This article derives insights on majority-Muslim hate crimes in North England from a voluminous police dataset of racial and religious two districts. The ethnic identities complainants suspects, as recorded the dataset, are used to establish patterns perpetration victimization wider context community relations. To make most patchy evidence base gain help with interpretation, I present prelimina...

Policing and security in remote rural areas are under-resourced under-researched. The situation is amplified developing nations such as Zimbabwe, where the most immediate form of local governance for dwellers that traditional, customary informal institutions. This research note aims to further discuss policing places like patriarchal state structures entangled with policing. will rely on exampl...

Police policy documents often articulate strategies and approaches that police organizations want to implement in their efforts to break down barriers with minority groups. However, most police policy documents are written for police audiences and not for members of the public. Police policy documents serve as a reflection of the aspirations of the agency and not necessarily the practice of the...

Prior deadly force research has sought to identify appropriate mechanisms that can effectively control police officers' decisions to use deadly force. However, the relative impact of external discretion control policies on police shooting behavior remains largely unknown. Using data from Philadelphia for a period of more than two decades, this article employs interrupted time-series analysis (A...

BACKGROUND In the police force, some variables such as occupational rank, sex, age and work-shift are associated with stress in workers. The aim of this paper was to determine possible differences in the perception of occupational stress at work depending on rank, sex, age and work-shift of police agents in the Community of Madrid, Spain. METHOD A cross-sectional study was conducted in 24 mun...

Using footage from body-worn cameras, we analyze the respectfulness of police officer language toward white and black community members during routine traffic stops. We develop computational linguistic methods that extract levels of respect automatically from transcripts, informed by a thin-slicing study of participant ratings of officer utterances. We find that officers speak with consistently...

Research shows that people vary in their willingness to report crime to police depending on the type of crime experienced, their gender, age, and their race or ethnicity. Whether or not lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) and heterosexual people vary in their willingness to report crime to the police is not well understood in the extant literature. In this article, I exami...

• The potential effects of information technology (IT) systems on police productivity will be driven, in part, by the match between the technology and police activities. In modern policing, how information is used for reactive response to incidents is significantly different from proactive and community-policing activities, so we expect the effects of IT to be quite different. The authors devel...

OBJECTIVE To estimate and compare the rate of pedestrian injuries in primary school-attending children of urban Uganda using different data sources. DESIGN Data collection from a hospital-based trauma registry, police data, teacher reports, and a cross-sectional community-based survey. SETTING Kawempe, the largest urban district in the capital Kampala, Uganda. Patients or SUBJECTS Primary...

in the global village of today, more people have been moving and migrating than ever before creating a need for better communication. thus community interpreting rose as a specialization serving the needs of members of the community who are unable to communicate with the system. within this broad field of interpreting the specialist area of legal interpreting assumed a high position. however, l...