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Policing the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro = Cosmologies of War and The Far-Right
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This book offers a unique look into the world of policing and the frontline of Brazil’s war on drugs. It analyzes the tensions produced by attempts to modernize Rio de Janeiro’s public security policies. Since the return of democracy in 1985, Rio's police forces have waged war against armed drug gangs based in the city’s favelas, casting the people who live in these communities as interna…

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1
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9783031490279
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XXI, 330 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Police Code of Silence in Times of Change
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Ivković, Sanja Kutnjak

This book explores the contours of the code of silence and provides policy recommendations geared toward creating an environment less conducive for police misconduct. It responds to the recent calls for police reform, in the wake of the perceived illegitimacy of police actions and the protection that the code of silence seems to provide to the police officers who violate the official rules. …

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978-3-030-96844-1
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XII, 122
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SpringerBriefs in Criminology (BRIEFSCRIMINOL)
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Target Suitability and the Crime Drop
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Nick Tilley, Graham Farrell, Ronald V. Clarke

This is a chapter from The Criminal Act: The Role and Influence of Routine Activity Theory edited by Martin A. Andresen and Graham Farrell. This chapter is available open access under a CC BY license. Target suitability is a cornerstone of Marcus Felson's routine activities approach, and critical in determining crime rates. Recent research identifies reduced target suitability, via improved sec…

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978-1-137-52502-4
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II, 22
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Police Code of Silence in Times of Change
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Sanja Kutnjak Ivković

This book explores the contours of the code of silence and provides policy recommendations geared toward creating an environment less conducive for police misconduct. It responds to the recent calls for police reform, in the wake of the perceived illegitimacy of police actions and the protection that the code of silence seems to provide to the police officers who violate the official rules. …

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1
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SpringerBriefs in Criminology
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XII, 122
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Holding down the Fort
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Aaron Bielejewski

This Open-Access-book questions the relationship between institutionalized images and understandings of policing – the monolithic ideas common to most, if not all, Western law enforcement agencies – and contextual, situative, and local interactions where the human representatives of policing – street-level officers – come into contact with residents. The political and theoretical associ…

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1
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978-3-658-39773-9
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X, 418
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The European Public Prosecutor's Office
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Lorena Bachmaier Winter

This book explores the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO), the creation of which was approved in the Regulation adopted by the Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) Council on 12 October 2017. The EPPO will be an independent European prosecution office tasked with investigating and prosecuting those crimes defined in the recently adopted Regulation 2017/1371 on combating fraud against th…

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978-3-319-93916-2
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XVIII, 279
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Legal Studies in International, European and Comparative Criminal Law
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