This dissertation explores the role of the Guatemalan National Police, from 1954 to 1985, as an institution that in the context of the country’s armed conflict and dirty war, became a key part of the machinery of brutality and violence of the Guatemalan State. The work approache…
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Nigeria's police force is in a developmental phase as it moves away from a traditionally tribal, corrupt, disorganized, and localized operation toward a higher level of professionalism. Accordingly, Sutherland's social disorganization theory, which posits that criminal behavior …
The main purpose of this study, which used two different survey questionnaires for data collection, was to examine the relationship between organizational-communication satisfaction, as measured by the Communication Satisfaction Questionnaire (CSQ), and organizational commitment…
In the past twenty to thirty years, social scientists and philosophers have begun to move away from traditional conceptions of power and the state, focusing increasingly on the ways knowledge creation and discourse combine to enmesh everyone in webs of power that produce consent…
This dissertation explores the history of debates about black criminality during the first four decades of the twentieth century, an era in which American society developed many of its modern notions about the origins and character of crime, as well as modern views about the rel…
There is a growing political discourse in Scotland acknowledging alcohol to be a significant contributor to crime. A significant portion of this is directly related to the evening and night-time drinking based leisure industry i.e. the night-time economy (NTE). The NTE is often …
On the tariff of penal sanctions, the police caution is considered as the least punitive, leastcriminalizing and most efficient way of handling 'less serious' cases at the pre-trial stage.Despite its humanitarian and managerial potential, however, cautioning gives great causefor…
This study examines the development of policing in Glasgow from 1779 to 1846. It argues that while police reform in the city fits more closely with the revisionist view of police history than the traditionalist, neither, in terms of how they are presented in relation to England,…
The main purpose of the thesis is to explore the role of colonial police forces in anglophone Africa in the period between 1947 and 1964/5 when the transition from colonial dependencies to independent nation-states took place. The police are an important component of all modern …
Policing, the enforcement of law and the keeping of order within society, is continually and increasingly under the public microscope. There are many varied and conflicting work doctrines, the control of which is partly directed by the chief officers that lead the police forces …
In 2011 five days of rioting spread across many English towns and cities. David Cameron, then UK Prime Minister, described these events as ‘criminality, pure and simple’, inhibiting serious examination of what happened and justifying harsh punitive sentences for rioters. This th…
The dominant academic and practitioners' perspective on security evolves around law-abiding referent objects of security who are under attack by law-breaking threat agents. This study turns the current perspective around and presents a new security paradigm. Suspects of crime ha…
This thesis examines the impact of politically motivated terrorism on the police service in Great Britain and Northern Ireland since 1969. During the period reviewed, changes to the police philosophy in the United Kingdom have been dramatic. An increasingly militarized role for …
This thesis deals with the circumstances that lead to a fragmented implementation of post-conflict justice and security reforms and their negative impact on institutional capacity to provide justice and security for citizens. It strenghtens the existing critique of SSR by employ…
Diversity management and diversity training have been part of the standard management repertoire for several decades, and have recently received fresh impetus in the UK through the Equality Act 2010. The Police Services in England and Wales and in Scotland have further reasons t…
Interview transcripts of 11 Finnish CIVPOL officers were analyzed for themes. These interviews had been conducted in the war zones of Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina during 1994 and 1995. The review of psychological literature found an absence of understanding about two important…
Essay 1. Understanding the effects of anti-profiling policies. Many police agencies have enacted measures to reduce racial profiling, yet little empirical evidence exists regarding the effects of such programs. I use a profiling scandal in New Jersey to quantify the effects of a…
Contemporary European integration has given rise to an ongoing process of redefinition of cultural and political identity. Part of this is a resurgence of interest in the Christian roots of European civilization and a focus on what is represented as the "threat" of the illegal m…
A multiple case study was conducted to determine whether bias exists within the Kansas City Missouri Police Department regarding people of Middle Eastern origin or Islamic heritage. This study involved personal interviews with Kansas City Missouri Police Officers of varied exper…