US cities have recently increased the share of their budgets devoted to policing and
decreased the share devoted to social services. However, a growing body of research …

Did governments shift funding from their social welfare functions to their criminal justice
functions after the 1980s? Studies investigating this possible “punitive turn” have been …

Although the literature evaluating various police practices and reforms continues to broaden,
little research has examined police funding in Canada. To describe the current landscape of …

Despite being touted as a game-changing technology, studies on the influence of body-worn
cameras (BWCs) on policing outcomes have produced mixed results, with the underlying …

Abstract Research Summary Following high‐profile police killings, many US cities banned
officers from using chokeholds and other neck restraints. The evidence for such bans …

What makes police departments change their practices? Do they transform in isolation, or do
they mimic their neighbors? Combining insights from organizational theory and urban …

Three new books by sociologists—The Policing Machine by Tony Cheng, The Minneapolis
Reckoning by Michelle Phelps, and The Danger Imperative by Michael Sierra-Arévalo—offer …

Особое место в системе предупреждения преступных деяний справедливо занимают
меры специального предупреждения, обращенные к отдельным группам субъектов …

This dissertation analyzes the relationships between four state gun laws—universal
background checks, waiting periods, may-issue permitting, and violent misdemeanor …

This dissertation investigates the diffusion and adoption of community policing (CP) and hot
spots policing (HSP) models in Chile, Colombia, Honduras, and Uruguay between 2000 and …