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Localized legacies of civil war: Postwar violent crime in Northern Ireland

Annekatrin Deglow
- 11 Aug 2016 - 
- Vol. 53, Iss: 6, pp 786-799
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This paper explored the local effects of internal armed conflict on postwar violent crime in Northern Ireland and argued that exposure to wartime violence will lead to higher levels of violent crime, and that violent crime will increase exposure to war violence.
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This study explores the local effects of internal armed conflict on postwar violent crime in Northern Ireland. It argues that exposure to wartime violence will lead to higher levels of violent crim ...

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The Police in War: Fighting Insurgency, Terrorism, and Violent Crime

TL;DR: Bayley and Perito as mentioned in this paper argue that even though the United States can easily achieve military victory in war, winning the peace has been more difficult although it is just as important.
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Violence after War: Explaining Instability in Post-Conflict States

James H. Lebovic
- 22 Jun 2015 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on post-conflict violence in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Rwanda, East Timor, and Iraq and propose a 2-by-2 table to understand the role of strategic violence.
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Shifting targets: the effect of peacekeeping on postwar violence

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that after civil wars, the situation is more stable with peacekeepers present and that violence persists in many postwar contexts, and although postwar violence is often strategic and c...
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The spatiality of violence in post-war cities

TL;DR: The world is urbanising rapidly and cities are increasingly held as the most important arenas for sustainable development as mentioned in this paper. Cities emerging from war are no exception, but across the globe, m...
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Civil war recurrence and postwar violence: Toward an integrated research agenda:

TL;DR: It is shown that research on war recurrence and postwar violence has developed in relative isolation from each other—although these phenomena are interrelated, and a novel framework is proposed that aims at overcoming the compartmentalization of research within these two fields.
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Politics as a Vocation

Max Weber
TL;DR: In this article, all questions that refer to what policy and what content one should give one's political activity must be eliminated, for such questions have nothing to do with the general question of what politics as a vocation means and what it can mean.
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The Role of Procedural Justice and Legitimacy in Shaping Public Support for Policing

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the influence of people's judgments about the procedural justice of the manner in which the police exercise their authority to three instrumental judgments: risk, performance, and distributive fairness.