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Police Beliefs and Attitudes about Gun Control
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In this paper, police beliefs and attitudes about gun control were surveyed, and they were found to be overwhelmingly opposed to the idea of universal background checks for gun owners, and supportive of gun ownership.Abstract:
(2005). Police Beliefs and Attitudes about Gun Control. Current Issues in Criminal Justice: Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 269-283.read more
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Book Review: A Culture of Corruption: Changing an Australian Police Service:
D. Dixon,Sharon Pickering +1 more
TL;DR: Finnane, Chan, and Dixon as discussed by the authors provide a critical and comprehensive contribution to understand systematic corruption and the reform process with implications that can be drawn well beyond NSW and Australia, focusing on history regulation and culture as key aspects of policing through the case study of New South Wales.
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An Evaluation of a Multiyear Gun Buy-Back Programme: Re-Examining the Impact on Violent Crimes:
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined a city that has used multiple gun buy-backs as a standard crime prevention approach, allowing the multiple intervention points to be assessed, and found that the buy-back programme had no impact on reducing crimes.
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Book Review: Introducing Policing: Challenges for Police and Australian CommunitiesIntroducing Policing: Challenges for Police and Australian Communities by FindlayMark (Oxford University Press, Melbourne; 2004; 94 pp; ISBN 0-19-551621-4; paperback; £17.95)
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Changing Police Culture: Policing in a Multicultural Society
TL;DR: The authors examines the dynamics of change and resistance within a police organisation and captures the complexity and unpredictability of the change process, and proposes a new framework for understanding the inter-relationships between the structural conditions of police work, police cultural knowledge, and police practice.
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Youth violence in Boston: Gun markets, serious youth offenders, and a use-reduction strategy
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on illicit firearms markets and propose a solution to address these illicit markets, while at the same time the capacity of police departments to design and implement new operational strategies (through "community" and "problem-solving" policing) is increasing.
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Firearms and violence: a critical review
TL;DR: A committee of the National Research Council in the United States was charged with providing an assessment of the strengths and limitations of the existing research and data on gun violence in December 2004, the committee issued its final report, in book form The report contains nine chapters and five appendices, on such topics as firearms data, patterns of firearm violence, self-defense gun use, right-to-carry laws, firearms and suicide, and criminal justice interventions as discussed by the authors.
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Policing and the social: Questions of symbolic power
TL;DR: The authors argue that sociological enquiry needs to devote more attention to understanding the social meanings of policing, and outline a framework within which the role and significance of policing as a cultural category might be investigated.
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Policing in a Multicultural Society
TL;DR: In the 1990s, Australia was a country of remarkable ethnic and cultural diversity, with more than 100 ethnic groups, speaking 80 immigrant languages and 150 Aboriginal languages as mentioned in this paper, and more than one-quarter of its 17 million people were either born in non-English-speaking countries or the second generation of those born in these countries.
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