Table of Contents Alert: Criminology & Public Policy 11 (2)

See below for some of the latest articles published in the latest edition of Criminology & Public Policy 11 (2) Getting deterrence right?: Evaluation evidence and complementary crime control mechanisms Anthony A. Braga Crime as Pollution: Lessons from Environmental Regulation Daniel S. Nagin Some Problems with Place-Based Crime Policies Dan A. Black and Kyung Park [...]

‘Non-state security and justice in fragile states: Lessons from Sierra Leone’

Summary: This Briefing Paper looks at the impact of the relative neglect of non-state actors in security and justice assistance in Sierra Leone. It calls for donors to address this state bias in their programming and sets out four rules for more frequent and more effective engagement with non-state security and justice providers in fragile [...]

Book Review: ‘Women and security governance in Africa’

Abstract: With its huge population of 150 million, more than half of whom live in cities where material deprivation, political violence and pervasive corruption feed resentments; a citizenry fragmented among more than 250 ethnic  and/or religious minorities; and a history of 10 military coups since independence; it is hardly surprising that the problem of political instability, even the question of [...]

Globalising Security Culture and Knowledge in Practice: Nigeria’s Hybrid Model

Hills, A. 2012. Globalising Security Culture and Knowledge in Practice: Nigeria’s Hybrid Model. Globalizations  (9)1: 91–106. Public police around the world share certain occupational commonalities, but this does not represent a globalising security culture. Certain norms may appear to facilitate a less ambitious internationalist or transnational culture by modifying police behaviour through processes of socialisation and internalisation, [...]