Recently, domestic violence has become an object of special attention by the Parliament, the Government, and the society in general. Therefore, domestic violence could be an attractive object for criminological research in the context of the impact of the War on the society. In 2017, the Criminal Code was supplemented by Article 126-1 according to…
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Clemens Lorei, Kerstin Kocab: De-Escalation in Everyday Police Operations
Everyday police work encompasses any kind of deployment that police officers handle daily. These tasks include, for example, interventions in cases of domestic violence, handling of traffic crashes and offenses, and various forms of conflict resolution. Violence may be a part of these routine operations: police officers, when necessary, use varying levels of force to…
Dmytro Yagunov: The Origins of the Modern Police in the Views of Michel Foucault
The list of disciplinary institutions [created in the early 19th century] is not exhaustive, and we would like to highlight an aspect that is of fundamental importance for the purposes of this study. This concerns the emergence of the police in European countries, and we emphasise the emergence of the modern police with their traditional…
Den Moses: Bleeding blue: Why is the NYPD losing an average of 300 cops per month?
Law enforcement sources are sounding the alarm, charging that the NYPD is losing cops at record levels to other departments, not only leaving the city woefully unprotected but also driving other officers to the brink of retirement themselves. According to the latest August data obtained by amNewYork, the attrition rate of officers either retiring or…
Michael Allingham: Distributive Justice
Theories of distributive justice seek to specify what is meant by a just distribution of goods among members of society. All liberal theories (in the sense specified below) may be seen as expressions of laissez-faire with compensations for factors that they consider to be morally arbitrary. More specifically, such theories may be interpreted as specifying that the…