Search results for "Policing"
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Neighborhood characteristics and violence behind closed doors: The spatial overlap of child maltreatment and intimate partner violence
2018
In this study, we analyze first whether there is a common spatial distribution of child maltreatment (CM) and intimate partner violence (IPV), and second, whether the risks of CM and IPV are influenced by the same neighborhood characteristics, and if these risks spatially overlap. To this end we used geocoded data of CM referrals (N = 588) and IPV incidents (N = 1450) in the city of Valencia (Spain). As neighborhood proxies, we used 552 census block groups. Neighborhood characteristics analyzed at the aggregated level (census block groups) were: Neighborhood concentrated disadvantage (neighborhood economic status, neighborhood education level, and policing activity), immigrant concentration…
Gene expression patterns associated with caste and reproductive status in ants: worker-specific genes are more derived than queen-specific ones.
2013
Variation in gene expression leads to phenotypic diversity and plays a central role in caste differentiation of eusocial insect species. In social Hymenoptera, females with the same genetic background can develop into queens or workers, which are characterized by divergent morphologies, behaviours and lifespan. Moreover, many social insects exhibit behaviourally distinct worker castes, such as brood-tenders and foragers. Researchers have just started to explore which genes are differentially expressed to achieve this remarkable phenotypic plasticity. Although the queen is normally the only reproductive individual in the nest, following her removal, young brood-tending workers often develop …
Misja Baltic Air Policing jako sprawdzian sojuszniczej odpowiedzialności NATO w XXI wieku
2016
Autor artykułu podejmuje się analizy Misji Air Policing w odniesieniu do wypełnienia zobowiązań sojuszniczych państw członkowskich NATO, ze szczególnym naciskiem na polskie zaangażowanie w misję. Tekst przedstawia rys historyczny Misji Air Policing, jej wymiar instytucjonalny, ponadnarodowy i narodowy. Przeprowadzono też syntetyczną próbę ukazania problemu wynikającego z implementacji doktryny sojuszniczej NATO ze szczególnym naciskiem na koncepcję inteligentnej obrony.
Reproductive monopoly enforced by sterile police workers in a queenless ant
2004
In societies of totipotent insects, dyadic dominance interactions generate a hierarchy that often underlies an extreme reproductive skew. Subordinates remain infertile but can maximize their indirect fitness benefits through collective power (worker policing): interference with challenging high-rankers can prevent an untimely replacement of the reproductive. However, police workers only benefit if they favor individuals with high fertility. In the monogynous queenless ant Streblognathus peetersi, we used behavioral, physiological, and chemical methods to show that police workers have the primary role in the selection of the reproductive, and that they probably use reliable information about…
Micro-interactional insights from the English as a foreign language classroom
2014
In this paper, we examine instances of the methods pupils deploy to do language policy in an English as a foreign language classroom in Sweden, where there is a locally practised English-only rule. Although we exemplify some more tacit methods of constructing a monolingual classroom (Slotte-Lüttge 2007), we focus primarily on instances where pupils police other pupils and on occasion even the teacher, when they are perceived not to be upholding the rule. This blatantly explicit method of pupils doing language policy, which we term language policing, generally serves to (re-) establish and maintain English as the medium of interaction and instruction. The data for this study consists of vide…
Il parametro della pericolosità ed i poteri di polizia di sicurezza
2022
As is well known, the Republican Constitution configures public security in objective terms. This is framed as a public interest related to a situation of orderly and peaceful coexistence, an indispensable prerequisite for the exercise of other fundamental rights, or as an objective interest of the state, of the legal system, and therefore of the community as a whole. An idea of public security is expressed, on the one hand, as a limit to the exercise of freedoms, on the other, as a regulatory and administrative task of public authorities and, in particular, of the state apparatus. The first aspect that is most relevant here is found in the references to the concept of security contained in…
Studying illegal online trades in plants: market characteristics, organisational and behavioural aspects, and policing challenges
2020
AbstractIllegal commerce in plants and their derivatives threatens and destroys numerous species and important natural resources, and may cause phytosanitary and health problems. This illegal trade, which has been boosted by the commercialisation of the Internet, has been relatively overlooked in criminological research. Furthermore, the policing of illegal plant markets remains limited and poorly resourced, with law enforcement agencies lacking awareness and technical capacity in investigation and prosecution services. Based on semi-structured interviews with law enforcement officers and other relevant experts, this study, developed in the context of the ESRC-funded project “FloraGuard: Ta…
Performance evaluation of a measurement-based algorithm for distributed admission control in a DiffServ framework
2002
Distributed Admission Control in IP DiffServ environments is an emerging and promising research area. Distributed admission control solutions share the idea that no coordination among network routers (i.e. explicit signaling) is necessary, when the decision whether to admit or reject a new offered flow is pushed to the edge of the IP network. Proposed solutions differ in the degree of complexity required in internal network routers, and result in a different robustness and effectiveness in controlling the accepted traffic. This paper builds on a recently proposed distributed admission control solution, called GRIP (Gauge&Gate Reservation with Independent Probing), designed to integrate the …
Parlons sécurité
2012
National audience; Les questions de sécurité publique sont au cœur de l’actualité française. En témoignent les lois d'orientation et de programmation pour la performance de la sécurité intérieure (dites LOPSI 1 et LOPPSI 2), le débat autour du fichier central d’identité biométrique ou encore celui sur la vidéosurveillance et les violences urbaines avec l’exemple anglais. Quels sont les enjeux et les réalités de la sécurité en France ? Pour sortir du brouhaha médiatique, « Entrez dans l’actu » vous présente l’éventail des informations en mesure de vous éclairer objectivement.
Preventing occupational injury among police officers: does motivation matter?
2017
Background: Injury prevention is an important issue for police officers, but the effectiveness of prevention initiatives is dependent on officers’ motivation toward, and adherence to, recommended health and safety guidelines. Aims: To understand effects of police officers’ motivation to prevent occupational injury on beliefs about safety and adherence to injury prevention behaviours. Methods: Full-time police officers completed a survey comprising validated psychometric scales to assess autonomous, controlled and amotivated forms of motivation (Treatment Self-Regulation Questionnaire), behavioural adherence (Self-reported Treatment Adherence Scale) and beliefs (Safety Attitude Questionnaire…