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Criminal Force: Torture, Abuse, and Extrajudicial Killings by the Nigeria Police Force
(2009)
Publication documents the prevalence of police abuse in that country and provides important recommendations for change.
Ethnic Profiling in the European Union: Pervasive, Ineffective, and Discriminatory
(2009)
Publication examines the nexus between ethnic profiling and counterterrorism. The report finds that ethnic profiling is not only pervasive and illegal, but that it actually undermines counterterrorism efforts in Europe by alienating the very communities whose cooperation is most essential.
Addressing Ethnic Profiling by Police: A Report on the Strategies for Effective Police Stop and Search Project
(2009)
Publication looks at efforts to reform police practices in Bulgaria, Hungary, and Spain and provides a roadmap toward greater fairness, improved efficiency, and better police–community relations.
Justice Initiatives: Pretrial Detention
(2008)
Publication explores the global costs of the practice, as well as efforts to reduce its use. The excessive and irrational use of pretrial detention wastes public resources, undermines the rule of law, disrupts families and communities, and endangers public health. By definition, pretrial detention only affects people who have not yet been judged and are presumed innocent.
IDCMapping Criminal Justice Delivery in India
(2009)
This book provides a framework to construct an index to strengthen the delivery of justice. It uses an inclusive approach and links local cultural needs of justice with global standards of human rights. The purpose of this mapping is to find out, how far the criminal justice system is accessible, effective and accountable. Citizen safety across regions, race, caste and religion has been measured with the help of multiple indicators including those from the supply and demand side along with process indicators to capture a rounded view of policy progress.
Situation Analysis of Youth and Peace Building (Bangladesh, India, Malaysia, Pakistan and Sri Lanka)
(2009)
The new reality of globalising the world order with culture, identities and economies becoming more dynamic is also shaping up conflicts and throwing up challenges to the dominant worldview in South and South-East Asia. These challenges have a bearing on human security, poverty, population mobility and distributive justice. The complex multi-cultural reality intermeshed with the inequality in political economy and social dimensions between ethnic and religious groups sets the stage for the violent conflict. In this backdrop this document provides a framework and country-specific strategies for youth in peace building.
CLEENPolice & Policing in West Africa
(2008)
This publication is a compilation of proceedings of the first of a series of sub-regional conferences on police and policing in West Africa, involving major stakeholders on policing, including police officials, civilian oversight bodies, civil society organizations and the media, which was held in Abuja Nigeria in 2006. It provides insights into initiatives undertaken by various countries in West Africa to reform their police forces, the advances they have recorded, reversals noticed as well as challenges encountered, which encourages sharing of experiences and learning from each other.
Motion without Movement: Report of the Presidential Committees on Police Reform in Nigeria
(2008)
This publication is a compilation and analysis of reports of the various presidential panels on police reform that have been established in the 10 years of elected civilian government in Nigeria, which have neither been made public nor their recommendations acted upon by the government of Nigeria.
Nigeria 2007 General Elections: Betrayal of Electorate Optimism and Participation
(2008)
This is a publication of results of two rounds of public opinion surveys conducted by the CLEEN Foundation in preparations for the 2007 general elections in Nigeria. The findings indicate a very high level of optimism among potential voters about prospects of participation in an election that marked the first time Nigeria would witness civilian to civilian transition through the ballot box in its post independent history. The outcome of the elections, however, demonstrated a clear betrayal of the optimism and participation of the electorate.
CESCPolice-Community Relations Manual: Cases and Solutions
(2006)
This manual is designed to provide material for collaboration in the training of police officers who are willing to carry out this task. It is structured around cases for study and debate: the objective is that users of the manual not only read the information about community relations strategies, but that they also critique what they read, compare it to their own experience and engage in exercises to design alternative methods for crime prevention and conflict resolution.
Police Work and Criminal Investigation
(2006)
This text constitutes one of the few studies published in Chile which focuses on the criminal investigation process and the working dynamics established between Chile's Investigative Police and officials from the Public Prosecutor's Office. Likewise, it is one of the first studies based on surveys and interviews with police officers. This work, by Luis Barros, reveals the perspective of the Investigative Police from Chile's 5th Police Region. Based on this perspective, the author develops conclusions and recommendations to improve those aspects of the investigative process which are observed to be weak or in need of improvement.
VERABridging the language divide: promising practices for law enforcement
(2009)
Law enforcement officers need to communicate with the people they serve to do their jobs safely and effectively. Yet due to changing demographics across the United States, police officers in many areas interact almost daily with people who do not speak or understand English well. To meet this challenge, a growing number of police agencies are developing programs to effectively communicate with diverse communities. The U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (the COPS Office) partnered with the Vera Institute of Justice to conduct a national assessment of best practices in the field. This report the result of that assessment describes the most promising practices, highlighting model programs developed by six police agencies. It also includes practical resources, such as job descriptions, to help other agencies adapt or replicate the programs.
Proposals for New Orleans' criminal justice system: best practices to advance public safety and justice
(2007)
Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans, destroying not only the city’s infrastructure and the lives of many of its residents, but also its justice system. To identify practical steps can New Orleans take to make its criminal justice system more reliable, effective, and just, the Vera Institute of Justice interviewed key stakeholders including justice system leaders, representatives of nonprofit research and advocacy groups, and several members of the city council and reviewed data on how the system has been operating after flooding devastated the city. Specifically, our investigation indicates that New Orleans can improve public safety by pursuing the following new policies or programs: Early triage of cases and routine communication between police and prosecutors; a wider range of pretrial release options, community-service sentencing and greater use of alternatives to prison; and more appropriate and cost-effective sanctions for municipal offenses. For each of these policy areas, this report identifies specific areas of need and proposes solutions that are based on effective practices used in other jurisdictions. Moreover, it focuses on practical steps that over the next six to 12 months promise the “biggest bang for the buck”.
CESeCEvaluation of Public Safety in the Municipality of Nova Friburgo
(2009)
With the understanding that municipalities play an important role in the area of public safety, especially regarding the prevention of crime and violence, this study has evaluated public safety in Nova Friburgo (a medium sized city of 180,000 inhabitants, two hours from Rio de Janeiro) and its social vulnerabilities. The study was meant to be the basis of a future Public Safety Municipal Plan. It combined the analysis of qualitative and quantitative data with lethal violence as its main focus (not only homicides, but also deaths in traffic accidents and suicides). It also evaluated the work of various governmental and non-governmental institutions that are directly involved with public safety and a few other organizations involved in relevant areas for a future plan for the control and prevention of violence.
Brazilian responses to violence and new forms of mediation: the case of the grupo cultural afroreggae and the experience of the project “youth and the police”
(2006)
The paper discusses responses to urban violence focusing governmental and non-governmental strategies. It highlights the importance of the disarmament campaign and the role of the media.
INDEMInclusion of Citizen's Priorities into Police Policy Formulation
(2004)
The report is based on a comparative analysis of data gathered from citizens and the police from surveys in order to gather information about citizens’ priorities from their interaction with the police. Within the research, international experience in citizens-driven external measurement of police performance was generalized, and the mechanism of citizens’ oversight of the police performance was tested. The report provides recommendations about how and why the police should take citizens’ interests into account in developing policies, measuring performance and creating civilian oversight mechanisms.
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