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Crime, Poverty and Police Corruption in Non-Rich Countries

Report in External Series | Aug 2008

Crime and the fear of being hit by crime and small-scale violence are key economic and social problems in most developing countries, not least felt strongly ...

Corruption, Crime, Police, Poverty

Crime, Poverty and Police Corruption in Developing Countries

CMI Working Paper | Jul 2008

Crime and the fear of being hit by crime and small-scale violence are key economic and social problems in most developing countries, not least felt strongly ...

Corruption, Crime, Police, Poverty, JEL classification: D73, K42, O17

Policing and the politics of protection on Lombok

Book Chapter | Jan 2015

Policing and the politics of protection on Lombok Kari G Telle Policing and the Politics of Order-M

Policing

Book Chapter | Jan 2019

Policing is critical for children’s security but police are also responsible for preventing and addressing crime by children and younger persons. ...

Children's rights

Police reform in Georgia. Cracks in an anti-corruption success story

U4 Practice Insight | Jul 2010

The significant reduction of street-level police corruption has been hailed as one of the success stories of post-revolutionary Georgia. However, a closer ...

justice, anti-corruption, police, judicial corruption, Georgia

Taming the war machine: Police, pacification and power i Rio de Janeiro

Master's Thesis | Jan 2016

In this thesis I trace the changes in the exercise of Brazilian state power in Rio’s poor communities, or favelas, through an ethnographic exploration ...

Brazil

«Nowadays there are shoot-outs all the time». Women, children, and Police Pacification Units (UPPs) in Rocinha, Rio de Janeiro.

CMI Working Paper | Sep 2016

Executive summary This CMI Working paper explores the implementation of the Brazilian government’s favela (shantytown) policing program, Unidades ...

Favela, Rio de Janeiro, police, Rocinha, women, children, security, Police Pacification Units, UPP, Brazil

Violence, Poverty and Police Corruption

Project | Jan 2007 - Dec 2009

Crime and the fear of being hit by crime and small-scale violence are key economic and social problems in most developing countries, and often strongly ...

Police, Corruption, Violence, India, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania

Security and the Politics of Protection in Post-New Order Lombok, Indonesia

Book Chapter | Jan 2015

This anthology explores the political nature of making order through policing activities in densely populated spaces across Africa, Asia and Latin America. ...

Review of prison advisory project in Faryab, Afghanistan

Report in External Series | Oct 2010

INTRODUCTION As part of the international follow-up of the 2001 military intervention, Norway increased its engagement in Afghanistan from the end of ...

Afghanistan, police training, prt, prison

Fighting for Patronage: American Counterinsurgency and the Afghan Local Police

Doctoral Thesis | Jun 2015

My doctoral research explores the role of government-backed militias in the security and political dynamics of three provincial settings (Wardak, Baghlan ...

Afghan Local Police, counterinsurgency, Afghanistan

Appraisal of extended rule of law project in Faryab, Afghanistan

Report in External Series | Oct 2010

As part of the international follow-up of the 2001 military intervention, Norway increased its engagement in Afghanistan4 from the end of 2001. In accordance ...

Afghanistan, prison

Getting savages to fight barbarians: Counterinsurgency and the remaking of Afghanistan

Journal Article | Jan 2013

This article focuses on the emergence and evolution of the Afghan Local Police (ALP), a pro-government militia supported by the US military in Wardak ...

Afghan Local Police, Afghanistan

Getting savages to fight barbarians: Counterinsurgency and the remaking of Afghanistan

Book Chapter | Nov 2014

This chapter focuses on the emergence and evolution of the Afghan Local Police (ALP), a pro-government militia supported by the US military in Wardak ...

Afghan Local Police, Afghanistan

Counterinsurgency, Local Militias and Statebuilding in Afghanistan

Report in External Series | Jan 2014

This report provides the first empirically-based and independent analysis of the Afghan Local Police (ALP) programme in Afghanistan. It examines how the ...

Afghan Local Police, Afghanistan

“A prison cell has no specific capacity”: An Evaluation on the Project “Improving Living Conditions and Access to Justice for Women, Young Offenders and Vulnerable Men in Prisons and Police Establishments in the Central, Eastern, Southern and part of the Northern Region of Malawi

Commissioned Report | Jan 2014

This is a commissioned evaluation report of a project implemented over three years by the Centre for Legal Assistance (CELA) in Malawi. It centred on ...

Prison conditions, women, children, human rights, Malawi

Building Blocks for Peace An Evaluation of the Training for Peace in Africa Programme

Report in External Series | Nov 2014

The Training for Peace in Africa programme (TfP) was initiated in 1995 and has been fully funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. ...

African Union, United Nations, training, peacekeeping, police, Africa, South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Rwanda, Kenya, Ghana, Liberia, Ethiopia, Somalia

Making development assistance work at home: DfID's approach to clamping down on international bribery and money laundering in the UK

U4 Practice Insight | Jun 2011

Corruption will remain a profitable crime in developing countries as long as counterparts in rich countries are willing to hide stolen resources. Working ...

international drivers of corruption, United Kingdom

The politicization of abortion and hippocratic disobedience in Islamist Sudan

Journal Article | Dec 2019

In Sudan's Islamist state, abortion is politicized through its association to illegal pregnancy. Fornication is crime against God punishable with 100 ...

Sudan

Evaluation of project on prison conditions in Malawi

Project | Oct - Nov 2014

This is an evaluation of a three-year project implemented by a Malawian civil society organisation - Centre for Legal Assistance (CELA). It has sought ...

Malawi, prison conditions, human rights, judiciary