5 research outputs found
Performance Monitoring of Australian Drug Law Enforcement Agencies: Impediments to and Prospects for Reform
Prosecutorsâ perceptions of how to improve the quality of evidence in domestic violence cases
Regulating the other side: disorder, exclusion and subcultural closure in the night-time economy
The aim of this article is to examine the concept of âalcohol-related disorderâ in the night-time economy as a reified notion that neglects the broader impact of economic, social and cultural influences on nightlife. The combined impact of gentrification and disorder management have in turn created and reinforced an idea of nightlife that is dominated by the culture of consumption; marginalising the potential for experimental subcultures while creating an apparatus of control and moral disapproval directed at the âbingeâ drinking, common assault and nuisance. The paper will draw on historical frameworks that demonstrate that the regulation of nightlife has, since the earliest licensing statute, been concerned with consolidating big business and criminalising popular cultural forms, a precedent that continues today. The argument will be made that, rather than focusing on nightlife as an undifferentiated social problem, researchers should look more broadly at the cultural, spatial and regulatory barriers facing a creative and diverse nightlife
Videos Donât Lie: African Americansâ Support for Body-Worn Cameras
In light of growing concern regarding the policing of inner-city communitiesâincluding questionable incidents of use of forceâequipping officers with body-worn cameras (BWCs) has emerged as a salient proposal for reform. Based on a national-level survey of African Americans (n = 1,000), this project shows that wide consensus exists among Black citizens in favor of BWCs. Since ostensibly âvideos donât lie,â implementing camera technology thus may be a means to increase police legitimacy. Importantly, the analysis also reveals that African Americans support a broad range of reforms to improve inner-city policing, of which BWCs are only one. Finally, the survey included a subset of 45 Black police officers. These officers also supported BWCs and most other proposed reforms but at a level that was lower and less intense than African American members of the public