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The crime-related effects of resource-based boomtowns

Read the new edited collection from the IJC focusing on the crime-related effects of resource-based #boomtowns. The focus of the articles t

Waiting for the next season of the Walking Dead?

In the meanwhile read about the problem of zombie cops in voodoo criminology ... The widely held criminological ‘knowledge’ that foot patrol beat policing is ineffective at either arresting offenders or reducing crime is substantially supported by research conducted by Clarke and Hough (1984), which makes the claim that: ‘…a patrolling policeman in London could expect to pass within 100 yards of a burglary in progress, roughly once every eight years but not necessarily catch the burglar or even realise that the crime was taking place.’ This claim has been repeated, apparently unquestioningly, as though it is based upon veracious empirical research evidence from policing research in the field

In the War of Veracity v Claptrap: The IJC Changed the Political Landscape of World-Wide Policing Po

At the Professional Practitioner Intersection with Academic Research

Don't Conceal Research Problems: Expose them to light so others might avoid repeating expensive

The crime-related effects of resource-based boomtowns

Waiting for the next season of the Walking Dead?