{"title":"A Gig Surveillance Economy","authors":"Elizabeth E. Joh","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3889795","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3889795","url":null,"abstract":"Eighteen years ago, the New York Times Magazine reported on a proposed online project aimed at protecting the country’s 47,000 strategic facilities, including oil pipelines, power stations, and dams. How do you protect such a vast network of sites vulnerable to sabotage, with limited government resources and personnel? The answer: pay freelance “spotters” eight to ten dollars an hour to check pictures sent to their home computers in order to answer the question: “do you see a person or vehicle in this image?” A confirmed positive sighting would prompt a law enforcement response, “in less than 30 seconds.” This is an early version of a phenomenon identified and discussed in this essay: a gig surveillance economy.","PeriodicalId":365466,"journal":{"name":"Law Enforcement eJournal","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115023430","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Effects of Social Movements: Evidence from #MeToo","authors":"Ro’ee Levy, Martin Mattsson","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3496903","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3496903","url":null,"abstract":"Social movements are associated with large societal changes, but evidence on their causal effects is limited. We study the effect of the MeToo movement on a high-stakes decision—reporting a sexual crime to the police. We construct a new dataset of sexual and non-sexual crimes reported in 30 OECD countries, covering 88% of the OECD population. We analyze the effect of the MeToo movement by employing a triple-difference strategy over time, across countries, and between crime types. The movement increased reporting of sexual crimes by 10% during its first six months. The effect is persistent and lasts at least 15 months. Because we find a strong effect on reporting before any major changes to laws or policy took place, we attribute the effect to a change in social norms or information. Using more detailed US data, we show that the movement also increased arrests for sexual crimes in the long run. In contrast to a common criticism of the movement, we do not find evidence for large differences in the effect across racial and socioeconomic groups. Our results suggest that social movements can rapidly change high-stakes personal decisions.","PeriodicalId":365466,"journal":{"name":"Law Enforcement eJournal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129433588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Zero First Information Report: Indian Laws and Practices","authors":"P. K. Pandey","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3567857","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3567857","url":null,"abstract":"The Indian criminal justice system has been efficiently preventing the crimes and punishing the offenders and culprits which is in furtherance of State’s legal obligations to protect its subjects from the wrongs/crimes committed against body or property or both. It is gradually developing new concepts and providing platforms maintaining the rule of law. The concept of Zero FIR (First Information Report), inter alia, is new one which entitles a person to bring into notice of police (irrespective of jurisdiction) the occurrence of an offence. This paper unearths the legal provisions relating to Zero FIR. Further, it gives some sensible suggestions also.","PeriodicalId":365466,"journal":{"name":"Law Enforcement eJournal","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129271909","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dheer Dhwaz Barak, Khushwant Singh, Prashant Ahlawat, H. Sharma
{"title":"Real Time Tracking System: An IoT Based Application","authors":"Dheer Dhwaz Barak, Khushwant Singh, Prashant Ahlawat, H. Sharma","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3545226","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3545226","url":null,"abstract":"An Internet of Things based application will be develop, which can track down the position of your bag or vehicle in real-time and display that same position on Google Map. The end-user will be able to see the real-time position of his/her lost or stolen bag or stolen vehicle on a web portal, which is deploy on cloud platform (Microsoft Azure/AWS) and we also have developed an Android Based App, which will show the same real-time position of bag or vehicle on their smartphone, ease to use.","PeriodicalId":365466,"journal":{"name":"Law Enforcement eJournal","volume":"91 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124634015","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Public Value Assessment of E-Policing Initiatives in Kenya: A Strategy Towards the Realization of a Citizen Centered Police Service","authors":"Hillary Maiyo","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3504559","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3504559","url":null,"abstract":"The security agencies in Kenya have responded positively to information technology and invested substantially in implementing e-policing systems. However, evidence from existing literature reveals a blurred link between e-policing implementation and police performance. The paper therefore aims at investigating the significant antecedents that influence citizens perceptions on e-Policing systems based on the public value creation and DeLone and McLean IS Success model. The study applied quantitative research approach and combined both convenient and snowballing sampling techniques. A sample consisting 347 respondents from Nairobi County participated in the study. The data collected was subjected to both descriptive and inferential statistics using regression and structural equation modelling. Findings from the study revealed system quality and service quality as significantly influencing both citizen’s satisfaction as well trust in e-Policing. Information quality however revealed a significant but negative relationship on citizens’ satisfaction as well as insignificant influence on citizens’ trust in e-policing. Citizen satisfaction as well as trust in e-policing was revealed as significant in influencing the net benefits as well as perceptions on public safety derived from e-Policing initiatives. Furthermore, the mediating role of trust in e-policing on the relationship between the three quality constructs and net benefits as well as citizens’ perceptions on public safety was validated by the model with citizen satisfaction revealing no mediating effect on both outcome variables. The study has both practical and theoretical implications.","PeriodicalId":365466,"journal":{"name":"Law Enforcement eJournal","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134171185","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Privatizing Police: Japanese Police, the Korean Massacre, and Private Security Firms","authors":"J. Ramseyer","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3402724","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3402724","url":null,"abstract":"Public security is often a non-excludable public good that involves economies of scale. For these obvious reasons, modern democracies provide their residents with basic security services out of the public fisc. \u0000 \u0000Yet the capacity to protect overlaps with the capacity to prey. As a result, regimes in dysfunctional societies sometimes use the public security apparatus to extract benefits. Sometimes the security services use their resources to extract benefits for themselves. \u0000 \u0000Public security is also a normal good: the level of security that people demand tends to increase with income. Hence, wealthier citizens often choose to purchase additional levels of security on the market. In democracies, they do this to supplement the security provided through the public police. In dysfunctional societies, they do this in part to protect themselves from the public police. \u0000 \u0000I illustrate several of these simple principles with examples from Japan: the development of the modern police force, the Korean massacre after the 1923 earthquake, and the development of modern private security firms.","PeriodicalId":365466,"journal":{"name":"Law Enforcement eJournal","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114539050","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Newman/Martoma: The Insider Trading Law's Impasse and the Promise of Congressional Action","authors":"Tai-sang Park","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3401484","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3401484","url":null,"abstract":"The prohibition against insider trading is a judge-made law that has evolved for over 50 years, and reached a critical impasse in two recent decisions in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals: United States v. Newman and United States v. Martoma. Judges of the Second Circuit sharply divided over what conduct constitutes improper trading on material nonpublic information, leaving the law in profound disarray. At bottom, the disagreement stems from a decades-old split within the judiciary about how to ensure a fair securities marketplace while enabling institutional analysts to probe for corporate information in furtherance of efficient market valuation of securities. In 1983, the Supreme Court in SEC v. Dirks sought to strike a balance between these two interests by holding that trading on material nonpublic information is not illegal unless the information was disclosed in exchange for a personal benefit. But the effort to balance two competing economic and moral interests should never have been the province of the judiciary, nor did its formulation ever win uniform consensus among the judges. After decades of struggle, the Newman/Martoma impasse is the consequence. Congress appears finally poised to pass a law of insider trading that would break the deadlock, but the bill under consideration apparently ignores the market efficiency interests that undergirded the personal benefit element of insider trading. The Article suggests that before passing any law, Congress must undertake an empirical review of the impact that the insider trading bill would have on an efficient market to ensure that the final law is not only clear but good for the health of the capital markets.","PeriodicalId":365466,"journal":{"name":"Law Enforcement eJournal","volume":"385 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116486750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Forsyth, P. Gibbs, Fiona Hukula, J. Putt, Llane Munau, I. Losoncz
{"title":"Ten Preliminary Findings Concerning Sorcery Accusation-Related Violence in Papua New Guinea","authors":"M. Forsyth, P. Gibbs, Fiona Hukula, J. Putt, Llane Munau, I. Losoncz","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.3360817","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.3360817","url":null,"abstract":"This discussion paper reports on a number of key emerging research findings from a multi-year collaborative research project into overcoming sorcery accusation-related violence (SARV) in Papua New Guinea (PNG). In particular it identifies: (1) the characteristics of those accused and harmed by SARV, demonstrating considerable variation, particularly in gender of those accused, across the country; (2) the multiple types of harm that are caused by SARV, including inter-generational harm; (3) the catalysts of accusation and violence; (4) the widespread confusion about the law and challenges for the criminal justice system presented by SARV; (5) the potentially important roles for law and justice in combatting SARV and the advances made to date; (6) the ways in which the majority of accusations do not lead to violence but are managed through non-violent means; (7) the importance of individuals, government agencies and non-state organisations working together to contain and suppress SARV in a process we term ‘networked containment’; (8) the advances made in anti-SARV activity and the continuation of the agenda despite lack of direct government funding; (9) the importance of multi-level leadership in addressing the issues; and (10) the critical need to adopt a proactive rather than a reactive approach to addressing SARV.","PeriodicalId":365466,"journal":{"name":"Law Enforcement eJournal","volume":"245 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123026330","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Street-Level Theories of Change: Adapting the Medical Model of Evidence-Based Practice for Policing","authors":"Nick Cowen, Nancy Cartwright","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3324778","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3324778","url":null,"abstract":"Evidence-based medicine (EBM), with its evidence hierarchies and emphasis on RCTs, meta-analyses and systematic reviews, sets the model for evidence-based policy almost everywhere, policing no exception. But how closely \u0000should policing follow this model? We argue that RCTs can tell you little about what you need to know for real-world practice: will this policy work where and when you implement it? Defending that it will do so takes good theory. For RCTs to play a role in theory development, they must be set into a larger body of knowledge, including local knowledge about the sites of implementation. Unfortunately the standard EBM model generally ignores the other kinds of knowledge needed. An alternative model for evidence-based policing, similar to that of the new movement for ‘EBM+’ and immanent in the practice of realist synthesis, focuses on the arguments that proposed policing policies will work where and when they are implemented and looks for the evidence needed to support those arguments.","PeriodicalId":365466,"journal":{"name":"Law Enforcement eJournal","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123883011","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Adapting the Police Authority Concept to a Centralised National Police Service: Appearance Over Substance in the Republic of Ireland?","authors":"D. Walsh","doi":"10.1111/1468-2230.12354","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2230.12354","url":null,"abstract":"The Republic of Ireland has been convulsed by a series of police corruption scandals over the \u0000past fifteen years and they show no sign of abating. In 2015, in an attempt to stem the drain \u0000in public confidence in the Garda and the administration of justice generally, the government \u0000established a Policing Authority which it presented as “the most important single change in \u0000the governance of the Garda Siochana in its history”. This article critically examines whether \u0000the new Irish Policing Authority can be interpreted as a successful adaptation of the \u0000traditional police authority concept to a parliamentary democracy policed by a single, \u0000national body. In particular, it considers whether it is equipped to shield the Garda and \u0000policing from the influence of partisan political and institutional interests, while at the same \u0000time deliver transparent democratic scrutiny of the Garda and policing on behalf of all \u0000sections of the community. It concludes that, contrary to the superficial impression \u0000generated by the government at the time, the Authority does not represent a fundamentally \u0000new departure in the democratic scrutiny of the policing in Ireland. While it opens up a useful \u0000channel for input from outside the central executive and parliament, it will do little to \u0000change the established democratic power relations in policing, or to deliver greater \u0000transparency in respect of policing policies, practices and accountability. Nor can it be \u0000interpreted as a successful adaptation of the police authority concept to a parliamentary \u0000democracy policed by a single national body under central government control.","PeriodicalId":365466,"journal":{"name":"Law Enforcement eJournal","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129863704","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}