Influence of Community Characteristics on Serious Police Use of Force Events in an Australian Policing Jurisdiction: A Test of Minority Threat, Social Disorganisation and Ecological Contamination Theories

by Kiel Downey | Jan 9, 2019 | Publication

Extant research on police use of force has established that force is not distributed evenly across communities, with minority threat, ecological contamination, and social disorganisation some of the most common theories used to understand the distribution of police...

Considering the Role of Security Sector Reform and Police Reform when Tackling Organized Crime in Post-Conflict Environments

by Kiel Downey | Dec 11, 2018 | Publication

View the Full Report Drawing on interviews conducted in 2018 with support from JUSTRAC, ROLC Visiting Fellow Fiona Mangan examines the intersection of security sector reform (SSR) and organized crime in this report, which offers insights and practical recommendations...

Disparity Does Not Mean Bias: Making Sense of Observed Racial Disparities in Fatal Officer-Involved Shootings with Multiple Benchmarks

by Kiel Downey | Dec 7, 2018 | Publication

Racial disparities in officer-involved shootings have dominated the national discourse recently. Unfortunately, we have yet to identify an appropriate benchmark, or at-risk population, to put these observed racial disparities into context. In this article, we use...

Transitioning to the Accusatorial Model: Addressing Challenges for Legal Education and Training in Latin America: Symposium Final Report

by Kiel Downey | Dec 6, 2018 | Publication

Symposium Report (English) Informe Final (Español) From September 5-7, 2018, ROLC and INL held the JUSTRAC symposium “Transitioning to the Accusatorial Model: Addressing Challenges for Legal Education and Training in Latin America,” in Panama City, Panama. The...

ROLC Core Faculty Member Aparna Polavarapu Invited to Give Lecture at Harvard on Carceral Feminism

by Kiel Downey | Nov 16, 2018 | ROLC News

ROLC Core Faculty Professor Aparna Polavarapu will be lecturing today at Harvard University on the effects of global carceral feminism and how Western ideologies have influenced international human rights ideals. She will speak on her research regarding reconciliation...