1,943 research outputs found
Privatisation, Pluralisation and the Globalisation of Policing
No full textPolice, as a formal institution, operate as a part of a three way relationship with the community and the state. In this research paper, Philip Stenning and Clifford Shearing explore how changes in both the community and the state may reshape both the institution of the police and the role of policing. This paper extends the conversation from our previous 2013 publication ‘Public Private Policing’ which was based on a forum held at the AIPM in the same year.No Full Tex
Insurance and climate change
No full textThis chapter uses a desktop study to examine the insurance industry’s potential as a ‘fulcrum institution’ that can influence others to prevent and address environmental harms from climate change. As this chapter demonstrates, given insurance’s central economic role, the relationship between insurers and climate change is complicated and conflicted. After the discussion of insurers as shapers of climate risk (the first section of the chapter), this chapter explains how (in the second section) insurers are strongly implicated in creating climate change and attendant climate risk in the period since industrialisation through facilitating the accelerating fossil-fuel-based economic development and growth that causes climate change; this is the dominant dimension in insurers’ relationship with climate change. In the third section of this chapter, the authors review insurers’ responses over the past decade to increasing climate risk. Responses have been largely adaptive and aimed at increasing insurers’ capacity to accommodate the climate risks faced by their policyholders. Some responses have been ‘weakly mitigative’, meaning that they provide for some mitigation, but on a very limited scale, and largely as side effects of initiatives unrelated to climate change. In marked contrast, a very limited number of recent ‘divest and decline’ actions by insurance industry actors can be described as ‘strongly mitigative’, as described in the fourth section. The fifth section concludes the chapter with some remarks on the prospects for further strong mitigation action from insurers on climate change and their role as governors of security beyond the state
[Tribute to Michi Weglyn by Dr. Clifford I. Uyeda, February 21, 1998]
No full textA speech by Dr. Clifford Uyeda for the Day of Remembrance celebration and tribute to Michi Weglyn on February 21, 1998.These materials are from box 73 and 74 of the Frank Chin Papers. The Frank Chin Papers contain personal and professional correspondence between Frank Chin and Michi Weglyn relating to particular projects on which either author was working as well as files related to the Day of Remembrance Tribute to Michi Weglyn
Reforming Police: Opportunities, Drivers and Challenges
No full textA few years ago, David Bayley and Clifford Shearing (1996) argued that at the end of the 20th century we were witnessing a 'watershed' in policing, when transformations were occurring in the practices and sponsorship of policing on a scale unprecedented since the developments that heralded the creation of the 'New Police' in the 19th century. In this special issue of the journal, we and our fellow contributors turn our attention to a somewhat neglected aspect of this 'quiet revolution' in policing (Stenning & Shearing, 1980), namely the nature of the opportunities for, and challenges posed by, the reform of policing in different parts of the world at the beginning of the 21st century. Our attention in this issue is particularly focused on the opportunities, drivers and challenges in reforming public (state-sponsored) police institutions.Full Tex
Microscopic and macroscopic responses to inequalities in the governance of security : respective experiments in South Africa and Northern Ireland
No full textMichael Kempa and Clifford Shearing (in collaboration with John Cartwright and Madeleine Jenneker) examine the multiple "nodes" of policing in the global era. Through focusing upon the illustrative examples of South Africa and Northern Ireland, a range of normative concerns that are associated with the proliferation of non-state policing and disorder intolerant public policing are identified, and two adaptive policy responses to these concerns are explored
Brogden (Mike) and Shearing (Clifford) : Policing for a New South Africa
No full textBullier Antoine J. Brogden (Mike) and Shearing (Clifford) : Policing for a New South Africa. In: Revue française d'histoire d'outre-mer, tome 82, n°307, 2e trimestre 1995. pp. 243-244
Brogden (Mike) and Shearing (Clifford) : Policing for a New South Africa
No full textBullier Antoine J. Brogden (Mike) and Shearing (Clifford) : Policing for a New South Africa. In: Revue française d'histoire d'outre-mer, tome 82, n°307, 2e trimestre 1995. pp. 243-244
Machine Learning Clifford invariants of ADE Coxeter elements
No full textThere has been recent interest in novel Clifford geometric invariants of
linear transformations. This motivates the investigation of such invariants for
a certain type of geometric transformation of interest in the context of root
systems, reflection groups, Lie groups and Lie algebras: the Coxeter
transformations. We perform exhaustive calculations of all Coxeter
transformations for , and for a choice of basis of simple
roots and compute their invariants, using high-performance computing. This
computational algebra paradigm generates a dataset that can then be mined using
techniques from data science such as supervised and unsupervised machine
learning. In this paper we focus on neural network classification and principal
component analysis. Since the output -- the invariants -- is fully determined
by the choice of simple roots and the permutation order of the corresponding
reflections in the Coxeter element, we expect huge degeneracy in the mapping.
This provides the perfect setup for machine learning, and indeed we see that
the datasets can be machine learned to very high accuracy. This paper is a
pump-priming study in experimental mathematics using Clifford algebras, showing
that such Clifford algebraic datasets are amenable to machine learning, and
shedding light on relationships between these novel and other well-known
geometric invariants and also giving rise to analytic results.Comment: v1: 34 pages, 16 Figures, 12 Tables. v2: Typos corrected and some
comments added. Matches the author-accepted version for publication in
Advances in Applied Clifford Algebra
Letter from Clifford I. Uyeda to Aiko HerzigYoshinaga, January 11, 1988
No full textA passionate letter from Clifford Uyeda to Aiko HerzigYoshinaga about the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) refusing to take a position on people who were arrested because of an allegation that they were involved with the Palestinian Liberation Organization. Uyeda argues that these people are being targeted for incarceration merely because of their ethnicity and that it is important for the JACL to take a stand against government actions that deprive people of liberty based on their race.These materials are from box 73 and 74 of the Frank Chin Papers. The Frank Chin Papers contain personal and professional correspondence between Frank Chin and Michi Weglyn relating to particular projects on which either author was working as well as files related to the Day of Remembrance Tribute to Michi Weglyn
Popular Policing video lecture part I
No full textThis seminar is part of a digital course Trends in the Governance of Security , introduced by Clifford Shearing, which focuses on civic or popular policing. This type of policing is located within South Africa, and discusses some of the historical and ideological backgrounds that underpin the development of civic and popular policing. The course is designed to be presented by a course facilitator within a class room setting where students can engage directly with the materials presented and with each other
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