Pre-crime and Policing of Migrants: Anticipatory Action Meets Management of Concerns

In 2015 the Norwegian police initiated its first national intelligence project—Operation Migrant. One central aim was to predict crime challenges related to increased migration to improve future resource allocation. Based on qualitative interviews with those managing the operation, this article foregrounds the question of how attempts to reduce uncertainties and manage what is perceived as migration-related threats and risks, shape not only ideas of risk in policing of migration but also influence the importance of precautionary logic in regular policing. First, we analyse how knowledge production built on risk management and sharing of risk intelligence products are co-produced by intelligence staff and decision-makers. Thereafter, we discuss paradoxical outcomes of a calculated and precautionary logic applied to policing migrants. Concretely, the article focuses on how anticipatory knowledge practices seem to enlarge the space for probabilities, making it even more complex and contested to reduce and control uncertainty.

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Descripción de tecnología aplicada y uso de TIC para la gestión de riesgos de desastres: "Caso México" / Description of Applied Technology and Use of ICT for Management of Disaster Risks: "Mexico Case"

Revista Internacional de Tecnología, Ciencia y Sociedad ◽

10.37467/gka-revtechno.v8.2002 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 11-22

Author(s):

Gregoria Rosa Rodríguez Godínez

Keyword(s):

Risk Management ◽

Emergency Management ◽

Disaster Risk ◽

Decision Makers ◽

Disaster Risk Management ◽

Applied Technology ◽

Technological Tools ◽

And Control ◽

Financial Losses

ABSTRACTDisasters cause problems where they occur, such as: human, economic, and financial losses, impacting society by not knowing what to do; The objective of this article is to propose the management of technological tools, the use of ICT platforms for disaster risk management in Mexico, to plan, organize, execute, direct and control, in a quick, valuable and concise manner, risk events to which the population is exposed and implement technological surveillance for its development, in emergency management entities, which enable decision makers to act in real time.RESUMENLos desastres causan problemas donde se presentan, como: pérdidas humanas, económicas, financieras, impactando la sociedad al no saber qué hacer; el objetivo del presente artículo es proponer la gestión de herramientas tecnológicas, el uso de plataformas TIC para la gestión de riesgos de desastres en México, para planear, organizar, ejecutar, dirigir y controlar, de manera rápida, valiosa y concisa, eventos de riesgo a los que está expuesta la población e implementar vigilancia tecnológica para su desarrollo, en las entidades de manejo de emergencias, que posibiliten a los tomadores de decisiones actuar en tiempo real.

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Joint Risk Design in Swiss Middle-Sized Service Companies: Frameworks and Management Practices

Soziale Systeme ◽

10.1515/sosys-2015-0007 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 20 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jens O. Meissner

Keyword(s):

Risk Management ◽

Role Models ◽

Management Practices ◽

Qualitative Interviews ◽

Public Institutions ◽

Decision Makers ◽

Business Organizations ◽

Service Companies ◽

Strong Focus ◽

High Degree

Abstract:Today’s social reality will doubtless alter the risk management practices of organizations of all kinds. Whereas large companies and public institutions serve as role models and have the resources to apply standards or develop and set them by themselves, mid-sized businesses usually do not have this possibility. Instead, they apply management practices that base on existing management routines and their typical organizational characteristics. But how do these practices look like? And what is the semantic program that is performed by the organization to manage the risks? This empirical paper contains the analysis of typical risk management practices in mid-sized service companies in Switzerland. The study relies on open, qualitative interviews with top level decision-makers resulting in the description of the characteristics of six companies. The analysis shows that these firms mainly focus on project risk management, and combine it with a strong focus on business speed and agility, the smart combination of their talent pool in teams, the application of a non-bureaucratic governance style and a conscious acceptance of a high degree of intuition in management decisions. This research contributes to a better understanding of the risk design of mid-sized business organizations as very important societal units in splitting, pooling, distributing and addressing their risks.

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Cocaine Rituals in Club Culture: Intensifying and Controlling Alcohol Intoxication

Journal of Drug Issues ◽

10.1177/0022042620986514 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 002204262098651

Author(s):

Marit Edland-Gryt

Keyword(s):

Young Adult ◽

Young People ◽

Alcohol Intoxication ◽

Qualitative Interviews ◽

Cocaine Use ◽

Interaction Rituals ◽

Collective Effervescence ◽

Drinking Culture ◽

Cocaine Users ◽

And Control

Clubbing is an important part of the nighttime economy, and cocaine use is, for some young people, an essential part of this clubbing culture. However, the interaction rituals around the use of powder cocaine in this context remain understudied. This study is based on qualitative interviews with young adult recreational cocaine users ( n = 28) and explores how they use cocaine in club settings, in relation to rituals and drinking culture. The analysis identified three main explanations for using cocaine: (a) unity with friends because of shared transgression, (b) the high as a “collective effervescence,” and (c) the possibility to control, extend, and intensify drinking to intoxication. These three explanations illustrate how cocaine rituals were deeply integrated in drinking-to-intoxication rituals, and how the illegality of cocaine use reinforced feelings of unity with friends. In the nighttime economy, cocaine use and its related rituals are used to intensify and control alcohol-fuelled partying.

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Invocations of Indigeneity in the Colonial Red/White/Black Triad

Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik ◽

10.1515/zaa-2020-0016 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 68 (2) ◽

pp. 145-158

Author(s):

Carsten Junker

Keyword(s):

Knowledge Production ◽

Settler Colonialism ◽

Black And White ◽

Knowledge Practices ◽

The Enlightenment

AbstractThis essay takes as its assumptive backdrop the “Red/White/Black demographic triad” in the sense of Stam and Shohat that resulted from the European colonial conquest and settlement of, and the transatlantic enslavement of Africans in, the Americas. It homes in on the ambivalent functions and effects of different evocations of Indigeneity in early abolitionist discourse, considering this very discourse as a specific strand of settler colonial knowledge production during the era of the Enlightenment. While Euro-American abolitionists around 1800 centrally and critically focused on relations between the positions marked by “Black” and “White,” they also made recourse to the position of “Red.” Paradigmatic readings highlight that abolitionists mobilized Red as a trope in contradictory ways according to their argumentative needs, substantiating the hegemonic character of White self-referential knowledge practices in the early US republic and abetting the justification of settler colonialism.

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Working towards evidence-informed policy: Public health report Stockholm

European Journal of Public Health ◽

10.1093/eurpub/ckaa166.1224 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽

Author(s):

V Bartelink ◽

D Yacaman Mendez ◽

A Lager

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Resource Allocation ◽

Scientific Literature ◽

Decision Makers ◽

High Quality ◽

Public Health Report ◽

The Public ◽

Health Report ◽

High Quality Evidence ◽

Quality Evidence

Abstract Issue Public health problems and interventions are often addressed in sub-optimal ways by not prioritizing them based on the best available evidence. Description of the Problem The public health report 2019 for the Stockholm region aims to inform decision makers, politicians, and public health workers about the risk factors and diseases that account for the biggest part of the burden of disease with a clear focus on high quality evidence and communication of main messages. How did the public health report 2019 affect public health policy in the Stockholm region? Results The public health report 2019 influenced agenda setting, resource allocation and priority setting in the Stockholm region. Lessons We identified the following facilitating factors in the process, of which most also are supported in scientific literature, in chronological order: 1) understanding the policymaking context to be aware of windows of opportunity, 2) establishing relationships with relevant policymakers, engage with them routinely in the decision-making process, and being accessible for questions, 3) doing high-quality research by considering the latest scientific literature, multiple data sources and involving academic experts in the field, 4) communicating clear and relevant messages for generalists by translating research into easy-understandable texts and attractive figures, and 5) active dissemination of the report through multiple channels. In addition, the following barriers were identified: 1) the timeframe of the policymaking process was not in line with the research process, and 2) involving politicians in an early stage can potentially harm the objectivity of research in media messages. Key messages By focussing on major problems, high quality evidence and clear messages a public health report can contribute to more evidence-informed policy making. Engaging decision makers in the process of public health reporting is critical for the impact on agenda setting, resource allocation, and priority setting.

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Social Work With Criminalized Women: Governance or Resistance in the Carceral State?

Affilia ◽

10.1177/08861099211014773 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 088610992110147

Author(s):

Sandra M. Leotti

Keyword(s):

Social Work ◽

Discourse Analysis ◽

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Knowledge Production ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Carceral State ◽

Neoliberal Governance ◽

Spaces Of Resistance ◽

And Control ◽

Criminalized Women

Drawing on findings from a Foucauldian-inspired critical discourse analysis, this article examines the hegemonic ways in which social work engages with criminalized women. Utilizing the analytic of governmentality, I explore the construction of criminalized women in contemporary social work discourse and ask how those constructions support and shape practice with criminalized women. Results show that knowledge production in social work serves as a significant site through which the profession draws on, but also resists, carceral logics. I begin by discussing contemporary social work as a form of neoliberal governance. Specifically, I illuminate the ways in which social work is implicated in surveillance and control and how this involvement is obscured under the framework of helping. I then describe how bold counter discourses, such as those offered by abolitionist and anti-carceral thought foster spaces of resistance within the profession. I argue that social work should claim a stance of radical imagination in which we take seriously the calls to abolish the varying manifestations of the carceral state.

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Study on the Construction of Integrated Safety Risk Management and Control Platform for Dangerous Goods Storage Tank Area in Port

Proceedings of the 2019 International Conference on Information System and System Management ◽

10.1145/3394788.3394940 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Yuchang Hu ◽

Liansheng Xu ◽

Fengyun Chen

Keyword(s):

Risk Management ◽

Storage Tank ◽

Safety Risk ◽

Dangerous Goods ◽

And Control

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A Fractional Approach to a Computational Eco-Epidemiological Model with Holling Type-II Functional Response

Symmetry ◽

10.3390/sym13071159 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (7) ◽

pp. 1159

Author(s):

B. Günay ◽

Praveen Agarwal ◽

Juan L. G. Guirao ◽

Shaher Momani

Keyword(s):

Numerical Method ◽

Decision Makers ◽

Derivative Operator ◽

Research Fields ◽

Fractional System ◽

Chaotic Nature ◽

And Control ◽

The Impact ◽

Distinguishing Features ◽

Type Ii Functional Response

Eco-epidemiological can be considered as a significant combination of two research fields of computational biology and epidemiology. These problems mainly take ecological systems into account of the impact of epidemiological factors. In this paper, we examine the chaotic nature of a computational system related to the spread of disease into a specific environment involving a novel differential operator called the Atangana–Baleanu fractional derivative. To approximate the solutions of this fractional system, an efficient numerical method is adopted. The numerical method is an implicit approximate method that can provide very suitable numerical approximations for fractional problems due to symmetry. Symmetry is one of the distinguishing features of this technique compared to other methods in the literature. Through considering different choices of parameters in the model, several meaningful numerical simulations are presented. It is clear that hiring a new derivative operator greatly increases the flexibility of the model in describing the different scenarios in the model. The results of this paper can be very useful help for decision-makers to describe the situation related to the problem, in a more efficient way, and control the epidemic.

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