Establishing the Rule of Law in Weak and War-torn States: Evidence from a Field Experiment with the Liberian National Police
Establishing the Rule of Law in Weak and War-torn States: Evidence from a Field Experiment with the Liberian National Police
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DOI：
10.1017/s0003055419000121
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发表时间：
2019-08-01
影响因子：
6.8
通讯作者：
Morse, Benjamin S.
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作者：
Blair, Robert A.;Karim, Sabrina M.;Morse, Benjamin S.
内战过后，如何恢复市民对警方的信任与合作？我们报告对利比里亚国家警察(LNP)“信任巡逻”计划进行的试验性评估的结果，该计划在14个月的时间里部署了新培训的、装备更好的警察小组，在利比里亚三个县的农村社区进行经常性巡逻。我们发现，该方案增加了对警察和利比里亚法律的了解，加强了财产权利的安全，并减少了某些类型犯罪的发生率，特别是简单袭击和家庭暴力。然而，该计划并没有提高人们对警察、法院或政府的普遍信任。我们还注意到，治疗社区的犯罪率较高，几乎完全集中在那些在普遍的争端解决习惯机制下处于不利地位的人。我们考虑了这些调查结果对利比里亚冲突后维持治安的影响，以及更广泛地说，对虚弱和饱受战争蹂躏的国家的影响。
How to restore citizens' trust and cooperation with the police in the wake of civil war? We report results from an experimental evaluation of the Liberian National Police's (LNP) "Confidence Patrols" program, which deployed teams of newly retrained, better-equipped police officers on recurring patrols to rural communities across three Liberian counties over a period of 14 months. We find that the program increased knowledge of the police and Liberian law, enhanced security of property rights, and reduced the incidence of some types of crime, notably simple assault and domestic violence. The program did not, however, improve trust in the police, courts, or government more generally. We also observe higher rates of crime reporting in treatment communities, concentrated almost entirely among those who were disadvantaged under prevailing customary mechanisms of dispute resolution. We consider implications of these findings for post-conflict policing in Liberia and weak and war-torn states more generally.