Author: Jens Chr.1 Andvig / Political Geography: Africa

Author:: Tiberius Barasa and Jens Chr.1 Andvig
Publication Date:: 01-2012
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: Norwegian Institute of International Affairs
Abstract:: This paper presents and analyzes most empirical research about crime and police corruption in Kenya that has been based on vicitimization statistics. It shows the wide variation in outcomes and draws implications of this for the potential use of this approach for police and crime policy. This is used as a background for the researcher's own victimization study which combines this information with a survey of police officers' attitudes and experiences. In a more theoretical section it discuss how officer rotation, crime registration procedures and citizen mobility controls may work when crime policies are considered as a set of collective action games where both police officers and community members are engaged.
Topic:: Corruption, Crime, and Law Enforcement
Political Geography:: Kenya and Africa

Author:: Jens Chr.1 Andvig
Publication Date:: 10-2003
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: Norwegian Institute of International Affairs
Abstract:: The paper studies the effects on corruption of having coexisting, contradictory norms for allocating different micro-coordination modes across society. One important reason for their coexistence is fast change, and links to Huntington's classical analysis of corruption are worked out. The notion of micro-coordination most is exposed and its usefulness for explaining corruption is argues through examples. The examples outlined are corruption in land allocation in Kenya, the economic transition in post-communist countries and the global telecommunications industry.
Topic:: Economics and Industrial Policy
Political Geography:: Kenya and Africa

Author:: Jens Chr.1 Andvig
Publication Date:: 12-2000
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: Norwegian Institute of International Affairs
Abstract:: The separation of children from their families have a large number of social and economic aspects. At least the economic aspects are under-researched. At the point of transition of leaving their families somehow the children have to be considered as separate decisionmakers. This is the perspective I adopt in this essay. The question raised is whether poverty, changes in social norms or external shocks to the family system such as the AIDS epidemic, lead the children to prematurely fend for themselves in the context of Sub-Saharan Africa.
Topic:: Economics, Human Rights, and Poverty
Political Geography:: Africa

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