A COMPARISON OF CHANGES IN POLICE AND GENERAL HOMICIDES: 1930–1998*

This paper presents a new data series for homicides of law enforcement officers. Available for more than two centuries, it is much longer than series previously examined. Police killings had two extreme peaks, one in the 1920s and another in the 1970s. We use the post‐1930 part of the series in a time‐series regression to explore structural conditions that affect police killings in the short term. Economic conditions, prison populations, and World War II have considerably larger impacts on police killings than on homicide generally. Police killings are less affected by demographic changes and by the crack epidemic.     

The Prime Minister's Office in France: A Changing Role in a Semi-presidential System

In France since 1958, it is possible to identify three different types of political leadership: pure presidential government, limited presidential government, and prime ministerial government. These three leadership types are the result of the semi-presidential nature of the Fifth Republic. Under each of the three different forms of leadership, the role of the prime minister's office has changed. Following a brief presentation of the functions of the two components of the prime minister's office, his cabinet and the General Secretariat of the Government, the changes which the office has undergone are identified. While the role of both of the components of the office varied according to the different types of political leadership, it is concluded that, because of its distinctive structure and functions, the role of prime minister's cabinet has been subject to the greatest amount of variation.     

CV–the Vital First Step

正When enjoying the excitement of coming to China to ind a job,does it ever occur to you that 100of the CVs you’ve sent out don’t even get a glimpse from the Chinese HR?! To keen overseas job seekers who want to work in China:While anticipating the excitement of coming to China to find a job,does it ever occur to you that maybe100 of the CVs you’ve sent out won’t even get a glimpse from the Chinese company HR?Does that shock you?If you expect to get a good job because of your years of work experience and career     

Cheque Fraud: How Serious a Problem?

Cheque fraud or the passing of bad cheques are considered normal events in business life. For some they are also considered a serious problem, but is this view commonly held? An attempt is made to review these beliefs with reference to the Australian experience and also to identify the extent of official statistics on the subject and the actual victims of valueless cheques.