Occupational Health and Safety has been a growth industry for several decades and has moved beyond the realm of the human resource department and workers' compensation claims.
Occupational Health and Safety has been a growth industry for several decades and has moved beyond the realm of the human resource department and workers' compensation claims.
Anti-Money Laundering in a Nutshell is a concise, accessible, and practical guide to compliance with anti-money laundering law for financial professionals, corporate investigators, business managers, and all personnel of financial institutions who are required, under penalty of hefty fines, to get anti-money laundering training.
Using the investigation of criminal culture as an example application, this edited volume presents a novel approach to agent-based simulation: interpretive agent-based social simulation as a methodological and transdisciplinary approach to examining the potential of qualitative data and methods for agent-based modelling (ABM).
Using the investigation of criminal culture as an example application, this edited volume presents a novel approach to agent-based simulation: interpretive agent-based social simulation as a methodological and transdisciplinary approach to examining the potential of qualitative data and methods for agent-based modelling (ABM).
Forensic Victimology: Examining Violent Crimes in Investigative and Legal Contexts, Third Edition introduces criminologists and criminal investigators to the idea of systematically gathering and examining victim information for the purposes of addressing investigative and forensic issues.
This innovative text adapts the strategic management process to the police organizational environment, illustrating how to tailor responses to the unique problems and issues that professionals are likely to face in the field of law enforcement.
Exploring gender through the lens of field theory, Gender Fields proposes a new framework for understanding the social organisation of gender identity.
This book makes an important contribution to police scholarship by focusing on the critical need for law enforcement personnel to receive education on chemical/biological/radiological/nuclear (CBRN) hazards.
This ground-breaking ethnography illuminates the theory and practice of "e;aging in place"e; by examining the relationships between migrant live-in care workers of older people in Israel, and their local employers and family members.
This ground-breaking ethnography illuminates the theory and practice of "e;aging in place"e; by examining the relationships between migrant live-in care workers of older people in Israel, and their local employers and family members.
Using an innovative, real-world approach that makes the research problem and method relevant and valuable to the reader, this book provides a broad overview of research methods used in library and information studies and associated fields.
Offering a broad overview of consequential changes in the landscape of reference services, this guide also provides practical guidance on how to meet the new challenges they present.
An unprecedented look at the evolution of American police, from filling their intended role as peacekeepers and guardians of citizen rights to calling themselves-and acting primarily as-"e;law enforcement officers.
This timely book provides the inside story of the development of mobile public alert and warning technology in the United States and addresses similar systems being used in Australia, Canada, Japan, and the Netherlands.
Using an innovative, real-world approach that makes the research problem and method relevant and valuable to the reader, this book provides a broad overview of research methods used in library and information studies and associated fields.
The second edition of this innovative textbook illustrates research methods for library and information science, describing the most appropriate approaches to a question-and showing you what makes research successful.
Dissertation Research Methods: A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing Up Your Research in the Social Sciences focuses specifically on the methodology for planning, writing and submitting your dissertation thesis.
Dissertation Research Methods: A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing Up Your Research in the Social Sciences focuses specifically on the methodology for planning, writing and submitting your dissertation thesis.
Forensic Victimology: Examining Violent Crimes in Investigative and Legal Contexts, Third Edition introduces criminologists and criminal investigators to the idea of systematically gathering and examining victim information for the purposes of addressing investigative and forensic issues.
This book is a collection of empirical and theoretical research papers focused on the field of “Theory and Practice in Finance” authored by researchers from a diverse range of academic institutions.
This volume brings together accounts from facilitating or 'brokering' researchers in three settings afflicted by armed conflict, including DR Congo, Sierra Leone and Jharkhand, India.
This book discusses smart technologies and their influence in the field of manufacturing and industrial systems engineering, in the context of performability enhancement, and explores the development of the workforce for the execution of such smart and advanced technologies.
This book discusses smart technologies and their influence in the field of manufacturing and industrial systems engineering, in the context of performability enhancement, and explores the development of the workforce for the execution of such smart and advanced technologies.
Smart grid is a new generation of power grids that is expected to enhance its reliability and reduce carbon footprint by integrating distributed resources.
Originally published in 1974, this book evaluates and compares three important styles of sociological research: positivism, symbolic interactionism and critique.
The text covers the fundamentals of Python programming and the implementation of data structures using Python programming with the help of worked-out examples.
Creativity and Sociology: Doing Social Research with and on Artistic Sources explores the relationship between artistic and sociological narratives, considering the ways in which artistic narratives in their different forms can be both subjects of sociological observation and tools for the sociological analysis of reality.
