Emergency services

Based on rare, in-depth fieldwork among an undercover police investigative team working in a southern EU maritime state, Gregory Feldman examines how "e;taking action"e; against human smuggling rings requires the team to enter the "e;gray zone"e;, a space where legal and policy prescriptions do not hold.

Some have estimated that healthcare fraud in the United States results in losses of approximately $80 billion a year.

The poor and vulnerable populations suffer disproportionately from the adverse impacts of climate change and disasters, which result in loss of life, damage to household and community assets, disruption of livelihoods, and loss of income.

There is a growing acknowledgment amongst professionals and academics that we need to develop new responses to crime.

This volume in the series Sociology of Crime, Law, and Deviance edited by Mathieu Deflem addresses contemporary issues of policing with a focus on the characteristics of police power as a coercive force in society and its continued need for legitimacy in a democratic social order.

During the last two centuries, the job of policing in Britain has been transformed several times.

For autistic people who find themselves facing a criminal charge, understanding how the features of autism may have contributed to their behaviour can be vital context for their defence.

During his 25 years with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Dean Scoville advanced from nervous recruit to silver-tongued spokesperson to seasoned patrol sergeant.

Widespread law enforcement or formal policing outside of cities appeared in the early 20th century around the same time the early film industry was developing--the two evolved in tandem, intersecting in meaningful ways.

This is an invaluable guide for those involved in supporting policing students, including lecturers, tutors, trainers, mentors and coaches.

This book explores and analyses the evolving African security paradigm in light of the multitude of diverse threats and challenges facing the continent and the international community.

In 2008 there were 149 militia groups in the United States.

The Revenger: The Life and Times of Wild Bill Hickok examines Wild Bill's life in the context of 19th Century American history, from his birth, through his early manhood, and to his eventual demise.

Young people, crime and delinquency are words that are commonly linked in public perception and young people are often blamed for social ills.

The eighth of a new, well-received, and highly acclaimed series on critical infrastructure and homeland security, Government Facilities Protection and Homeland Security is a reference source that is designed to serve and advise project designers, engineers, security specialists, managers, building and grounds superintendents, and/or supervisors and responsible-managers-in-charge.

In the event of a disaster or public health emergency, individual agencies and hospitals cannot always effectively act alone.

This edited collection speaks to and expands on existing debates around incarceration.

This book will be a 'how to' guide for medical students interested in pursuing a career in academic surgery.

First responders in the fire, emergency, and police agencies work in high-risk, critical situations, and require effective leadership.

The main target of this book is to raise the awareness about social networking systems design, implementation, security requirements, and approaches.

Hospital Emergency Response Teams aims to provide authoritative training for hospital personnel in the emergency department, as well community-level medical service personnel, assisting them in times of disaster and emergency.

Dieses essential beleuchtet das Thema Integrierte Notfallzentren (INZ).

In light of demographic change and the growing problems of traditional old-age security systems, this book discusses two essential instruments in connection with privately providing for old-age security: (1) savings in private pension schemes and (2) building up equity for home-ownership.

Pierre Pfütsch zeigt, dass mit dem Notfallsanitätergesetz aus dem Jahr 2014 die berufliche Tätigkeit im Rettungsdienst stark aufgewertet wurde.

Las Vegas, 1970sa golden age of Glitter Gulch corruption.

This book provides valuable data on the outbreak, aggravation, treatment and prevention of respiratory diseases based on prior experiences of natural disasters such as earthquakes and tsunamis.

The Handbook of Loss Prevention and Crime Prevention, 5e, is a trusted resource for physical security professionals, students, and candidates for the coveted Certified Protection Professional (CPP) certification administered by ASIS International.

Contemporary Security Management, Third Edition teaches security professionals how to operate an efficient security department and how to integrate smoothly with other groups inside and outside their own organizations.

Contemporary Security Management, Fourth Edition, identifies and condenses into clear language the principal functions and responsibilities for security professionals in supervisory and managerial positions.

Forensic Examination of Signatures explains the neuroscience and kinematics of signature production, giving specific details of research carried out on the topic.

Animals in Disasters is a comprehensive book on animal rescue written by Dr.

This book is a practical guide for health care professionals encountering medical emergencies during commercial flight.

The prospect that the psychiatric profession has hurt rather than helped many of its patients is incredibly disheartening; however, wrong diagnoses and improper treatment are all too common errors within the field.

This unique text fills a major gap in the emergency services literature by surveying the research on fire and rescue service management in the UK.

All human behaviour is, ultimately, a moral undertaking, in which each situation must be considered on its own merits.

A desperate gunman holds a planeload of innocent passengers hostage.

In the 1890s, Amos Lunt served as the San Quentin hangman, tying the nooses that brought the most dangerous criminals in the Wild West to their deaths.

In diesem Buch erfahren Sie aus jeder Perspektive, was ein Büroraum ist und wie dieser in Zukunft aussehen wird.

The primary aim of this textbook is to contribute towards the promotion of human security by educating nurses with a profound understanding of disaster nursing and to conduct innovative research and practices in cooperation.

Take a ride-along with Sergeant Mark Tappan and his amazing K9 partner Mattis, whose heroic actions will inspire you to live courageously, serve selflessly, and love passionately because every human (and dog) has a purpose.

This book analyzes the factors that have sparked pandemics over the past 2000 years, from the Antonine Plague to COVID-19.

The massive uprising following the police killing of George Floyd in the summer of 2020--by some estimates the largest protests in US history--thrust the argument to defund the police to the forefront of international politics.

This book explores communication in emergency call and response centers, taking an approach drawn from Conversation Analysis to examine how call-takers answer calls and the ways in which dispatch is issued in different contexts.

Introduction to Forensic Anthropology provides comprehensive coverage of key methods and issues in forensic anthropology.

The book provides a pentapartite theoretical analysis of socio-economic factors as the grand basis for the evolution of Boko Haram terrorism in Nigeria.

Adolescent rites of passage are ubiquitous sociocultural processes that feature across all manner of social activity.

Introduction to Forensic Anthropology provides comprehensive coverage of key methods and issues in forensic anthropology.