Emergency services

In recent years there have been alarming reports of rapid decreases in life expectancy in the New Independent States (former members of the Soviet Union).

This pocket-sized guide can be taken conveniently to meetings, interviews and visits, to be used as a quick reference point for information about the practical application of restorative justice.

On March 16, 1998, the CIA's Inspector General, Fred Hitz, finally let the cat out of the bag in an aside at a Congressional Hearing.

Danger in Police Culture: Perspectives from South Africa offers a fresh perspective on how officers understand, interpret and construct danger.

A book to challenge the status quo, spark a debate, and get people talking about the issues and questions we face as a country!

Bollinger provides a masterful critique of the major theories of freedom of expression, finding these theories persuasive but inadequate.

Terrorists constantly present new challenges to law enforcement, emergency response teams, security planners, and others involved in counterterrorism.

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

Approaching the topic from a law enforcement perspective, this volume provides an unprecedented look at the investigation of human trafficking in America.

Firefighting in high-rise buildings is very different from firefighting in normal residential or commercial buildings.

Police Psychology: New Trends in Forensic Psychological Science is a relatively new specialty that can be broadly defined as the application of psychological principles and methods to assist law enforcement.

In recent years there have been alarming reports of rapid decreases in life expectancy in the New Independent States (former members of the Soviet Union).

In the past two decades, Australia has been the site of major police misconduct scandals and inquiries, leading to reform initiatives at the cutting edge of police integrity management practices.

This is the fascinating story of the development of early British steam fire engines by a renowned expert on emergency services vehicles and equipment.

How and why does order emerge after conflict?

This book argues that strengthening policing, and the rule of law is pivotal to promoting human rights, equity, access to justice and accountability in sub-Saharan Africa.

Principles of Posse Management tells the stories of the lawmen and leaders of the Old West who organized citizens in the pursuit of law and order.

This eBook collection is geared for history buffs who shy away from white knights and do-gooders.

Justice, Indigenous Peoples, and Canada: A History of Courage and Resilience brings together the work of a number of leading researchers to provide a broad overview of criminal justice issues that Indigenous people in Canada have faced historically and continue to face today.

A timely investigation of the history, legislation, and perpetrators of school violence, this guide debunks the myths and misconceptions about this terrible problem of national concern.

Originally published in 1991, The Case for the Prosecution examines the entire process of arrest through to conviction.

This book looks at how the multiplicity of formal and informal normative systems that actualize the post-disaster recovery goals of the country's Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Act of 2010 has resulted in the inadequate housing and relocation of Typhoon Ketsana victims in the Philippines.

In State of Fear, Joshua Barker reckons with how fear and violence are produced and reproduced through everyday practices of rule and control.

In recent years European prison law and policy have emerged as a force to be reckoned with.

Policing Cities brings together international scholars from numerous disciplines to examine urban policing, securitization, and regulation in nine countries and the conceptual issues these practices raise.

This book, first published in 1967, examines the implications of a now-forgotten minor riot that occurred in 1833, a turbulent year with the working classes striving for recognition in a changing social order.

This edited volume analyses the global making of security institutions and practices in our postcolonial world.

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Ethical and human rights issues have assumed an increasingly high profile in the wake of miscarriages of justice, racism (Lawrence Inquiry), incompetence and corruption - in both Britain and overseas.

This book explores the relationship between policing and mental health.

Die Zentrale Notaufnahme ist ein Ort der Grenzerfahrung.

Public protection has become an increasingly central theme in the work of the criminal justice agencies in many parts of the world in recent years.

Every day, police officers face challenges ranging from petty annoyances to the risk of death in the line of duty.

The Criminalistics Laboratory Manual: The Basics of Forensic Investigation provides students with little to no prior knowledge of forensic science with a practical crime scene processing experience.

Policing and Human Rights analyses the implementation of human rights standards, tracing them from the nodal points of their production in Geneva, through the board rooms of national police management and training facilities, to the streets of downtown Johannesburg.

What if racialized mass incarceration is not a perversion of our criminal justice system's liberal ideals, but rather a natural conclusion?

In this fascinating new book, Vincent Henry (a 21-year veteran of the NYPD who recently retired to become a university professor) explores the psychological transformations and adaptations that result from police officers' encounters with death.

Police Ethics, Fourth Edition, provides an analysis of corruption in law enforcement organizations.

Several years ago, the Trends in Policing series unveiled insiders accounts of how police leaders perceive the work they do.

The Munich Olympics massacre in 1972 was a shock awakening to the public.

In recent years, the fields of crime analysis and environmental criminology have grown in prominence for their advancements made in understanding crime.

Public protection has become an increasingly central theme in the work of the criminal justice agencies in many parts of the world in recent years.

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The manner in which criminal investigators are trained is neither uniform nor consistent, ranging from sophisticated training protocols in some departments to on-the-job experience alongside senior investigators in others.

The market is demand and supply.

Crime and Intelligence Analysis: An Integrated Real-Time Approach, 2nd Edition, covers everything crime analysts and tactical analysts need to know to be successful.