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This unique collection brings together leading international scholars to explore how ideologies about masculinities have shaped police culture, policy and institutional organization from the eighteenth century to the present day.

Security Operations: An Introduction to Planning and Conducting Private Security Details for High-Risk Areas, Second Edition was written for one primary purpose: to keep people alive by introducing them to private security detail tactics and techniques.

Drawing heavily on original research designed to train police officers to survive deadly encounters, Profiling Cop-Killers examines the sociological history, psychology, and motives of 50 murderers of police officers in 2011.

This 2006 book provides an in-depth look at the police response to gang problems.

Constitutional Law for Criminal Justice, Sixteenth Edition, offers criminal justice professionals the training they need to recognize the constitutional principles that apply to their daily work.

This book is a systematic and comparative analysis of police systems in the Western world, looking at their structure and how they tackle contemporary social problems, such as economic austerity, multi-level governance, transnational change, relations with minorities and transformation of delinquency.

The Legacy of 9/11 is a retrospective about how policing, intelligence, and counter-terrorism have changed in the more than twenty years since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

Death Investigation: An Introduction to Forensic Pathology for the Nonscientist provides students and law enforcement professionals with an accurate, clear overview of forensic pathology.

"e;It is hoped that, through this series, it will be possible to accelerate the process of building knowledge about policing and help bridge the gap between the two worlds the world of police research and police practice.

In the mid-1990s, the NYPD created a performance management strategy known as Compstat.

A shocking true story of corruption and crime in the ranks of the NYPD in the worst police scandal since the revelations of Fred Serpico In the 1970s, New York City’s 77th Precinct was known as “the Alamo.

The investigation of sex crimes is a specific function for many law enforcement agencies, requiring an understanding of how to investigate, process crime scenes, interact with victims and offenders, and prepare for court.

Roman Quaedvlieg was always destined to make a mark.

Redefining School Safety and Policing identifies and works to eliminate systemic issues in school policing that negatively impact students of color, LGBTQIA+ students, and other marginalized populations.

Die vorliegende Schriftenreihe "Forum Politische Bildung und Polizei" wird im Kontext des von der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) geförderten und von der Deutschen Hochschule der Polizei (DHPol) sowie der Hochschule für Polizei und öffentliche Verwaltung NRW (HSPV NRW) durchgeführten Modellprojekts "Politische Bildung und Polizei" publiziert.

Die vorliegende Schriftenreihe "Forum Politische Bildung und Polizei" wird im Kontext des von der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) geförderten und von der Deutschen Hochschule der Polizei (DHPol) sowie der Hochschule für Polizei und öffentliche Verwaltung NRW (HSPV NRW) durchgeführten Modellprojekts "Politische Bildung und Polizei" publiziert.

The examination of handwriting and signatures has a long and established history as a forensic discipline.

The Soviet Union comprehensively governed the mobility of its citizens by barring emigration and strictly regulating internal migration.

This collection presents an analysis of illicit networks and discusses implications for law enforcement and crime prevention.

Mi Rinconcito en el Cielo (My Little Corner of the Sky) tells the remarkable story of Alberto "e;Beto"e; Gonzales, who overcame a childhood of poverty, addiction, bigotry, and violence and went on to change the lives of thousands of children and adults as a mentor and gang prevention specialist.

In this strikingly honest collection, developed from a pioneering new research project, autistic teachers and other autistic school professionals share their stories of the challenges and successes of their careers.

Reduce or eliminate costly downtime Short on teory and long on practice, this book provides examples and case studies, designed to provide maintenance engineers and supervisors with a framework for operational strategies and day-to-day management and training techniques that will keep their equipment running at top efficiency.

When it comes to adopting evidence-based approaches, does the size of an organization really matter?

Privatising Criminal Justice explores the social, cultural and political context of privatisation in the criminal justice sector.

CAN THEY SAVE THE HOSTAGES BEFORE TIME RUNS OUT?

This book untangles the components of police education and advocates a robust community-based training model with significant civilian oversight.

Die Verbreitung von leichten Faserverbundwerkstoffen in der Automobilindustrie, bei Sportartikelherstellern, dem Maschinenbau und in vielen anderen Industriezweigen nimmt stark zu.

Utilising individual interviews and focus group discussions, primarily from two Chinese cities, The Chinese Mafia: Organized Crime, Corruption, and Extra-Legal Protection contributes to the understanding of organized crime and corruption in the Chinese context, filing a significant gap in criminological literature, by investigating how extra-legal protectors-corrupt public officials and street gangsters-emerge, evolve and operate in a rapidly changing society.

Providing many lessons learned from past silo fires coupled with in-depth knowledge from experts, this book explains current prevention measures in detail -- helping to prevent future damage.

This book brings together leading counterterrorism experts, from academia and practice, to form an interdisciplinary assessment of the terrorist threat facing the United Kingdom and the European Union, focusing on how terrorists and terrorist organisations communicate in the digital age.

Örtliche Feuerwehren werden zunehmend mit extremen Unwetterlagen konfrontiert.

This true story of an ex-Marine who fought crime as an undercover cop, a narcotics agent, and finally a federal prosecutor spans a decade of crime fighting and narrow escapes.

Esta compilación de nueve capítulos de investigación sobre los espacios de encierro, detención, castigo y trabajo penado en la historia de Colombia ofrece una mirada de larguísima duración en nuestro territorio, desde las primeras fundaciones de Tierra Firme, pasando por el Virreinato del Nuevo Reino de Granada, hasta la República de Colombia en el siglo XX.

Although there has been an increase in research on terrorism across the social and behavioural sciences in the past few decades, until recently most of this work has originated from political science, psychology or economics.

Human trafficking involves the violation of societal norms and often activates criminal justice responses including police, courts, juvenile justice, and child protective services.

Große Polizeilagen, komplexe Einsatzlagen oder lebensbedrohliche Einsatzlagen: Solche Gewaltereignisse haben eine besondere Dynamik und sind keineswegs Routineeinsätze.

This edited collection analyses, from multiple disciplinary perspectives, the issue of corruption in commercial enterprise across different sectors and jurisdictions.

Führungskräfte der Feuerwehren bekommen ihr taktisches Grundwissen an den Landesfeuerwehrschulen vermittelt.

The problem of how to treat the mentally handicapped attracted much attention from American reformers in the first half of the twentieth century.

The women's movement and increasing social consciousness regarding gender disparity and discrimination has helped to make gains over the past several decades to reduce gender disparity for women in the workplace.

How do I reduce crime in my police command?

This volume in the series Swedish Studies in European Law, produced by the Swedish Network for European Legal Studies, focuses on EU criminal law and transnational police co-operation.

Resozialisierung hat im Justizvollzug eine bereits im Strafvollzugsgesetz verankerte zentrale Bedeutung.

Originally published in 1981, Modern Policing provided an opportunity for members of the Police Staff College, Bramshill to air their views about different aspects of modern British policing.

A Circle of Support and Accountability is a group of trained volunteers who meet on a regular basis with a high risk sex offender living in their community.

Although the RCMP is often identified as a national symbol, Canadian police history is largely the story of municipal and provincial police forces who have had little influence on popular culture but considerable impact on the lives of Canadians.