Emergency services

This book highlights cutting-edge research into emergency early warning management and decision-making for severe accidents.

This cohesive set of case studies collects scholarly research, policy evaluation, and field experience to explain how terrorist groups have developed into criminal enterprises.

This Handbook brings together the voices of a range of contributors interested in the many varied experiences of women in criminal justice systems, and who are seeking to challenge the status quo.

The interdependencies between supply infrastructures & in the event of power failures, for example & may not only limit regular supplies in the event of a crisis, but can also make emergency supply mechanisms more difficult.

Based on personal experience and academic research, Tom Barker shines a light on the dark side of American policing by examining misconduct and corruption as occupational and workplace forms of deviance.

This book traces the history of the British Transport Police, the National Police Force responsible for policing the railways of England, Scotland and Wales.

This book examines protest policing and the toolbox of options available to police commanders in response.

Forensic mental health assessment (FMHA) has grown into a specialization informed by research and professional guidelines.

Dieses Buch beschreibt die anlagentechnischen Komponenten für die Wärmeversorgung von Gebäuden sowie die Anlagentechnik und die dazugehörigen Parameter.

This book provides an account and analysis of the history of the Bow Street Runners, precursors of today's police force.

Forensic psychiatrist Emanuel Tanay has testified in thousands of court cases as an expert witness, including such notorious cases as those of Jack Ruby, Sam Sheppard, and Theodore 'Ted' Bundy.

Knowledge about policing has been produced and disseminated unevenly so that our understanding comes from a skewed emphasis on the Anglo-American experience.

Security sector reform (SSR) is central to the democratic transitions currently unfolding across the globe, as a diverse range of countries grapple with how to transform militias, tribal forces, and dominant military, police, and intelligence agencies into democratically controlled and accountable security services.

Combining the pulsating drive of Showtimes Homeland with the fascinating historical detail of such of narrative nonfiction bestsellers as Double Cross and In the Garden of Beasts, Dark Invasion is Howard Blums gritty, high-energy true-life tale of German espionage and terror on American soil during World War I, and the NYPD Inspector who helped uncover the plotthe basis for the film to be produced by and starring Bradley Cooper.

Der Autor gibt mit seinem Werk eine umfassende Übersicht zu den herkömmlichen und neuesten Methoden der Waldbrandfrüherkennung und geht hierbei auch auf die Wirtschaftlichkeit dieser Systeme ein.

The study analyses the polices role in society, about its bad name and looks into the history of the institution, dating back to the ancient period, and is presented with research oriented approach and logical treatment achieving a totality.

Policing, environmental protection, and tax administration have much more in common than practitioners in these areas often recognize.

Providing an indispensable resource for students investigating sexual harassment in the United States, Sexual Harassment: A Reference Handbook is a comprehensive summary of history, current events, possible solutions, and resources.

Certain types of crime are increasingly being perpetrated across national borders and require a unified regional or global response to combat them.

The British Transport Police became the first Police Force in the UK to establish a dog section when Airedale terriers began to patrol the docks of Hull in 1908.

This unique book discusses and explains the practical aspects of crime reduction partnerships from a police officer's perspective.

This book provides a comprehensive, cutting-edge look at the problems that impact the way we conduct intervention and treatment for youth in crisis today-an indispensable resource for practitioners, students, researchers, policymakers, and faculty working in the area of juvenile justice.

Based on first-hand interviews with survivors, people who have committed offences, and others on the frontlines, Indictment puts the Canadian criminal justice system on trial and proposes a bold new vision of transformative justice.

Police who engage in torture are condemned by human rights activists, the media, and people across the world who shudder at their brutality.

This book provides an ethnography of street-level policing in the United States and offers an analysis with valuable lessons for today's law enforcement officers.

This volume looks at the administration of research and service programs in the U.

In 1999, a seemingly incongruous collection of protestors converged in Seattle to shut down the meetings of the World Trade Organization.

'Stop and search' is a form of police-citizen interaction that is confrontational, often stressful for those involved, and potentially damaging to the relationship between police and public.

Written by experts with a combined 50 years of experience teaching and researching in the field of domestic abuse, Intimate Partner Violence: Effective Procedure, Response, and Policy provides practical instruction for practitioners and lay people responding to domestic violence, as well as ideas for policymakers working to create solutions to the violence.

Why did a movement as powerful as the one inspired by the murder of George Floyd fall short of securing its most militant demands?

The first book to focus on an exciting new alternative to the controversial ''lie-detector tests'': the Concealed Information Test.

THE BASIS FOR THE MAJOR 6-PART HBO(R) DOCUMENTARY SERIES#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR:Washington Post| Maureen Corrigan,NPR|Paste|Seattle Times|Entertainment Weekly|Esquire|Slate| Buzzfeed |Jezebel|Philadelphia Inquirer|Publishers Weekly|Kirkus Reviews|Library Journal|BustleWinner of the Goodreads Choice Awards for Nonfiction | Anthony Award Winner | SCIBA Book Award Winner | Finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime |Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for ExcellenceThehaunting true story of the elusive serial rapist turned murderer who terrorized California during the 70s and 80s, and ofthe gifted journalist who died tragically while investigating the casewhich was solved in April 2018.

Child abuse cases are unique in that they involve seldomly witnessed acts.

This book challenges the dominant narrative of young people being a uniquely violent group.

Although law enforcement codes have a history that parallels most other recent occupational and professional codes, they have been almost completely ignored in the literature of occupational and professional ethics.

Dieses Buch ist anders als alle bisherigen Bücher zu dem Thema Menschenführung!

If you are embarking on a university criminology, policing or other law enforcement professional degree, the books in this series will help you acquire and develop the knowledge, skills and strategies you need to achieve your goals.

The terrorist use of diseases as bioweapons has been one of the major security concerns in recent years, particularly after the anthrax letter attacks in the USA in 2001.

Leading police scholars examine major innovations in American policing that emerged over the last three decades.

This volume represents a timely and essential contribution for both scholars and readers of the Coronavirus Pandemic.

This cohesive set of case studies collects scholarly research, policy evaluation, and field experience to explain how terrorist groups have developed into criminal enterprises.

In the late 1980s, the role of the police and their accountability to the community had been at the centre of much debate.

A new field of medicine has emerged as a result of the global proliferation of terrorism.

Police interviews with suspects and witnesses provide some of the most significant evidence in criminal investigations.

Relying on intense ethnographic research and extensive experiences teaching human rights policing to police officers, this book teaches law enforcement professionals how to apply human rights to their everyday interactions with community members.

First published in 1973, Wrongful Imprisonment aims to combine the human interest of individual cases of wrongful imprisonment with a general analysis of how and why they occur.

Crime Scene Management and Evidence Recovery is a must-have for first responders and crime scene investigators alike.

In vier aufeinander aufbauenden Studien befasst sich Nils Ellebrecht mit der Organisation des Notfalls.

Certain types of crime are increasingly being perpetrated across national borders and require a unified regional or global response to combat them.

This text provides a clear and accessible introduction to the Investigatory Powers Act, a foundational piece of UK national security law.