Emergency services

In this era of ever more complex policing issues and the changing nature of policing itself, senior police officers face a never-ending challenge to keep up not only with the latest reforms, but also with the latest research.

Although Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) has been a recognized autistic profile in the UK for some time, awareness is still growing in America.

Is emergency management education undoing an age-old tradition in the American Fire Service?

Für die Aus- und Fortbildung, aber auch für den Einsatz werden wichtige Sachverhalte oft in komprimierter Form als Abkürzung, Akronym oder Merkregel zusammengefasst.

Die Beteiligung von Spontanhelfenden kann in Krisensituation eine große Unterstützung darstellen, gleichzeitig bedeutet diese jedoch eine zusätzliche organisatorische Herausforderung für die beteiligten Organisationen.

Originally published as The Ex-Offender's Job Hunting Guide (2005), this ground-breaking book offers sound re-entry employment advice for those with red flags in their backgrounds and those who may appear unemployable.

The 80 rules you need to prepare for action in a medical disaster Here are 80 disaster management rules to reflect on, remember and follow in the immediate aftermath of an incident involving mass casualties.

This book provides a thorough and directed focus on successfully identifying, obtaining, and succeeding in a career in criminal justice or criminology.

Written by a police professional with 40 years' experience, Police Responses to Islamist Violent Extremism and Terrorism examines the evolution of counter-terrorism policy and state narratives on the causes and drivers of Islamist violence and terrorism and issues a direct challenge to the reality they impose on British Muslim communities, as well as the wider British public.

No-Body Homicides: The Evolution of Investigation and Prosecution examines how police and prosecutors have become more successful in obtaining convictions for homicide when the remains of the victim are unavailable as evidence.

This book provides advances in computational logistics and supply chain analytics.

As a result of arms control efforts over the past 50 years, nuclear material is subject to strict national controls and tough international treaties.

In an age of invasive technology and mass data collection, how can we understand the true impact of surveillance on our lives and communities?

From the Victorian period to the present, images of the policeman have played a prominent role in the literature of empire, shaping popular perceptions of colonial policing.

This book adopts a multidimensional approach to explain current practices and trends in facility management.

Blackstone's Police Operational Handbook: Practice and Procedure is a companion volume to the successful Blackstone's Police Operational Handbook: Law.

Despite a shared focus on crime and its 'extended family', forensic scientists and criminologists tend to work in isolation rather than sharing the data, methods and knowledge that will broaden the understanding of the criminal phenomenon and its related subjects.

Im Zeitalter von Internet und Social Media ist eine aussagekräftige und zielgerichtete Öffentlichkeitsarbeit längst nicht mehr nur ein kleiner Teilbereich im Aufgabenspektrum der Feuerwehr.

From the point of his arrest through to the final disposition of his case, the authors follow the accused as he proceeds through the criminal control system.

In marked contrast to the decade before, the 1980s saw an enormous growth of sociological research on the police and on policing.

In this lively account of one [fire] season, Pyne introduces us to the tightly knit world of a fire crew, to the complex geography of the North Rim, to the technique and changing philosophy of fire management.

Understanding the financial motivations behind white collar crime is often the key to the apprehension and successful prosecution of these individuals.

This book is the first empirical study of police discretion in India.

This book provides a comprehensive exchange of information on current developments in the management of manufacturing systems and Industry 4.

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.

This book brings together an international group of experts to present cutting-edge psychological research on crime, policing and courts.

This book analyses the private provision of rescue and emergency services, and focuses on the emergence of the world's largest rescue company, Falck.

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Largely unknown except in a few law enforcement circles, Jelly Bryce was at the forefront of the conflict during Americas gangster era.

This text provides critical information to help organizations improve their emergency communications, including the tools, automation technology, and processes of crisis notification.

This book demonstrates the unique contribution police ethnographies make to our understanding of policing cultures and practices in a variety of international settings.

Interviewing of Suspects with Mental Health Conditions and Disorders in England and Wales explores cutting-edge research that focuses specifically on these adults (including their cognitive needs and psychological vulnerabilities), the impact on the investigative interview, and existing legislation, guidance and practice.

Western societies are immersed in debates about immigration and illegality.

Techniques in the investigative interviewing and interrogation of victims, witnesses and suspects of crime vary around the world, according to a country's individual legal system, religion and culture.

The testimony of an expert witness can lead to success or failure in cases that hinge on the presentation's impact on a jury.

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Bringing together a range of leading social scientists and criminologists, this volume explores a number of key themes raised by the work of Robert Reiner.

This book provides a fresh look at the way the United States is choosing to deal with some of the serious or persistent youth offenders: by transferring juvenile offenders to adult courts.

This book is part of a six-volume series on Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience.

This book provides the most comprehensive and authoritative book yet published on the subject of criminal investigation, a rapidly developing area within the police and other law enforcement agencies, and an important sub discipline within police studies.

It is essential that those in the criminal justice system understand the tasks that police dogs perform and the evidence that their work produces.

Drawing on empirical research conducted with police in the UK and Romania, Child Trafficking in the EU explores the way in which the 'who' and 'how' we police and protect as trafficker and trafficked is related to Western notions of innocence, guilt, childhood, and of the status of 'deserving' victim.

The United States has more than two million people locked away in federal, state, and local prisons.

This book presents a comprehensive and state-of the-art approach to vascular disease for the geriatric patient, focusing on vascular pathology and interventions but also on perioperative care, anesthetic care, functional outcomes and quality of life, as well as ethical considerations that impact decision making.

In recent years, drug use, illegal migration and human trafficking have all become more common in Asia, North America and Asia: the problems of organized crime and human trafficking are no longer confined to operating at the traditional regional level.

Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) has over the last decade made an increasing mark in several fields, notably health and medicine, education and social welfare.

This book examines contemporary issues of security at sports mega-events (SMEs).

This book examines the structures that support the policing organisation internally and externally, including its partners within the criminal justice system.

This title examines the role of political culture and penal populism in the response to the emotive subject of child-on-child homicide.