Emergency services

Modern perspectives of law enforcement are both complex and diverse.

Improving Convention Center Management Using Business Analytics and Key Performance Indicators presents sound practical advice from an author who successfully lived the experience.

Die Feuerwehren halten Hubrettungsfahrzeuge - Drehleitern und Hubarbeitsbühnen - vor, um Menschen aus Gefahren in großer Höhe zu retten.

Das Rote Heft widmet sich den technischen Möglichkeiten, mit denen Vegetationsbrände sicher, schnell und effektiv bekämpft werden können.

This book provides an account and analysis of policing in Northern Ireland, providing an account and analysis of the RUC (Royal Ulster Constabulary) from the start of 'the troubles' in the 1960s to the early 1990s, through the uneasy peace that followed the 1994 paramilitary ceasefires (1994-1998), and then its transformation into the Police Service of Northern Ireland following the 1999 Patten Report.

How does an authoritarian state reform its police force following a transition to democracy?

This book, first published in 1930 and reissued in 1961, examines the Western phenomenon of the rise of the 'mass-man'.

Dieses Buch vermittelt Praxiswissen zum Ermittlungsverfahren in seinen nationalen und internationalen Bezügen.

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.

In recent years law, crime and justice have become increasingly politicised in Hong Kong.

Justice, Crime, and Ethics, a leading textbook in criminal justice programs, examines ethical dilemmas pertaining to the administration of criminal justice and professional activities in the field.

Remarkably little has been written about the theory and practice of applied police research, despite growing demand for evidence in crime prevention.

This book goes beyond other police leadership books to teach practitioners how to think about policing in a structured way that synthesizes criminological theory, statistics, research design, applied research, and what works and what doesn't in policing into Mental Models.

This book argues that policing should be studied in a truly comparative manner as a way of identifying more accurately the diverse features of police organisations and the trends which affect contemporary policing.

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

Following the fatal shooting in broad daylight of unarmed African American Michael Brown by a white cop in August 2014, Ferguson, Missouri became the scene of protests that pitted law enforcement against locals and Black Lives matter activists.

Class turmoil, labor, and law and order in Chicago In this book, Sam Mitrani cogently examines the making of the police department in Chicago, which by the late 1800s had grown into the most violent, turbulent city in America.

The primary goals of this brief are to invoke alertness and solidarity among the public in earthquake prone areas of India, and to empower the community to prepare themselves to face and manage the aftermath of an earthquake.

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

As gang violence continues to rise across the country and the world, police departments, prosecutors, and community members are seeking new methods to reduce the spread of gang-related criminal activity.

What's it like to have the legal sanction to shoot and kill?

Radicalization, and the terrorism that is frequently linked to it, have been subject to much study and governmental intervention.

Boldly and eloquently contributing to the argument against the prison system in the United States, these provocative essays offer an ideological and practical framework for empowering prisoners instead of incarcerating them.

Exploring the complex and controversial topic of civilian oversight of police, this book analyzes the issues and debates entailed by civilian oversight by using worldwide perspectives, in-depth case studies, and a wealth of survey data.

Police body-worn cameras (BWCs) are at the cutting edge of policing.

The Reference Manual for Humanitarian Health Professionals: Missioncraft in Disaster Relief is a hands-on resource written for disaster relief practitioners, educators, and researchers working in clinical medicine, public health, or disaster management.

Innovative Possibilities: Global Policing Research and Practice brings together observations that reflect upon the state of police (and policing) across the globe and associated forms of policing scholarship with inputs from Africa, Australia, South and Central America, China, Europe, and the USA.

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

"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.

Forensic medicine covers an amazing range of different subjects and no single individual can expect to be an expert in all of them.

Much of the literature on police corruption and police reforms is dominated by case studies of societies classified as developed.

In the wake of disaster emergency responders are first on the scene and last to leave.

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

This study, first published in 1982, is concerned with the nature of crime in nineteenth-century Britain, and explores the response of the community and the police authorities.

What role should the police have in an industrial dispute?

This volume brings together leading researchers to celebrate the significant contributions of Peter Grabosky to the field of Criminology, and in particular his work developing and adapting regulatory theory to the study of policing and security.

Designed as a text for Criminal Justice and Criminology capstone courses, Toward Justice encourages students to engage critically with conceptions of justice that go beyond the criminal justice system, in order to cultivate a more thorough understanding of the system as it operates on the ground in an imperfect world-where people aren't always rational actors, where individual cases are linked to larger social problems, and where justice can sometimes slip through the cracks.

By joining a diaspora, a society may begin to change its religious, ethnic, and even racial identifications by rethinking its "e;pasts.

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Understanding the politics of security in city-regions is increasingly important for the study of contemporary policing.

Das ist Ihr Begleitbuch für alle Einsätze!

Fear, Society, and the Police examines elements of fear and how they can be controlled and turned into an effective and proper response in an emergency situation.

This book deals with important issues related to urban housing in South Asia.

The revised third edition of the landmark Guns in American Society provides an authoritative and objective survey of the history and current state of all gun-related issues and areas of debate in the United States.

This book uncovers the influence of racial and prejudicial stereotyping during police investigation of suspects from stigmatised communities.