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How vagrancy, as legal and imaginative category, shaped the role of policing in colonialism, racial formation, and resource distribution In this innovative book demonstrating the important role of eighteenth-century literary treatments of policing and vagrancy, Nicolazzo offers a prehistory of police legitimacy in a period that predates the establishment of the modern police force.

Now more than ever, the criminal justice system, and the programs, policies, and practices within it, are subject to increased public scrutiny, due to well-founded concerns over effectiveness, fairness, and potential unintended consequences.

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.

From prehistory to the present-day conservation movement, Pyne explores the efforts of successive American cultures to master wildfire and to use it to shape the landscape.

From the Cold War through today, the U.

The need for effective leadership in policing is quite evident, given the range of accounts of Police officers and Police organizations failing to serve the public with professionalism and integrity.

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.

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.

When James Moore joined the ATF in 1960, it was an arm of the Internal Revenue Service with one job: to catch the Mafia bootleggers whose distilleries cheated Uncle Sam of millions in tax revenue.

Grundlage einer erfolgreichen Brandbekämpfung ist die richtige Wahl eines geeigneten Löschmittels.

Assuming only a previous course in basic microeconomics, Economics of Crime and Enforcement is an innovative book which is strongly linked to the new theoretical and empirical journal literature.

A searing chronicle of how racist violence became an ingrained facet of law enforcement in the United States.

This is an essential text for students at all levels studying social work, nursing and allied health and social care, focusing on the need for professional curiosity and partnership work in safeguarding adults.

The compelling and disturbing true story of Vanessa George and the evil abuse she doled out upon the children of more than 300 families.

The mystique of private investigating draws significant numbers of people to consider it as a career or side business.

Communicate with ease with the Spanish-speaking public!

Learning About Crime, Pays.

Presenting cutting-edge research and scholarship, this extensive volume covers everything from abstract theorising about the meanings of responsibility and how we blame, to analysing criminal law and justice responses, and factors that impact individual responsibility.

Mention the phrase Homeland Security and heated debates emerge about state uses and abuses of legal authority.

This book brings together a variety of the best papers from an international research symposium on organisational behaviour in healthcare.

This book explores the interaction between public health policies and social inequality.

This book uses the case of the National Health Service to examine the management of ambiguity and change.

It has been said that how a society treats its least well-off members speaks volumes about its humanity.

We speak of being 'free' to speak our minds, free to go to college, free to move about; we can be cancer-free, debt-free, worry-free, or free from doubt.

When should we try to prevent suicide?

From The Lone Ranger to Lonesome Dove, the Texas Rangers have been celebrated in fact and fiction for their daring exploits in bringing justice to the Old West.

Highly popular with both the public and political leaders, community policing is the most important development in law enforcement in the last twenty-five years.

The police are perhaps the most visible representation of government.

Nearly all research devoted to policing focuses on public uniformed police and their legal use of force.

Until now, most discussion of racial profiling has given only fleeting consideration of its causes.

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) is the most widely used and accepted scheme for diagnosing mental disorders in the United States and beyond.

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) is the most widely used and accepted scheme for diagnosing mental disorders in the United States and beyond.

Psychiatric Expert Testimony: Emerging Applications is for practitioners who need to be at the cutting edge of admissibility in court.

Psychiatric Expert Testimony: Emerging Applications is for practitioners who need to be at the cutting edge of admissibility in court.

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

The 1921 Tulsa Race Riot was the country's bloodiest civil disturbance of the century.

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.

Who are the top ten greatest Supreme Court Justices of all time?

From The Lone Ranger to Lonesome Dove, the Texas Rangers have been celebrated in fact and fiction for their daring exploits in bringing justice to the Old West.

Thinking Orientals is a groundbreaking study of Asian Americans and the racial formation of twentieth-century American society.

For almost sixty years, the results of the New Deal have been an accepted part of political life.

Today, American mental health law and policy promote the restoring of "e;law and order"e; in the community rather than protecting civil liberties for the individual.

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

It has been said that how a society treats its least well-off members speaks volumes about its humanity.

With an overburdened and cumbersome system of court litigation, arbitration is becoming an increasingly attractive means of settling disputes.

Based on hundreds of interviews with CIA officials, national security experts, and legislators, as well as a thorough culling of the archival record, America's Secret Power offers an illuminating and up-to-date picture of the CIA, stressing the difficult balance between the genuine needs of national security and the protection of individual liberties.