Law Enforcement category: 654 books
Criminal Justice Internships
Theory Into Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
Criminal Justice Internships: Theory into Practice, 9th Edition, guides the student, instructor, and internship site supervisor through the entire internship process, offering advice and information for use at the internship site as well as for pre-planning and assessment activities. With more and...
by Inge Sebyan Black
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2013
The Art of Investigative Interviewing, Third Edition can be used by anyone who is involved in investigative interviewing. It is a perfect combination of real, practical, and effective techniques, procedures, and actual cases. Learn key elements of investigative interviewing, such as human psychology,...
by Greg Cooper, Mike King
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
This text is designed to provide an overview and practical understanding of the processes, theories and investigative techniques of Cold Case Investigations, as well as operative and sequential procedures that lead to successful closure of Cold Cases. Covered areas include; development of cold case...
Background Screening and Investigations
Managing Hiring Risk from the HR and Security Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
Hiring highly qualified people is crucial to every company, and Background Screening and Investigations is an essential guide to succeeding in a turbulent business environment. A crucial part of any hiring process should be employment background screening, pre- and post-hire, which gives hiring personnel...
Disarmament Diplomacy and Human Security
Regimes, Norms and Moral Progress in International Relations
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
This book assesses how progress in disarmament diplomacy in the last decade has improved human security.
In doing so, the book looks at three cases of the development of international norms in this arena. First, it traces how new international normative understandings have shaped the evolution...
Prison Break
Why Conservatives Turned Against Mass Incarceration
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
American conservatism rose hand-in-hand with the growth of mass incarceration. For decades, conservatives deployed "tough on crime" rhetoric to attack liberals as out-of-touch elitists who coddled criminals while the nation spiraled toward disorder. As a result, conservatives have been the motive...
Policing the Planet
Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
How policing became the major political issue of our time
Combining firsthand accounts from activists with the research of scholars and reflections from artists, Policing the Planet traces the global spread of the broken-windows policing strategy, first established in New York City under Police...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Criminal Justice System
A Guided Tour of America’s Legal System
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Learning About Crime, Pays.
Most people watch television shows such as Law and Order and see a simplified version of the world of cops and courtrooms. In fact, the American criminal justice system is one of the most complex legal establishments in the world. The Complete Idiot's Guide® to...
Summary of Just Mercy
By Bryan Stevenson | Includes Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Summary of Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson | Includes Analysis Preview: Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption is a legal memoir by Bryan Stevenson. It is set in the 1980s and early 1990s and follows Stevenson’s legal career as an advocate for Alabama prisoners...
War, Torture and Terrorism
Rethinking the Rules of International Security
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2008
This book seeks to demonstrate how rules not only guide a variety of practices within international politics but also contribute to the chaos and tension on the part of agents in light of the structures they sustain. Four central themes- practice, legitimacy, regulation, and responsibility- reflect...
Wrongly Convicted
Miscarriages of Justice
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2013
Contents
Introduction, Chipita Rodriguez, Colin Campbell Ross, Timothy Evans, Steven Truscott, Guildford Four and the Maguire Seven, The Birmingham Six, Sean Hodgson, Lindy Chamberlain, Ellis Wayne Felker, Carlos DeLuna, Kirk Bloodsworth, Michael Morton, Sion Jenkins.
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New Mexico's Rangers
The Mounted Police
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2010
The New Mexico Mounted Police were forged from a frontier civil crisis and hammered to life upon the anvil of necessity. The Sunshine Territory of New Mexico had become the last outlaw haven in the Southwest. In the tradition of their red-coated namesake, the Northwest Mounted Police of Canada, this...
The Men Who Wear the Star
The Story of the Texas Rangers
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2000
Here is the first full telling of the most colorful and famous law enforcers of our time. For years, the Texas Rangers have been historical figures shrouded in myth. Charles M. Robinson III has sifted through the tall tales to reach the heart of this storied organization. The Men Who Wear the Star...
by P A J Waddington, Martin Wright, Kate Williams
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
When people witness occasions when police use their powers to investigate crime and arrest offenders, how do those members of the public assess what they have seen? This book reports research in which a variety of groups from the West Midlands watched short video-clips of such real-life incidents...