Law Enforcement

A survey of the drug policy debate, Searching for Alternatives features essays by thirty respected champions of divergent views. This volume presents new and important empirical data; incorporates arguments from historical, sociological, legal, medical,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781728439129Author Christy PetersonFormat HardbackPage Count 24Imprint Lerner Publications (Tm)Publisher Lerner Publications (Tm)

The recent killings in Dallas, Baton Rouge, Ferguson, and elsewhere are just the latest examples of the longstanding rift between law enforcement and people of color. In this revealing journey to the heart of a growing crisis, CBS News Justice and...

Divided into four sections-public safety agencies, key issues like interoperability and cybercrime, management skills, and emerging trends like the transfer of military technologies to civilian agencies, Managing Public Safety Technology illustrates how...

Transnational organized crime interferes with the everyday lives of more and more people - and represents a serious threat to democracy. By now, organized crime has become an inherent feature of economic globalization, and the fine line between the legal...

Presidents spend millions of dollars on public opinion polling while in office. Critics often point to this polling as evidence that a "permanent campaign" has taken over the White House at the expense of traditional governance. But has presidential...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815736370Author Stephen HessFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 422gDimensions(mm)...

In the thirty years after the Second World War, Cambodia witnessed the reassertion of colonial power, the spread of nationalism, the birth and growth of a communist party, the achievement of independence, the stifling reform during the decade of peace,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593471319Author Jessica PishkoFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint DuttonPublisher Penguin Books LtdWeight(grams) 692gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 160mm * 37mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814207581Author Jerome G. MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394713809Author Alan DershowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 495gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

America's first anti-sex trafficking law, the 1910 Mann Act, made it illegal to transport women over state lines for prostitution "or any other immoral purpose." It was meant to protect women and girls from being seduced or sold into sexual slavery. But,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910602041Author Richard McMunnFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint How2become LtdPublisher How2become LtdDimensions(mm) 186mm * 128mm * 14mm

The policing of drugs is an intriguing, complex, and contentious domain that brings into sharp focus the multifaceted nature of the police role and has farreaching consequences for health, crime, and justice. While research on drugs policing has...

The United States, a single country, locks up a quarter of the world's incarcerated population. More than 850,000 Americans are currently on parole. Yet the parole system is opaque, a confounding process riddled with inequities. Few understand parole as...

First time in paperback The first biography of the serial killer featured in Devil in the White CityReviews"Adam Selzer's masterful sleuthing, proves to us, `the Devil IS in the details." Impeccably researched, the author has wiped away the...

Between 1994-2014, Israel's security service was transformed, becoming one of the most extreme examples of privatised security in the world. This book is an investigation into this period and the conditions that created 'Occupation Inc.': the institution...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957255101Author Mark LambFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Bcg PublishingPublisher Bcg PublishingWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 8mm

The law is full of stories, ranging from the competing narratives presented at trials to the Olympian historical narratives set forth in Supreme Court opinions. How those stories are told and listened to makes a crucial difference to those whose lives...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Agatha Awards (Nonfiction) 2014 and Macavity Award (Nonfiction) 2015.Book InformationISBN 9781610352178Author Adam PlantingaFormat PaperbackPage Count...

One hundred years ago, French troops fired tear gas grenades into German trenches. Designed to force people out from behind barricades and trenches, tear gas causes burning of the eyes and skin, tearing, and gagging. Chemical weapons are now banned from...

For over ten years he was first detective on the scene when a murder was committed in south London. In the confusion and horror of the crime scene he identified the forensic clues that would later be needed to convict the killer in the calm and measured...

Contains the 'Golden Rules' of Police Leadership. In Police Leadership in the Twenty-first Century the editors bring together a collection of authoritative and innovative contributions to show that: Leadership is less of a mystery than is often supposed;...

Blending history and memoir, retired U.S. Marshal Mike Earp-a descendant of the legendary lawman Wyatt Earp-offers an exclusive and fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the most storied law enforcement agency in America, illuminating its vital role in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307719706Author Ronald KesslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)Publisher...

This book helps you discover how a professional private investigator uncovers the facts and gets to the truth If you're looking to gain investigative skills or are simply curious about the mystique of private investigation, then The Complete Idiot's...

Unlike earthquakes and other natural catastrophes, this "new species of trouble" afflicts persons and groups in particularly disruptive ways. With clear-eyed compassion, in vivid narrative and in participants' own words, Kai Erikson describes how...

This book offers practical, research-based strategies to help all members of law enforcement improve their wellness, strengthen their ethical commitments, and increase their resilience both on- and off-duty. A police officer's power does not come from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915174031Author Nigel CruttendenFormat HardbackPage Count 942Imprint Ozaru BooksPublisher Ozaru BooksWeight(grams) 1483gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm *...

Aggression, Crime and International Security examines the concept of aggression in international relations and how it has been dealt with by international law and collective security organisations.This book analyses the evolution of the concept of...

The period in Northern Ireland known as 'the Troubles' (1968-98) seemed to have been conclusively ended by the official peace process. But recent violence from dissident Republicans shows that tensions from the past remain unresolved. State Violence,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374515553Author Jonathan RubinsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 498Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

An instant national best sellerA persuasive primer on police abolition from two veteran organizers "One of the world's most prominent advocates, organizers and political educators of the [abolitionist] framework." -NBCNews.com on Mariame Kaba In this...

The role that precedent plays in constitutional decision making is a perennially divisive subject among scholars of law and American politics. The debate rages over both empirical and normative aspects of the issue: To what extent are the Supreme Court,...

In the Spring of 1993, federal agents raided the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas. A 51-day standoff ensued. Known as the Waco Siege, it has become a founding myth of the extreme wing of American conservatism, invoked by militiamen, gun rights...

American police departments have presided over the business of motion pictures since the end of the nineteenth century. Their influence is evident not only on the screen but also in the ways movies are made, promoted, and viewed in the United States...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637586242Author Thomas J BakerFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Bombardier BooksPublisher Bombardier BooksWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 221mm *...

A revelatory look at how the NYPD has resisted change through strategic and selective community engagement. The past few years have seen Americans express passionate demands for police transformation. But even as discussion of no-knock warrants,...

This classic book on the role of the Supreme Court in our democracy traces the history of the Court, assessing the merits of various decisions along the way. Eminent law professor Alexander Bickel begins with Marbury vs. Madison, which he says gives...

This collection of reports and essays (the first collaboration between Truthout and Haymarket Books) explores police violence against black, brown, indigenous and other marginalised communities, miscarriages of justice and failures of token...