Law Enforcement

In recent history, planned violent attacks have persisted in the United States and abroad. Ranging from targeted attacks on private individuals, public figures, schools, universities, corporations, and public venues, among others, these attacks have...

Explores how policing students and police officers might apply theory to tackle dilemmas demonstrated through true to life scenarios. Relevant for those undertaking the Professional Policing degree, Apprenticeships or the Degree Holder Entry...

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...

Today's police agencies are in a period of both crisis and reform as they try to improve their ability to deliver public safety to citizens in ways that are effective, legitimate, and sustainable. Evidence-based policing offers one such solution - an...

Crisis Negotiations: Managing Critical Incidents and Hostage Situations in Law Enforcement and Corrections, the sixth edition, is an invaluable resource for mitigating, managing, or responding to high risk negotiation incidents.This revision includes the...

Policing a Class Society is an in-depth critical analysis of how ruling elites use the police institution in order to control communities. It is an urgent history of the creation of the police in the United States, focusing on the recently expanded...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849352154Author Kristian WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 584Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 906g

In the first half of nineteenth century France was characterized by extraordinary regional and linguistic diversity but the state increasingly became a central force in the lives of its citizens. One way that it did so was through its police force,...

This important text offers a full and detailed account of how to use discourse analysis to study foreign policy. It provides a poststructuralist theory of the relationship between identity and foreign policy and an in-depth discussion of the methodology...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903854402Author Andrew HailwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Milo BooksPublisher Milo BooksWeight(grams) 242g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812979237Author Tim WeinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637757253Author Joshua RuedaFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Test Prep BooksPublisher Test Prep BooksWeight(grams) 467gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm...

Who is responsible for juvenile delinquency? Mark D. Jacobs uses ethnographic, statistical, and literary methods to uncover the many levels of disorganization in American juvenile justice. By analyzing the continuities betwen normal casework and...

Whether they appear in mystery novels or headline news stories, on prime-time TV or the silver screen, few figures have maintained such an extraordinary hold on the American cultural imagination as modern police officers. Why are we so fascinated with...

In the classic genre of Norman Maclean's Young Men and Fire...Journey with Peter Leschak, wildland firefighter, as he explores the warrior spirit--a genderless code emphasizing personal integrity, responsibility, patience, will, commitment, and inner...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781932107029Format PaperbackPage Count 101Imprint Griffin House PublicationsPublisher Griffin House Publications

The 13 papers contained in this volume analyze the threat of biological terrorism in the United States today. Written by the distinguished members of the Potomac Institute's Counter Biological Terrorism Panel, the papers discuss biological threats in the...

The law and politics of European integration have been inseparable since the 1960s, when the European Court of Justice rendered a set of foundational decisions that gradually served to 'constitutionalize' the Treaty of Rome. In this book, Alec Stone...

The importance of good administration is frequetly stressed by politicians, civil servants and judges. This book examines the concept against a background of extensive civil service reform, an increasingly interventionist judiciary, and exceptional...

The American tort system is a unique system in that it possesses many characteristics about which very little is known in the UK, or in Europe. Professor Fleming, a world-famous legal scholar who specializes in tort, has had the opportunity of observing...

This book offers a sociological analysis of the history of international police cooperation in the period from the middle of the 19th century until the end of World War II. It is a detailed exploration of international cooperation strategies involving...

This book challenges the traditional idea that policing is the first stage in a criminal justice process, in which the police use their powers of criminal investigation to feed cases into the legal process for authoritative legal resolution. The author...

National parks played a unique role in the development of wildfire management on American public lands. With a different mission and powerful meaning to the public, the national parks were a psychic battleground for the contests between fire suppression...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940499772Author Scott SilveriiFormat HardbackPage Count 366Imprint Five StonesPublisher Five StonesWeight(grams) 689gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 24mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940499765Author Scott SilveriiFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint Five StonesPublisher Five StonesWeight(grams) 535gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 21mm

What is evidence-based policing and how is it done? This book provides an answer to both questions, offering an introduction for undergraduate students and a hands-on guide for police officers wanting to know how to put principles into practice. It...

What is the "Leadership Gap"? In law enforcement and public safety, the Leadership Gap is a phenomenon that reflects the failure of leaders to build enough commitment and buy-in from those they lead to institute change and achieve planned outcomes. The...

A groundbreaking study of when, where, and whom police shoot in America's largest cities Police shootings in America spark outrage and protest and raise questions about police use of lethal force. Yet despite the attention given to high-profile...

The police force is one of the most distrusted institutions in Pakistan, notorious for its corruption and brutality. In both colonial and postcolonial contexts, directives to confront security threats have empowered law enforcement agents, while the lack...

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...

As firefighters, even how we answer the phone or the door makes a first and lasting impression on the public and the community we serve. Author Jason Hoevelmann fills in the gaps that may exist in fire service teaching to better prepare you for a...

Authoritative and insightful, this wide-ranging overview of police abuse and violence in American society offers a one-stop primer for understanding the forces driving abusive and violent police misconduct. In addition to chronicling specific notorious...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590562383Author Charles "Sid" HealFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Lantern Books,USPublisher Lantern Books,US

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsBooklist Top 10 Series Nonfiction.Book InformationISBN 9781728423401Author Elliott SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Lerner Publishing GroupPublisher Lerner...

As a punishment for our most serious crime-the intentional killing of a victim in an egregious way-the death penalty naturally attracts opposing moral views. One view says that the state should never execute a criminal no matter what the crime may be...

Into the Smoke is a work of photojournalism and traces Tom Barry's career as a firefighter-spanning parts of four decades in FDNY-along with the forty-year effort of noted freelance photographer Michael Dick. The era covered in this book is best known in...

Designed to serve as a comprehensive guide, Introduction to Traffic Law, Investigation, and Enforcement equips law enforcement officials with the vital knowledge they need to confidently and successfully investigate and enforce traffic laws.In Unit 1 of...

Company Officer for Fire and Emergency Services provides a foundation in management and leadership principles and practices designed to equip readers with the knowledge, skills, and confidence that will contribute to their professional success throughout...

A summary and analysis of the Supreme Court's impact on American law and government during the tenureship of Warren Burger. Earl M. Maltz contends that in many areas of constitutional law the Burger Court produced the most liberal jurisprudence in...

This book (3rd edition) is a book about organized common sense in the fire service.Section One of the 3rd edition provides support to fire departments that already have a strategic plan and just need to update and revise their existing plan. I have found...