Law Enforcement

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...

Hong Kong began its colonial history in 1842 when China ceded Hong Kong Island to Britain. The Hong Kong Police Force was formally set up in 1844 to maintain law and order. To recognise its contribution in handling the 1967 Riots, the Hong Kong Police...

Former New York City captain and former editor of ""Fire Engineering"", Tom Brennan was a true legend in the fire service. For nearly two decades he wrote the most widely read column in ""Fire Engineering"" magazine, 'Random Thoughts' by Tom Brennan. For...

"Chief Scott Thompson combines his decades of experience and years of observation with today's leadership skills and provides a path for the successful fire department to follow. The Functional Fire Company will take you step by step from being an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061320842Author John A GarratyFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Since the Judiciary Act of 1789, federal trial judges have been politically appointed. From Woodrow Wilson to George Bush, this work examines the voting patterns of these presidentially-appointed trial judges, documenting the link between politics and...

Designing and operating an effective White House are critical to the success of any presidency-and to democracy in the United States. Former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Christopher Liddell offers a strategic approach to building a strong and...

The new Fire Chief's Handbook, 7th Edition continues Fire Engineering's 82-year tradition of publishing the definitive resource for advanced fire service training. The text has been completely updated to meet the changing environment and added...

Under the legal and administrative system of Nazi Germany, people categorized as Fremdvoelkische (literally, "foreign people") were subject to special laws that restricted their rights, limited their protection under the law, and exposed them to...

Based on newly-discovered, secret documents from German archives, diaries and newspapers of the time, Gun Control in the Third Reich presents the definitive, yet hidden history of how the Nazi regime made use of gun control to disarm and repress its...

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. The media...

This edited collection explores policing in America in regards to minority groups. The essays discuss how the relationship between police and minority groups affects politics, the economy, and minority groups' daily lives and success. The contributors...

The television spectacles of Oka and the Rodney King affair served to focus public disaffection with the police, a disaffection that has been growing for several years. In Canada, confidence in the police is at an all-time low. At the same time crime...

This work focuses on the staffing of the federal district and appellate courts from 1869-1992. Using a large data set that includes information on appointments and voluntary departures, the importance of government control (unified versus divided) to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780472098248Author Yonah AlexanderFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of Michigan...

Since their introduction in 1984, milk quotas have become a prominent feature of the Common Agricultural Policy. The vigorous and yet at times questionable trade in milk quotas is a strong indication that its legal ramifications are underestimated at...

The United States arrests, punishes, and locks up far more people-both juveniles and adults-than any other democratic country in the world. Indeed, despite the fact that the U.S holds 5 percent of the world's population, it contains 25 percent of its...

Principles of Fire Code Enforcement provides a comprehensive overview of the everyday work practices of fire inspectors and the important role they play in fire risk reduction in their communities. The text's easy-to-follow format covers basic and...

Practice safe procedures when responding to highway incidents with HIGHWAY SCENE SAFETY. A valuable learning tool for emergency response safety courses or as a handy reference manual for the field, this book focuses on operational guidelines necessary to...

Although terrorism is an age-old phenomenon, jihadist ideology is distinctive in its ambition to overthrow the modern state system, abandon the principle of state sovereignty, and destroy the foundations of world order. Barak Mendelsohn argues that a...

With the elements against them, the state troopers of Alaska face every day with a fight for their lives.In the state of Alaska, anything goes. For the state troopers, an average day can include blizzard conditions, midnight sunsets, and subzero...

Mention the phrase Homeland Security and heated debates emerge about state uses and abuses of legal authority. This timely book is a comprehensive treatise on the constitutional and legal history behind the power of the modern state to police its...

Unlike other textbooks on the subject, Criminal Justice Policy and Planning: Planned Change, Fifth Edition, presents a comprehensive and structured account of the process of administering planned change in the criminal justice system. Welsh and Harris...

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...

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...

The book examines the phenomenon of crafting transnational policing. By this term is meant the different forms of engagement in policing reform by international donors, national governments, foreign police and law enforcement agencies in the domestic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569022788Author Gregory Alonso PirioFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Red Sea Press,U.S.Publisher Red Sea Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 333g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780833050687Author Jeremy M. WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint RANDPublisher RANDWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm) 232mm * 155mm * 8mm

First published in 1998, this volume seeks to examine a range of policing techniques which are new, if not in their conception, then at least in their importance to the form of police enquiries in the late 20th century. Some of them are beginning to be...

First published in 1998, this volume seeks to examine a range of policing techniques which are new, if not in their conception, then at least in their importance to the form of police enquiries in the late 20th century. Some of them are beginning to be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506488165Author Lacino HamiltonFormat HardbackPage Count 266Imprint Broadleaf BooksPublisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g

When Norman Maclean sent the manuscript of A River Runs through It to New York publishers, he received a slew of rejections. One editor, so the story goes, replied, "It has trees in it." Forty years later, the title novella is widely recognized as one of...

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...

This book examines protest policing and the toolbox of options available to police commanders in response. The right to peacefully protest is intrinsic to democracy and embedded in British history and tradition. The police are responsible for managing...

The United States arrests, punishes, and locks up far more people-both juveniles and adults-than any other democratic country in the world. Indeed, despite the fact that the U.S holds 5 percent of the world's population, it contains 25 percent of its...

While most government agencies are trained in how to react to a mass casualty event such as a terrorist attack or natural disaster, few are prepared to deal with the psychological fallout for first responders. Preparing for the Unimaginable fills that...

Volume VI of The Collected Works of William Howard Taft follows the career of William Howard Taft upon his leaving the White House. It consists of two short publications from 1914 and 1915. The first, The President and His Powers, is based on a series...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399589034Author Carol LeonnigFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...