Malcolm K Sparrow: 3 books
License To Steal
Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2007
Who steals? An extraordinary range of folk--from low-life hoods who sign on as Medicare or Medicaid providers equipped with nothing more than beepers and mailboxes, to drug trafficking organizations, organized crime syndicates, and even major hospital chains. In License to Steal, Malcolm K. Sparrow...
Handcuffed
What Holds Policing Back, and the Keys to Reform
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Whatever happened to community and problem-oriented policing? How the current crisis in policing can be traced to failures of reform.
The police shooting of an unarmed young black man in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, Missouri, in August 2014 sparked riots and the beginning of a national...
The Character of Harms
Operational Challenges in Control
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2008
How should we deal with societal ills such as crime, poverty, pollution, terrorism, and corruption? The Character of Harms argues that control or mitigation of 'bad' things involves distinctive patterns of thought and action which turn out to be broadly applicable across a range of human endeavors,...