Law Enforcement category: 654 books
by Olympe de Gouges
Language: French
Release Date: March 15, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: March 15, 2015
Extrait : Madame, Peu faite au langage que l’on tient aux Rois, je n’emploierai point l’adulation des Courtisans pour vous faire hommage de cette singulière production. Mon but, Madame, est de vous parler franchement ; je n’ai pas attendu pour m’exprimer ainsi,...
by Martyn Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Welcome to What's Tha Playing At Nah?, the fourth volume of Martyn Johnson's acclaimed series of stories about policing during the 1960s and 1970s. Whether 'on the beat' or 'as CID', once again Martyn enthralls, surprises and shocks his readers with tales set in an almost forgotten era: a veritable...
Ripper Hunter
Abberline and the Whitechapel Murders
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
Who was Inspector Frederick Abberline, the lead detective in the Jack the Ripper case? Why did he and his fellow policemen fail to catch the most notorious serial killer of Victorian England? What was he like as a man, as a professional policeman, one of the best detectives of his generation? And...
by Spencer J. Sadler
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
Pennsylvania's Coal and Iron Police ruled small patch towns and industrial cities for their coal and iron company bosses from 1865 to 1931. Armed with a gun and badge and backed by state legislation, the members of the private police force were granted power in a practically unspecified jurisdiction....
Secret Service
Political Policing in Canada From the Fenians to Fortress America
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2012
Secret Service provides the first comprehensive history of political policing in Canada – from its beginnings in the mid-nineteenth century, through two world wars and the Cold War to the more recent 'war on terror.' This book reveals the extent, focus, and politics of government-sponsored surveillance...
The Origins of the American-Israeli Alliance
The Jordanian Factor
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2007
This book demonstrates that the origins of the US-Israeli alliance lay in the former's concern over Egyptian influence in Jordan, contrasting with the widely-held view of the significance of the Six Day War.
The American-Israeli Alliance will be of great interest to students of Middle East studies, history, and politics.
Summary: Just Mercy - Summarized for Busy People
Based on the Book by Bryan Stevenson
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018
This book summary and analysis was created for individuals who want to extract the essential contents and are too busy to go through the full version. This book is not intended to replace the original book. Instead, we highly encourage you to buy the full version.
Bryan Stevenson, a young lawyer...
by Heinz Duthel
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Mafia Geheimbund Camorra ‘Ndrangheta Sacra Corona Unita La Cosa Nostra Russische Mafia Albanische Mafia Yakuza Triade (Kriminalistik) Sizilianische Sprache Sarazenen Palermo Sizilianische Vesper Joseph Bonanno Bonanno-Familie I mafiusi di la Vicaria Giuseppe Garibaldi Organisierte Kriminalität...
by Maurice Joly
Language: French
Release Date: November 28, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: November 28, 2014
Il n’est pas inutile d’avertir le lecteur que ce n’est pas sans peine que cette brochure voit le jour. Ne voulant faire entendre que quelques paroles libres et convaincues, l’auteur n’estimait pas que ce mince opuscule valût la peine d’être signé. Deux éditeurs...
Blue
The LAPD and the Battle to Redeem American Policing
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Vividly drawn and character-driven*, Blue* is simultaneously a gripping drama of cops, crime, and politics, and a primer on police policy and reform.
Beginning with the 1992 Los Angeles Riots and ending with the tumultuous police controversies swirling around both Ferguson, MO and New York...
The Sting Man
Inside Abscam
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
The true story behind the film AMERICAN HUSTLE
The Sting Man is the amazing inside story of Mel Weinberg, one of the most fascinating fast-buck operators to ever live, and the incredible scandals he masterminded. Hustling his way from the streets of the Bronx to hawking bogus businesses around...
Texas Tough
The Rise of America's Prison Empire
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
A vivid history of America's biggest, baddest prison system and how it came to lead the nation's punitive revolution
In the prison business, all roads lead to Texas. The most locked-down state in the nation has led the way in criminal justice severity, from assembly-line executions to isolation...
Justice For None
How the Drug War Broke the Legal System
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
When tough-on-crime laws passed 30 years ago during an era of drug-fueled violence, they were supported across the political spectrum. The subsequent “war on drugs” sent non-violent offenders to prison for decades and, in some cases, life. As a result, the nation’s prison and jail population today...
Policing the Globe
Criminalization and Crime Control in International Relations
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2006
In this illuminating history that spans past campaigns against piracy and slavery to contemporary campaigns against drug trafficking and transnational terrorism, Peter Andreas and Ethan Nadelmann explain how and why prohibitions and policing practices increasingly extend across borders. The internationalization...