Law Enforcement category: 654 books

This book examines the role of international donors in creating and reforming the Palestinian police and security forces, beginning in the early aftermath of the Oslo Accords to the outbreak of the second Intifada, which brought most police reform efforts to a standstill. The author explores the challenges...

El propsito de manual de entrenamiento para Guardias de Seguridad, tiene como meta principal preparar y ensearles a estos servidores, cuales son sus deberes y responsabilidades. Con este entrenamiento, el Guardia de Seguridad se prepara para su prximo paso como Oficial de Seguridad. El Oficial de...

For nearly a century and a half, police in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County have displayed tremendous courage and sacrifice in the execution of their duty, adapted to social and cultural changes within the American South, and increasingly embraced sophisticated methods and revolutionary advances in technology...

This book explores and maps the relationship between borders, security and global governance. Theoretically, the book seeks to establish to what degree, and in what ways, traditional notions of borders, security and (global) governance are being eroded, undermined and contested in the context...

Original writings explore the issue of white-collar crime and the controversies that surround it, focusing on the vastness of state-corporate and white-collar crime, the victimization that results, and the ways these crimes affect society environmentally, politically, economically and personally.

On October 9, 2009, 15 year old Kiwane Carrington was shot and killed by an on-duty police officer, Daniel Norbits, from the Champaign Police Department. This is the recounting of the news stories, editorials, and letters to the editor published by The News-Gazette in its daily newspaper and on news-gazette.com...

Police do not and cannot prevent crime. This alarming thesis is explored by David Bayley, one of the most prolific and internationally renowned authorities on criminal justice and policing, in Police for the Future. Providing a systematic assessment of the performance of the police institution as...

This collection of cases from East Africa, contributed largely by locally-based authors, explores the increasing security governance phenomenon in the region: that is, the mix of state and non-state actors, including private entities, volunteer auxiliaries, homegrown vigilantes and gangs, and the...

There is a long history of state governments providing support to nonstate armed groups fighting battles in other countries. Examples include Syria's aid to Hamas, Ecuador's support for FARC, and Libya's donation of arms to the IRA. What motivates states to do this? And why would rebel groups align...

For instructors who want to expose their students to the social, political, and historical context of the practice of public administration, this book provides a unique approach to the introductory PA course. The author's own text is skilfully interwoven with a collection of seminal readings and documents...

Le prigioni italiane sono sovraffollate e il sistema carcerario nazionale è allo sbando, con continue violazioni dei diritti dei reclusi. Le cifre parlano chiaro: 206 istituti penitenziari per adulti e una capienza di 45.817 posti sono i dati essenziali sulle carceri italiane. Che però ospitano...

Last year espionage cost the United States more than $250 billion and a staggering $1.2 trillion over the last decade. It's not hard to envision why the United States is a prime target of espionage when one considers that the United States spent more money in the year 2012 on research and development than all of the other G-7 countries combined.

This book of original essays presents controversial topics, then encourages the readers to consider what they think ought to be done. The selections identify several of the existing issues in policing about which something needs to be done; then, they present various viewpoints on possible solutions....

Bedingt einsatzfähig? Die Ereignisse der Silvesternacht 2015/2016 am Kölner Hauptbahnhof sind für Expolizist Nick Hein nur ein Symptom. Ein Symptom für das, was generell schiefläuft in der deutschen Strafverfolgung: Er kritisiert die mangelnde Vernetzung, personelle und finanzielle Unterbesetzung,...