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Télécharger le livre :  Synergy of Community Policing and Technology
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Synergy of Community Policing and Technology


M. R. Haberfeld , Georgios Leventakis


This brief examines the interaction and synergy between the philosophical concepts embedded in the ideas of Community Oriented Policing (C.O. P.) and urban security aided by technological innovations. While the philosophy of C.O.P. stresses the importance of...

Parution : 2019-02-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Police Militarization
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Police Militarization


Bryanna Fox , Frederick W. Turner Ii


?This Brief examines the “militarization” of law enforcement in the United States through the lens of the stakeholders primarily responsible for implementing, funding, and enacting the practice. Largely a result of policies such as the war on drugs, war on terror,...

Parution : 2018-12-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Illicit Financial Flows
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Illicit Financial Flows


Alberto Aziani


Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs) have received increased attention in light of international corruption scandals, high-profile leaks about extensive tax abuse schemes, and the continued fight against terrorism financing and organized crime. Reducing IFFs is now a key...

Parution : 2018-10-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Police Integrity in the Developing World
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Police Integrity in the Developing World


Heath B. Grant


This Brief explores the problem of creating organizational change and a culture of lawfulness within police organizations in the developing world. In many countries where police are charged with responding to crime, they are themselves entrenched in histories of...

Parution : 2018-10-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Discretionary Police Powers to Punish
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Discretionary Police Powers to Punish


Clare Farmer


This book uses an Australian case study to shine a much-needed spotlight on discretionary police powers to punish, and their implications for justice and human rights. It offers a revealing analysis of the problematic rationales that secured the legislative passage of...

Parution : 2018-03-09
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Télécharger le livre :  U.S. Government Contractors and Human Trafficking
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U.S. Government Contractors and Human Trafficking


Celline Cole , Resy Vermeltfoort


This Brief examines the role of United States private military contractors (PMCs) in human trafficking and forced labor in case studies of Iraq and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Through the lens of these cases, the authors explore the legal and regulatory deficiencies surrounding...

Parution : 2017-12-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Police Misconduct in Brooklyn
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Police Misconduct in Brooklyn


Brian A. Maule


This Brief explores police misconduct, through the lens of a 5-year study of civil liability cases against the New York Police Department in Kings County (Brooklyn), New York. The confluence of police misconduct and civil liability is an issue of growing concern for...

Parution : 2017-11-03
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Télécharger le livre :  Foot Patrol
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Foot Patrol


Jerry H. Ratcliffe , Evan T. Sorg


This Brief reviews the history of foot patrol and the recent, research-driven resurgence of foot patrol in places such as Philadelphia. It summarizes and critiques existing literature on the subject, examining the efficacy of foot patrol. At the time the Philadelphia...

Parution : 2017-10-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Police Brutality, Misconduct, and Corruption
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Police Brutality, Misconduct, and Corruption


James F. Albrecht


This Brief proposes a criminological typology for understanding and addressing police misconduct.  Through examination of each major type of police misconduct, the author proposes future research directions to deter and prevent misconduct.According to an...

Parution : 2017-09-14
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Télécharger le livre :  Policing in Russia
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Policing in Russia


Serguei Cheloukhine


This Brief provides an in-depth look at crime and corruption in Russian Law Enforcement, in the fifteen years since the 2009 police reforms. It focuses on corruption and organized crime at various levels of public services and law enforcement, how these organized crime...

Parution : 2017-07-20
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Télécharger le livre :  The Role of State Agencies in Translational Criminology
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The Role of State Agencies in Translational Criminology


Mark S Davis


This Brief discusses the role of state-level criminal justice organizations in the prevention and control of crime and delinquency. State agencies play an important role in translating criminological knowledge into criminal justice policy and practice. Their unique...

Parution : 2017-06-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Female Delinquency From Childhood To Young Adulthood
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Female Delinquency From Childhood To Young Adulthood


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This Brief fills a gap in criminological literature, as there are few empirically-based studies on delinquency of adolescent girls. It provides results of a longitudinal study, The Pittsburgh Girls Study (PGS), which includes 2,451 girls, followed annually from age...

Parution : 2016-11-23
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Télécharger le livre :  UN Peacekeeping in Africa
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UN Peacekeeping in Africa


Kwame Akonor


This timely volume explores the “dark side” of United Nations (UN) Peacekeeping in Africa: when rather than help establish a rule of law in the host country, they become perpetrators of crime. The work of the UN peacekeepers is generally comprised of police and military...

Parution : 2016-11-17
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Télécharger le livre :  Perceptions of Community Crime in Ferguson, MO
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Perceptions of Community Crime in Ferguson, MO


Kandace L. Fisher-Mclean


This Brief is based on a research study of aging adults' perceptions and fear of crime in their community of Ferguson, Missouri. The study, which was conducted by coincidence just prior to the death of Michael Brown, presents unique insights into the community...

Parution : 2016-10-18
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Télécharger le livre :  Serial Homicide
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Serial Homicide


Agnieszka Daniszewska


This Brief provides an overview and history of the definition of serial homicide, from the perspectives of psychology, medicine, criminology and forensics. It reviews research to provide a standard definition of serial homicide (as opposed to multiple or mass homicide),...

Parution : 2016-08-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Hate Crime Statutes
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Hate Crime Statutes


Frank S. Pezzella


??????This Brief provides a clearly outlined and accessible overview of the challenges in creating and enforcing hate crime legislation in the United States. As the author explains, while it is generally not controversial that hate crime behavior should...

Parution : 2016-07-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Command Transitions in Public Administration
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Command Transitions in Public Administration


James C. Brown , Anthony Callisto Jr. , Raymond L. Philo , Polly J. Smith


This Brief provides a quantitative and qualitative analysis of proactive strategies for management transitions in criminal justice and other public administration civic service agencies. These organizations have a unique need for managing transitions effectively. ...

Parution : 2016-02-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Neighborhood Disorganization and Social Control
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Neighborhood Disorganization and Social Control


Olga Siegmunt


This Brief presents a framework for understanding the role of school and neighborhood contexts in the development of self-control. Through the application of Gottfredson and Hirschi’s general theory of crime and Shaw and McKay’s social disorganization theory, the...

Parution : 2016-02-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Offending from Childhood to Young Adulthood
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Offending from Childhood to Young Adulthood


Collectif


This Brief examines criminal careers by providing the most extensive and comprehensive investigation to date on the official offending, self-reported offending, and trajectories of offending of the Pittsburgh Youth Study (PYS) participants.  The PYS is a...

Parution : 2015-12-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Police Use of Research Evidence
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Police Use of Research Evidence


Paul Dawson , Elizabeth A. Stanko


This brief takes the reader through a 10-year journey of seeking to embed Evidence Based Policing within one of the largest police forces in the world - the Metropolitan Police Service in London, England - from the inside. As a topic, Evidence Based Policing has...

Parution : 2015-10-20
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