Télécharger le livre :  Police Misconduct in Brooklyn
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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...

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

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

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

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

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Parution : 2017-06-07
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Télécharger le livre :  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...

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

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

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Parution : 2016-10-18
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Télécharger le livre :  Serial Homicide
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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),...

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

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Parution : 2016-07-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Neighborhood Disorganization and Social Control
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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...

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Parution : 2016-02-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Police Use of Research Evidence
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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...

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Parution : 2015-10-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Confidential Informants
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While confidential informants (CI’s) can play a crucial role in police investigations, they also have the potential to cause great harm if they are dishonest.  The process by which police agencies qualify a CI to work and the strength of agency policy may be the source...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2015-09-19
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Télécharger le livre :  Toward the Next Generation of Bystander Prevention of Sexual and Relationship Violence
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This briefs integrates and synthesizes an array of research about who helps others and under what conditions and discusses the implications of this research for a bystander intervention focused prevention agenda to reduce sexual and relationship violence in schools and...

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Parution : 2015-09-03
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Télécharger le livre :  Labor Unions, Management Innovation and Organizational Change in Police Departments
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This Brief examines the role of Police Unions in law enforcement policy development. It provides an overview of the historical and political background of police labor unions, and takes a critical look at the shifting perception of labor unions from generally positive...

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Parution : 2015-08-25
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Télécharger le livre :  Treatment versus Punishment for Drug Addiction
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??This brief summarizes the results of a two-year, international research project covering drug addiction treatment versus punishment in Austria, Poland, and Spain. It features: -An analysis of the national drug-related legislation and its application in these countries...

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Parution : 2015-08-14
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Télécharger le livre :  Homicide Data Sources
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This Brief provides a detailed guide to national data sources that collect and report data on homicides in the United States, and some key international sources abroad. It provides in-depth coverage of well-known sources, and highlights more obscure sources, providing a...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2015-07-31
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Télécharger le livre :  Prison Inmates Living with HIV in India
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This Brief presents preliminary findings from research in three prisons in Maharashtra, India on experiences of prison inmates there living with HIV. The study explores health care services in these prisons, and problems experienced by inmates in India living with HIV,...

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Parution : 2015-04-15
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Télécharger le livre :  Prison Tattoos
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This Brief studies the important role that tattoos play in prison culture, and examines its unique manifestation among minority inmates.This work aims to provide a better understanding of prison group culture, particularly among social marginal groups, through the lens...

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Parution : 2015-03-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Social Crime Prevention in the Developing World
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This Brief explores the role of social crime prevention as a crime reduction strategy in the developing world. "Social crime prevention" focuses on the social and economic factors that may contribute to violence and criminal behavior in a community. Particularly in the...

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Parution : 2014-12-03
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