200 Recommendations to Enhance Policing and Community Safety
America is challenging everything about policing - its equipment, tactics, role, tasks, and even its very existence. This book guides those conversations by providing 200 specific recommendations that cover all aspects of policing, even the most controversial and important issues.
Surveillance, Race, and the Future of Law Enforcement
Winner, 2018 Law & Legal Studies PROSE Award The consequences of big data and algorithm-driven policing and its impact on law enforcement In a high-tech command center in downtown Los Angeles, a digital map lights up with 911 calls, television monitors track breaking news stories, surveillance cameras sweep the streets, and rows of networked ......
Leading Investigators Take You Inside the Criminal Mind
In this compilation of expert articles, internationally recognized homicide investigators, most of them pioneers in developing the science and the art of profiling, share their insights gained from years of experience tracking the perpetrators of some of the most notorious crimes. Among the subjects discussed are: dealing with hostage situations, ......
Based on personal experience and academic research, Tom Baker shines a light on the dark side of American policing by examining misconduct and corruption as occupational and workplace forms of deviance. This textbook outlines patterns of rule breaking and criminal behavior and provides strategies for management and control. This book offers a ......
Based on personal experience and academic research, Tom Baker shines a light on the dark side of American policing by examining misconduct and corruption as occupational and workplace forms of deviance. This textbook outlines patterns of rule breaking and criminal behavior and provides strategies for management and control. This book offers a ......
Most murderers and rapists escape justice. This horrifying fact has gone largely unexamined until now. In seventeen chapters, this groundbreaking book tours nearly the entire criminal justice system, examining the rules and practices that regularly produce failures of justice in serious criminal cases. Justice-frustrating rules usually exist for a ......
Most murderers and rapists escape justice. This horrifying fact has gone largely unexamined until now. In seventeen chapters, this groundbreaking book tours nearly the entire criminal justice system, examining the rules and practices that regularly produce failures of justice in serious criminal cases. Justice-frustrating rules usually exist for a ......
This raw and unfiltered account provides an unprecedented glimpse into the life of a seasoned Met detective, inviting readers to traverse the highs and lows, the victories and defeats, and the evolution of policing in one of the world's most iconic cities. Told over a period of public service spanning thirty years, this compelling true story ......
Criminology in Nigeria: Origin, Evolution and Trends explores the threads of the criminal justice system in Nigeria through past, present, and future trends. Tracing the roots of law and criminology in Nigeria, this book employs up-to-date research and case studies to elucidate the dynamic nature and impact of Nigeria's criminal justice system. It ......