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  • Policing Major Events

    Perspectives from Around the World

    Edited by James F. Albrecht, Martha Christine Dow, Darryl Plecas, Dilip K. Das ...
    Series series International Police Executive Symposium Co-Publications
    Whenever a major event requires police intervention, questions are raised about the nature of the police response. Could the police have prevented the conflict, been better prepared, reacted more quickly? Could they have acted more forcefully or brought the altercation under control more effectively? Based upon real case studies of events from all ... Read more

    $130.99 CAD

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  • Police in Canada

    The Real Story

    by John Sewell ...
    What's going on with Canada's police? Once an institution that commanded respect and trust, the police are now widely regarded with skepticism and even suspicion. The dramatic death of Robert Dziekanski at the hands of the RCMP at Vancouver's airport, accusations of racial profiling, and the resistance of police to independent civilian oversight have created the impression of organizations and ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Excessive Force

    Toronto's Fight to Reform City Policing

    by Alok Mukherjee, Tim Harper ...
    Alok Mukherjee was the civilian overseer of the Toronto police between 2005 and 2015, during the most tumultuous decade the force had ever faced. In this provocative and highly readable collaboration with Tim Harper, former Toronto Star national affairs columnist, Mukherjee reveals how Police Chief Bill Blair changed the channel after the police-killing of Sammy Yatim. He explains how society has ... Read more

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  • Manipulating the Message

    How Powerful Forces Shape the News

    by Cecil Rosner ...
    Journalists hate the term fake news, but there’s a troubling reality: spin doctors routinely try to dupe them into reporting misleading and distorted stories.Check the news on any given day and here’s what you’ll find: Governments routinely lie. Companies inflate claims about their products and practices. Institutions release studies with misleading data meant to deceive. Police departments, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Mistrust

    Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them

    by Ethan Zuckerman ...
    The rise of mistrust is provoking a crisis for representative democracy—solutions lie in the endless creativity of social movements.From the Tea Party to Occupy Wall Street, and from cryptocurrency advocates to the #MeToo movement, Americans and citizens of democracies worldwide are losing confidence in what we once called the system.This loss of faith has spread beyond government to infect a ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Trump in Asia

    The New World Disorder; Australian Foreign Affairs 2

    Edited by Jonathan Pearlman ...
    Series Book 2 - Australian Foreign Affairs
    Towards an independent foreign policy."We've hidden behind a hope that American power and resolve will again prevail. Trump tears away any excuse for wishful thinking." MICHAEL WESLEYThe second issue of Australian Foreign Affairs examines the United States' sudden shift from the Asia Pivot to America First. It provides insights into Donald Trump's White House and explores how his unpredictable ... Read more

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  • Can we be safe?

    The Future of Policing in South Africa

    by Ziyanda Stuurman ...
    In South Africa, both ‘crime’ and ‘safety’ are loaded terms. Ziyanda Stuurman unpacks the complex and fraught history of policing, courts and prisons in South Africa. In her analysis of the problems nationally and in putting those problems in context with the rest of the world, she concludes that more resources won’t necessarily lead to more safety. What then, will? Ziyanda unpacks this complex ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Surviving Field Research

    Working in Violent and Difficult Situations

    Edited by Chandra Lekha Sriram, John C. King, Julie A. Mertus, Olga Martin-Ortega, Johanna Herman ...
    In recent decades there has been increasing attention to mass atrocities such as genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and other gross human rights violations. At the same time, there has been a vast increase in the number of academics and researchers seeking to analyze the causes of, and offer practical responses to, these atrocities. Yet there remains insufficient discussion of the ... Read more

    $101.99 CAD

  • Policing in the 21St Century

    Community Policing

    by Dr. Lee P. Brown ...
    Dr. Lee P. Brown, one of Americas most significant and respected law enforcement practitioners, has harnessed his thirty years of experiences in police work and authored Policing in the 21st Century: Community Policing. Written for students, members of the police community, academicians, elected officials and members of the public, this work comes from the perspective of an individual who devoted ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Game Changer

    The Impact of 9/11 on North American Security

    Edited by Jonathan Paquin, Patrick James ...
    The events of 9/11 turned North American politics upside down. US policy makers focused less on how they could better integrate the economies of Mexico, Canada, and the United States and more on security and sovereignty.Security experts tend to view the events that followed within a bilateral framework. Game Changer broadens the canvas examining how America’s desire to keep its two borders closed ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Sports Governance, Development and Corporate Responsibility

    Edited by Barbara Segaert, Marc Theeboom, Christiane Timmerman, Bart Vanreusel ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    The call for sport organizations and organizers to take up social responsibilities is reflected in a wide variety of sport-related practices. This book critically examines sport-related social interventions in different cultural settings, such as promoting local community-building by sport. Social constructions of peace, integration and managing diversity are studied from the perspective of sport ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • The New Power Politics

    Networks and Transnational Security Governance

    Edited by Deborah Avant, Oliver Westerwinter ...
    Traditional analyses of global security cannot explain the degree to which there is "governance" of important security issues -- from combatting piracy to curtailing nuclear proliferation to reducing the contributions of extractive industries to violence and conflict. They are even less able to explain why contemporary governance schemes involve the various actors and take the many forms they do. ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD