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  • Cops and Stops

    An Analysis of NYPD's Stop, Question, and Frisk Practices

    This book focuses on the controversial aggressive police practices employed to control crime by the New York City Police Department (NYPD) and the harm that has resulted and may further be produced if not checked. Informed by the author’s personal experience as a retired NYPD Captain, as well as by his research in the field, this book explains the broad influence of stop and frisk as well as other ... Read more

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  • The Crime Numbers Game

    Management by Manipulation

    Series series Advances in Police Theory and Practice
    In the mid-1990s, the NYPD created a performance management strategy known as Compstat. It consisted of computerized data, crime analysis, and advanced crime mapping coupled with middle management accountability and crime strategy meetings with high-ranking decision makers. While initially credited with a dramatic reduction in crime, questions quic ... Read more

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  • How Countries Count Crime

    An Exercise in Police Discretion

    This edited collection illuminates the weaknesses and strengths of crime reporting across a wide range of countries, with a focus on democratic countries in which the police bear some accountability to citizens. In one compendium, for the first time, this book documents how different countries record (or fail to record) crimes. With chapters written by native authors who are experts on the ... Read more

    $101.99 CAD

  • The New York City Police Department

    The Impact of Its Policies and Practices

    Edited by John A. Eterno ...
    Studying the flagship New York City Police Department is critical to understanding policing and democratic society. An examination of the department by experts who have been studying it for years, The New York City Police Department: The Impact of Its Policies and Practices provides a frank and open discussion about the NYPD from an elite group of scholars with varying viewpoints and concerns. The ... Read more

    $182.99 CAD

  • The Detective's Handbook

    The Detective‘s Handbook details the vital information law enforcement officers need to know to become better detectives. Since all essential aspects of detective work cannot be covered in a single volume, the editors have selected 20 of the most critical issues detectives face in their day-to-day work and present them in separate chapters.Using a ... Read more

    $101.99 CAD

  • Police Behavior, Hiring, and Crime Fighting

    An International View

    Series series Advances in Police Theory and Practice
    This edited collection by internationally recognized authors provides essays on police behavior in the categories of police administration, police operations, and combating specific crimes. Individual chapters strike at critical issues for police today, such as maintaining the well-being of officers, handling stress, hiring practices, child sexual exploitation, gunrunning, crime prevention ... Read more

    $130.99 CAD

  • Global Issues in Contemporary Policing

    Series series International Police Executive Symposium Co-Publications
    This book addresses six areas of policing: performance management, professional and academic partnerships, preventing and fighting crime and terrorism, immigrant and multicultural populations, policing the police, and cyber-security. The book contains the most current and ground-breaking research across the world of policing with contributors from over 20 countries. It is also a suitable reference ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Policing and Race in America

    Economic, Political, and Social Dynamics

    This edited collection explores policing in America in regards to minority groups. The essays discuss how the relationship between police and minority groups affects politics, the economy, and minority groups’ daily lives and success. The contributors explore the Black Lives Matter movement, the Detroit, Los Angeles, and Atlanta Police Departments, immigration, incarceration, community policing, ... Read more

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  • Introduction to Criminal Justice

    Practice and Process

    A practical and applied introduction to Criminal JusticeIntroduction to Criminal Justice: Practice and Process shows students how to think practically about the criminal justice system by offering them a proven, problem-based approach to learning. Bestselling authors Kenneth J. Peak and Tamara D. Herold draw on their many years of combined practitioner and academic experience to explain the ... Read more

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    “A remarkable book.”—Malcolm Gladwell, San Francisco ChronicleDeaths of civilians at the hands of on-duty police are in the national spotlight as never before. How many killings by police occur annually? What circumstances provoke police to shoot to kill? Who dies? The lack of answers to these basic questions points to a crisis in American government that urgently requires the attention of policy ... Read more

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  • Criminal

    The Truth About Why People Do Bad Things

    by Tom Gash ...
    The way we see and understand crime falls into two types of story that, in essence, have been told and retold many times throughout human history - in fiction, as in fact. Criminality is either a selfish choice, an aberration; or a forced choice, the product of social factors. These two stories continue to dominate both our views of and responses to crime. And, says Tom Gash, they are completely ... Read more

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