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Institutional Change In Turkey
By Leila Piran. 2013
How do state institutions reform themselves in the face of outside pressures? This study undertakes an in-depth analysis of the…
institutional and human rights reform process within the Turkish National Police, which faces pressure from the EU as part of Turkey's EU membership process, and examines the challenges and consequences of the process.Measuring the Effectiveness of Border Security Between Ports-of-Entry
By Henry H. Willis, Paul K. Davis, Wayne P. Brown, Joel B. Predd. 2010
This report offers research and recommendations on ways to measure the overall efforts of the national border-security enterprise between ports…
of entry. Focusing on three missions--illegal drug control, counterterrorism, and illegal migration--this report recommends ways to measure performance of U.S. border-security efforts in terms of interdiction, deterrence, and exploiting networked intelligence.Policing and Contemporary Governance
By William Garriott. 2013
What is it that police and policing actually do? What are the effects? How are these effects mediated and experienced…
by different people at different times and in different contexts? This volume draws attention to the centrality of police and policing to the project of governance and the experience of being human in the contemporary world.Handcuffed: What Holds Policing Back, and the Keys to Reform
By Malcolm K. Sparrow. 2016
Whatever happened to community and problem-oriented policing? How the current crisis in policing can be traced to failures of reform.The…
police shooting of an unarmed young black man in the St. Louis, Missouri, suburb of Ferguson earlier this year sparked riots and the beginning of a national conversation on race and policing. Much of that conversation has focused more on social issues. Malcolm Sparrow, who teaches at Harvard's Kennedy School and is a former British police detective, argues in this new book that there is another dimension that played a role not only in Ferguson but in many other high-profile police killings of unarmed blacks: the character of policing itself.Sparrow shows how police departments across America have shelved the traditional ideas of community policy-the cop on the beat how knows his or her neighborhood and its inhabitants-and also simple problem solving when it comes to crime to focus on crime reduction. That has meant a reliance on quantitative methods where police define how well they are doing by tallying up how many traffic tickets have been issued (Ferguson), or arrests made for petty crimes (Eric Garner selling nontaxed cigarettes in New York). The list goes on.Police departments need to shed this reliance on crime reduction metrics and mindsets and turn back to making public safety, and public cooperation, their primary goals.Jus Post Bellum and Transitional Justice
By Larry May, Elizabeth Edenberg. 2013
This collection of essays brings together jus post bellum and transitional justice theorists to explore the legal and moral questions…
that arise at the end of war and in the transition to less oppressive regimes. Transitional justice and jus post bellum share in common many concepts that will be explored in this volume. In both transitional justice and jus post bellum, retribution is crucial. In some contexts criminal trials will need to be held, and in others truth commissions and other hybrid trials will be considered more appropriate means for securing some form of retribution. But there is a difference between how jus post bellum is conceptualized, where the key is securing peace, and transitional justice, where the key is often greater democratization. This collection of essays highlights both the overlap and the differences between these emerging bodies of scholarship and incipient law.It's Legal but It Ain't Right: Harmful Social Consequences of Legal Industries
By Nikos Passas, Neva Goodwin. 2004
Many U.S. corporations and the goods they produce negatively impact our society without breaking any laws. We are all too…
familiar with the tobacco industry's effect on public health and health care costs for smokers and nonsmokers, as well as the role of profit in the pharmaceutical industry's research priorities. It's Legal but It Ain't Right tackles these issues, plus the ethical ambiguities of legalized gambling, the firearms trade, the fast food industry, the pesticide industry, private security companies, and more. Aiming to identify industries and goods that undermine our societal values and to hold them accountable for their actions, this collection makes a valuable contribution to the ongoing discussion of ethics in our time. This accessible exploration of corporate legitimacy and crime will be important reading for advocates, journalists, students, and anyone interested in the dichotomy between law and legitimacy.Today's Police and Sheriff Recruits
By Greg Ridgeway, Laura Werber Castaneda. 2010
For much of the past decade, police and sheriff's departments faced considerable challenges in attracting and retaining recruits. This volume…
summarizes a 2008-2009 survey fielded to recent police officer and sheriff's deputy recruits nationwide. The authors focus on how understanding modern recruits can help departments refine their recruitment practices and develop a workforce well suited to community-oriented policing.Mexico has undertaken reforms in recent years to professionalize its police. This report draws on the literature on corruption and…
personnel incentives and analyzes police reform in Mexico. It addresses the roots of corruption and the tools that could be used to mitigate it and provides an initial assessment of the reforms' effectiveness. The results suggest some progress, though police corruption still remains high and more work is needed.Reducing Gun Violence: Results from an Intervention in East Los Angeles
By Greg Ridgeway, K. Jack Riley, Clifford A. Grammich, George Tita, Allan Abrahamse. 2010
To assess whether an initiative to reduce gun violence that had been successful in Boston could be adapted for use…
elsewhere, researchers selected an East Los Angeles area for a similar intervention that was to include both law enforcement and social service components. Although the latter component was not widely available when the intervention began, researchers found that the intervention helped reduce violent and gang crime in the targeted districts and that crime also decreased in surrounding communities.Moving Toward the Future of Policing
By Gregory F. Treverton, Elizabeth Wilke, Matt Wollman, Deborah Lai. 2011
Advances in technology and operating concepts are driving significant changes in the day-to-day operations of future police forces. This book…
explores potential visions of the future of policing, based on the drivers of jurisdiction, technology, and threat, and includes concrete steps for implementation. The analysis is based on a review of policing methods and theories from the 19th century to the present day.The Basic Minimum
By Dale Dorsey. 2012
A common presupposition in contemporary moral and political philosophy is that individuals should be provided with some basic threshold of…
goods, capabilities, or well-being. But if there is such a basic minimum, how should this be understood? Dale Dorsey offers an underexplored answer: that the basic minimum should be characterized not as the achievement of a set of capabilities, or as access to some specified bundle of resources, but as the maintenance of a minimal threshold of human welfare. In addition, Dorsey argues that though political institutions should be committed to the promotion of this minimal threshold, we should reject approaches that seek to cast the basic minimum as a human right. His book will be important for all who are interested in theories of political morality.Drugs in Africa
By Gernot Klantschnig, Neil Carrier, Charles Ambler. 2014
This cutting-edge volume is the first to address the burgeoning interest in drugs and Africa among scholars, policymakers, and the…
general public. It brings together an interdisciplinary group of leading academics and practitioners to explore the use, trade, production, and control of mind-altering substances on the continentPolice Recruitment and Retention for the New Millennium
By Clifford A. Grammich, Charles Scheer, Erin Dalton, Jeremy M. Wilson. 2010
Many police departments report difficulties in creating a workforce that represents community demographics, is committed to providing its employees the…
opportunity for long-term police careers, and effectively implements community policing. This book summarizes lessons on recruiting and retaining effective workforces.Police, Picket-Lines and Fatalities: Lessons from the Past
By David Baker. 2014
Becoming New York’s Finest
By Andrew T. Darien. 2013
After excluding women and African Americans from its ranks for most of its history, the New York City Police Department…
undertook an aggressive campaign of integration following World War II. This is the first comprehensive account of how and why the NYPD came to see integration as a highly coveted political tool, indispensable to policing.This study presents a unique overview of the cultural, social and practical aspects of interviewing rape victims. Exploring a range…
of issues that affect rape cases including discourse, gender, attitudes and victim's rights, Rich reveals the complexities of sexual assault and looks to how communities can work to respond to and combat such violence.Fixing Drugs
By Sue Pryce. 2012
In this unique and engaging book, Sue Pryce tackles the major issues surrounding drug policy. Why do governments persist with…
prohibition policies, despite their proven inefficacy? Why are some drugs criminalized, and some not? And why does society care about drug use at all? Pryce guides us through drug policy around the world.Palgrave Dictionary of Public Order Policing, Protest and Political Violence
By Peter Joyce. 2014
Protest and political violence are concerns of global importance in the twenty-first century. This dictionary brings together in one comprehensive…
volume a number of key issues relating to the conduct of protest and political violence and the response of the state and police to such activities.Charlotte and Mecklenburg County Police (Images of America)
By Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, Ryan L. Sumner. 2010
For nearly a century and a half, police in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County have displayed tremendous courage and sacrifice in…
the execution of their duty, adapted to social and cultural changes within the American South, and increasingly embraced sophisticated methods and revolutionary advances in technology to meet the challenges posed by criminals and a violent culture. Images of America: Charlotte and Mecklenburg County Police highlights the rich history of two departments that consolidated in 1993 as the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department.Effective Policing?
By Stuart Kirby. 2013
This book provides a unique insight into the way policing is performed. By embracing both organizational management issues as well…
as operational police business such as crime reduction and detection, firearms, disorder, organised crime and terrorism, it provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary police theory and practice.