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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.The Politics of Federalism: Ontario's Relations with the Federal Government. 1867-1942
By Chris Armstrong. 1981
The British North America Act of 1867 fashioned a Canadian federation which was intended to be a highly centralized union…
led by a powerful national government. Soon after Confederation, however, the government of Ontario took the lead in demanding a greater share of the power for the provinces, and it has continued to press this case. Professor Armstrong analyses the forces which promoted decentralization and the responses which these elicited from the federal government. He explains Ontario's reasons for pursuing this particular policy from 1867 to the Second World War. The author's sources are the private papers of federal and provincial premiers and other contemporary political figures, government publications, parliamentary debates, and newspapers. He has identified and developed three separate but related themes: the dynamic role played by private business interests in generating intergovernmental conflicts; Ontario's policy of promoting its economic growth by encouraging the processing of its resources at home; and the tremendous influence exerted by increasing urbanization and industrialization on the growth of the responsibilities of the provinces. During the 1930s, efforts to restructure the federal system were rejected by Ontario because it preferred to maintain the status quo,and was unsympathetic to greater equalization between the regions. Consequently, Ontario took a leading part in opposing the redivision of powers recommended by the Royal Commission on Dominion-Provincial Relations in 1940. This book provides part of the historical context into which current debates on the question of federalism may be fitted. It thus will be of importance and interest to historians, students of Canadian history, and the general reader alike. (Ontario Historical Studies Series: Themes)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 continentLunch With a Bigot: The Writer in the World
By Amitava Kumar. 2015
To be a writer, Amitava Kumar says, is to be an observer. The twenty-six essays in Lunch with a Bigot…
are Kumar's observations of the world put into words. A mix of memoir, reportage, and criticism, the essays include encounters with writers Salman Rushdie and Arundhati Roy, discussions on the craft of writing, and a portrait of the struggles of a Bollywood actor. The title essay is Kumar's account of his visit to a member of an ultra-right Hindu organization who put him on a hit-list. In these and other essays, Kumar tells a broader story of immigration, change, and a shift to a more globalized existence, all the while demonstrating how he practices being a writer in the world.The Search for English-Canadian Literature
By Carl Ballstadt. 1975
The search for a distinctive Canadian literature is not new. It began in the 1820s, and even then involved many…
of the same issues that concern critics today. Much of this early material is now inaccessible to most Canadians. Carl Ballstadt has selected for this volume a number of the most importance statements from a century of growth. The pieces come from essays, prefaces, and editorials published between 1823 and 1926 in a variety of works including the major literary periodicals of the time. Among the authors are Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Sara Jeannette Duncan, Daniel Wilson, Goldwin Smith, G. Mercer Adam, Pelham Edgar, J.D. Robins, J.D. Logan, and Charles Mair. The major themes they treated, with frequent diversity of views, are the kind of writing best suited to a new country; the economic and spiritual barriers to the creation of literature; the feasibility of creating a 'national' literature; the need for serious criticism; the relationship between European traditions and the developing Canadian imagination; Canada's 'northern' character; the advantages of two cultural streams; and the significance of Canadian achievements in poetry. This book provides essential background to anyone concerned with the path Canadian literature followed to modern times.Police 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
In the Midst of Alarms
By Robert Barr, Douglas Lochhead. 1973
Science, God, and Nature in Victorian Canada: The 1982 Joanne Goodman Lectures
By Carl Berger. 1981
Professor Berger aims in this book to 'explore the rise, expression, and relative decline of the idea of natural history'…
in Canada, during the age of Victoria. Science, particularly natural science, was then accessible to the general public in a way scarcely imaginable today. Natural history societies were set up in a number of cities and provided a focus for the descriptive and collecting activities of amateurs and incipient professionals. These societies acted as social clubs and vehicles for self-improvement as well as providing excellent training for the amateur scientist. The Baconian assumptions that inspired the Victorian collectors and scientists were one of the major victims of the Darwinian revolution, and their demise brought about the gradual decline of the natural history societies. Professor Berger considers also the sense of wonder and reverence with which Victorian Canadians, like their British contemporaries, looked at the varieties and delights of nature. The British tradition of natural theology had a great impact on the pursuit of science in Victorian Canada, leading naturalists and poets alike to seek in the uncharted flora and fauna of their new land the handiwork of a benevolent God. The author examines the impact of the discoveries of Darwin on this tradition and on the relations between science and religion, as the creator and the act of creation became more and more distant in time and more tenuously connected to the world of nature around us.His study provides many rich insights into the practice and theory of natural history in an age when even a veteran politician could look back and recall, with understanding and in detail, the world of nature in the countryside of his youth.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.Polarity, Patriotism, and Dissent in Great War Canada, 1914-1919
By Brock Millman. 2016
Compared to the idea that Canada was a nation forged in victory on Vimy Ridge, the reality of dissent and…
repression at home strikes a sour note. Through censorship, conscription, and internment, the government of Canada worked more ruthlessly than either Great Britain or the United States to suppress opposition to the war effort during the First World War.Polarity, Patriotism, and Dissent in Great War Canada, 1914-1919 examines the basis for those repressive policies. Brock Millman, an expert on wartime dissent in both the United Kingdom and Canada, argues that Canadian policy was driven first and foremost by a fear that opposition to the war amongst French Canadians and immigrant communities would provoke social tensions - and possibly even a vigilante backlash from the war's most fervent supporters in British Canada.Highlighting the class and ethnic divisions which characterized public support for the war, Polarity, Patriotism, and Dissent in Great War Canada, 1914-1919 offers a broad and much-needed reexamination of Canadian government policy on the home front.Canada's Rural Majority: Households, Environments, and Economies, 1870-1940
By R. W. Sandwell. 2016
Before the Second World War, Canada was a rural country. Unlike most industrializing countries, Canada's rural population grew throughout the…
century after 1871 - even if it declined as a proportion of the total population. Rural Canadians also differed in their lives from rural populations elsewhere. In a country dominated by a harsh northern climate, a short growing season, isolated households and communities, and poor land, they typically relied on three ever-shifting pillars of support: the sale of cash crops, subsistence from the local environment, and wage work off the farm.Canada's Rural Majority is an engaging and accessible history of this distinctive experience, including not only Canada's farmers, but also the hunters, gardeners, fishers, miners, loggers, and cannery workers who lived and worked in rural Canada. Focusing on the household, the environment, and the community, Canada's Rural Majority is a compelling classroom resource and an invaluable overview of this understudied aspect of Canadian history.Municipal Policing in the European Union
By Daniel Donnelly. 2013
The book applies a model of municipal policing to compare a number of police systems in the European Union suggesting…
that in the future local communities will have some form of police enforcement mechanism that will not always include the sworn police officer.