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Policing Citizensby P.A.J. Waddington
Routledge 1998; US$ 60.95This comparative text serves both as an introduction to contemporary police studies and an intervention into current debates concerning police reform and practice. more...
GIS in Law Enforcementby Mark R. Leipnik; Donald P. Albert
CRC Press 2002; US$ 94.95This is the ideal book for GIS users in law enforcement who want to learn more about the technology or who wish to get started using GIS in their agency. more...
Mapping and Analysing Crime Databy Dr Alex Hirschfield; Dr Kate Bowers
CRC Press 2001; US$ 99.95The book sets out methods used in the field of Geographical Information Systems and highlights areas of best practice, examines the types of problems to which spatial crime analysis can be applied and reviews capabilties and limitations. more...
Challenges and Choices for Crime-fighting Technologyby William Schwabe; Lois M. Davis; Brian A. Jackson
RAND Corporation 2001; US$ 9.95This report provides findings of a study of technology in use or needed by law enforcement agencies at the state and local level, for the purpose of informing federal policymakers as they consider technology-related support for these agencies. more...
Community Policingby Lawrence F. Travis III
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2002; US$ 199.00This issue focuses on the development and implementation of community policing around the world. I am indebted to Professor Maria Haberfeld of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice who put this issue together. Dr Haberfeld has brought together a diverse group of scholars and her efforts have produced a timely assessment of police strategies internationally. more...
Watching Police, Watching Communitiesby Mike Mcconville
Taylor & Francis 1992; US$ 200.00Examines the the Neighbourhood Watch scheme and other community policing initiatives, revealing that most schemes are now dormant or dead and arguing that this is largely due to a lack of commitment to community policing by police forces. more...
GIS and Crime Mappingby Spencer Chainey; Jerry Ratcliffe
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2005; US$ 219.95The growing potential of GIS for supporting policing and crime reduction is now being recognised by a broader community. GIS can be employed at different levels to support operational policing, tactical crime mapping, detection, and wider-ranging strategic analyses. With the use of GIS for crime mapping increasing, this book provides a definitive reference. GIS and Crime Mapping provides essential information and reference material to support readers in developing and implementing crime mapping. Relevant case studies help demonstrate the key principles, concepts and applications of crime mapping. This book combines the topics of theoretical principles, GIS, analytical techniques, data processing solutions, information sharing, problem-solving... more...
Police Behaviourby Kenneth Novak
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005; US$ 199.00This e-book consists of cutting-edge examinations of policing issues from a variety of behavioural perspectives. Collectively, the articles in this volume confront several under-researched aspects of police behaviour - from officer downtime to police-public interactions; from the controversial racially-biased policing to 'appropriate' use of force. This collection of articles provides a thought-provoking account of issues faced by police professionals, and will be of interest to both practising officers and researchers alike. more...
Law Enforcement Information Technology: A Managerial, Operational, and Practitioner Guideby James Chu
CRC Press 2001; US$ 94.95Information technology (IT) plays an increasingly integral role in law enforcement. This book provides a comprehensive resource that enables readers to understand the many complexities associated with IT systems. more...
Democracy, Society and the Governance of Securityby Jennifer Wood; Benoît Dupont
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 39.00What do we know about the ways in which 'security' is thought about and promoted in today's pluralized field of delivery? Are democratic values being advanced and protected, or threatened and compromised? Wood and Dupont bring together a team of renowned scholars to shed light on our understanding. more...









