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Challenges and Choices for Crime-fighting Technology
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...
GIS and Crime Mapping
Wiley 2005; US$ 229.95The 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.... more...
Democracy, Society and the Governance of Security
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 41.00What 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...
Data Mining and Predictive Analysis
Elsevier Science 2006; US$ 61.95It is now possible to predict the future when it comes to crime. In Data Mining and Predictive Analysis , Dr. Colleen McCue describes not only the possibilities for data mining to assist law enforcement professionals, but also provides real-world examples showing how data mining has identified crime trends, anticipated community hot-spots, and refined... more...
Community Policing, Chicago Style
Oxford University Press 1999; US$ 100.00At the beginning of the millennium, police departments are reinventing themselves, adopting a new style known as "community policing". Chicago made the transition, embarking on what is now the USA's largest community policing programme. This book looks in depth at all aspects of the programme. more...
Civilian Oversight of Policing
Hart Publishing Limited 2000; US$ 120.60How the police are policed is no longer just a domestic issue. The involvement of police,and other security forces, in systematic abuses of human rights in many developing countries, as well as in so called developed countries, has placed the control of police on a number of international agendas. More and more countries are experimenting with different... more...
Crime Mapping Case Studies
Wiley 2008; US$ 105.00Crime Mapping Case Studies: From Research to Practice provides a series of key examples from practice and research that demonstrate applications of crime mapping and its effect in many areas of policing and crime reduction. This book brings together case studies that show how crime mapping can be used for analysis, intelligence development,... more...
Against Prediction
University of Chicago Press 2008; US$ 30.00From random security checks at airports to the use of risk assessment in sentencing, actuarial methods are being used more than ever to determine whom law enforcement officials target and punish. And with the exception of racial profiling on our highways and streets, most people favor these methods because they believe they’re a more cost-effective... more...
Inside the Digital Revolution
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2007; US$ 114.95In this work, Bridgette Wessels offers a unique insight into the ways in which core public institutions and powerful organizations develop digital communications and services within the public realm. The book draws on her ethnographic research with the London Metropolitan Police Service which, working in a socially, culturally and demographically complex... more...
Women Police in a Changing Society
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2008; US$ 114.95This book offers a fascinating account of the development of women police over the past twenty years. It draws on the author's extended research in India, during a period of massive social change from a traditional society to a democratic, capitalist state. The author demonstrates how the Indian experience offers a valuable alternative model to... more...









