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Sudden Deaths in Custody
Springer 2007; US$ 119.99Addresses sudden in-custody restraint deaths that occur after a violent confrontation. The criteria include: death resulted after a violent confrontation with police or correction personnel; the death resulted after the use of force control measures or restraint that was used; and more. more...
The Federal Bureau of Investigation
Infobase Publishing 2007; US$ 30.00The Federal Bureau of Investigation, known as FBI, began its history as a small team of 34 Secret Service investigators who were borrowed from the Treasury Department. This work explores the bureau from its beginnings onwards, reviews the tools and techniques used to solve crimes, and explains what a career in the FBI involves. more...
From the Bureau to the Boardroom
AMACOM 2009; US$ 6.99Discover the art of being a courageous and vigilant leader from some of our most fearless agents. more...
Friends of the Family
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 7.99?One of the most spectacular cases of police corruption in the city.? ? New York Times Friends of the Family is a look deep inside the most notorious case to rock the NYPD: The story of Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa, the two police detectives who moonlighted as mob hit men. As told by Tommy Dades and Michael Vecchione?the... more...
The Discreet Charm of the Police State
BRILL 2007; US$ 148.00Examines the complex and paradoxical relationship between authoritarian policing and the social and economic modernization of postwar Germany's largest and most historically "authentic" state, as Bavaria joined the rest of the Federal Republic in a passage from postwar crisis to consumer prosperity. more...
Criminal Justice and the Policy Process
University Press of America 2008; US$ 32.99Criminal Justice and the Policy Process develops a synthesized policy making model that explains how complex justice policy is developed, implemented, and evaluated. Unlike other texts, this study weaves together important aspects of several competing explanations of policy choice into a single model. Further, this text emphasizes the importance of... more...
Policing
SAGE India 2009; US$ 29.95A first-of-its-kind, this book proposes a marketing plan for the police, using the conventional framework of marketing management. While there is considerable discussion and criticism of the way the police force functions in India, no comprehensive alternative model has been proposed to implement the New Police Management (NPM) approach in the forces... more...
Policing for London
Willan Publishing 2002; US$ 79.95This book presents the findings of the Policing for London project, an independent investigation into policing in London in the wake of the death of Stephen Lawrence and the subsequent MacPherson Report. The main aim of the project was to identify the factors the police in London needed to consider in order to deliver an equitable and effective service... more...
Driving While Black
Crown Publishing Group 2010; US$ 19.00A practical handbook for people who want to be safe and do something. Racial profiling does happen. And while cases where victims find themselves looking down the barrel of a policeman's gun make the six o'clock news, dozens of less extreme, yet troubling, examples occur every day. Cabs that whiz by only to be seen stopping for "safer"-looking people... more...









