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Die Prinzipien und Grundstrukturen des Zwangsvollstreckungsrechts
Mohr Siebeck 2007; US$ 145.67Hauptbeschreibung Im Prozess der europäischen Einigung ist das Zwangsvollstreckungsrecht derzeit eher als ein Stiefkind zu bezeichnen. Die Schwierigkeiten liegen hauptsächlich darin begründet, dass es bislang in den meisten europäischen Ländern an einer dogmatischen Aufarbeitung der Prinzipien und der Grundstrukturen der Zwangsvollstreckung mangelt.... more...
Police Reform in Mexico
Stanford University Press 2012; US$ 40.00The urgent need to professionalize Mexican police has been recognized since the early 1990s, but despite even the most well-intentioned promises from elected officials and police chiefs, few gains have been made in improving police integrity. Why have reform efforts in Mexico been largely unsuccessful? This book seeks to answer the question by focusing... more...
One Marshal's Badge
Potomac Books Inc. 2009; US$ 29.95"Much more than one cops tales of gritty cases. Its an encounter with our countrys recent history." From the Other John Walsh, host of America's Most Wanted more...
Seguridad
Continuum International Publishing 2012; US$ 130.00This study of police governance draws on over ninety interviews conducted with Argentine police officers. In Argentina, a rising fear of crime has led to the politics of Seguridad, a concept that amalgamates personal safety with state security. As a new governing rationale, Seguridad is strengthening forms of police intervention that weaken the democracy.... more...
Tactical Counterterrorism
Charles C Thomas 2012; US$ 59.95Police officers on the beat, officers on patrol, all cops - local, state, tribal and federal, 750,000 strong - doing what they do every day are the first and most effective line of defense against terrorist acts committed in the Homeland. This manual is designed to overcome the failure of our national counter-terrorist strategy to better utilize local... more...
Fast and Furious
Regnery Publishing 2012; US$ 27.95A bloody scandal and its shameless cover-up: No scandal is more threatening to the Obama administration than Operation Fast and Furious. While other scandals involve money, Fast and Furious involves lives, including that of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, gunned down with a weapon that the federal government put in the hands of Mexico?s narco-terrorists.... more...
Depths of Deceit
Robert Hale 2012; US$ 11.65When renowned archaeologist Professor Roderick Ainsworth unearths an ancient Roman temple of Mithras in London?s Clerkenwell, his career is set to be crowned with a knighthood. Thena young analytical chemist is murdered in the temple, and circumstances suggest a ritural murder. On the same day, a prosperous manufacturer is found slaughtered at Carshalton.... more...
Olde Nottinghamshire Punishments
The History Press 2012; US$ 14.57Generation after generation has come up with new forms of punishment to inflict on those guilty (and sometimes innocent) of crimes against property and person. From the stocks and pillory, to flogging, ducking and transportation to foreign lands, this volume brings to life those turbulent times of long ago. Even after suffering the ultimate in punishments... more...
Taiho-Jutsu
Tuttle Publishing 2004; US$ 24.95Taiho-Jutsu examines the variety of weapons available to law enforcement and their uses. This volume includes a history of the criminal organizations, hooligans, feuds, and vendettas that developed in feudal Japan and the civil government, police system, and criminal investigations that arose to counteract them. There are discussions of such law... more...









