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Training Strategies for Crisis and Hostage Negotiations
Charles C Thomas 2009; US$ 40.95Training Strategies for Crisis and Hostage Negotiations was written for trainers who are tasked with providing role play: scenario-driven training that is challenging, novel, interesting, varied, and motivating. A trainer may play a larger role as leader, expert, teacher, coordinator, planner, facilitator, resource manager/librarian, observer/evaluator,... more...
Shooters
Oxford University Press 2004; US$ 22.99Frequenting gun shops and shooting ranges, and devoting particular attention to those whose interest in weaponry extends beyond casual, Abigail Kohn captures in detail how gun owners actually think and feel about their guns, cutting through the cliches that portray shooters as 'gun nuts' or potential terrorists. more...
Less Lethal Weapons
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007; US$ 199.00There have been few independent field studies on the safety and performance of Conducted Energy Devices (CEDs) and other less-lethal devices. Such studies are critical for informing the public debate regarding the appropriateness of these technologies for law enforcement and for the development of sound law enforcement policies to guide their proper... more...
Saving Lives
Greenwood Publishing Group 2007; US$ 50.00Offers a practical approach to handling crisis negotiations in hostage situations more...
Save Karyn
Transworld 2012; US$ 9.34What would you do if you owed $20,000? Would you: a) Not tell your parents? b) Stop colouring your hair, having pedicures and buying Gucci? c) Start your own website that asks for money without apology? If you were Karyn Bosnak, you'd do all three... In New York for the first time, with the dream job and the smart flat, Karyn starts... more...
Save Karyn
Random House Australia 2011; US$ 18.08Drowning in credit card debts and jobless, shopaholic Karyn Bosnak had the audacious idea to ask strangers for money online to pay them off- and it worked! For Karyn Bosnak, after growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, living the 'good life' in New York City was a dream come true. A big-shot producer on a 'Judge Judy'-style talk show, Karyn had the... more...
Policing Public Disorder
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 51.50This book draws on a wide range of studies of collective conflict and the policing of crowds and social movements to provide an understanding of the causes and management of public disorder. It seeks to describe and explain the processes by which the police interpret and respond to instances of public disorder, to account for variations in their strategies... more...
Security Games
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 135.00Security Games: Surveillance and Control at Mega-Events addresses the impact of mega-events ? such as the Olympic Games and the World Cup ? on wider practices of security and surveillance. "Mega-Events" pose peculiar and extensive security challenges. The overwhelming imperative is that "nothing should go wrong." There are, however, an almost infinite... more...
Childhood Poverty
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 95.00Part of a three-volume mini series, this study focuses on children and poverty. It shows how poverty affects their development and their lives as children and how children and their families respond to these pressures. It follows two cohorts of children in poor communities in Vietnam, South Africa, Ethiopia, India, and Peru. more...









