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The Trials and Tribulations of Becoming a Swat Commander
Charles C Thomas 2004; US$ 18.95Captain Kolman (ret.), formerly of the Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department, founder and first Director of the National Tactical Officers Association, and who authored one of the first SWAT textbooks in 1982, now brings forth a unique book that not only captures the substantive information required by new SWAT commanders but also its culture.... more...
Class, Race, Gender, and Crime
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2010; US$ 38.99A decade after its first publication, Class, Race, Gender, and Crime remains the only authored book to systematically address the impact of class, race, and gender on criminological theory and all phases of the criminal justice process. The new edition has been thoroughly revised, for easier use in courses, and updated throughout, including... more...
A Guide to the Development of Special Weapons and Tactics Teams
Charles C Thomas 1982; US$ 31.95By John A. Kolman, Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department. With a Foreword by Peter I. Pitchess. CONTENTS: Organization and Structure; Selection of Personnel; Equipment Requirements; Training the Special Weapons and Tactics Team; Hostage Negotiations; Suggested Response to Tactical Situations; The Future of Special Weapons and Tactics Teams .Appendices:... more...
Security Risk Management
Elsevier Science 2011; US$ 49.95The goal of Security Risk Management is to teach you practical techniques that will be used on a daily basis, while also explaining the fundamentals so you understand the rationale behind these practices. Security professionals often fall into the trap of telling the business that they need to fix something, but they can?t explain why. This book... more...
The Changing Face of Terrorism
I.B.Tauris 2010; US$ 25.00Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN), terrorism and the 'war on terror' are major features of international relations and global concern. Terrorist threats and actual violence have become increasingly dangerous and lethal since the 1970s. However, the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on 11 September 2001 heralded... more...
Drugs and Drug Policy
Oxford University Press, USA 2011; US$ 12.99While there have always been norms and customs around the use of drugs, explicit public policies--regulations, taxes, and prohibitions--designed to control drug abuse are a more recent phenomenon. Those policies sometimes have terrible side-effects: most prominently the development of criminal enterprises dealing in forbidden (or untaxed) drugs and... more...
Reloading for Handgunners
F+W Media 2011; US$ 27.99In Reloading for Handgunners, the reader will learn the benefits of serious handgun ammunition reloading (decreased cost, increased reliability) in an accessible, step-by-step way. In addition, the reader will learn how to avoid the costly, wasteful errors that plague many reloaders, experienced and novice alike. Finally, the reader will enjoy the... more...
A Prison Diary
Pan Macmillan 2011; US$ 7.66'The sun is shining through the bars of my window on what must be a glorious summer day. I've been incarcerated in a cell five paces by three for twelve and a half hours, and will not be let out again until midday; eighteen and a half hours of solitary confinement. There is a child of seventeen in the cell below me who has been charged with shoplifting... more...
Pure Evil
John Blake 2008; US$ 9.99On December 1st, 1996, Lee Harvey was stabbed 42 times in a frenzied knife attack. His girlfriend, Tracie Andrews, claimed he had been murdered in a road rage attack and, days later, appeared at a press conference making an emotional appeal for witnesses to the crime. During the days following the attack, the horrific truth about what really happened... more...
Errors of Justice
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 30.00Forst takes a fresh perspective on the assessment of criminal justice policy. more...









