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Criminological Theory - An Analysis of its Underlying Assumptions (Hardcover, Second Edition): Werner.J Einstadter, Stuart Henry Criminological Theory - An Analysis of its Underlying Assumptions (Hardcover, Second Edition)
Werner.J Einstadter, Stuart Henry
R3,167 Discovery Miles 31 670 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Criminological Theory is an examination of the major theoretical perspectives in criminology today. Werner J. Einstadter and Stuart Henry lay bare various theorists' ideas about human nature, social structure, social order, concepts of law, crime and criminals, the logic of crime causation, and the policies and practices that follow from these premises. Material is presented and organized around these analytic and critical dimensions throughout the text. Criminological Theory provides students with a clear overview of the subject that enables informed comparisons among diverse concepts. Abstract concepts are explained clearly to maximize the significance of each theoretical framework. The authors cover the major literature in an engaging, comprehensive, and accessible way, allowing students to develop a critical understanding of foundational and contemporary ideas in Criminology.

Problem Solving Courts - A Measure of Justice (Hardcover): Jo Ann Miller, Donald C. Johnson Problem Solving Courts - A Measure of Justice (Hardcover)
Jo Ann Miller, Donald C. Johnson
R1,840 Discovery Miles 18 400 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Problem Solving Courts explores a relatively new approach to criminal justice one that can have a powerful impact on how convicts connect with their communities. Problem solving courts, born out of the drug court movement in the 1980s, are run by judges who, with the assistance of law enforcement agents and mental health workers, meet with convicts on a weekly basis to talk about their treatment. Treatment programs often include therapy, in addition to the possibility of incarceration or early "parole" in which an offender can complete his or her sentence under the jurisdiction of the court. In this unique collaboration, scholar JoAnn Miller and judge Donald C. Johnson, creators of three successful problem solving courts themselves, address the compelling needs for alternatives to prisons, analyze problem solving courts in depth, and assess the impact problem solving courts can have on convicts and their communities. Problem solving courts can include: community courts that seek to improve the quality of life in neighborhoods struggling with crime and disorder; drug treatment courts that link addicted offenders to drug treatment instead of incarceration; family treatment courts that seek to stop the cycle of drugs, child neglect, and foster care; and domestic violence courts that emphasize victim safety and defendant accountability."

Detaining the Immigrant Other - Global and Transnational Issues (Hardcover): Rich Furman, Douglas Epps, Greg Lamphear Detaining the Immigrant Other - Global and Transnational Issues (Hardcover)
Rich Furman, Douglas Epps, Greg Lamphear
R1,951 Discovery Miles 19 510 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This edited text explores immigration detention through a global and transnational lens. Immigration detention is frequently transnational; the complex dynamics of apprehending, detaining, and deporting undocumented immigrants involve multiple organizations that coordinate and often act across nation state boundaries. The lives of undocumented immigrants are also transnational in nature; the detention of immigrants in one country (often without due process and without providing the opportunity to contact those in their country of origin) has profound economic and emotional consequences for their families. The authors explore immigration detention in countries that have not often been previously explored in the literature. Some of these chapters include analyses of detention in countries such as Malaysia, South Africa, Turkey and Indonesia. They also present chapters that are comparative in nature and deal with larger, macro issues about immigration detention in general. The authors' frequent usage of lived experience in conjunction with a broad scholarly knowledge base is what sets this volume apart from others, making it useful and practical for scholars in the social sciences and anybody interested in the global phenomenon of immigration detention.

Alleviating Bullying - Conquering the Challenge of Violent Crimes (Paperback): Ashraf Esmail Alleviating Bullying - Conquering the Challenge of Violent Crimes (Paperback)
Ashraf Esmail
R1,154 Discovery Miles 11 540 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Alleviating Bullying examines the facets of bullying that have become a major concern around the nation. This book explores the impact of bullying on teachers, students, the elderly, prisoners, and other socio-economic groups. This book also identifies warning signs of bullying and provides suggestions on how to alleviate bullying. The book provides deeper insight into the harmful effects of bullying and what a victim can do to prevent bullying behaviors and further victimization.

Travels of the Criminal Question - Cultural Embeddedness and Diffusion (Hardcover, New): Dario Melossi, Maximo Sozzo, Richard... Travels of the Criminal Question - Cultural Embeddedness and Diffusion (Hardcover, New)
Dario Melossi, Maximo Sozzo, Richard Sparks
R3,206 Discovery Miles 32 060 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The expression 'the criminal question' does not at present have much currency in English-language criminology. The term was carried across from Italian debates about the orientation of criminology, and in particular debates about what came to be called critical criminology. One definition offered early in the debate described it as 'an area constituted by actions, institutions, policies and discourses whose boundaries shift'. According to this writer, crime, and the cultural and symbolic significance carried by law and criminal justice, is an integral aspect of the criminal question. 'The criminal question' draws attention to the specific location and constitution of a given field of forces, and the themes, issues, dilemmas and debates that compose it. At the same time it enables connections to be made between these embedded realities and the wider, conceivably global, contours of influence and flows of power with which it connects. This in turn raises many questions. How far do the responses to crime and punishment internationally flow from and owe their contemporary shape to the cultural and economic transformations now widely known as 'globalisation'? How can something that is in significant ways embedded, situated, and locally produced also travel? What is not in doubt is that it does travel - and travel with serious consequences. The international circulation of discourses and practices has become a pressing issue for scholars who try to understand their operation in their own particular cultural contexts. This collection of essays seeks a constructive comparative view of these tendencies to convergence and divergence.

The Psychosocial Imaginaries of Defence Nationalism - Far-Right Extremism in Australia and the UK (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021):... The Psychosocial Imaginaries of Defence Nationalism - Far-Right Extremism in Australia and the UK (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Liam Gillespie
R1,527 Discovery Miles 15 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Psychosocial Imaginaries of Defence Nationalism interrogates the emergence of far-right nationalist 'defence leagues' in Australia and the UK. Throughout the book, Liam Gillespie refers to these groups as defence nationalists: that is, as nationalists who imagine themselves as defenders of the nation and therefore national subjects par excellence. Drawing on original research, psychoanalytic and psychosocial theory-and particularly the work of Jacques Lacan-the author explores the narratives, imaginaries and subjectivities that sustain these groups, as well as the narratives, imaginaries and subjectivities these groups sustain. He argues that unlike other nationalist groups, defence nationalists are not primarily concerned with realising their avowed political projects. Instead, they are concerned with constructing and then enjoying themselves as the nation's self-ordained defenders. This means that which threatens the nation can paradoxically have a fortifying effect upon defence nationalists, legitimising and securing both the way they see themselves, and the position they see themselves occupying with/in the nation. The Psychosocial Imaginaries of Defence Nationalism will be of interest to anyone concerned with critical theorisations of contemporary nationalism, as well as with the application of psychoanalytic and psychosocial theory to social, cultural and political analysis.

Prison in Iran - A Known Unknown (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Nahid Rahimipour Anaraki Prison in Iran - A Known Unknown (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Nahid Rahimipour Anaraki
R2,873 Discovery Miles 28 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book offers a unique look into prisons in Iran and the lives of the prisoners and their families. It provides an overview of the history of Iranian prisons, depicts the sub-culture in contemporary Iranian prisons, and highlights the forms that gender discrimination takes behind the prison walls. The book draws on the voices of 90 men and women who have been imprisoned in Iran, interviewed in 2012 and 2017 across various parts of the Islamic Republic of Iran. It presents a different approach to the one proposed by Michel Foucault in Discipline and Punish because the author argues that Iran never experienced "the age of sobriety in punishment" and "a slackening of the hold on the body". Whilst penal severity in Iran has reduced, its scope has now extended beyond prisoners to their families, regardless of their age and gender. In Iran, penalties still target the body but now also affect the bodies of the entire prisoner's family. It is not just prisoners who suffer from the lack of food, clothes, spaces for sleeping, health services, legal services, safety, and threats of physical violence and abuse but also their families. The book highlights the costs of mothers' incarceration for their children. It argues that as long as punishment remains the dominant discourse of the penal system, the minds and bodies of anyone related to incarcerated offenders will remain under tremendous strain. This unique book explores the nature of these systems in a deeply under-covered nation to expand understandings of prisons in the non-Western world.

Suggestibility in Legal Contexts - Psychological Research and Forensic Implications (Hardcover): AM Ridley Suggestibility in Legal Contexts - Psychological Research and Forensic Implications (Hardcover)
AM Ridley
R2,549 Discovery Miles 25 490 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A comprehensive survey of the theory, research and forensic implications related to suggestibility in legal contexts that includes the latest research. * Provides a useful digest for academics and a trusted text for students of forensic and applied psychology * A vital resource for legal practitioners who need to familiarize themselves with the subject * Includes practical suggestions for minimizing witness suggestibility in interviews * Features topics that focus on suggestibility at each stage - from witnessing a crime through to trial

Prosecuting Domestic Abuse in Neoliberal Times - Amplifying the Survivor's Voice (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Antonia Porter Prosecuting Domestic Abuse in Neoliberal Times - Amplifying the Survivor's Voice (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Antonia Porter
R3,387 Discovery Miles 33 870 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book argues that past inattentive treatment by state criminal justice agencies in relation to domestic abuse is now being self-consciously reversed by neoliberal governing agendas intent on denouncing crime and holding offenders to account. Criminal prosecutions are key to the UK government's strategy to end Violence Against Women and Girls. Crown Prosecution Service policy affirms that domestic abuse offences are 'particularly serious' and prosecutors are reminded that it will be rare that the 'public interest' will not require of such offences through the criminal courts. Seeking to unpick some of the discourses and perspectives that may have contributed to the current prosecutorial commitment, the book considers its emergence within the context of the women's movement, feminist scholarship and an era of neoliberalism. Three empirical chapters explore the prosecution commitment on the one hand, and the impact on women's lives on the other. The book's final substantive chapter offers a distinctive normative conceptual framework through which practitioners may think about women who have experienced domestic abuse that will have both intellectual appeal and practical application.

Ex-Combatants' Voices - Transitioning from War to Peace in Northern Ireland, South Africa and Sri Lanka (Hardcover, 1st... Ex-Combatants' Voices - Transitioning from War to Peace in Northern Ireland, South Africa and Sri Lanka (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
John D Brewer, Azrini Wahidin
R3,641 Discovery Miles 36 410 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book develops the discourse on the experiences of ex-combatants and their transition from war to peace, from the perspective of scholars across disciplines. Ex-combatants are often overlooked and ignored in the post-conflict search for memory and understanding, resulting in their voice being excluded or distorted. This collection seeks to disclose something of the lived experience of ex-combatants who have made the transition from war to peace to help to understand some of the difficulties they have encountered in social and emotional reintegration in the wake of combat. These include: motivations and mobilizations to participation in military struggle; the material difficulties experienced in social reintegration after the war; the emotional legacies of conflict; the discourses they utilize to reconcile their past in a society moving forward from conflict toward peace; and ex-combatants' subsequent engagement - or not - in peacebuilding. It also examines the contributions that former combatants have made to post-conflict compromise, reconciliation and peacebuilding. It focusses on male non-state actors, women, child soldiers and, unusually, state veterans, and complements previous volumes which captured the voices of victims in Northern Ireland, South Africa and Sri Lanka. This volume speaks to those working in the areas of sociology, criminology, security studies, politics, and international relations, and professionals working in social justice and human rights NGOs.

Transnational Organized Crime and Natural Resources Trafficking - Funding Conflict and Stealing from the World's Most... Transnational Organized Crime and Natural Resources Trafficking - Funding Conflict and Stealing from the World's Most Vulnerable Citizens (Paperback)
Donald R. Liddick
R1,045 Discovery Miles 10 450 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book describes and analyzes conflict commodities, which the author defines as "high-value commodities trafficked in by networks of transnational criminals who use the illicitly derived proceeds to finance armed conflict and loot natural resource wealth from national treasuries." Each chapter examines a different commodity or set of commodities that have become the province of transnational organized crime networks: diamonds, ivory, rhino horn, timber, lapis lazuli, jade, rare minerals, gold, and oil receive scholarly analyses across multiple dimensions, including the structure and operation of criminal networks, the social and environmental consequences of the various conflict commodities trades, and the full range of palliative responses. The book provides coverage of all the players involved, from high-ranking government officials to insurgent groups and terrorists. The work also enumerates the array of human rights abuses associated with the traffic in conflict commodities

Trusted White-Collar Offenders - Global Cases Studies of Crime Convenience (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Petter Gottschalk Trusted White-Collar Offenders - Global Cases Studies of Crime Convenience (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Petter Gottschalk
R3,642 Discovery Miles 36 420 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book uses global case studies of white-collar crime to examine offenders in top business positions and their motives. Drawing on the theory of convenience, this book opens up new perspectives of white-collar offenders in terms of their financial motives, their professional opportunities, and their personal willingness for deviant behaviour. It focusses on three groups of privileged individuals who have abused their positions for economic gain: people who occupied the position of chair of the board, people who were chief executive officers, and female offenders in top positions, and the related white-collar crimes. Convenience themes are identified in each case using the structural model for convenience theory. The case studies are from Denmark, Germany, Japan, Moldova, Norway, Sweden, and the United States. This book speaks to those interested in white-collar crime, criminal justice, policing, organizational behaviour and business administration.

Incarcerated Young People, Education and Social Justice (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023): Kitty te Riele, Tim Corcoran, Fiona... Incarcerated Young People, Education and Social Justice (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)
Kitty te Riele, Tim Corcoran, Fiona Macdonald, Alison Baker, Julie White
R3,115 Discovery Miles 31 150 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book foregrounds the provision of education for young people who have been remanded or sentenced into custody. Both international conventions and national legislation and guidelines in many countries point to the right of children and young people to access education while they are incarcerated. Moreover, education is often seen as an important protective and 'rehabilitative' factor. However, the conditions associated with incarceration generate particular challenges for enabling participation in education. Bridging the fields of education and youth justice, this book offers a social justice analysis through the lens of 'participatory parity', the book brings together rare interviews with staff and young people in youth justice settings in Australia, secondary data from these sites, a suite of pertinent and frank reports, and international scholarship. Drawing on this rich set of material, the book demonstrates not only the challenges but also the possibilities for education as a conduit for social justice in custodial youth justice. The book will be of immediate relevance to governments and youth justice staff for meaningfully meeting their obligation of enabling children and young people in custody to benefit from education; and of interest to scholars and researchers in education, youth work and criminology.

Poke Probe Pry and Peek - Detecting the Detectable (Hardcover): Lou Fulgaro Poke Probe Pry and Peek - Detecting the Detectable (Hardcover)
Lou Fulgaro
R899 Discovery Miles 8 990 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Law, Insecurity and Risk Control - Neo-Liberal Governance and the Populist Revolt (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): John Pratt Law, Insecurity and Risk Control - Neo-Liberal Governance and the Populist Revolt (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
John Pratt
R3,165 Discovery Miles 31 650 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book examines our contemporary preoccupation with risk and how criminal law and punishment have been transformed as a result of these anxieties. It adopts an historical approach to examine the development of risk control measures used across the US, UK, New Zealand, Australia and Canada - particularly since the 1980's - with the rise of the "security sanction". It also takes a criminological and sociological approach to analysing shifts in criminal law and punishment and its implications for contemporary society and criminal justice systems. Law, Insecurity and Risk Control analyses the range and scope of the 'security sanction' and its immobilizing measures, ranging from control over minor incivilities to the most serious crimes. Despite these innovations, though, it argues that our anxieties about risk have become so extensive that the "security sanction" is no longer sufficient to provide social stability and cohesion. As a consequence, people have been attracted to the 'magic' of populism in a revolt against mainstream politics and organisations of government, as with the EU referendum in the UK and the US presidential election of Donald Trump in 2016. While there have been political manoeuvrings to rein back risk and place new controls on it, these have only brought further disillusionment, insecurity and anxiety. This book argues that the "security sanction" is likely to become more deeply embedded in the criminal justice systems of these societies, as new risks to both the well-being of individuals and the nation state are identified.

The Palgrave International Handbook of Youth Imprisonment (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Alexandra Cox, Laura S. Abrams The Palgrave International Handbook of Youth Imprisonment (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Alexandra Cox, Laura S. Abrams
R7,684 Discovery Miles 76 840 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This handbook brings together the knowledge on juvenile imprisonment to develop a global, synthesized view of the impact of imprisonment on children and young people. There are a growing number of scholars around the world who have conducted in-depth, qualitative research inside of youth prisons, and about young people incarcerated in adult prisons, and yet this research has never been synthesized or compiled. This book is organized around several core themes including: conditions of confinement, relationships in confinement, gender/sexuality and identity, perspectives on juvenile facility staff, reentry from youth prisons, young people's experiences in adult prisons, and new models and perspectives on juvenile imprisonment. This handbook seeks to educate students, scholars, and policymakers about the role of incarceration in young people's lives, from an empirically-informed, critical, and global perspective.

Chicago to Springfield - Crime and Politics in the 1920s (Hardcover): Jim Ridings Chicago to Springfield - Crime and Politics in the 1920s (Hardcover)
Jim Ridings
R781 R686 Discovery Miles 6 860 Save R95 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Private and Public Corruption (Hardcover): William C. Heffernan, John Kleinig Private and Public Corruption (Hardcover)
William C. Heffernan, John Kleinig; Contributions by Arlene W. Saxonhouse, J.Peter Euben, Paul Cantor, …
R3,141 Discovery Miles 31 410 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The various essays in this volume explore the development of ideas of corruption, employing a range of disciplinary approaches. Although we are accustomed to think of corruption as the misuse of public office for private gain, corruption has its deeper roots in the idea of a standard that has been eroded. That standard, however, need not be construed idealistically: much of what is asserted to be corruption takes the form of a departure from conventional standards. In inveighing against corruption, therefore, it is necessary first to examine the presumptions that underlie its imputation. As well as exploring the ethical issues that must be confronted in identifying corruption, the authors also address some of the ethical issues that challenge attempts to root out corruption.

Neoliberal Moral Economy - Capitalism, Socio-Cultural Change and Fraud in Uganda (Paperback): Joerg Wiegratz Neoliberal Moral Economy - Capitalism, Socio-Cultural Change and Fraud in Uganda (Paperback)
Joerg Wiegratz
R1,408 Discovery Miles 14 080 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book offers a fresh take on a major question of global debate: what explains the rise in economic fraud in so many societies around the world? The author argues that the current age of fraud is an outcome of not only political-economic but also moral transformations that have taken place in societies reshaped by neoliberalism. Using the case of Uganda, the book traces these socio-cultural and especially moral repercussions of embedding neoliberalism. Uganda offers an important case of investigation for three reasons: the high level of foreign intervention by donors, aid agencies, international organisations, NGOs and corporations that have tried to produce the first fully-fledged market society in Africa there; the country's reputation as having adopted neoliberal reforms most extensively, and the intensification of fraud in many sectors of the economy since the early 2000s. The book explores the rise and operation of the neoliberal moral economy and its world of hard and fraudulent practices. It analyses especially the moral-economic character of agricultural produce markets in eastern Uganda. It shows that neoliberal moral restructuring is a highly political, contested and conflict-ridden process, predominantly works via recalibrating the political-economic structure of a country, and deeply affects how people think and go about earning a living and treat others with whom they do business. The book offers an in-depth, data-based analysis of the moral climate of a market society in motion and in so doing offers insights and lessons for elsewhere in the Global South and North.

Service to Civilian - A Journey Through PTSD (Hardcover): Nathan Gould Service to Civilian - A Journey Through PTSD (Hardcover)
Nathan Gould
R547 Discovery Miles 5 470 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Resisting Carceral Violence - Women's Imprisonment and the Politics of Abolition (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Bree Carlton,... Resisting Carceral Violence - Women's Imprisonment and the Politics of Abolition (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Bree Carlton, Emma K. Russell
R3,152 Discovery Miles 31 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book explores the dramatic evolution of a feminist movement that mobilised to challenge a women's prison system in crisis. Through in-depth historical research conducted in the Australian state of Victoria that spans the 1980s and 1990s, the authors uncover how incarcerated women have worked productively with feminist activists and community coalitions to expose, critique and resist the conditions and harms of their confinement. Resisting Carceral Violence tells the story of how activists-through a combination of creative direct actions, reformist lobbying and legal challenges-forged an anti-carceral feminist movement that traversed the prison walls. This powerful history provides vital lessons for service providers, social justice advocates and campaigners, academics and students concerned with the violence of incarceration. It calls for a willingness to look beyond the prison and instead embrace creative solutions to broader structural inequalities and social harm.

Sexual Crime - A Reference Handbook (Hardcover): Caryn E. Neumann Sexual Crime - A Reference Handbook (Hardcover)
Caryn E. Neumann
R2,249 Discovery Miles 22 490 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A contemporary, fact-filled resource on the historical, legal, medical, and political aspects of a wide variety of sexual crimes. Authoritative and informative, Sexual Crime: A Reference Handbook offers a thoroughly up-to-date report on an issue of extraordinary urgency. It is an expert introduction to a variety of often misunderstood crimes. Sexual Crime begins with a background chapter outlining the causes and definitions of sexual crime, legal and cultural attitudes over the past three centuries, and common myths surrounding this sensitive subject. It then offers wide ranging coverage of issues, including date rape, crimes involving male victims, rape in prison, female perpetrators, medical treatments, political ramifications, and other contemporary issues. A chronology of events related to sexual crime from colonial times to present, as well as a Facts and Data chapter with a range of informative statistics and excerpts of pivotal legal decisions Biographical sketches of nearly 35 activists, scholars, policymakers, and other notable figures involved in the efforts to fight sexual crimes

Law Express: Criminology (Paperback): Noel Cross Law Express: Criminology (Paperback)
Noel Cross
R501 Discovery Miles 5 010 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

From the makers of the bestselling law revision series, Law Express: Criminology is designed to help both law and social science students revise effectively. This is your guide to understanding essential concepts, remembering and applying key theories, developing good critical analysis, and making your answers stand out.

Arabs at Home and in the World - Human Rights, Gender Politics, and Identity (Hardcover): Karla McKanders Arabs at Home and in the World - Human Rights, Gender Politics, and Identity (Hardcover)
Karla McKanders
R4,469 Discovery Miles 44 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars from the United States, the Middle East, and North Africa, to discuss and critically analyze the intersection of gender and human rights laws as applied to individuals of Arab descent. It seeks to raise consciousness at the intersection of gender, identity, and human rights as it relates to Arabs at home and throughout the diaspora. The context of revolution and the destabilizing impact of armed conflicts in the region are used to critique and examine the utility of human rights law to address contemporary human rights issues through extralegal strategies. To this end, the volume seeks to inform, educate, persuade, and facilitate newer or less-heard perspectives related to gender and masculinities theories. It provides readers with new ways of understanding gender and human rights and proposes forward-looking solutions to implementing human rights norms. The goal of this book is to use the context of Arabs at home and throughout the diaspora to critique and examine the utility of human rights norms and laws to diminish human suffering with the goal of transforming the structural, social, and cultural conditions that impede access to human rights. This book will be of interest to a diverse audience of scholars, students, public policy researchers, lawyers and the educated public interested in the fields of human rights law, international studies, gender politics, migration and diaspora, and Middle East and North African politics.

Radiological and Nuclear Terrorism - Their Science, Effects, Prevention, and Recovery (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): P. Andrew Karam Radiological and Nuclear Terrorism - Their Science, Effects, Prevention, and Recovery (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
P. Andrew Karam
R3,904 Discovery Miles 39 040 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book discusses multiple aspects of radiological and nuclear terrorism. Do you know what to do if there is a radiological or nuclear emergency in your city? These accidents are not common, but they have happened - and even though we have not seen an attack using these weapons, governments around the world are making plans for how to prevent them - and for how to respond if necessary. Whether you are an emergency responder, a medical caregiver, a public health official - even a member of the public wanting to know how to keep yourself and your loved ones safe - there is a need to understand how these weapons work, how radiation affects our health, how to stop an attack from taking place, how to respond appropriately in the event of an emergency, and much more. Unfortunately, the knowledge that is needed to accomplish all of this is lacking at all levels of society and government. In this book, Dr. Andrew Karam, an internationally respected expert in radiation safety and multiple aspects of radiological and nuclear emergencies, discusses how these weapons work and what they can do, how they can affect our health, how to keep yourself safe, and how to react appropriately whether you are a police officer investigating a suspect radiological weapon, a firefighter responding to a radiological or nuclear attack, a nurse or physician caring for potentially contaminated patients, or a governmental official trying to keep the public safe. To do this, he draws upon his extensive experience in the military, the several years he worked directly with emergency responders, his service on a number of advisory committees, and multiple trips overseas in the aftermath of the Fukushima accident and on behalf of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Interpol, and the Health Physics Society.

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