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Intelligence and Security Informatics - Techniques and Applications (Hardcover, 2008 ed.): Hsinchun Chen, Christopher C. Yang Intelligence and Security Informatics - Techniques and Applications (Hardcover, 2008 ed.)
Hsinchun Chen, Christopher C. Yang
R5,776 R4,363 Discovery Miles 43 630 Save R1,413 (24%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI) and Pacific Asia Workshop on Intelligence and Security Informatics (PAISI) conference series (http: //www. isiconference. org) have drawn significant attention in the recent years. Intelligence and Security Informatics is concerned with the study of the dev- opment and use of advanced information technologies and systems for national, int- national, and societal security-related applications. The ISI conference series have brought together academic researchers, law enforcement and intelligence experts, - formation technology consultant and practitioners to discuss their research and pr- tice related to various ISI topics including ISI data management, data and text mining for ISI applications, terrorism informatics, deception and intent detection, terrorist and criminal social network analysis, public health and bio-security, crime analysis, - ber-infrastructure protection, transportation infrastructure security, policy studies and evaluation, information assurance, among others. In this book, we collect the work of the most active researchers in the area. Topics include data and text mining in terr- ism, information sharing, social network analysis, Web-based intelligence monitoring and analysis, crime data analysis, infrastructure protection, deception and intent det- tion and more. Scope and Organization The book is organized in four major areas. The first unit focuses on the terrorism - formatics and data mining. The second unit discusses the intelligence and crime analysis. The third unit covers access control, infrastructure protection, and privacy. The forth unit presents surveillance and emergency response

Police Leadership - Changing Landscapes (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019): Pauline Ramshaw, Marisa Silvestri, Mark Simpson Police Leadership - Changing Landscapes (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Pauline Ramshaw, Marisa Silvestri, Mark Simpson
R3,944 Discovery Miles 39 440 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book draws upon a range of theoretical and empirical research to explore contemporary debates about police leadership. Focusing upon leadership styles, ethics, integrity and professionalism, workforce diversity, legitimacy and accountability, it reviews the changing context and nature of leadership over time and explores the gains, losses, tensions and challenges that different leadership models bring to policing. Leadership is present at various levels within the police service and this collection reflects upon appropriate leadership qualities and requirements for different roles and at different ranks. The book also considers the difference between leadership and management in an attempt to capture fuller debates within police leadership. Part one surmises the contextual backdrop to current thinking and the primary challenges facing leadership in the police service. Part two highlights the changing face of leadership through an exploration of the call for greater diversity within the ranks of police leadership, and the final section examines police leadership beyond England and Wales. Through this, Police Leadership explores how the challenges facing police leadership in England and Wales share similarities with those in Scotland, Northern Ireland, Greece, North America, and Australia in the face of the pressures of political and economic uncertainty.

Private Policing (Paperback, 2nd edition): Mark Button Private Policing (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Mark Button
R1,160 Discovery Miles 11 600 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The second edition of Private Policing details the substantial involvement of private agents and organisations involved in policing beyond the public police. It develops a taxonomy of policing and explores in depth each of the main categories, examining the degree of privateness, amongst several other issues. The main categories include the public police; hybrid policing such as state policing bodies, specialised police forces and non-governmental organisations; voluntary policing; and the private security industry. This book explores how the public police and many other state bodies have significant degrees of privateness, from outright privatisation through to the serving of private interests. The book provides a theoretical framework for private policing, building upon the growing base of scholarship in this area. Fully revised, this new edition not only brings the old edition up to date with the substantial scholarship since 2002, but also provides more international context and several new chapters on: corporate security management, security officers, and private investigation. There is also a consideration of what the book calls the 'new private security industry' working largely in cyber-space. Bringing together research from a wide range of projects the author has been involved with, along with the growing body of private policing scholarship, the book shows the substantial involvement of non-public police bodies in policing and highlights a wide range of issues for debate and further research. Private Policing is ideal reading for students of policing and security courses, academics with an interest in private policing and security, and practitioners from security and policing.

Police Crime Control Strategies (Paperback, New edition): Larry Hoover Police Crime Control Strategies (Paperback, New edition)
Larry Hoover
R1,166 R1,046 Discovery Miles 10 460 Save R120 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

POLICE CRIME CONTROL STRATEGIES is a practical, realistic, one-of-a-kind book that provides readers with a balanced assessment of approaches to police crime reduction. Written by an expert in the field of law enforcement, this book covers the strengths and weaknesses of a variety of approaches including crime-specific, community-oriented, problem-oriented, hot spot targeting, concentrated patrol deployment, broken windows enforcement, and intelligence-guided. Opening chapters trace the accumulating evidence for the substantial impact upon crime that focused police efforts can have. Community and problem-oriented programs are reviewed in the context of their employment for crime reduction. State-of-the-art strategies are organized by three targeting foci: geographic, offense, and offender. The role of investigative units in proactive crime reduction is critically assessed and Compstat as a framework receives special attention. Also discussed are crime strategy meetings, and staffing and deployment for crime control. Care is taken to review both the successes and failures of structured efforts both in suburban environments and major cities so that readers are provided with an unbiased overview of policing in the real world.

Knowledge Management Systems in Law Enforcement - Technologies and Techniques (Hardcover): Knowledge Management Systems in Law Enforcement - Technologies and Techniques (Hardcover)
R2,557 Discovery Miles 25 570 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Police forces around the world engage in a variety of activities. Many of these activities, such as roadblocks, arrests, and increased police presence in problem areas, are reactive, but there are also many proactive measures involved in police work. Both reactive and proactive measures involve a large amount of information, and police officers need to understand vast amounts of knowledge to carry out their normal duties. This amount of information means that police officers also have to be proficient knowledge workers. ""Knowledge Management Systems in Law Enforcement: Technologies and Techniques"" presents the latest research and trends in using knowledge management to aid police activities. The principles and practices presented in this book will help law enforcement professionals find ways to quickly bring vast amounts of knowledge to bear in law enforcement, but will also help prepare the next generation of police officers for a more knowledge-intensive field.

Exploring Police Integrity - Novel Approaches to Police Integrity Theory and Methodology (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019): Sanja... Exploring Police Integrity - Novel Approaches to Police Integrity Theory and Methodology (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovi c, M.R. Haberfeld
R4,575 Discovery Miles 45 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This work provides an innovative new look at police ethics, including results from an updated version of the classic Police Integrity Questionnaire, including new social and technological advances. It aims to push the study of police research further, expanding on and testing police integrity theory and methodology, the relationship between community and integrity, and the influence of multiculturalism and globalization on policing and community attitudes. This work brings together experienced scholars who have used the police integrity theory and the accompanying methodology to measure police integrity in eleven countries, and provide advance and sophisticated explorations of the topic. Organized into three thematic sections, it explores the testing methodology for international comparisons, insights into police-community relations, and explores police subcultures. This innovative book will be of interest to researchers in criminology & criminal justice, particularly with an interest in policing, as well as related fields such as sociology, public policy, and comparative law.

The Russian Secret Police - Muscovite, Imperial Russian and Soviet Political Security Operations 1565-1970 (Paperback): Ronald... The Russian Secret Police - Muscovite, Imperial Russian and Soviet Political Security Operations 1565-1970 (Paperback)
Ronald Hingley
R1,002 Discovery Miles 10 020 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book, first published in 1970, is an important study of Russia's security services from their earliest years to the mid-twentieth century. Ronald Hingley demonstrates how the secret police acted, both under the Tsars and under Soviet rule, as a key instrument of control exercised over all fields of Russian life by an outstandingly authoritarian state. He analyses the Tsarist Third Section and Okhrana and their role in countering Russian revolutionary groups, and examines the Soviet agencies as they assumed the roles of policeman, judge and executioner. This masterly evaluation of Russian and Soviet secret police makes extensive use of hard-to-find Russian documentary sources, and is the first such research that studies Russian political security (Muscovite, Imperial and Soviet) as a whole.

Human Rights Policing - Reimagining Law Enforcement in the 21st Century (Paperback): Peter Marina, Pedro Marina Human Rights Policing - Reimagining Law Enforcement in the 21st Century (Paperback)
Peter Marina, Pedro Marina
R977 Discovery Miles 9 770 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

* Provides a guideline for law enforcement agents to apply human rights policing to their everyday jobs * Offers solutions to the problems of policing in society, including a response to the global social movement against police brutality * Grounded in data collected from years of the ethnographic research with police officers on human rights

Human Rights Policing - Reimagining Law Enforcement in the 21st Century (Hardcover): Peter Marina, Pedro Marina Human Rights Policing - Reimagining Law Enforcement in the 21st Century (Hardcover)
Peter Marina, Pedro Marina
R3,594 Discovery Miles 35 940 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

* Provides a guideline for law enforcement agents to apply human rights policing to their everyday jobs * Offers solutions to the problems of policing in society, including a response to the global social movement against police brutality * Grounded in data collected from years of the ethnographic research with police officers on human rights

The Suspect - Counterterrorism, Islam, and the Security State (Hardcover): Rizwaan Sabir The Suspect - Counterterrorism, Islam, and the Security State (Hardcover)
Rizwaan Sabir; Foreword by Hicham Yezza; Afterword by Aamer Anwar
R1,977 Discovery Miles 19 770 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

'An instant classic. Sabir is an inspiration' Arun Kundnani, author of The Muslims are Coming! What impact has two decades' worth of policing and counterterrorism had on the state of mind of Muslims in Britain? The Suspect draws on the author's experiences to take the reader on a journey through British counterterrorism practices and the policing of Muslims. Rizwaan Sabir describes what led to his arrest for suspected terrorism, his time in detention, and the surveillance he was subjected to on release from custody, including stop and search at the roadside, detentions at the border, monitoring by police and government departments, and an attempt by the UK military to recruit him into their psychological warfare unit. Writing publicly for the first time about the traumatising mental health effects of these experiences, Sabir argues that these harmful outcomes are not the result of errors in government planning, but the consequences of using a counterinsurgency warfare approach to fight terrorism and police Muslims. To resist the injustice of these policies and practices, we need to centre our lived experiences and build networks of solidarity and support.

Coventry City Police: A Brief History (Hardcover): Corinne Brazier Coventry City Police: A Brief History (Hardcover)
Corinne Brazier
R617 R563 Discovery Miles 5 630 Save R54 (9%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Street Cop - Policing in Context (Hardcover): George Klein Street Cop - Policing in Context (Hardcover)
George Klein
R4,727 Discovery Miles 47 270 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book provides an ethnography of street-level policing in the United States and offers an analysis with valuable lessons for today's law enforcement officers. Author George C. Klein, sociologist and former police officer, explores the characteristics of policing in a suburb outside of large Midwestern city in the United States. As a participant-observation fieldworker, he functioned as an ethnographic researcher, recording with a sociological eye the "real world" tasks of policing, including the ordinary as well as the more remarkable aspects of day-to-day law enforcement. He approaches the data with three levels of analysis, looking at embedded issues in policing, such as discretion, danger, corruption, cynicism, race, and class; a mid-range analysis that examines police work as an example of street-level bureaucracy; and a global analysis assessing the entrenched roles of race, class, and demography in police work, as well as, society, in the U.S. This book focuses on the need for police officers to solve social problems that other institutions in society are unwilling, or unable, to solve. It examines a myriad of issues, such as police socialization, the use of force by police officers, stress levels and suicide risk factors, disparate styles of policing, police militarization, de-escalation, and more. With compelling detail, the author helps the reader understand the turmoil regarding policing in the United States today. It is ideal for police professionals as well as students and scholars of criminal justice, criminology, sociology, psychology, history, political science and journalism.

Policing the Home Front 1914-1918 - The Control of the British Population at War (Hardcover): Mary Fraser Policing the Home Front 1914-1918 - The Control of the British Population at War (Hardcover)
Mary Fraser
R3,877 Discovery Miles 38 770 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The civilian police during the First World War in Great Britain were central to the control of the population at home. This book will show the detail and challenges of police work during the First World War and how this impacted on ordinary people's daily lives. The aim is to tell the story of the police as they saw themselves through the pages of their best-known journal, The Police Review and Parade Gossip, in addition to a wide range of other published, archival and private sources.

'Soft' Policing - The Collaborative Control of Anti-Social Behaviour (Hardcover): D. McCarthy 'Soft' Policing - The Collaborative Control of Anti-Social Behaviour (Hardcover)
D. McCarthy
R1,456 Discovery Miles 14 560 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book investigates the practices of 'soft' policing through the perspective of different control agencies including the police, social work teams and the youth justice service, and their collaborative response towards young people involved in low-level anti-social behaviour.
Examining early intervention initiatives, McCarthy analyses the decision-making practices, group-level deliberation, practical struggles and experiences of multi-agency working, highlighting the key role of the police in these partnerships. This book shows that whilst attempts to intervene early may be largely conditioned by a benevolent spirit akin to social work, complexities in collaborative responses can arise when initiatives do not always reflect the intended aims, and can at times lead to deeper and more intensive control under the guise of support.
"'Soft' Policing" will appeal to a range of scholars in criminology and policing, as well as practitioners including youth justice professionals, police officers, social workers and those involved in the provision of
services for children and young people.

Public Order Policing in Hong Kong - The Mongkok Riot (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019): Kam C. Wong Public Order Policing in Hong Kong - The Mongkok Riot (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Kam C. Wong
R2,569 Discovery Miles 25 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book examines the Hong Kong Mongkok Riot (MKR) of 2016 to offer a clear and objective account of the events as they unfolded, to dispel the myths, and to explore what can be learned from it. It draws on multiple sources including: public survey data, eyewitness accounts, LegCo proceedings, official press releases, newspaper reports, and video presentations. The study investigates the causes, issues and impacts of MKR including how the media reported it. It examines the historical context surrounding MKR, before and after, and considers the importance of this independent inquiry including its use and limitations. It aims to bring closure to the event, establish a record for the future, provide insightful data for cross-cultural studies on riots, and offer insights for police scholars, security consultants, political scientists, Asian and Chinese studies scholars, and comparative criminal justice researchers.

Comparative Policing (Hardcover): Jacques De Maillard Comparative Policing (Hardcover)
Jacques De Maillard
R3,883 Discovery Miles 38 830 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

1. While there are several titles on comparative penology and comparative youth justice, this is the most up-to-date title on comparative policing. 2. This book will find a market as a course text on upper level courses on policing, community policing, transnational crime control, community safety and comparative criminal justice. 3. This book also has a secondary market amongst police practitioners.

Brothers at War - Two American Brothers in World War I as Volunteers in the French Army (Hardcover): Alan Hammond Nichols, Alan... Brothers at War - Two American Brothers in World War I as Volunteers in the French Army (Hardcover)
Alan Hammond Nichols, Alan Nichols; Edited by Alan Nichols
R1,034 R860 Discovery Miles 8 600 Save R174 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Seven Ways to Fix Policing NOW - Building Trust, Authentic Partnerships, and Safe Communities (Hardcover): Kathleen Otoole,... Seven Ways to Fix Policing NOW - Building Trust, Authentic Partnerships, and Safe Communities (Hardcover)
Kathleen Otoole, Robert Peirce
R2,013 Discovery Miles 20 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This practical guide to policing reform presents a call to action to address a threefold crisis in policing - a catastrophic loss of trust between police and the communities they serve; a sharp increase in violent crime after decades of decline; and a serious recruitment and retention challenge depleting police departments across the United States. The authors also recognize that, while these issues are now top of mind, policing needs far-reaching reform in order to respond to changes in society and its expectations, changes in crime and other threats to public safety, new technologies, and developments in best practice. Most reform to date has been piecemeal, as the book describes. The time has come to take a comprehensive look at every aspect of policing.

Disasters and the American State - How Politicians, Bureaucrats, and the Public Prepare for the Unexpected (Hardcover, New):... Disasters and the American State - How Politicians, Bureaucrats, and the Public Prepare for the Unexpected (Hardcover, New)
Patrick S. Roberts
R2,513 Discovery Miles 25 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Disasters and the American State offers a thesis about the trajectory of federal government involvement in preparing for disaster shaped by contingent events. Politicians and bureaucrats claim credit for the government's successes in preparing for and responding to disaster, and they are also blamed for failures outside of government's control. New interventions have created precedents and established organizations and administrative cultures that accumulated over time and produced a general trend in which citizens, politicians and bureaucrats expect the government to provide more security from more kinds of disasters. The trend reached its peak when the Federal Emergency Management Agency adopted the idea of preparing for 'all hazards' as its mantra. Despite the rhetoric, however, the federal government's increasingly bold claims and heightened public expectations are disproportionate to the ability of the federal government to prevent or reduce the damage caused by disaster.

The Wicked Problems of Police Reform in Canada (Hardcover): Laura Huey, Lorna Ferguson, Jennifer L. Schulenberg The Wicked Problems of Police Reform in Canada (Hardcover)
Laura Huey, Lorna Ferguson, Jennifer L. Schulenberg
R3,873 Discovery Miles 38 730 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

* Draws on a unique pool of data to provide a national-level picture of the policing operational environment in Canada * Addresses police reform in response the "wicked problems" of mental health, addiction, homelessness, and missing persons, which are ongoing in Canada as well as other nations around the world * Offers an often-ignored Canadian perspective on the challenges of police reform

Active Shooter Response Training - Lone Wolf to Coordinated Attacks (Paperback, 2nd edition): Scott Hyderkhan Active Shooter Response Training - Lone Wolf to Coordinated Attacks (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Scott Hyderkhan
R1,748 Discovery Miles 17 480 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Active Shooter Response Training: Lone Wolf to Coordinated Attack, Second Edition, provides expanded and updated training for police and security officers who must respond to an active shooter situation. This manual addresses all facets of preparation and response, from complex logistical organization to collective and individual tactics, as well as special units or special skills tasks. Based on time-tested military training doctrine, the program described here offers a template for agencies of all sizes to offer training that effectively utilizes officers' available time. Hyderkhan and his expert contributors cover all aspects of the active shooter response (ASR) mission, from risk analysis to logistical planning for mass casualty events. He also addresses medical care and evacuation, reunification procedures, and post-incident investigation. Active Shooter Response Training, Second Edition, provides the tools needed to prevent or mitigate tragedy in our religious congregations, schools, and public places. The book includes a voucher code for a 50% discount off of the companion online library of training videos This book is directed to law enforcement agencies, private security teams, training organizations, police leaders, and individual officers and trainers, in the US and globally. It also has potential as recommended reading in policing courses at the community college and university level.

Municipal Policing in the European Union - Comparative Perspectives (Hardcover): D. Donnelly Municipal Policing in the European Union - Comparative Perspectives (Hardcover)
D. Donnelly
R1,804 Discovery Miles 18 040 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In the past, defining municipal policing was easier as it incorporated local authority duties, crime prevention and police patrol. However in the contemporary setting, police resources are regularly overstretched and novel ways of alleviating their workloads are continually being sought. One method of achieving this goal is by involving other people and technology to assist the police in their everyday tasks. A system of partnership and technology, underpinned by legislation, has made this ambition possible. This book reviews how traditional municipal policing has evolved in a number of European Union countries discussing topics such as history, police civilianization, police auxiliaries, community policing, surveillance, politics and governance, with predictions as to what may lie ahead for municipal policing in the EU. Municipal Policing in Europe provides an exclusive vista of the evolving model of local policing in the EU member states at a time when police forces are increasingly collaborating together.

Motorcycle roadcraft - the police rider's handbook (Paperback, 2020 ed): Penny Mares, Police Foundation, Philip Coyne Motorcycle roadcraft - the police rider's handbook (Paperback, 2020 ed)
Penny Mares, Police Foundation, Philip Coyne
R609 R553 Discovery Miles 5 530 Save R56 (9%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Pandemic Police Power, Public Health and the Abolition Question (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022): Tryon P. Woods Pandemic Police Power, Public Health and the Abolition Question (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Tryon P. Woods
R2,660 Discovery Miles 26 600 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book critically explores how police power manifested beyond criminal law into the field of public health during the pandemic. Whilst people were engaged with anti-police violence protests, particularly in the US, they were being policed openly and notoriously by the government and medical science in the public health arena. The book explores how public health policing might be an abuse of constitutional power and encourages the abolition question to be applied consistently to the state's discourse in the area of public health, as black people the world over continue to bear a disproportionate cost burden for public health policies. The chapters explore contemporary policing in terms of the historical context of slavery, the growth of the police and prison abolition movement and how this should be applied more widely, and how police power operates throughout society beyond the criminal justice system, in finance, technology, housing, education, and in medicine and health science. It seeks to re-examine our relationship to health sovereignty and the police power more fundamentally. It provides insights into the convergence of policing and social control of humans and argues that the most normative response is abolition.

Translational Criminology in Policing (Paperback): The George Mason Police Research Group with David Weisburd Translational Criminology in Policing (Paperback)
The George Mason Police Research Group with David Weisburd
R1,129 Discovery Miles 11 290 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

With contributions from international policing experts, this book is the first of its kind to bring together a broad range of scholarship on translational criminology and policing. Translational criminology aims to understand the obstacles and facilitators to implementing research by decisionmakers to improve effectiveness, fairness, and efficiency in the criminal justice system. Although the emergence of the translation of knowledge from research to policy and practice has gained momentum in policing in recent years, it is imperative to understand the specific mechanisms required to create collaborative structures to produce and disseminate information. This progressive and cutting-edge collection of articles addresses the growing interest in creating and advancing evidence-based policing through translational mechanisms. It describes a varied, dynamic, and iterative decision-making process in which researchers and practitioners work simultaneously to generate and implement evidence-based research. Not only does this book incorporate a process for translating criminological information, it offers varying perspectives on researcher-practitioner partnerships around the world. Translational Criminology in Policing provides practical principles to help research, practitioner, and policymaker audiences facilitate evidence translation and research-practitioner partnerships. It is essential reading for policing scholars and policymakers, and may serve as a reference and textbook for courses and further research in translational criminology in policing.

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