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Provides a critical understanding and evaluation of police tactics
and the use of force Police violence has historically played an
important role in shaping public attitudes toward the government.
Community trust and confidence in policing have been undermined by
the perception that officers are using force unnecessarily, too
frequently, or in problematic ways. The use of force, or harm
suffered by a community as a result of such force, can also serve
as a flashpoint, a spark that ignites long-simmering community
hostility. In Evaluating Police Uses of Force, legal scholar Seth
W. Stoughton, former deputy chief of police Jeffrey J. Noble, and
distinguished criminologist Geoffrey P. Alpert explore a critical
but largely overlooked facet of the difficult and controversial
issues of police violence and accountability: how does society
evaluate use-of-force incidents? By leading readers through answers
to this question from four different perspectives-constitutional
law, state law, administrative regulation, and community
expectations-and by providing critical information about police
tactics and force options that are implicated within those
frameworks, Evaluating Police Uses of Force helps situate readers
within broader conversations about governmental accountability, the
role that police play in modern society, and how officers should go
about fulfilling their duties.
Provides a critical understanding and evaluation of police tactics
and the use of force Police violence has historically played an
important role in shaping public attitudes toward the government.
Community trust and confidence in policing have been undermined by
the perception that officers are using force unnecessarily, too
frequently, or in problematic ways. The use of force, or harm
suffered by a community as a result of such force, can also serve
as a flashpoint, a spark that ignites long-simmering community
hostility. In Evaluating Police Uses of Force, legal scholar Seth
W. Stoughton, former deputy chief of police Jeffrey J. Noble, and
distinguished criminologist Geoffrey P. Alpert explore a critical
but largely overlooked facet of the difficult and controversial
issues of police violence and accountability: how does society
evaluate use-of-force incidents? By leading readers through answers
to this question from four different perspectives-constitutional
law, state law, administrative regulation, and community
expectations-and by providing critical information about police
tactics and force options that are implicated within those
frameworks, Evaluating Police Uses of Force helps situate readers
within broader conversations about governmental accountability, the
role that police play in modern society, and how officers should go
about fulfilling their duties.
Written by two industry experts and packed with behind-the-scenes knowledge, this book delves into the strategy, technology and spirit needed to win a Formula One Race. Every angle of a race weekend is covered in detail, from scrutineering to pitstops to podium. You'll also read about the rivalries and politics that have turned the sport into a global televised drama. Illustrated with colour photographs, Formula One Racing For Dummies will serve the die-hard spectator or armchair fan alike.
"Bayesian Networks: An Introduction" provides a self-contained
introduction to the theory and applications of Bayesian networks, a
topic of interest and importance for statisticians, computer
scientists and those involved in modelling complex data sets. The
material has been extensively tested in classroom teaching and
assumes a basic knowledge of probability, statistics and
mathematics. All notions are carefully explained and feature
exercises throughout.
Features include:
An introduction to Dirichlet Distribution, Exponential Families
and their applications.A detailed description of learning
algorithms and Conditional Gaussian Distributions using Junction
Tree methods.A discussion of Pearl's intervention calculus, with an
introduction to the notion of see and do conditioning.All concepts
are clearly defined and illustrated with examples and exercises.
Solutions are provided online.
This book will prove a valuable resource for postgraduate
students of statistics, computer engineering, mathematics, data
mining, artificial intelligence, and biology.
Researchers and users of comparable modelling or statistical
techniques such as neural networks will also find this book of
interest.
Hello my name is Sarah Alexander.....and I'm a chocoholic I've been
this way for as long as I can remember..... Chocolate has been my
passion since I was young and even as an adult, I dream about this
yummy confection. Well I don't always dream of chocolate
though..... I do dream about Max Taylor, one of the executives in
the office where I work at as a file clerk. I mean who wouldn't
want to dream about a man who sends my heart racing every time I
would look his way. Soon Max and I get to know one another and we
both realize that we have one thing in common with one another
besides our love for one another..... An obsession over
chocolate..... HER CHOCOLATE FANTASY is a story about what happens
when you get two chocoholics together.....and all of the hot
sweetness that happens in between.
From the palm trees of Fresno, California to the pine trees of
Machias, Maine, Home to New England follows the cross-country
journey of author Clifton J. Noble, Sr. and his mother, Minnie
Emerson Noble, as they continue their faith-driven quest for a home
of their own. Join them as they board the train in California to
return to family and friends introduced in Noble's books 31 High
and California Here We Come. Meet new friends and benefactors the
two encounter as they face and overcome new challenges in pursuit
of their American dream.
The Nobles lose their home at 31 High Street to mortgage
foreclosure in 1939, and widow Minnie Emerson Noble has to "win the
bread" until June 1942 when her son Jerry finishes high school.
During those three years, animated movies, art, bicycles,
blueberries, church, dancing school, friends (one with ESP), music,
even murder, impact the lives of mother and son until they board a
train bound for Fresno, California on the day after 16-year-old
Jerry's graduation.
Staying a few months with Minnie's sister and her capable,
one-armed Welsh husband until Jerry can become breadwinner, the
Nobles embark on a new world of adventure in a strange city. They
live independently in rented cottages and explore wartime
California by bicycle and friends' automobiles, seeing the sights
from Fresno to Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Francisco, and Yosemite
National Park. As clerk, doorman, draftsman, and student, Jerry
encounters optometrists, preachers, projectionists, sailors,
singers, soldiers, usherettes. People from all backgrounds and all
walks of life help him and his mother depend upon and build their
faith in uncertain times.
Born in 1926, in Westfield, Massachusetts, author Clifton J.
(Jerry) Noble lived in the house at 31 High Street with his
parents, Clifton and Minnie Noble. Jerry's many adventures in this
small New England town offer an appealing overview of the
simplicity of life during the 1920s and 1930s. Trolley cars and
trains, both steam and electric, roll eastward to Boston and to the
Massachusetts coast at Marblehead, where Noble learns the hard way
about seventh waves and small boats. Initially home schooled by a
wise and loving mother, young Noble revels in puppets and the
theater-despite his father's objections-and later prevails over
problems with public school and a junior high school principal.
Jerry's escapades range from the impromptu bath he receives when
his next door neighbor, Eulalie, pushes him into a park pond, to an
encounter with the widow of famous American composer Edward
MacDowell in a New Bedford hotel and an experience with zero
gravity involving his uncle Sam's1930s Buick and a mound-covered
culvert. Delve into the vivid memories of the first thirteen years
of Noble's life in his delightful memoir, "31 High."
Over recent years, the increasing scope of A. S. Byatt's work as
a writer has fostered a corresponding breadth of academic interest
both in the traditional field of literary criticism and beyond the
discipline among scholars of the natural and social sciences. Most
of this research has been limited to conference papers, interviews,
and articles scattered across a wide variety of journals and has
examined only the most basic critical issues related to Byatt's
writing. This volume provides the first substantive inquiry into
her fiction and spans virtually the entire body of her work.
By advancing multiple and mutually informative theoretical
frameworks for a critical appreciation of Byatt's work as a writer,
this book surveys and furthers the growing critical interest in her
fiction. Contending that Byatt's work renders the boundaries
between criticism and fiction highly permeable, the responses to
her work gathered in this volume purposely blur the demarcation
lines between the different schools of thought currently fighting
for critical supremacy. In doing so, they explore the narrative and
intellectual terrain mapped out by one of Britain's most
imaginative novelists and contribute to current debates on the
contemporary novel in England.
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