As figureheads of the most visible segment of criminal justice, today's police administrators are forced to tackle challenges never faced by their predecessors. Heightened local and global threats, advanced technologies, and increased demands for procedural transparency require new levels of flexibility, innovative thinking, and the ability to foster and maintain relationships within the community. It is more crucial than ever to recruit and retain capable leaders to guide law enforcement agencies at this pivotal time in history.

Covering areas such as leadership in policing, use of force, and understanding how the law shapes police practice, Handbook of Police Administration examines the key topics that must be considered by law enforcement professionals. Recognizing that police leaders need the skills and traits of a politician, accountant, attorney, field lieutenant, and futurist, the authors cover a variety of contemporary issues surrounding police administration and management. Divided into five thematic sections, it considers the legal aspects of overseeing a public sector organization, as well as how research, technology, and training can assist modern police leaders in performing their duties more effectively and efficiently. The book covers problematic issues such as officers accepting gratuities, undercover work, and the time criteria required for promotional consideration. It concludes with a chapter comparing administrative issues in Australia with many of the subjects previously addressed with regard to U.S. protocol.

Using a range of perspective, differing viewpoints, and controversial issues, Handbook of Police Administration provides a springboard to stimulatediscussion at the cutting-edge of debate in the dynamic field of policing.

Too often professionals in public policy or criminal justice must scramble to find additional reading on juvenile law and justice or on juvenile delinquency topics because most references and textbooks provide inadequate coverage of many issues of importance. The Handbook of Juvenile Justice: Theory and Practice responds to this need by providing comprehensive coverage of this important field of study. Resulting from lengthy analysis by the editors about what are identified as the most pressing issues in the field, this volume contains contributions from recognized experts, many of whom are published with the American Society of Criminology and the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. These authors deliver a balanced representation of theoretical, research, policy, and legal materials associated with the juvenile justice system. The book presents both historical and modern accounts of critical issues, and includes a policy approach to issues of delinquency, status offense, treatment, punishment, special populations, and early intervention programs. This text is ideal as a resource for professionals studying juvenile justice and its impact on public policy.

Pamoison is an ode to Voltaire's Candide framed in the 18th century novella's structure. But here we have not Pangloss the philosopher but Mangloss the magician. We have not Candide the character of optimism, but Pamoison the character who swoons. Like the quest of the original characters, Mangloss and Pamoison journey from an idyllic European land to other countries where they meet unexpected consequences. Traveling on a hijacked plane, escaping from a Cuban prison, befriending a transsexual physician, observing a fatal attack by pit bulls, shuddering under the looming construction of a space station, camping out beneath the shadows of Mayan ruins, finding friendship with the Indian princess Minneheheh, just to name a few. And Pamoison's enduring love for the shepherdess Sibella who, as fate had it, transformed into a Ewe. Theirs is a circuitous journey of cause and effect which eventually brings them full circle to the moral of the fable, similar to Candide, but with a nuance that could only be Pamoison.

These cycles of prose and verse take up where the epic poem La Chanson de Pame La Calmette left off-spiraling into the 21st century. The poet again journeys through her haunts in France, Ireland, and America as the Earth suffers war, global warming, and cultural change. "Gospel of the Cells" is the poet's account of finding a deeper, albeit cellular, meaning to these events.

This little book of poem fragments is dedicated to the androgynous poet Sappho, whose legend and verse became real to a poet in the Maine winter of 2012 AD. "A diaphanous and yet keenly visceral work of art...between sadness and desire, this poetic sequence makes wholeness of fragmentation. Such a strong juxtaposition: the fragments of an ancient poet - and the deconstruction of a life in the present. The poet puts the trauma of today in mythic perspective. With "The Sound of Loneliness" you listen for life's meaning. Truth answers in sorrow - beauty with wonder." --A.A. Attanasio, author of Centuries

It is September, 2001 in the French countryside. The blind herdsman Josef has just passed away. From his strange landing place, he peers down to the Pyrenean valley below. We meet the friends and neighbors he has left behind, including the foreigner Helene. Through visions and dreams Josef begins to communicate with Helene. They hold the ancient information that will eventually help them remember where they came from, who they are, and how they can return home. Their story takes us to the same valley 2000 years ago, to prehistoric Ireland and from France in the 1930's to present day. With them, the reader will be flying the wind from here-to-there and listening to the voices in the trees...

The mandalas in this book and the stories that accompany them portray an ongoing path to the center of being. Here is an individual's practice of stitching one's way to human wholeness.