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Problem-Oriented Policing: Successful Case Studies is the first
systematic and rigorous collection of effective problem-oriented
policing projects. It includes more than twenty case studies from
among the thousands of projects submitted for the Herman Goldstein
Award for Excellence in Problem-Oriented Policing. The volume
describes in detail the case studies and explains the wider
significance of each for effective, efficient, and equitable
policing. This book explores a wide range of problems that fall
under five general categories: gang violence; violence against
women; vulnerable people; disorderly places; and theft, robbery,
and burglary. The case studies tell stories of how police, in
collaboration with others, successfully tackled real-world policing
problems fairly and effectively. The authors have also drawn out of
the case studies the cross-cutting themes and issues they
illustrate. The authors prove that the concept can work, bring to
life the context in which police and communities addressed these
vexing problems, and, ideally, will inspire future problem-oriented
police work that builds on these reported successes. Written in a
clear and direct style, this book will appeal to students and
scholars of policing, criminology, and social studies; police
practitioners and crime analysts; and all those who are interested
in learning more about the reality of police problem-solving.
Crime analysis has become an increasingly important part of
policing and crime prevention, and thousands of specialist crime
analysts are now employed by police forces worldwide. This is the
first book to set out the principles and practice of crime
analysis, and is designed to be used both by crime analysts
themselves, by those responsible for the training of crime analysts
and teaching its principles, and those teaching this subject as
part of broader policing and criminal justice courses. The
particular focus of this book is on the adoption of a problem
solving approach, showing how crime analysis can be used and
developed to support a problem oriented policing approach - based
on the idea that the police should concentrate on identifying
patterns of crime and anticipating crimes rather than just reacting
to crimes once they have been committed. In his foreword to this
book, Nick Ross, presenter of BBC Crime Watch, argues passionately
that crime analysts are 'the new face of policing', and have a
crucial part to play in the increasingly sophisticated police
response to crime and its approach to crime prevention - 'You are
the brains, the expert, the specialist, the boffin.'
Situational crime prevention is the art and science of reducing
opportunities for crime. Despite accumulating evidence of its value
in reducing many different kinds of crime - such as burglary,
fraud, robbery, car theft, child sexual abuse and even terrorism -
little has previously been published about its role in reducing
organised crimes. This collection of case studies, by a
distinguished international group of researchers, fills this gap by
documenting the application of a situational prevention approach to
a variety of organised crimes. These include sex trafficking,
cigarette and drug smuggling, timber theft, mortgage fraud,
corruption of private professionals and public officials, and
subversion of tendering procedures for construction projects. By
moving the focus away from the nature of criminal organisations to
the analysis of the crimes committed by these organisations, the
book opens up a fresh agenda for policy and research. Situational
Prevention of Organised Crimes will be of interest to those tasked
with tackling organised crime problems, as well as those interested
in understanding the ways that organised crime problems have
manifested themselves globally, and how law enforcement and other
agencies might seek to tackle them in the future.
Situational crime prevention is the art and science of reducing
opportunities for crime. Despite accumulating evidence of its value
in reducing many different kinds of crime - such as burglary,
fraud, robbery, car theft, child sexual abuse and even terrorism -
little has previously been published about its role in reducing
organised crimes. This collection of case studies, by a
distinguished international group of researchers, fills this gap by
documenting the application of a situational prevention approach to
a variety of organised crimes. These include sex trafficking,
cigarette and drug smuggling, timber theft, mortgage fraud,
corruption of private professionals and public officials, and
subversion of tendering procedures for construction projects. By
moving the focus away from the nature of criminal organisations to
the analysis of the crimes committed by these organisations, the
book opens up a fresh agenda for policy and research. Situational
Prevention of Organised Crimes will be of interest to those tasked
with tackling organised crime problems, as well as those interested
in understanding the ways that organised crime problems have
manifested themselves globally, and how law enforcement and other
agencies might seek to tackle them in the future.
Problem-Oriented Policing: Successful Case Studies is the first
systematic and rigorous collection of effective problem-oriented
policing projects. It includes more than twenty case studies from
among the thousands of projects submitted for the Herman Goldstein
Award for Excellence in Problem-Oriented Policing. The volume
describes in detail the case studies and explains the wider
significance of each for effective, efficient, and equitable
policing. This book explores a wide range of problems that fall
under five general categories: gang violence; violence against
women; vulnerable people; disorderly places; and theft, robbery,
and burglary. The case studies tell stories of how police, in
collaboration with others, successfully tackled real-world policing
problems fairly and effectively. The authors have also drawn out of
the case studies the cross-cutting themes and issues they
illustrate. The authors prove that the concept can work, bring to
life the context in which police and communities addressed these
vexing problems, and, ideally, will inspire future problem-oriented
police work that builds on these reported successes. Written in a
clear and direct style, this book will appeal to students and
scholars of policing, criminology, and social studies; police
practitioners and crime analysts; and all those who are interested
in learning more about the reality of police problem-solving.
Assessing Family Relationships shows mental health professionals
how to utilize the Family Life Space Drawing (the FLSD), a family
assessment tool that incorporates information from multiple family
members while building connections between the clinician and the
client. In this manual, Theresa A. Beeton and Ronald A. Clark
demonstrate the usefulness of the FLSD in both family and couple
counseling. As a task-centered assessment tool, the FLSD enables an
interactive and personalized process of counseling, which helps
individuals to express concerns and information about themselves in
an indirect and nonthreatening manner. Chapters are illustrated
throughout with case studies and drawings adapted from the authors'
own clinical experience, and the manual offers an overview of the
history of the FLSD, as well as where future research is headed.
Providing a practical explanation of how to complete the FLSD
process, Assessing Family Relationships will be highly relevant to
couple and family therapists, as well as clinical social workers,
who are interested in updating their practice with innovative
family assessment research and techniques.
Assessing Family Relationships shows mental health professionals
how to utilize the Family Life Space Drawing (the FLSD), a family
assessment tool that incorporates information from multiple family
members while building connections between the clinician and the
client. In this manual, Theresa A. Beeton and Ronald A. Clark
demonstrate the usefulness of the FLSD in both family and couple
counseling. As a task-centered assessment tool, the FLSD enables an
interactive and personalized process of counseling, which helps
individuals to express concerns and information about themselves in
an indirect and nonthreatening manner. Chapters are illustrated
throughout with case studies and drawings adapted from the authors'
own clinical experience, and the manual offers an overview of the
history of the FLSD, as well as where future research is headed.
Providing a practical explanation of how to complete the FLSD
process, Assessing Family Relationships will be highly relevant to
couple and family therapists, as well as clinical social workers,
who are interested in updating their practice with innovative
family assessment research and techniques.
Crime analysis has become an increasingly important part of
policing and crime prevention, and thousands of specialist crime
analysts are now employed by police forces worldwide. This work
sets out the principles and practice of crime analysis, and is
designed to be used both by crime analysts themselves, by those
responsible for the training of crime analysts and teaching its
principles, and those teaching this subject as part of broader
policing and criminal justice courses. approach, showing how crime
analysis can be used and developed to support a problem oriented
policing approach based on the idea that the police should
concentrate on identifying patterns of crime and anticipating
crimes rather than just reacting to crimes once they have been
committed. In his foreword to this book, Nick Ross, presenter of
BBC Crime Watch, argues that crime analysts are the new face of
policing, and have a crucial part to play in the increasingly
sophisticated police response to crime and its approach to crime
prevention.
The eloquent and intimate biography of one of the most significant
figures of the last century. Bertrand Russell was a British
philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social
critic, political activist and won the Nobel Prize for literature.
Born into the high world of the Whig aristocracy, among people for
whom Waterloo was still almost a personal memory, Russell lived to
inspire the campaign against nuclear warfare. He was imprisoned in
1918 for his Pacifism. Ronald Clark, with access to a mass of
material, provides a fascinating and graphic portrait of the man.
There is virtually no aspect of Russell's long life to which
something new - and often unexpected - is not added by this
remarkable and incisive book.
"Works of Man" is a chronicle of man's attempts from prehistoric
times to the space age to exploit for his own purposes the slowly
discerned laws of nature. Exciting, instructive, and eminently
readable, this mine of information covers the broad sweep of
technological achievements, from the invention of the wheel more
than six millennia ago to the miniaturization of the electronic
computer.Beginning with a description of the early builders in the
days of ancient Babylon, continuing through to the end of the Roman
Empire, the author goes on to explain the engineering principles
that were gradually developed in the Dark Ages, enabling men to
build the medieval cathedrals; to try to drain the Pontine marshes
near Rome, the meres of Holland, and the British fenlands; and to
raise the new military defenses that transformed warfare.
Discussion of the work of Leonardo da Vinci and Galileo leads on to
the development of steam as a new source of power, and to the
growth of civil engineering that followed in Europe and the rest of
the world. Further chapters cover the change from sail to steam;
canals; railways; the use of electricity; the growth of manned
flight; the rise of the plastics industry; nuclear engineering; and
the problems of space exploration.
First published in 1972, Ronald W. Clark's definitive biography of
Einstein, the Promethean figure of our age, goes behind the
phenomenal intellect to reveal the human side of the legendary
absent-minded professor who confidently claimed that space and time
were not what they seemed. Here is the classic portrait of the
scientist and the man: the boy growing up in the Swiss Alps, the
young man caught in an unhappy first marriage, the passionate
pacifist who agonized over making The Bomb, the indifferent Zionist
asked to head the Israeli state, the physicist who believed in God.
J. B. S. Haldane (1892-1964) was one of the most brilliant of
British scientists - and one of the most controversial. A
trail-blazing geneticist and physiologist, who used himself as his
own guinea-pig, he was also a highly successful populariser of
science, a dedicated Marxist, and a devotee of Hindu culture. His
private life was often tempestuous: early in his career he was
sacked from his Cambridge post after being cited in a divorce case
- but reinstated on appeal; and his relations with scientific
colleagues and the political establishment were normally
acrimonious. Haldane's most important scientific research, on the
mathematical basis of evolutionary theory, was done at University
College London. Towards the end of his life he founded the Genetics
and Biometry Laboratory at Bhubaneswar in India having become an
Indian citizen in 1960. In writing this definitive biography,
Ronald Clark was able to draw upon Haldane's private papers, as
well as the reminiscences of the great man's friends (and enemies).
Mr. Clark has written extensively on scientists and the application
of science to modern life. His books include major biographies of
Einstein and Freud.
In this biography the author fills in the gap left by political,
economic and social historians and describes the personality of one
of the most dedicated and single-minded political leaders of the
20th century. Ronald Clark is also the biographer of Bertrand
Russell, Einstein and Freud.
First published in 1981, this is Ronald Clark's engagingly readable
account of Queen Victoria's relationship with "Our dear Balmoral"
and the life that went on there. The biography of Balmoral begins
with the first visit to Scotland of the young Queen Victoria and
her husband Prince Albert in 1842. Five years later, while bad
weather envelops the Royal party in western Scotland, the son of
the Queen's physician, convalescing in Old Balmoral, reports
blazing sunshine from Upper Deeside. The death of his host shortly
afterwards opens the way for the Royal acquisition of the Balmoral
estate and the building of the new Castle in 1853-55. In the period
up to Albert's death in 1861 Balmoral becomes the setting for many
of the Royal couple's happiest moments as they revel in the
beauties of the scenery, relish the picturesque pageantry of
Highland life, enjoy their incognito expeditions into the
surrounding country, and - in Albert's case - discover a passionate
enthusiasm for deer-stalking. After the Prince Consort's death
Balmoral becomes a mausoleum of memories, but also a source of
strength enabling the Queen to survive her devastating loss. About
the time of the Golden Jubilee of 1887 there is an Indian summer,
with members of the Queen's extensive family rallying round and
dances and entertainments displacing some of the black-crepe gloom.
In 1896 there is the colorful visit of the Tsar, with his wife and
daughter. The closing section links Victorian Balmoral with the
life of the Castle today.
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