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Police Brutality, Misconduct, and Corruption
Criminological Explanations and Policy Implications
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- Law and Criminology (R0)
2017
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This Brief proposes a criminological typology for understanding and addressing police misconduct. Through examination of each major type of police misconduct, the author proposes future research directions to deter and prevent misconduct.According to an examination of 50 years of police misconduct cases within the New York Police Department (NYPD) and Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), the author proposes 5 major typologies: police corruption, police criminality, excessive use o...
Special Topics in Policing
Critical Issues and Global Perspectives, Volume 2
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- Law and Criminology (R0)
2024
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This book comprehensively examines five key areas related to crisis management in policing. These specific issues include:Understanding contemporary terrorism and homeland security threats.Effective counter-terrorism strategies.Practical crisis planning and management.Demonstration and riot control.Dealing with police-related stress and PTSD.The book chapters present a global, multi-dimensional approach to examine these c...
Police and International Peacekeeping Missions
Securing Peace and Post-conflict Rule of Law
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- Law and Criminology (R0)
2021
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This edited volume examines the experiences and the roles of the police deployed on peacekeeping and intervention missions in Afghanistan, Bougainville, Cyprus, Haiti, Kosovo, Namibia, Solomon Islands, Timor Leste, and Ukraine.Despite the extensive literature that has examined the role of the military in peacekeeping and intervention operations, little literature or information that investigates the role and the work of the police or the methods that they use to assist in the refor...
Policing, Violence, and Society
Psychological, Criminological and Global Perspectives
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- Law and Criminology (R0)
2026
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This book critically examines violence and violent crime through sociological, psychological, and theoretical perspectives, analyzing the complex relationships between policing, community conflict, and crime control. Bringing together leading experts, it explores the underlying factors that contribute to violence, the impact of police practices, and the challenges of balancing law enforcement with public trust. The chapters are organized thematically to address key issues, including the ps...
Special Topics in Policing
Critical Issues and Global Perspectives, Volume 1
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- Law and Criminology (R0)
2024
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This book comprehensively examines five key areas of concern across the field of policing. These critical issues include: police use of force, police ethics and integrity, traffic safety, police-community collaboration, and optimizing organizational performance and service delivery. The chapters that follow provide a global, multi-faceted approach to analyze these core professional issues, examine them through sociological and theoretical lenses, and ultimately propose policy recommendatio...
Special Topics in Policing
Critical Issues and Global Perspectives, Volume 3
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- Law and Criminology (R0)
2025
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This edited volume provides a comprehensive exploration of five critical dimensions of policing, with a particular focus on leadership and its role in addressing contemporary challenges in the field. Through a multidisciplinary and global lens, the chapters examine pressing issues, including:Addressing challenges in policing today;Improving leadership in police executive positions;Training police patrol personnel in leadership;Enhancing police-co...
Doctor Who: Eleventh Doctor Novels Volume 1
11th Doctor Novels
Unabridged
19 hours 59 min
2023
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Arthur Darvill, Olivia Colman, James Albrecht and Nicholas Briggs read these four original stories featuring the Eleventh Doctor.In Apollo 23, by Justin Richards, Amy is stranded on the moon, whilst the Doctor discovers one last great secret that could save humanity.In The Night of the Humans, by David Llewellyn, the Doctor and Amy arrive in the middle of an all-out frontier war on the Gyre, the most hostile environment in the galaxy....
Reconstructing Individualism
A Pragmatic Tradition from Emerson to Ellison
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- American Philosophy
2012
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America has a love–hate relationship with individualism. In Reconstructing Individualism, James Albrecht argues that our conceptions of individualism have remained trapped within the assumptions of classic liberalism. He traces an alternative genealogy of individualist ethics in four major American thinkers—Ralph Waldo Emerson, William James, John Dewey, and Ralph Ellison.These writers’ shared commitments to pluralism (metaphysical and cultural), experimentalism, and a melioristic ...
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- James Albrecht
Unabridged
5 hours 28 min
2010
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For a few moments this afternoon, it rained on the moon... An astronaut in full spacesuit appears out of thin air in a busy shopping centre. Maybe it's a publicity stunt. A photo shows a well-dressed woman in a red coat lying dead at the edge of a crater on the dark side of the moon - beside her beloved dog 'Poochie'. Maybe it's a hoax. But as the Doctor and Amy find out, these are just minor events in a sinister plan to take over every human being on Earth. The plot centres on a secret mi...
Understanding and Preventing Community Violence
Global Criminological and Sociological Perspectives
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- Law and Criminology (R0)
2022
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This book examines the contemporary rise in community violence across the United States and globally from sociological and criminological perspectives. It comprehensively investigates police response to criminal incidents, engagements with criminal suspects, use of force by law enforcement, and crime control measures implemented or recommended to initiate effective crime control measures so that the unwanted rise of violence and serious crime can again be contained.The primary audi...
Effective Crime Reduction Strategies
International Perspectives
2011
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The International Police Executive Symposium (IPES, www.ipes.info) coordinates annual international conferences to evaluate critical issues in policing and recommend practical solutions to law enforcement executives deployed across the globe. Drawn from the 2005 proceedings hosted by the Czech Republic in Prague, Effective Crime Reduction Strategie
Technology and Policing
Global Perspectives and Policy Implications
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- Law and Criminology (R0)
2026
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This book offers a global and critical investigation into how technology is transforming the practices, cultures, and ethics of policing. Through international case studies spanning the United States, South Africa, New Zealand, Portugal, the United Kingdom, Nigeria, and Australia, it explores the integration of crime analysis, predictive policing, cybercrime response, surveillance tools, and artificial intelligence into law enforcement operations.The chapters examine how technologi...











