Twentieth-Century Influences on Twenty-First-Century Policing: Continued Lessons of Police Reform (Cooper Jonathon A.)(Pevná vazba)

Twentieth-Century Influences on Twenty-First-Century Policing: Continued Lessons of Police Reform (Cooper Jonathon A.)(Pevná vazba)

Twentieth-Century Influences on Twenty-First-Century Policing argues that to fully understand contemporary American policing, we must first understand its historical origins in the 1950s, '60s, and '70s. Such a historical grounding is further employed to consider where policing is heading now in

Britain and Africa in the Twenty-First Century: Between Ambition and Pragmatism (Beswick Danielle)(Pevná vazba)

Britain and Africa in the twenty-first century offers the first book-length study of how Britain's relationship with Africa has fared since the fall of the 1997-2010 New Labour

There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century (Hill Fiona)(Pevná vazba)

Environmental Policy - New Directions for the Twenty-First Century(Paperback / softback)

Researching the Police in the 21st Century: International Lessons from the Field (Gravelle J.)(Pevná vazba)

This unique collection explores the importance of undertaking police research, using a range of international examples from USA, UK and Germany. Focusing on practical challenges and difficulties, the volume offers solutions and reflections to assist in overcoming the barriers which might be

Government at Work: Policymaking in the Twenty-First-Century Congress (Ahuja Sunil)(Pevná vazba)

This edited volume features academic experts using leading policy frameworks to analyze the prominent U.S. public policy issues of the twenty-first century. Readers will learn about the similarities and fundamentals of policy development while also seeing the unique issues and obstacles found in

Creating the American Century: The Ideas and Legacies of America's Twentieth-Century Foreign Policy Founders (Sklar Martin J.)(Paperback)

In his last work before his death in 2014, American historian Martin J. Sklar analyzes the influence of early twentieth-century foreign policy makers, focusing on modernization, global development, and the meaning of the 'American Century'. Calling this group of government officials and their

Frontline Policing in the 21st Century: Mastery of Police Patrol (Greenberg Sheldon F.)(Paperback)

Chapter 1. Mastery: Advancing Police Patrol.- Module 1.1. The Concept of Mastery: Mastery of Essential and Advanced Skills.- Module 1.2. Oath of Office: Policing to the Oath.- Module 1.3. Landmines and pitfalls of police patrol.- Module 1.4. Patrol research, experiments, and innovation.- Chapter 2

Black Resistance to British Policing (Elliott-Cooper Adam)(Pevná vazba)

Using a decade of activist research, this book offers a radical analysis of grassroots black resistance to policing in twenty-first-century

War from the Ground Up - Twenty-First-Century Combat as Politics (Simpson Emile)(Paperback / softback)

How can policy control armed force, if armed force is a direct extension of

The Chessboard and the Web: Strategies of Connection in a Networked World (Slaughter Anne-Marie)(Paperback)

From a renowned foreign-policy expert, a new paradigm for strategy in the twenty-first century In 1961, Thomas Schelling's The Strategy of Conflict used game theory to radically reenvision the U.S.-Soviet relationship and establish the basis of international relations for the rest of the Cold War

Open Access and the Future of Scholarly Communication: Policy and Infrastructure (Smith Kevin L.)(Pevná vazba)

This volume of Creating the 21st-Century Academic Library looks closely at issues of policy and infrastructure for libraries that wish to provide leadership on their campus in the transition to more open forms of scholarship. The authors discuss how to make the case for open access on campus, as

A Short History of Police and Policing (Emsley Clive)(Pevná vazba)

The police are constantly under scrutiny. They are criticized for failings, praised for successes, and hailed as heroes for their sacrifices. Starting from the premise that every society has norms and ways of dealing with transgressors, A Short History of Police and Policing traces the evolution of

The Profession: A Memoir of Community, Race, and the Arc of Policing in America (Bratton Bill)(Pevná vazba)

The epic, transformative career of Bill Bratton, legendary police commissioner and police reformer, in Boston, Los Angeles, and New York When Bill Bratton became a Boston street cop after his return from serving in Vietnam, he was dismayed by the corrupt old guard, and it is fair to say the old

Public Opinion and the Political Economy of Education Policy Around the World (West Martin R.)(Pevná vazba)

Comparative analyses of the influence of public opinion on education policy in developed countries. Although research has suggested a variety of changes to education policy that have the potential to improve educational outcomes, politicians are often reluctant to implement such evidence-based

Educational Accountability Reform in Norway: Education Policy as Imitation (Isaksen Lasse Skogvold)(Pevná vazba)

The study analyses how the national education policy in the age of globalization is a result of an adjustment and transformation of the international education policy and trends. The author enquires how the national level in Norway comprehended the international educational accountability policy

Overnight Kidnapper (Camilleri Andrea)(Pevná vazba)

Three cases of overnight kidnapping baffle the Vigatan police force in Andrea Camilleri's twenty-third Inspector Montalbano

Macroeconomic Policy After the Crash: Issues in Microprudential and Macroprudential Policy (Barwell Richard)(Pevná vazba)

Part 1) Microprudential Policy.- 1) The causes of the crash.- 2) The crisis response.- 3) Global reform.- 4) Local Reform.- 5) The wider prudential policy agenda.- Part 1) Macroprudential Policy.- 1) The macroprudential agenda.- 2)Turf wars: the relationship between macroprudential policy and other

From Enforcers to Guardians: A Public Health Primer on Ending Police Violence (Cooper Hannah L. F.)(Pevná vazba)

Excessive police violence and its disproportionate targeting of minority communities has existed in the United States since police forces first formed in the colonial period. A personal tragedy for its victims, for the people who love them, and for their broader communities, excessive police

Rogues' Gallery: The Birth of Modern Policing and Organized Crime in Gilded Age New York (Oller John)(Pevná vazba)

From the beginnings of big-city police work to the rise of the Mafia, Rogues' Gallery is a colorful and captivating history of crime and punishment in the bustling streets of Old New York.Rogues' Gallery is a sweeping, epic tale of two revolutions, one feeding off the other, that played out on the

Policing Black Bodies: How Black Lives Are Surveilled and How to Work for Change (Hattery Angela J.)(Pevná vazba)

From Trayvon Martin to Freddie Gray, the stories of police violence against Black people are too often in the news. In Policing Black Bodies Angela J. Hattery and Earl Smith make a compelling case that the policing of Black bodies goes far beyond these individual stories of brutality. They connect

The implementation of environmental policy in Ireland: Lessons from translating EU directives into action (Connaughton Bernadette)(Pevná vazba)

This book explores the response of Ireland's political-administrative system to the implementation of environmental directives in the cases of waste management, water reform and biodiversity. Ireland represents the implementation challenges of a small EU member state with a weak background in

Monetary Theory and Policy, Fourth Edition (Walsh Carl E.)(Pevná vazba)

The new edition of a comprehensive treatment of monetary economics, including the first extensive coverage of the effective lower bound on nominal interest rates.This textbook presents a comprehensive treatment of the most important topics in monetary economics, focusing on the primary models

Food and Revolution: Fighting Hunger in Nicaragua, 1960-1993 (Berth Christiane)(Pevná vazba)

Food policy and practices varied widely in Nicaragua during the last decades of the twentieth century. In the 1970s and '80s, food scarcity contributed to the demise of the Somoza dictatorship and the Sandinista revolution. Although faced with widespread scarcity and political restrictions,