Abnormal Psychology for First Responders
Natural disasters. Hostage situations. Terror attacks. During these and other emergency situations, first responders make ...
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Assessment Reform in Science
The conclusions and recommendations made in this book are derived from a study of ten teachers in Hong Kong as they tried ...
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Community-Oriented Policing and Technological Innovations
This Brief presents new approaches and innovative challenges to address bringing technology into community-oriented policing ...
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Coping with Overloaded Criminal Justice Systems
The comparative study documented here was supported by the Fritz-Thyssen Foundation and the European Commission. It examined ...
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Counter-Terrorism Policing : Community, Cohesion and Security
This book charts these opportunities and challenges through unprecedented access to the police and diverse communities in ...
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Death Threats and Violence
Threats of violence—and especially of homicide—are a too-familiar part of modern life, paralleling stressful conditions ...
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Enhancing Police Integrity
Concludes that enhancing police integrity goes well beyond culling out "bad apple" police officers. Police administrators ...
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Fundamentals of Forensic Practice
Forensic psychologists and psychiatrists are increasingly asked to provide expertise to courts and attorneys in the criminal ...
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Societal Implications of Community-Oriented Policing and Technology
This Brief presents new approaches and innovative challenges to address bringing technology into community-oriented policing ...
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Sudden Deaths in Custody
Sudden in-custody restraint deaths have emerged as a critical and imp- tant problem for police, correctional, and medical ...
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The Measurement of Hate Crimes in America
This brief highlights the uniqueness of hate or bias crime victimization.It compares these to non-bias crimes and delineates ...
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Use of Force Training in Law Enforcement
This Brief describes a reality based approach to use-of-force training in law enforcement, an area of growing importance. ...
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Violence Against Women : An International Perspective
The International Violence against Women Survey (IVAWS) has interviewed over 23,000 women in eleven countries (including ...
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White-Collar Crime in the Shadow Economy
This open access book examines the magnitude, causes of, and reactions to white-collar crime, based on the theories and research ...
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