Reluctant Bedfellows

Author : Meredith L. Ralston,Edna Keeble
Publisher : Kumarian Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781565492691

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Reluctant Bedfellows by Meredith L. Ralston,Edna Keeble Pdf

"Academic feminist theorizing and identity politics, the two argue, has reached the level of "analysis paralysis" where women and women's groups do not act for fear of being pejoratively labeled. This has many negative consequences for rights-seeking groups, as Ralston and Keeble experience firsthand in working to bring Angeles City and Canadian women's organizations together. Both an eye-opening picture of the workings of a community seeped in sex tourism and a sharp review of current feminist theorizing, Reluctant Bedfellows offers much-needed perspective on ways to bring disputing parties together and actually promote change."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Mark Roycroft,Lindsey Brine
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030639303

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Modern Police Leadership by Mark Roycroft,Lindsey Brine Pdf

This edited textbook covers a range of key operational and strategic aspects of police administration, from experts who have both an academic and practitioner background. It sets out the modern challenges and demands facing the police and then covers the theory and practice of how to deal with such issues, including the leadership skills which are required at every level. These challenges are covered in sections on the use of force, international policing, investigation of new crimes and forensic investigation, counter-terrorism, intelligence, mental well-being, and community policing. Some of the key themes discussed include dealing with public demand for police services, diversity and partnership/interoperability working locally, regionally and internationally. This book is designed at all levels of warranted officer and speaks to undergraduate and postgraduate policing students with a range of pedagogic features including seminar and exam questions.

Author : David Brown
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1999-11-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191520693

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Tradition and Imagination by David Brown Pdf

Tradition and revelation are often seen as opposites: tradition is viewed as being secondary and reactionary to revelation which is a one-off gift from God. Drawing on examples from Christian history, Judaism, Islam, and the classical world, this book challenges these definitions and presents a controversial examination of the effect history and cultural development has on religious belief: its narratives and art. David Brown pays close attention to the nature of the relationship between historical and imaginative truth, and focuses on the way stories from the Bible have not stood still but are subject to imaginative 'rewriting'. This rewriting is explained as a natural consequence of the interaction between religion and history: God speaks to humanity through the imagination, and human imagination is influenced by historical context. It is the imagination that ensures that religion continues to develop in new and challenging ways.

Author : Steven P. Erie,John J. Kirlin,Francine F. Rabinovitz,Lance Liebman,Charles M. Haar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317336174

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Reform of Metropolitan Governments by Steven P. Erie,John J. Kirlin,Francine F. Rabinovitz,Lance Liebman,Charles M. Haar Pdf

Originally published in 1972, this study aims to explore governmental interaction with people and publics interests and institutions in Metropolitan America. These papers discuss issues of how governance can be improved and the federal role in Metropolitanism as well as suggesting ways in which political reform can help. This title will be of interest to students of Environmental Economics and professionals.

Author : Peter Stelfox
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134733200

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Criminal Investigation by Peter Stelfox Pdf

Criminal investigation has a high profile in the media, and has attracted widespread interest. Within the police it has been a rapidly developing field. Important scientific and technological developments have had a considerable impact on practice, and significant steps have been taken in the direction of professionalizing the whole process of investigation. Within police studies criminal investigation has now emerged as an important sub-discipline. Criminal Investigation provides an authoritative and highly readable introduction to the subject from somebody ideally placed to write about it, focusing on how police practitioners carry out investigations. It looks systematically at the purpose and role of criminal investigation; the legal, policy and organizational context in which criminal investigation takes place; the evidence and information that criminal investigators seek; the process and methods of criminal investigation; the knowledge, techniques and decision making abilities that practitioners require to carry out criminal investigations; how and why it is that some crimes are solved and some are not; the supervision of criminal investigation; and a review of some of the key contemporary issues that have a bearing on criminal investigation. Criminal Investigation will be essential reading for both policing practitioners (student police officers as well as officers taking higher levels of CPD within the police service) and students taking courses in criminal investigation, forensic sciences and investigation, police studies and police science, and other courses where a knowledge of criminal investigation is required.

Author : Caryl Chessman
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780786735839

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Cell 2455, Death Row by Caryl Chessman Pdf

In June 1948, 27-year-old petty criminal Caryl Chessman was sentenced in California on two counts of sexual assault, receiving two death sentences as punishment in a case that remains one of the most baffling episodes in American legal history. Maintaining his innocence of these crimes, Chessman lived in Cell 2455, a four-by-ten foot space on Death Row in San Quentin for the twelve years between his sentencing and eventual execution. He spent this time, punctuated by eight separate stays of execution, writing this memoir — a moving and pitiless account of his life in crime and the early life that produced it. Chessman's clarity of mind and ability to bring his thoughts directly to the page, even within the stifling walls of San Quentin, help make this work the most literate and authentic expose ever written by a criminal about his crimes.

Author : Peter A. Wilderer,Edward D. Schroeder,Horst Kopp
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-24
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783527604463

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Global Sustainability by Peter A. Wilderer,Edward D. Schroeder,Horst Kopp Pdf

This first book to focus on cultural diversity as a key element of sustainable development in the context of science and engineering provides cross-disciplinary information and assistance in understanding our world in transition. As such, it furnishes the global scientific community and decision makers in governmental and non-governmental institutions as well as in industry with much-needed information on how the various factors affecting sustainable development -- including culture -- depend on and interfere with each other. Featuring a contribution by the President of the Club of Rome, HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal, this is vital reading for all (natural) scientists, engineers, economists, ecologists, environmental organizations, and consultants.

Author : Professor Manon Tremblay,Dr David Paternotte
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781409457091

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The Ashgate Research Companion to Lesbian and Gay Activism by Professor Manon Tremblay,Dr David Paternotte Pdf

The Ashgate Research Companion to Lesbian and Gay Activism provides scholars and students with a comprehensive and authoritative state-of-the-art review of the current research in this subject. Each of the twenty-two specially commissioned chapters develops and summarises their key issue or debate in relation to activism - that is the claims, strategies and mobilisations (including internal debates and divisions, impediments and state responses) - of the lesbian and gay movement. By drawing together leading scholars from political science, sociology, anthropology and history this companion provides an up to the minute snapshot of current scholarship as well as signposting several fruitful avenues for future research.

Author : Mark Roycroft,Jason Roach
Publisher : Springer
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349958474

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Decision Making in Police Enquiries and Critical Incidents by Mark Roycroft,Jason Roach Pdf

This book examines how the police make decisions in real life situations, particularly in major enquiries. The two key themes explored are real-time decision making along with what “works” in such circumstances. It aims to set out how successful decisions are arrived at in a variety of difficult and time-constrained situations and discusses the lessons that can be learnt from this. Written by practitioners and academics, the book explores a range of topics, from the decision making process involved operational matters and in difficult-so-solve murder enquiries. It not only examines decision making but also how experienced decision makers function. It looks at the psychology of police decision making, decision making involved in cold case investigations, and discusses the need for “grip” during major investigations. The contributors are experienced and respected practitioners and academics This book will appeal particularly to those studying Policing and Criminology and also to Investigating Officers and those involved in professionalising investigative practice.

Author : Stefan Bouzarovski
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781786739995

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Retrofitting the City by Stefan Bouzarovski Pdf

Cities are responsible for three-quarters of the world s energy consumption. If we are to reduce our demands on the planet s resources how can we make our urban areas more energy efficient? One way is to refit existing buildings with more thermally efficient building materials. But such retrofitting involves significant issues of social acceptance and public participation. Retrofitting the City provides an important corrective to the assumptions that have been made concerning the ability of people and places to cope with such residential transformation. Drawing upon case studies from a number of European cities that have undergone far-reaching change in their built environments, the author shows that supposedly inadaptable people and places show a strong, if often hidden, degree of flexibility in responding to economic change and building transformation."

Author : Brian Salter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-31
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781349262243

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The Politics of Change in the Health Service by Brian Salter Pdf

What are the political forces which drive the process of change in the health service? How do these forces impact on existing structures of power, policy and organisation? In addressing these questions, Brian Salter applies an original theory of political change to key areas of NHS activity. He shows how the escalating demand for health care combined with recent radical policy initiatives has posed different problems for politicians, doctors, bureaucrats and managers. Out of the accommodations reached, a new shape has emerged for the NHS.

Author : Ron Brown
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-21
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781770703193

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The Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore by Ron Brown Pdf

Despite the "green" benefits of rail travel, Canada has lost much of its railway heritage. Across the country stations have been bulldozed and rails ripped up. Once the heart of communities large and small, stations and tracks have left little more than a gaping hole in Canada’s landscapes. This book revisits the times when railways were the country’s economic lifeline, and the station the social centre. Here was where we worked, played, listened to political speeches, or simply said goodbye to loved ones never knowing when they would return. The landscapes which grew around the station are also explored and include such forgotten features as station hotels, restaurants, gardens and the once common railway YMCA. Railway companies often hired the world’s leading architects to design grand station buildings which ranged in style from chateau-esque to art deco. Even small town stations and wayside shelters displayed an artistic flare and elegance. Although most have vanished, the book celebrates the survival of that heritage in stations which have been saved or indeed remain in use. The book will appeal to anyone who has links with our rail era, or who simply appreciates the value of Canada’s built heritage.

Author : Alan Dignam,Alan (Professor of Corporate Law Dignam, Queen Mary University of London),John (Emeritus Professor of Commercial Law Lowry, University College London and Visiting Professor of Commercial Law University of Hong Kong)
Publisher : Core Texts Series
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780198848455

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Company Law by Alan Dignam,Alan (Professor of Corporate Law Dignam, Queen Mary University of London),John (Emeritus Professor of Commercial Law Lowry, University College London and Visiting Professor of Commercial Law University of Hong Kong) Pdf

Author : D. Kim Rossmo
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781420047523

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Criminal Investigative Failures by D. Kim Rossmo Pdf

Avoid Major Investigative TrapsWhat causes competent and dedicated investigators to make avoidable mistakes, jeopardizing the successful resolution of their cases? Authored by a 21-year police veteran and university research professor, Criminal Investigative Failures comprehensively defines and discusses the causes and problems most common to faile

Author : Andy Griffiths,Rebecca Milne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-20
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317267355

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The Psychology of Criminal Investigation by Andy Griffiths,Rebecca Milne Pdf

The contribution of psychological research to the prevention of miscarriages of justice and the development of effective investigative techniques is now established to a point where law enforcement agencies in numerous countries either employ psychologists as part of their staff, or work in cooperation with academic institutions. The application of psychology to investigation is particularly effective when academics and practitioners work together. This book brings together leading experts to discuss the application of psychology to criminal investigation. This book offers an overview of models of investigation from a psychological and practical view point, covering topics such as investigative decision making, the presentation of evidence, witness testimony, the detection of deception, interviewing suspects and evidence-based police training. It is essential reading for students, researchers and practitioners engaged with police practice, investigation and forensic psychology.