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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “craig d uchida”
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  • Policing the Streets of Los Angeles

    Controversies, Change, and Continuity

    by Craig D. Uchida ...
    Series series Policing Perspectives and Challenges in the Twenty-First Century
    This book takes an in-depth look at the LAPD over a 60-year period. It is about the ways in which the use of force, particularly deadly force, has been controlled (or not) by internal and external forces. The Department has been at the center of numerous controversies, including the killing of Eula Love (1977), the beating of Rodney King (1991), the riots that followed the acquittal of officers in ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Community, Crime Control, and Collective Efficacy

    Neighborhoods and Crime in Miami

    by Craig D. Uchida, Marc L. Swatt, Shellie E. Solomon, Sean P. Varano ...
    Collective efficacy is a neighborhood-level concept in which community members create a sense of agency and assume ownership for the state of their local community. This concept is one of several forms of formal and informal social control that predict the overall functioning of a community. In this book, the authors examine collective efficacy and crime in eight Miami-Dade County, Florida ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • Systematic Social Observation of the Police in the 21st Century

    by John McCluskey, Craig D. Uchida, Yinthe Feys, Shellie E. Solomon ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book on systematic social observation (SSO) methodology provides detailed, step-by-step guidance for researchers on using the method. It identifies varieties of approaches and uses of SSO, the different steps used when performing SSO, and the benefits and challenges associated with using SSO.The chapters discuss different aspects related to SSO, such as:Access to the field or footageEthics, ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Police Innovation and Control of the Police

    Problems of Law, Order, and Community

    by L. Green ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Police Innovation and Control of the Police: Problems of Law, Order and Community brings together an impressive array of scholars and analysts to examine the impact of the development of crime control strategies on problems of police corruption and abuse. The text provides an historical overview of the development of legal control of the police, and examines the challenges that recent innovations ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • An Exploration of the Influence of Cultural Predisposition on the Situational Leadership Model

    by Dr. Daniel B. Kawame Acquaah ...
    Understanding the importance of cultural predisposition could create a firmer foundation for the application of situational leadership on a global basis. European, Asian, Latin American, Middle-Eastern (Arab) and African leadership models are often different from that of the United States, though they share some common foundational principles. Within the context of globalization and the current ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Human Factor of Cybercrime

    Edited by Rutger Leukfeldt, Thomas J. Holt ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Crime and Society
    Cybercrimes are often viewed as technical offenses that require technical solutions, such as antivirus programs or automated intrusion detection tools. However, these crimes are committed by individuals or networks of people which prey upon human victims and are detected and prosecuted by criminal justice personnel. As a result, human decision-making plays a substantial role in the course of an ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The SAGE Handbook of Online Research Methods

    Edited by Grant Blank, Nigel G. Fielding, Raymond M. Lee ...
    Online research methods are popular, dynamic and fast-changing. Following on from the great success of the first edition, published in 2008, The SAGE Handbook of Online Research Methods, Second Edition offers both updates of existing subject areas and new chapters covering more recent developments, such as social media, big data, data visualization and CAQDAS.Bringing together the leading names in ... Read more

    $118.79 USD

  • Research Confidential

    Solutions to Problems Most Social Scientists Pretend They Never Have

    Edited by Eszter Hargittai ...
    "We all know that the actual process of empirical research is a messy, complicated business that at best only approximates the models we impart to students. Research Confidential pulls back the curtain on this process, laying bare the sordid details of the research process, but doing so in a way that respects the ideals of social research and that provides useful lessons for young scholars. It ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • Oxford Handbook of Internet Psychology

    Edited by Adam Joinson, Katelyn McKenna, Tom Postmes, Ulf-Dietrich Reips ...
    Series series Oxford Library of Psychology
    Over one billion people use the Internet globally. Psychologists are beginning to understand what people do online, and the impact being online has on behaviour. It's making us re-think many of our existing assumptions about what it means to be a social being. For instance, if we can talk, flirt, meet people and fall in love online, this challenges many of psychology's theories that intimacy or ... Read more

    $65.69 USD

  • Advancing Research Methods with New Technologies

    Edited by Natalie Sappleton ...
    Advancing digital technologies continue to shape all aspects of our society, with particular impact on the professional research community. These new and exciting developments offer considerable advantages in terms of speed, access connectivity, and economy. Advancing Research Methods with New Technologies examines the applicability and usefulness of new technologies, as well as the pitfalls of ... Read more

    $148.49 USD

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  • Human-Centered Data Science

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    by Cecilia Aragon, Shion Guha, Marina Kogan, Michael Muller, Gina Neff ...
    Best practices for addressing the bias and inequality that may result from the automated collection, analysis, and distribution of large datasets.Human-centered data science is a new interdisciplinary field that draws from human-computer interaction, social science, statistics, and computational techniques. This book, written by founders of the field, introduces best practices for addressing the ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Cybercrime

    The Psychology of Online Offenders

    by Gráinne Kirwan, Andrew Power ...
    Cybercrime is a growing problem in the modern world. Despite the many advantages of computers, they have spawned a number of crimes, such as hacking and virus writing, and made other crimes more prevalent and easier to commit, including music piracy, identity theft and child sex offences. Understanding the psychology behind these crimes helps to determine what motivates and characterises offenders ... Read more

    $50.09 USD