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  • Handbook on Public and Private Security

    Edited by Erwin Blackstone, Simon Hakim, Brian J. Meehan ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This Handbook discusses the use of public-private partnerships in law enforcement and security. Written by international experts across multiple disciplines, chapters include case studies and cross-sectional industry-wide studies of private security performance in comparison with public police and collaborated experiences of the two sectors. The Handbook uses existing experiences and public ... Read more

    $215.99 USD

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  • Dirty Money

    Financial Crime in Canada

    Edited by Christian Leuprecht, Jamie Ferrill ...
    Series series The State of the Federation
    Financial crime in Canada remains a mystery: omnipresent, but we know little about its operation. Transactions are cloaked with apparent legality, which makes tracking criminal activity through economic or financial statistics a complex undertaking.This distinctive volume aims to stem in-, out-, and through-flows of vast sums of dirty money by enhancing Canada’s capacity to detect, disrupt, deter, ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Seductions of Quantification

    Measuring Human Rights, Gender Violence, and Sex Trafficking

    by Sally Engle Merry ...
    Series series Chicago Series in Law and Society
    We live in a world where seemingly everything can be measured. We rely on indicators to translate social phenomena into simple, quantified terms, which in turn can be used to guide individuals, organizations, and governments in establishing policy. Yet counting things requires finding a way to make them comparable. And in the process of translating the confusion of social life into neat categories ... Read more

    $20.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Character of Harms

    Operational Challenges in Control

    by Malcolm K. Sparrow ...
    How should we deal with societal ills such as crime, poverty, pollution, terrorism, and corruption? The Character of Harms argues that control or mitigation of 'bad' things involves distinctive patterns of thought and action which turn out to be broadly applicable across a range of human endeavors, and which need to be better understood. Malcolm Sparrow demonstrates that an explicit focus on the ... Read more

    $44.29 USD

  • Global Shell Games

    Experiments in Transnational Relations, Crime, and Terrorism

    by Michael G. Findley, Daniel L. Nielson, J. C. Sharman ...
    Series Book 128 - Cambridge Studies in International Relations
    Every year a staggering number of unidentified shell corporations succeed in hiding perpetrators of terrorist financing, corruption and illegal arms trades, but the degree to which firms flout global identification standards remains unknown. Adopting a unique, experimental methodology, Global Shell Games attempts to unveil the sordid world of anonymous shell corporations. Posing as twenty-one ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Life by Algorithms

    How Roboprocesses Are Remaking Our World

    Edited by Catherine Besteman, Hugh Gusterson ...
    Essays on the downsides, dysfunctions, and dangers of automated decision-making: "An excellent survey of the algorithmically managed life." — ChoiceThe phone systems that businesses use to screen calls. The link between student standardized test scores and public schools' access to resources. The algorithms that regulate patient diagnoses and reimbursements to doctors. The impenetrable corporate ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Investigation and Prevention of Financial Crime

    Knowledge Management, Intelligence Strategy and Executive Leadership

    by Petter Gottschalk ...
    So long as there are weaknesses that can be exploited for gain, companies, other organizations and private individuals will be taken advantage of. This theoretically-based but hugely practical book focuses on what is generally seen as financial or economic crime: theft, fraud, manipulation, and corruption. Petter Gottschalk considers how, in some competitive environments, goals can 'legitimise' ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • The War on Dirty Money

    by Nicholas Gilmour, Tristram Hicks ...
    Billions of dollars are wasted each year trying to prevent ‘dirty money’ entering a financial system that is already awash with it. The authors challenge the global approach, arguing that complacency, self-interest and misunderstanding have now created long-standing absurdities.International and government policy makers inadvertently facilitate tax evasion, corruption, environmental and organised ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Too Critical to Fail

    How Canada Manages Threats to Critical Infrastructure

    by Ben Bisset, Bryan Mills, Kevin Quigley ...
    In the summer of 2013, just as a small town in Quebec was decimated due to a train derailment, heavy rainfall prompted thirty Alberta communities to declare a state of emergency. Whereas a SWAT team surrounded train conductor Thomas Harding and brought him to court where he was charged with the deaths of forty-seven in Quebec, Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi emerged from the Alberta crisis as a folk ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Integrating Gender into the Design of Cash Transfer and Public Works Programmes – Fao Technical Guide 2: A Toolkit on Gender-Sensitive Social Protection Programmes to Combat Rural Poverty and Hunger

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    Many social protection programmes, including cash transfers, public works programmes and asset transfers, target women as main beneficiaries or recipients of benefits. Extending social protection to rural populations has great potential for fostering rural women's economic empowerment. However, to tap into this potential, more needs to be done. There is much scope for making social protection ... Read more

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  • Corruption and Criminal Justice

    Bridging Economic and Legal Perspectives

    by Tina Søreide ...
    Criminal law efficiency is a concept often referred to but seldom defined. Clarity, the author argues, is necessary for finding practical solutions to fundamental challenges in this area of law, especially with the criminal justice system itself at risk.Tina Søreide offers views in contrast to mainstream ideas on optimal criminal law responses to corruption, with emphasis on the fundamental role ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Contemporary Issues in Construction in Developing Countries

    Edited by George Ofori ...
    Series series CIB
    Economic growth and socio-economic development are particuliarly important for developing countries, and the construction industry plays a central role in driving both of these.Traditionally the issues faced have been assumed to be merely offshoots of those encountered in industrialised nations and are usually discussed only in this context. In addition, research in construction management and ... Read more

    $70.99 USD