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  • On The Beat

    Police And Community Problem Solving

    by Wesley G Skogan, Susan M. Hartnett, Jennifer T. Comey, Jill Dubois, Marianne Kaiser ...
    This book focuses on how Chicago actually tried to formulate and implement problem solving as part of a thoroughgoing change in its style of policing. It describes the five-step problem-solving model that the city developed for tackling neighborhood problems ranging from graffiti to gang violence. ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Stop & Frisk and the Politics of Crime in Chicago

    by Wesley G. Skogan ...
    A comprehensive analysis of the stop & frisk policy, its origins as Chicago's predominant strategy for responding to violence, and its impact on crime and public opinion. Stop & frisk has drawn a great deal of attention--and heated criticism--in recent years, for racial bias in its application and for the often violent and sometimes fatal nature of these encounters. In Stop & Frisk and the ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Police and Community in Chicago

    A Tale of Three Cities

    by Wesley G. Skogan ...
    Series series Studies in Crime and Public Policy
    Highly popular with both the public and political leaders, community policing is the most important development in law enforcement in the last twenty-five years. But does community policing really work? Can police departments fundamentally change their organization? Can neighborhood problems be solved? In the early 1990s, Chicago, the nation's third largest city, instituted the nation's largest ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Police and Community in Chicago

    A Tale of Three Cities

    by Wesley G. Skogan ...
    Series series Studies in Crime and Public Policy
    Highly popular with both the public and political leaders, community policing is the most important development in law enforcement in the last twenty-five years. But does community policing really work? Can police departments fundamentally change their organization? Can neighborhood problems be solved? In the early 1990s, Chicago, the nation's third largest city, instituted the nation's largest ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Policing in France

    Edited by Jacques de Maillard, Wesley Skogan ...
    Series series Advances in Police Theory and Practice
    The eminent contributors to a new collection, Policing in France, provide an updated and realistic picture of how the French police system really works in the 21st century. In most international comparisons, France typifies the "Napoleonic" model for policing, one featuring administrative and political centralization, a strong hierarchical structure, distance from local communities, and a high ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • Police and Society in Brazil

    Edited by Vicente Riccio, Wesley G. Skogan ...
    Series series Advances in Police Theory and Practice
    In Brazil, where crime is closely associated with social inequality and failure of the criminal justice system, the police are considered by most to be corrupt, inefficient, and violent, especially when occupying poor areas, and they lack the widespread legitimacy enjoyed by police forces in many nations in the northern hemisphere. This text covers hot-button issues like urban pacification squads, ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Community Justice

    An Emerging Field

    by Gordon Bazemore, Susan F. Bennett, Barbara Boland, John Braithwaite, Michael E. Buerger, David M. Chavis, Todd R. Clear, Catherine M. Coles, Amitai Etzioni, Randolph M. Grinc, Suzanne Goldsmith-Hirsch, George L. Kelling, Stephen Mugford, Dennis P. Rosenbaum, Robert J. Sampson, Wesley G. Skogan, William Julius Wilson ...
    Series series Rights & Responsibilities
    Community justice is a phenomenon of growing interest among academics, policy makers, and criminal justice practitioners. The term reflects the increasing collaboration between criminal justice agencies and communities in the joint pursuit of public safety and a less tangible, but no less significant, pursuit of justice for victims, offenders, and all community members affected by crime. In this ... Read more

    $71.29 USD

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    by Alex S. Vitale ...
    **The best-selling bible of the movement to defund the police in an updated edition"Urgent, provocative, and timely, The End of Policing will make you question most of what you have been taught to believe about crime and how to solve it."—James Forman Jr., author of Locking Up Our Own**The massive uprising that followed the police killing of George Floyd in the summer of 2020— by some estimates ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Police in Canada

    The Real Story

    by John Sewell ...
    What's going on with Canada's police? Once an institution that commanded respect and trust, the police are now widely regarded with skepticism and even suspicion. The dramatic death of Robert Dziekanski at the hands of the RCMP at Vancouver's airport, accusations of racial profiling, and the resistance of police to independent civilian oversight have created the impression of organizations and ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Locked In

    The True Causes of Mass Incarceration-and How to Achieve Real Reform

    by John Pfaff ...
    **A groundbreaking reassessment of the American prison system, challenging the widely accepted explanations for our exploding incarceration rates“A must-read for anyone who dreams of an America that is not the world’s most imprisoned nation.” —Chris Hayes, host of MSNBC’s All In**In Locked In, John Pfaff argues that the factors most commonly cited to explain mass incarceration -- the failed War on ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • The City That Became Safe

    New York's Lessons for Urban Crime and Its Control

    by Franklin E. Zimring ...
    Series series Studies in Crime and Public Policy
    The forty-percent drop in crime that occurred across the U.S. from 1991 to 2000 remains largely an unsolved mystery. Even more puzzling is the eighty-percent drop over nineteen years in New York City. Twice as long and twice as large, it is the largest crime decline on record. In The City That Became Safe, Franklin E. Zimring seeks out the New York difference through a comprehensive investigation ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Cybercrime Investigative Case Management

    An Excerpt from Placing the Suspect Behind the Keyboard

    by Brett Shavers ...
    Investigative Case Management is a "first look" excerpted from Brett Shavers' new Syngress book, Placing the Suspect Behind the Keyboard. Investigative case management is more than just organizing your case files. It includes the analysis of all evidence collected through digital examinations, interviews, surveillance, and other data sources. In order to place a suspect behind any keyboard, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD