Lie Detectors: A Social History
ISBN: 9780786416189 / Angielski / Miękka / 225 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The polygraph, most commonly known as the lie detector, was created and refined by academics in university settings with support from a few early police agencies. This work is a history of the polygraph, from the experimental work of the late 1800s that led directly to its creation, until the present. It covers early lie detectors and their inventors from the 1860s to the early 1920s, their use by the police and other law enforcement agencies in the 1930s and their use in Cold War America in the 1940s and 1950s. It then discusses the government's use of the polygraph in the 1960s, the PSE, a...
The polygraph, most commonly known as the lie detector, was created and refined by academics in university settings with support from a few early poli...
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Management of Hotel and Motel Security
ISBN: 9780824710026 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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650,87 zł |
Practical Aspects of Interview and Interrogation
ISBN: 9780849301018 / Angielski / Twarda / 552 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What makes a person confess to a crime he did not commit? Was he coerced? Is he trying to protect someone else? Interrogation has come under attack as opponents focus on false confessions. However, most cases are still resolved by confession, not forensic evidence. Among the new topics covered in the Second Edition of this bestselling book, Practical Aspects of Interview and Interrogation focuses on why false confessions exist and how to avoid them. Written by two experts who have conducted over 15,000 interviews and interrogations from theft to homicide, this book expands on the valuable...
What makes a person confess to a crime he did not commit? Was he coerced? Is he trying to protect someone else? Interrogation has come under attack as...
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598,80 zł |
Guide to Forensic Pathology
ISBN: 9780849302671 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Offers an overview of forensic pathology to those who wish to know the basics but lack formal forensic training. This title explains from who the experts are in death investigation and what their roles are, to how effective testimonies are presented in court. It includes a section on the importance of forensic DNA testing.
Offers an overview of forensic pathology to those who wish to know the basics but lack formal forensic training. This title explains from who the expe...
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374,85 zł |
Computer Forensics: Evidence Collection and Management
ISBN: 9780849305610 / Angielski / Twarda / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Computer Forensics: Evidence Collection and Management examines cyber-crime, E-commerce, and Internet activities that could be used to exploit the Internet, computers, and electronic devices. The book focuses on the numerous vulnerabilities and threats that are inherent on the Internet and networking environments and presents techniques and suggestions for corporate security personnel, investigators, and forensic examiners to successfully identify, retrieve, and protect valuable forensic evidence for litigation and prosecution.
The book is divided into two major parts for easy... Computer Forensics: Evidence Collection and Management examines cyber-crime, E-commerce, and Internet activities that could be used to exploit ...
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468,57 zł |
Stalking Crimes and Victim Protection: Prevention, Intervention, Threat Assessment, and Case Management
ISBN: 9780849308116 / Angielski / Twarda / 536 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This comprehensive work emphasizes a multidisciplinary concept and app roach. It compiles and assesses studies of law enforcement, legal coun sel, medical professionals, forensic mental health professionals, secu rity personnel, and criminologists. These authors combine their academ ic research and clinical knowledge to provide you with helpful guideli nes and suggestions in the areas of victim assistance and predatory st alking.
This comprehensive work emphasizes a multidisciplinary concept and app roach. It compiles and assesses studies of law enforcement, legal coun sel, med...
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911,22 zł |
Occupational Crime: Deterrence, Investigation, and Reporting in Compliance with Federal Guidelines
ISBN: 9780849313776 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. DID YOU KNOW?
While organizational entities cannot be sent to prison, they can be heavily fined, ordered to make restitution, placed on probation, forced to forfeit property, suffer public and stakeholder recriminations, and can be forced out of business. Avoid these unnecessary repercussions with Occupational Crime: Deterrence, Investigation, and Reporting in Compliance with Federal Guidelines. Whether you are starting from scratch or you wish to benchmark an existing program against another framework, this book takes you from legal mandates and program design to implementation and... DID YOU KNOW?
While organizational entities cannot be sent to prison, they can be heavily fined, ordered to make restitution, placed on probation,... |
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859,15 zł |
Forensic Nursing
ISBN: 9780849335402 / Angielski / Twarda / 664 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written by an award-winning investigative journalist with more than twenty years of experience, Forensic Nursing takes an objective yet engaging look at a profession that according to the author, "is only for those with a strong stomach, a pure heart, and a quick mind." It presents the personal experiences and perspectives of forensic nurses that work in all areas of forensic and critical care/emergency practice.
The book explores the many medico-legal issues that a forensic nurse will encounter during the course of a career. It details the pertinent medico-legal skill sets that every... Written by an award-winning investigative journalist with more than twenty years of experience, Forensic Nursing takes an objective yet engaging look ...
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Lethal Violence: A Sourcebook on Fatal Domestic, Acquaintance and Stranger Violence
ISBN: 9780849370038 / Angielski / Twarda / 714 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lethal Violence: A Sourcebook on Fatal Domestic, Acquaintance and Stranger Aggression applies the lethal violence sequence analysis to a wide-ranging array of fatal aggression, resulting in a multitude of observations and principles of violence. This sourcebook provides base rate information and cases for each type of fatal interaction, then applies the knowledge to violence-related situations and settings.
Lethal Violence: A Sourcebook on Fatal Domestic, Acquaintance and Stranger Aggression applies the lethal violence sequence analysis to a wide-ranging ...
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1301,74 zł |
Analysis and Interpretation of Fire Scene Evidence
ISBN: 9780849378850 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ongoing advances in arson detection tools and techniques increase the importance of scientific evidence in related court proceedings. In order to assemble an airtight case, investigators and forensic scientists need a resource that assists them in properly conducting the chemical analysis and interpretation of physical evidence found at scenes of suspected arson. Analysis and Interpretation of Fire Scene Evidence introduces the techniques that determine the presence of ignitable liquid residues (ILRs) at fire scenes. It bridges the disciplines of investigation and forensic chemistry,...
Ongoing advances in arson detection tools and techniques increase the importance of scientific evidence in related court proceedings. In order to asse...
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859,15 zł |
The Retailer's Guide to Loss Prevention and Security
ISBN: 9780849381102 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This introduction to retail security covers the basic principles, available techniques and technologies and the retailer's interaction with police authorities, courts, and the law in general.
This introduction to retail security covers the basic principles, available techniques and technologies and the retailer's interaction with police aut...
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598,80 zł |
A Law Enforcement Sourcebook of Asian Crime and Culturestactics and Mindsets: Tactics and Mindsets
ISBN: 9780849381164 / Angielski / Twarda / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Even in multicultural North America, few whites, blacks, or Hispanics have extensive experience or understanding of Asian culture. For experienced police officers, intelligence analysts, correctional officers, and prosecutors, the problems of cultural differences in behavior remain complex and problematic. This book addresses these specific law enforcement problems, and supplies law enforcement professionals with information and strategies for easier arrests, more accurate intelligence, more successful prosecutions, and fewer problems during incarceration.
Even in multicultural North America, few whites, blacks, or Hispanics have extensive experience or understanding of Asian culture. For experienced pol...
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239,46 zł |
Geographic Profiling
ISBN: 9780849381294 / Angielski / Twarda / 378 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As any police officer who has ever walked a beat or worked a crime scene knows, the street has its hot spots, patterns, and rhythms: drug dealers work their markets, prostitutes stroll their favorite corners, and burglars hit their favorite neighborhoods. But putting all the geographic information together in cases of serial violent crime (murder, rape, arson, bombing, and robbery) is highly challenging. Just ask the homicide detectives of the Los Angeles Police Department who hunted the Hillside Stranglers, or law enforcement officers in Louisiana who tracked the brutal South Side rapist....
As any police officer who has ever walked a beat or worked a crime scene knows, the street has its hot spots, patterns, and rhythms: drug dealers work...
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781,04 zł |
Practical Investigation Techniques
ISBN: 9780849381515 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This series has been designed to provide contemporary, comprehensive, and pragmatic information to the practioner involved in criminal and forensic investigations by authors who are nationally recognized experts in their respective fields.
This series has been designed to provide contemporary, comprehensive, and pragmatic information to the practioner involved in criminal and forensic in...
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702,94 zł |
Child Homicide: Parents Who Kill
ISBN: 9780849393662 / Angielski / Twarda / 297 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From governments that enact population-limiting legislation or commit wholesale neonaticide, to families who purposely allow a weak, infirm, or unfavorably gendered infant to perish rather than expend limited resources, neonaticide, infanticide, and filicide, are practiced on every continent and by every level of cultural complexity.
Taking an objective and diagnostic approach, Child Homicide: Parents Who Kill examines the crime of neonaticide from all angles including historical, cultural, psychological, and legal. Expanding on the first edition, published as Endangered Children:... From governments that enact population-limiting legislation or commit wholesale neonaticide, to families who purposely allow a weak, infirm, or unfavo...
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598,80 zł |
Toxicology and Clinical Pharmacology of Herbal Products
ISBN: 9780896037915 / Angielski / Twarda / 325 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The herbai medicine industry is growing at an astounding rate. Trade group estimates suggest that total sales exceeded $4 billion dollars in 1999. Herbai remedies are for sale not just in health food stores, but in supermar kets, drug stores, and even discount warehouses. Along with the proliferation in sales has come a proliferation ofinformation sources. Not all ofthe sources are equally reliable, or even intelligible. Traditional herbalists c1assify thistle and mugwort as "cholagogues," substances used to make the gallbladder con tract and release bile. Medical school graduates are...
The herbai medicine industry is growing at an astounding rate. Trade group estimates suggest that total sales exceeded $4 billion dollars in 1999. Her...
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Global Organized Crime: Trends and Developments
ISBN: 9781402018084 / Angielski / Twarda / 199 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the current processes of political, economic and cultural changes serious cross-border forms of organized crime receive unprecedented attention as spectacular global media events, as 'threats' of all sorts, and as priority targets of criminal policy and political agendas. Most books on 'global organized crime' focus on one particular region, topic or event, and are written from one specific theoretical and disciplinary framework.
The renowned scholars who have contributed to this volume present up-to-date expertise on regions as distant and different as Russia, Colombia, the... In the current processes of political, economic and cultural changes serious cross-border forms of organized crime receive unprecedented attention as ...
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387,30 zł |
Global Organized Crime: Trends and Developments
ISBN: 9781402018183 / Angielski / Miękka / 199 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the current processes of political, economic and cultural changes serious cross-border forms of organized crime receive unprecedented attention as spectacular global media events, as 'threats' of all sorts, and as priority targets of criminal policy and political agendas. Most books on 'global organized crime' focus on one particular region, topic or event, and are written from one specific theoretical and disciplinary framework.
The renowned scholars who have contributed to this volume present up-to-date expertise on regions as distant and different as Russia, Colombia, the... In the current processes of political, economic and cultural changes serious cross-border forms of organized crime receive unprecedented attention as ...
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International Handbook of Penology and Criminal Justice
ISBN: 9781420053876 / Angielski / Twarda / 800 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At the outset of the twenty-first century, more than 9 million people are held in custody in over 200 countries around the world.
--from the essay "Prisons and Jails" by Ron King The first comparative study of this increasingly integral social subject, International Handbook of Penology and Criminal Justice provides a comprehensive and balanced review of the philosophy and practicality of punishment. Drawn from the expertise of scholars and researchers from around the world, this book covers the theory, practice, history, and empirical evidence surrounding crime... At the outset of the twenty-first century, more than 9 million people are held in custody in over 200 countries around the world.
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Bloodsworth: The True Story of One Man's Triumph Over Injustice
ISBN: 9781565125148 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Chilling, heartbreaking, and ultimately inspiring. I urge you to read it."
--SISTER HELEN PREJEAN, author of Dead Man Walking CHARGED WITH THE RAPE AND MURDER of a nine-year-old girl in 1984, Kirk Bloodsworth was tried, convicted, and sentenced to die in Maryland's gas chamber. Maintaining his innocence, he read everything on criminal law available in the prison library and persuaded a new lawyer to petition for the then-innovative DNA testing. After nine years in one of the harshest prisons in America, Kirk Bloodsworth became the first death... "Chilling, heartbreaking, and ultimately inspiring. I urge you to read it."
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86,48 zł |