Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color
ISBN: 9780807088982 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A timely examination of the ways Black women, Indigenous women, and other women of color are uniquely affected by racial profiling, police brutality, and immigration enforcement. Invisible No More is a timely examination of how Black women, Indigenous women, and women of color experience racial profiling, police brutality, and immigration enforcement. Placing stories of individual women--such as Sandra Bland, Rekia Boyd, Dajerria Becton, Monica Jones, and Mya Hall--in the broader context of the twin epidemics of police violence and mass incarceration, it documents the...
A timely examination of the ways Black women, Indigenous women, and other women of color are uniquely affected by racial profiling, police brutalit...
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89,96 zł |
The Drug War in Latin America: Hegemony and Global Capitalism
ISBN: 9781138209824 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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713,61 zł |
Police Psychology and Its Growing Impact on Modern Law Enforcement
ISBN: 9781522508137 / Angielski / Twarda / 366 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "This book emphasizes key elements of police psychology as it relates to current issues and challenges in law enforcement and police agencies, focusing on topics relevant to assessment and evaluation of current programs, clinical intervention and prevention, employee wellness and support, operational consultation, and emerging trends and developments"--
"This book emphasizes key elements of police psychology as it relates to current issues and challenges in law enforcement and police agencies, focusin...
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1082,57 zł |
Have Black Lives Ever Mattered?
ISBN: 9780872867383 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "A must-read for anyone interested in social justice and inequalities, social movements, the criminal justice system, and African American history. An excellent companion to Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow and Ava DuVernay's documentary 13th."--Library Journal, Starred review "I was fortunate to grow up in a community in which it was apparent that our lives mattered. This memory is the antidote to the despair that seizes one of my generation when we hear the words 'Black Lives Matter.' We want to shout: Of course they do To you, especially. In this... "A must-read for anyone interested in social justice and inequalities, social movements, the criminal justice system, and African American history.... |
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68,33 zł |
Law on the Last Frontier: Texas Ranger Author Hill
ISBN: 9780896729841 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In a career forged in the saddle on scout duty along the Rio Grande, Arthur Hill witnessed dramatic changes from 1947 to 1974. Whether inspecting brands, deterring smugglers of everything from cattle to candelilla wax, or giving chase on horseback across merciless terrain often into Mexico Hill found himself immersed in a world that straddled centuries as well as cultures.Promotion to sergeant of Ranger Company B in 1957 took Hill to Dallas, where he brought his brush-country methods to bear on urban crimes. Yet after only a year, and despite the opportunity for advancement to captain, Hill...
In a career forged in the saddle on scout duty along the Rio Grande, Arthur Hill witnessed dramatic changes from 1947 to 1974. Whether inspecting bran...
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94,04 zł |
Violence: From Theory to Research
ISBN: 9781138175983 / Angielski / Twarda / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Brings together theoretical and empirical papers prepared by noted researchers and theoreticians. The first part includes chapters by criminological theorists who apply their theory of crime particularly to violence. The second part contains chapters by researchers who look at the substantive area of their expertise through the lens of theories of violence. Each chapter is original and was written specifically for this book.
Brings together theoretical and empirical papers prepared by noted researchers and theoreticians. The first part includes chapters by criminological t...
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815,56 zł |
Critical Leadership: Leader-Follower Dynamics in a Public Organization
ISBN: 9781138700062 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Critical approaches to leadership studies have sought to challenge the normative position of leadership as residing solely within the formal leader and have gone as far as to undermine the traditionally held assumption of leadership as a "real" phenomenon. The book offers a critical account of the nature of leadership and management in modern organizations. Specifically it examines the forces that affect the influence relationships between leaders and followers in public sector organizational settings and thus, how these relationships inform social influence processes. Although the... Critical approaches to leadership studies have sought to challenge the normative position of leadership as residing solely within the formal leader... |
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249,71 zł |
Imagining Justice
ISBN: 9781138166790 / Angielski / Twarda / 414 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Imagining Justice seeks to move away from normative thinking about justice, particularly in the area of justice education, suggesting that what is needed today is a way to think about the enterprise of justice that will capture its full potential. By providing an introduction to the intellectual potential of the field of justice, we can acknowledge that the field is wider than formerly recognized, and ultimately imagine the full richness that justice can encompass.
Imagining Justice seeks to move away from normative thinking about justice, particularly in the area of justice education, suggesting that what is nee...
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815,56 zł |
Public Sector Entrepreneurship and the Integration of Innovative Business Models
ISBN: 9781522522157 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While private, for-profit businesses have typically been the most experienced with entrepreneurship, the study of public sector business models is coming to the forefront of entrepreneurial discussions. This shift has allowed researchers and practitioners to expand on their knowledge of positive business choices and paved the way for more profitable business empires. Public Sector Entrepreneurship and the Integration of Innovative Business Models is a comprehensive source of academic research that discusses the latest entrepreneurial strategies, achievements, and challenges in public sector...
While private, for-profit businesses have typically been the most experienced with entrepreneurship, the study of public sector business models is com...
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1082,57 zł |
Criminal : The Truth About Why People Do Bad Things
ISBN: 9780241960431 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There are two myths about crime. In one, the criminal act is a selfish choice, and tough punishment the only solution. In the other, the system is at fault, and perpetrators will change only when society reforms. Both these narratives are wrong. Interweaving conversations and stories of crime with findings from the latest research, Tom Gash dispels the myths that inform our views of crime, from the widespread misconception that poverty causes crime, to the belief that tough sentencing reduces it. He examines the origins of criminal behaviour, the ebb and flow of crime across the last... There are two myths about crime. In one, the criminal act is a selfish choice, and tough punishment the only solution. In the other, the system is ... |
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58,97 zł |
Crime, Clemency and Consequence in Britain 1821 - 1839: A Slice of Criminal Life
ISBN: 9781473830318 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A rare, intimate and vivid picture of the criminal nation from 1821-39
A rare, intimate and vivid picture of the criminal nation from 1821-39
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69,70 zł |
Routledge Handbook of Deradicalisation and Disengagement
ISBN: 9781138229969 / Angielski / Twarda / 374 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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1095,91 zł |
Writing the World of Policing: The Difference Ethnography Makes
ISBN: 9780226497501 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As policing has recently become a major topic of public debate, it was also a growing area of ethnographic research. Writing the World of Policing brings together an international roster of scholars who have conducted fieldwork studies of law enforcement in disadvantaged urban neighborhoods on five continents. How, they ask, can ethnography illuminate the role of the police in society? Are there important aspects of policing that are not captured through interviews and statistics? And how can the study of law enforcement shed light on the practice of ethnography? What might studying...
As policing has recently become a major topic of public debate, it was also a growing area of ethnographic research. Writing the World of Policing<...
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429,24 zł |
Writing the World of Policing: The Difference Ethnography Makes
ISBN: 9780226497648 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As policing has recently become a major topic of public debate, it was also a growing area of ethnographic research. Writing the World of Policing brings together an international roster of scholars who have conducted fieldwork studies of law enforcement in disadvantaged urban neighborhoods on five continents. How, they ask, can ethnography illuminate the role of the police in society? Are there important aspects of policing that are not captured through interviews and statistics? And how can the study of law enforcement shed light on the practice of ethnography? What might studying...
As policing has recently become a major topic of public debate, it was also a growing area of ethnographic research. Writing the World of Policing<...
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139,50 zł |
Presidents and Democracy in Latin America
ISBN: 9781138082076 / Angielski / Twarda / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This new textbook provides students with a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the presidents and presidential leadership in Latin America. Unlike other texts, Presidents and Democracy in Latin America integrates both political analysis and major theoretical perspectives with extensive country-specific material. Part One examines the developments in recent years in Latin American presidentialism and identifies different characteristics of society and politics which have influenced Latin American governments. The personalization of political life and of presidential... This new textbook provides students with a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the presidents and presidential leadership in Latin America... |
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739,10 zł |
Presidents and Democracy in Latin America
ISBN: 9781138082090 / Angielski / Miękka / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This new textbook provides students with a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the presidents and presidential leadership in Latin America. Unlike other texts, Presidents and Democracy in Latin America integrates both political analysis and major theoretical perspectives with extensive country-specific material. Part One examines the developments in recent years in Latin American presidentialism and identifies different characteristics of society and politics which have influenced Latin American governments. The personalization of political life and of presidential... This new textbook provides students with a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the presidents and presidential leadership in Latin America... |
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219,12 zł |
Decriminalized Prostitution: The Common Sense Solution
ISBN: 9780998724577 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Prostitution is an issue in which nearly every person's opinion is set in stone. Decriminalized Prostitution: The Common Sense Solution defies the odds, and its readers walk away with an entirely new perspective. This is a timely release because sex work is now routinely conflated with human trafficking. A moral panic with similar patterns occurred roughly 100 years ago in the U.S. This book explains that the U.S. government is making the same mistakes from that era. Before then, prostitution was tolerated for most of American history; the details are fascinating. You'll... Prostitution is an issue in which nearly every person's opinion is set in stone. Decriminalized Prostitution: The Common Sense Solution de... |
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53,51 zł |
I Swear by Almighty G-G-G-God: The Politically Incorrect Memoirs of a Police Officer Who Tried to Make a Difference
ISBN: 9781861517715 / Angielski / Miękka / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nick Clements became his criminal father's worst nightmare by becoming a mould-breaking young copper. This is the story of how it happened, rich with humour and horror, danger and excitement. Above all, the memoir tells of a young man's determination to escape his past and prove himself as a fearless representative of the law.
Nick Clements became his criminal father's worst nightmare by becoming a mould-breaking young copper. This is the story of how it happened, rich with ...
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53,98 zł |
Corrections, Peacemaking and Restorative Justice: Transforming Individuals and Institutions
ISBN: 9781138179363 / Angielski / Twarda / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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815,56 zł |
Reintegrating Jihadist Extremist Detainees: Helping Extremist Offenders Back Into Society
ISBN: 9781138731356 / Angielski / Twarda / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book seeks to understand the processes of reintegration of former Jihadist detainees, as well as the role that the police and other frontline professionals play in this process. Over the past few decades the number of people who have been detained under the suspicion of terrorist activities has grown significantly. This has resulted in an increased scholarly interest in the topic of prisons and terrorism. However, the main focus of academic research has been on the period of incarceration with researchers paying extensive attention to the conditions under which terrorists have... This book seeks to understand the processes of reintegration of former Jihadist detainees, as well as the role that the police and other frontline ... |
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688,13 zł |