Leading Investigators Take You Inside the Criminal Mind
In this compilation of expert articles, internationally recognized homicide investigators, most of them pioneers in developing the science and the art of profiling, share their insights gained from years of experience tracking the perpetrators of some of the most notorious crimes.
A Step-by-Step Guide to Improving Police Officer Wellness, Ethics, and Resilience
Offers practical strategies for police officers to use on- and off-duty to improve wellness, strengthen ethical commitments, and boost resilience. The book demonstrates a research-based approach to dealing with the challenges faced in law enforcement, and provides personal and professional steps to take on-duty and off-duty to optimize your ......
For autistic people who find themselves facing a criminal charge, understanding how the features of autism may have contributed to their behaviour can be vital context for their defence. In this insightful book, Nick Dubin explores how and why autistic people get caught up in the criminal justice system. He delves into what steps can be taken to ......
How Frontline Workers Can Promote Organizational and Community Change
Faced with the problems associated with grinding poverty and a no-win drug war, police departments are adapting and changing. Most seminal is the ""quiet revolution"" that has been called problem-oriented policing. This revolution makes police officers pioneering professionals who systematically study and address social problems in their ......
The True Story of the Immigrant Cops Who Fought the Rise of the Mafia
The unknown inside story of the NYPD's Italian-born detectives who fought both powerful gangsters and the deeply ingrained prejudice against their own beloved immigrant community The story begins in Sicily, on Friday, March 12, 1909, at 8:45 p.m. Three gunshots thundered in the night, and then a fourth. Two men fled, and investigators soon ......
An evidence-based roadmap for how the American criminal justice system can be reformed This important volume brings together today's leading criminal justice scholars and practitioners to offer a roadmap for those who want to change the face of the American criminal justice system. This collection of essays addresses thirteen significant issues ......
An up-close account of policing during the Ferguson protests, providing insights from both police officers and members of the community Policing Unrest presents the frontline experiences of police officers during the intense three weeks of protest, vigils, looting, violence, and large civil demonstrations in and around Ferguson, Missouri, ......
Surveillance, Race, and the Future of Law Enforcement
Winner, 2018 Law & Legal Studies PROSE Award The consequences of big data and algorithm-driven policing and its impact on law enforcement In a high-tech command center in downtown Los Angeles, a digital map lights up with 911 calls, television monitors track breaking news stories, surveillance cameras sweep the streets, and rows of networked ......
Examined from both sides - the Bureau of Alcohol and Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) and the FBI on one hand, and David Koresh and his followers on the other - this text focuses on the events at Mt. Carmel, near Waco Texas. Dick J. Reavis contends that the government had little reason to investigate Koresh, and even less to raid the compound at Mt. ......
