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Synopsis:  Introduction: The Importance of Investigative Interviewing. How do People Remember? The Cognitive Interview. Conversation Management. What Happens in Police Interviews? False Testimony. Interviewing Vulnerable People. Interviewing Children. Training. Conclusions and Future Developments.
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Synopsis:  This book is the most systematic, comprehensive and philosophically sophisticated discussion of police ethics yet published. It offers an in-depth analysis of the ethical values that police, as servants of the community, should uphold as they go about their task. The book considers the foundations and purpose of police authority in broad terms but ...
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Synopsis:  Ethical and human rights issues have assumed an increasingly high profile in the wake of miscarriages of justice, racism (Lawrence Inquiry), incompetence and corruption - in both Britain and overseas. At the same time the implementation of the Human Rights Act 1998 in England and Wales will have a major impact on policing, challenging many of the a...
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Synopsis:  This work covers the major police scandals and controversies of our time and uses them to explore the ethical standards that should govern police commands and individual officers. It discusses the coarsening of life in modern society and parallels to ethical problems in policing, drama of current events, and the glare of public scrutiny. Although t...
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Synopsis:  Focusing on ethics and leadership, this textbook for future police administrators outlines basic principles, and relates them to practical matters concerning communication, problem-solving, motivation, planning and organization, and community policing. The most noteworthy thing about the book is its first author. Ed Meese served as Attorney General...
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Synopsis:  Police Studies constitute an important area of academic inquiry and policing raises a large number of ethical questions, yet to date there has been a paucity of research on the subject. This significant volume provides an integrated mix of ethico-philosophical analysis combined with practitioner knowledge and experience to examine and address the l...
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Synopsis:  If you are applying to join a police force in England or Wales, this fully revised new edition will help you to achieve your goal. A new national system for selecting police officers has been introduced and this essential guide provides expert guidance on all aspects of the process including: entry requirements and competencies completion of t...
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Synopsis:  This third edition of the popular and highly acclaimed text, The Politics of the Police, has been completely revised and updated to take account of recent and profound changes in the law, policy and organisation of policing. The Police and Magistrates Courts Act 1994, the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, the Police Act 1996 and the P...
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Synopsis:  This volume aims to provide a comprehensive but readable overview of policing in the UK, reflecting the transformations that have taken place in recent years and the increasing professionalisation of one of the country's most important services. The "Handbook of Policing" is divided into four major sections. The first considers policing in its comp...
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Synopsis:  Policing has developed as an increasingly important and popular subject of study at colleges and universities in western societies, either as a subject in its own right or as part of broader courses in the field of criminology and criminal justice. At the same time police forces themselves have become increasingly professionalised and engaged with ...
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Synopsis:  First published in 1983 and now in its 10th edition, The Beat Officer's Companion has set the standard for UK police books. Designed to aid the recall and interpretation of the growing amount of legislation on which UK police officers must base their decisions. The Beat Officer's Companion is the leading practical guide for operational officers. Th...
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Synopsis:  This new book provides a highly readable, practical overview of the structure, concepts and workings of the police force in England & Wales. It offers a comprehensive foundation to the basic concepts that new recruits will encounter during their initial training periods and in the workplace, as well as highlighting some key issues and theories that...
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Synopsis:  Core Issues in Policing has quickly established itself as one of the leading academic books on policing in the UK. The book is ideal for those studying policing per se or as a part of wider studies in criminology and criminal justice. Written and edited by a team of nationally and internationally regarded academic specialists and senior police offi...
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Synopsis:  This wide-ranging text provides an overview of policing across different societies, and considers the issues facing the US and British police in a wider international context. The book is designed as a coherent introduction to the police
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Synopsis:  Police culture is often considered as both a cause of police deviance and an obstacle for police reform. In this study of police racism and police reform in Australia, Janet Chan provides a critical assessment of police initiative in response to the problem of policeSHminorities relations. The book examines the dynamics of change and resistance wit...
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Synopsis:  This a book about policing styles in the broadest sense, looking at zero tolerance policing at one extreme and "softer" approaches to policing at the other. On the one hand there has been clear popular support for zero policing strategies, whilst proponents of softer approaches to policing have argued that there has been little evidence that such i...
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Synopsis:  Analyzes the New York City Police Department's (NYPD) high-tech crime fighting strategy, Compstat, and examines 25 years of change and leadership at NYPD, revealing that the Compstat crime control process is not an instant organizational turnaround but instead is the result of a gradual process of organizational change and leadership redirection.
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Synopsis:  A decorated inner city police officer recounts his journey from an idealistic young officer to a jaded detective, discussing the darker side of trying to stay one step ahead of criminals in some of New York's most dangerous neighborhoods.
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Synopsis:  Shocked by the extent of corruption within its ranks, Scotland Yard set up a new anti-corruption unit in the early 1990s. Its members had to operate in conditions of unprecedented secrecy. They became known as the 'Ghost Squad'. Corrupt officers had access to the whole police computer system and anyone working undercover against them had to have a ...
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Synopsis:  This book examines a major twenty-first century issue- police misconduct—as it pertains to police management, operations, personnel, and the reputation and character of a police department within the community it serves. It considers the ramifications of inappropriate police behavior, and its far-reaching effects upon the individual police officer,...
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Synopsis:  Criminal Justice Ethics is an overview of the need for and use of ethical behaviour by all players in the criminal justice system. The book is organized in two parts. The first part will cover ethical issues and dilemmas in the criminal justice system, and the second part will focus on the major philosophical theories of ethics. Highly illustrative...
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Synopsis:  This is a collection of essays examining the nature of police discretion and its many varieties. They explore the kinds of judgements police officers must take, such as when should they get involved? And what resources should be devoted to a situation? Each essay is followed by a response
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Synopsis:  Shocked by the extent of corruption within its ranks, Scotland Yard set up a new anti-corruption unit in the early 1990s. Its members had to operate in conditions of unprecedented secrecy and they became known as the 'Ghost Squad'. Bent coppers really did believe they were untouchable: they stole cash and property, fitted-up innocent people and sol...
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Synopsis:  Since the days of the Bow Street Runners, allegations of brutality, bribery and underhand dealing have been a constant reminder that criminal activity is not restricted to the criminal fraternity. Given their positions of power, and the diversity inherent in human nature, it is perhaps inevitable that there should be occasions when policemen and wo...
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Synopsis:  Untouchables is an integrity test on Scotland Yard. It is the result of a six-year investigation into how the most powerful police force in the United Kingdom claims to tackle corruption, racism and mismanagement within its own ranks. In 1993, the Yard set up a secret anti-corruption operation run by undercover cops whose existence was known to onl...
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Synopsis:  When those meant to uphold the law become a law unto themselves, where are we to turn? Are the gung-ho guys in uniform bending the rules to lock up those who pose a genuine risk, or are they bent on sadiwm, like the notorious Volpe and Schwartz? Jack Sargeant looks at notorious cases of good cops gone bad - and those who started out that way. Read ...
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Synopsis:  Written in 1990 it give an excellent personal account of how British Police officers felt about issues at the time. A very individualist personal view from serving Police Officer regarding how social issues and policies affect them and the work they do.
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Synopsis:  Basic teach yoursel ethics book looking at moral choices people make and the values by which they live, the reasons they give for them and the language they use to describe them. Includes all the major ethical theories
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Synopsis:  The concept of an explicit professional ethical code for the police force has been accepted. But how is it to be put into practice? How should police officers deal with the moral dilemmas they face as part of their everyday working lives? This work seeks to provide practical guidance for police officers on how to make the most effective decision wh...
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Synopsis:  The author of this book describes how it is all too easy for quite "ordinary" police officers to descend into behaviour which is difficult to comprehend, as a result of state manoeuvring, police culture, and what he believes is a lack of any fundamental values for police work. Through an account of what Alderson calls "high police", and by way of e...
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Synopsis:  Police misconduct is a topic of great concern worldwide. However, the causes of police corruption are remarkably different. Understanding the unique political, historical, legal, and economic institutions of a country is essential in identifying the potential for police misconduct.
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Synopsis:  A practical introduction to ethics in policing for police officers and students in police studies programmes
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Synopsis:  Violence and policing are inevitably associated. Criminals use violence, not only against innocent members of the public, but also against the police themselves. For our own protection and theirs, we have given police the right to use damaging, even lethal, force. But this licence for violence has become fraught with risk to the community. The dist...
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Synopsis:  Using 11 clauses of a statement of principles currently under consideration by the police service, this study discusses how members of the police service are thinking about what they actually do. It examines philosophical ethics in relation to the 1990s police service
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Synopsis:  this volume extracts the moral and ethical conflicts presented by everyday police activity and makes explicit the assumption that shape the police response
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Synopsis:  This work is about the recurring problem of police corruption and contemporary efforts to find effective strategies to maximise ethical conduct. It draws upon international experience, using Australia as a major source. It begins with an overview of developments and issues in police integrity control globally, and then gives close attention to spec...
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Synopsis:  Peter Singer's remarkably clear and comprehensive Practical Ethics has become a classic introduction to applied ethics since its publication in 1979 and has been translated into many languages. For this second edition the author has revised all the existing chapters, added two new ones, and updated the bibliography. He has also added an appendix de...
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Synopsis:  Meeting the Challenges of Global Terrorism brings together an international array of criminologists, policymakers, and police professionals to assess the main contemporary trends in terrorism.
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Synopsis:  Philosophy, Crime, and Criminology represents the first systematic attempt to unpack the philosophical foundations of crime in Western culture. Utilizing the insights of ontology, epistemology, aesthetics, and ethics, contributors demonstrate how the reality of crime is informed by a number of implicit assumptions about the human condition and un-s...
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Synopsis:  The British government predicted in 1998 that its Human Rights Act would lead to a Human Rights culture in the UK. Will it? What will that culture be like? What are the pros and cons? What are the implications for managers? This succinct, highly readable new guide will help any manager to: know the background to Human Rights; understand the legal, ...
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Synopsis:  Table of Contents: How Do You See Yourself? Great Leaders. Form and Informal Leadership. Briefing and Debriefing. Logic, Intuition, and Leadership. The New Broom. Leadership and Creativity. Taking Over. Leadership, and Communication. Leadership and Cultural Change. Leadership and Morality. Putting Values into Practices. The Press Conference. Power...
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Synopsis:  This book examines ethical policing and fundamental values.
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Synopsis:  In "Police Leadership in the Twenty-first Century" the editors have brought together a collection of authoritative and innovative contributions to show that: leadership is less of a mystery than is often supposed; much mainstream leadership theory can be adapted to police leadership; and the qualities required by police leaders can be developed by ...
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Synopsis:  This book is a popular and comprehensive introductory-level guide to the agencies of the criminal justice system. It provides basic information about the various agencies, their legal reponsibilities and duties, and the social and political context in which they operate. The book outlines the basics of English criminal law and defines crime and the...
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Synopsis:  This comprehensive history of policing from the 18th century onwards draws on largely unused police archives. The text addresses all the major issues of debate, explores the impact of legislation and policy at both national and local levels, and considers the claim that the English police were non-political and free from political control. The fina...
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Synopsis:  Hellawell is not your usual police commissioner material - he's sparkly, charismatic and has a strong streak of the renegade (a Yorkshireman who looks like James Coburn/Burt Reynolds). Will appeal to the general reader of issues relating to politics, power and current affairs, police corruption, brutality, criminal investigations
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Synopsis:  A senior detective and undercover agent in the Drug Squad and Regional Crime Squad - Britain's equivalent of the FBI - has broken ranks to reveal the stark truth behind the headlines. Duncan MacLaughlin, 40 years-old and a police officer all his life, is one of the elite. SAS-trained for special missions, his expertise is in surveillance and underc...
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Synopsis:  THE BROTHERHOODS is the chilling chronicle of the alleged crimes and betrayals of NYPD Detectives Stephen Caracappa and Louis Eppolito, notorious rogue cops who stand charged with the ultimate form of police corruption-shielding their crimes behind their badges while they worked for the mob. These crimes included murder, kidnapping, torture, and th...
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Synopsis:  This work reports the results of research carried out in a London police station on the role and impact of closed-circuit television (CCTV) in the management and surveillance of suspects - the most thorough example of the use of CCTV by the police in the world. Research methods involved the analysis of CCTV footage, analysis of suspect's background...
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Synopsis:  Despite its suspected prevalence, no comprehensive analysis of police corruption has been published for nearly three decades. "Fallen Blue Knights" provides a systematic, in-depth analysis of the subject, while also addressing the question of what can be done to ensure successful corruption control. Ivkovi'c argues that the current mechanisms for c...
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Synopsis:  This book is concerned with the gendered world of police leadership at a time when calls are being made for a different kind of police leader to guide the organisation through the twenty-first century. Drawing on in-depth interviews carried out with senior policewomen across a range of police forces in England and Wales, Women in Charge is the firs...
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Synopsis:  This is the story of how one police officer fought for two and a half years to clear his name after he was taken to trial at the Old Bailey - by his own employers. Ali Dizaei was once tipped to be the first Black chief constable. Iranian by birth, he had worked his way through school and university to qualify as a barrister and earn a PhD in his sp...
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Synopsis:  Larry Jetmore, a retired Hartford, CT Police Commander and current university educator, seeks to reawaken the ethical bearing of working police officers.
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Synopsis:  Daniel J. Shanahan’s book “Badges, Bullets and Bars” tells the story of his career on the Baltimore Police Department. The book is billed as a “first hand account of police loyalty and disloyalty.” Moreover, according to Shanahan he wrote the book, “for all the excellent Law Enforcement officers who shortened their careers by crossing the thin bl...
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Synopsis:  “Brotherhood of Corruption: A Cop Breaks the Silence on Police Abuse, Brutality, and Racial Profiling,” “offers a harrowing inside look at the corrupt practices used by police in enforcing drug laws and the blue wall of silence that insulates them. No angel as a youth, Juarez jumped at the chance to become a cop, like his father, and the opportunit...
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Synopsis:  Kevin LaChapelle was a police officer with El Cajon Police Department (California). LaChapell’s book, “Please God, Don’t Let My Badge Tarnish.” is the story of his discovery of corruption within the El Cajon Police Department and his struggle to work within the department. Rather than turn his back on the scandal and save his career, LaChapelle be...
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Synopsis:  In 1965, Michael Corbitt joined the William Springs Police Department (Illinois). As he rose through the ranks of the department and ultimately became the chief of police (1973-1981), he would also rise through the ranks of the mob. Corbitt left Willow Springs in 1981 to work as an investigator for the Cook County Sheriff’s Department. While a s...
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Synopsis:  Robert Cea, Randy Jurgensen's co-author, is also a former NYPD detective. As a new recruit Cea learned of Jurgensen's heroism, and the tales of this case are told to this day to each and every recruit at the Police Academy. When Robert Cea retired from the NYPD, he was the fifth-most-decorated officer in the department's history. And he was still o...
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Synopsis:  Raymond Schaffer believed the new sheriff when he said there would be no retribution against those who had supported his opponent. However, days after the sheriff took office, Schaffer discovered he was wrong. “Surviving: Drunk Drivers-Gutter Politics and Police,” is Raymond Schaffer’s autobiographical account of employee persecution in law enforc...
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Synopsis:  Shades of Grey is the autobiography of Gary Lee Bordelon who was a Louisiana State Trooper and a Louisiana State Narcotic Agent. His book depicts the corruption Gary Bordelon witnessed by other fellow city and state Louisiana police officers, until his dismissal as a state Louisiana police officer and state narcotic agent in April of 1979. His pe...
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Synopsis:  Lines Crossed is the true story of Alex Richardson, a Lake County Sheriff’s Department (Indiana) a narcotics detective who was ultimately sentenced to federal prison for taking a bribe from a drug dealer. His book, Lines Crossed: The True Story Of An Undercover Cop, describes the activities of the County drug task force; and, “he also reveals his ...
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Synopsis:  Stephen Peach emigrated from England to the United States in 1986. In 1991, after becoming a U.S. Citizen, he joined the San Bernardino Police Department. According to Peach himself, “This book exposes the dirty underside of Law Enforcement politics. I was a highly regarded gang and SWAT officer that was the victim of 2 accidental shootings within...
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Synopsis:  In 1991, Sergeant Bill Hubbard was a member of the Lubbock Police Department, assigned to the identification section. What begins as a routine task sends Hubbard on a collision course with a corrupt forensic pathologist and “power-hungry district attorney.” As one reader said, “Well written, quick paced and quite a ride. It's easy to get lost in ...
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Synopsis:  Presenting a microcosm of the police profession, Tinged Valor exposes the source of a perpetual trend of police misconduct and reveals, through personal knowledge or very privileged information, the seedy underbelly of law enforcement. The accounts contained in this manuscript depict the goings-on within the Metropolitan Police Department during th...
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Synopsis:  Cop Out is a true account of how a former police officer survived as a fugitive while evading authorities and eventually surrendered to God. This narrative approach of survival and skill encompasses a diversity of stories and experiences, including life in wooded terrain and survival as a fugitive for over twenty years. This account serves as a mea...
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Synopsis:  The author's goal is to provide the essential basic concepts and tools needed to start building and maintaining great ethics. It is designed to immediately improve individuals' and companies' self-monitoring skills for many types of ethics risk that normally go unseen as well as to provide the basics of how to reduce those risks. As with my keynote...
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Synopsis:  Ever wonder what it is like to be on the other side of a 9-1-1 call? Come along for the ride. View the world through the windshield of a patrol unit and behind the yellow tape of crime scenes. Past the Uniform is autobiographical, and for those wishing to enter the exciting, ever-changing and challenging world of law enforcement, it is a fabulous r...
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Synopsis:  How do police forces around the world move toward democratization of their operations and responses Analyzing police forces from 12 different countries, Comparative Policing: The Struggle for Democratization assesses the stages of each country based on the author's development of a "Continuum of Democracy" scale. Using five basic themes, this ...
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