For corrections officer Gordon Cruse, the youths he supervised were more than juvenile offenders. They were unique individuals with their own circu...

Landpower, defined here as "the ability -- by threat, force, or occupation -- to exploit control over land, resources, and people", offers policy-m...

Fingerprints have provided a valuable method of personal identification in forensic science and criminal investigations for over 100 years. Fingerp...

Firearms are one of the leading causes of deaths for law enforcement officers feloniously killed in the line of duty. Since FY1999, Congress has pr...

The popular media is rife with examples of scientists delivering the telling evidence in a police investigation or court case. Often the computer w...

Waller, a professor of criminology, challenges the conventional practices of law enforcement in reacting to crime. He presents scientific research,...

SYN(Student Youth Network) is a media organisation run by people between the ages of 12 and 26. In this 'coming of age' story, Ellie Rennie follows...

The compelling story of how and why modern ocean lifeguarding emerged on the New Jersey shore is told through 298 rare, unpublished, primary source...

The Limits of State Action, by "Germany's greatest philosopher of freedom," as F. A. Hayek called him, has an exuberance and attention to principle...

On 4 August 1892, an elderly couple living in Fall River, Massachusetts were slaughtered with a hatchet. Their daughter, Lizzie was accused of the ...

Firefighters are the unsung local heroes of every community. They protect our towns and cities, risk their lives, and give up their free time when ...

Demographic challenges posed by the growing elderly population and demands for greater public commitment to home and community-based care for perso...

Florida has the largest proportion of elderly in the nation- 2.8 million persons are over age 65, representing 17.6% of its total population. The d...

Illinois is the fifth largest state in the country with 12.4 million people in 2000; the population increased by almost 9% or about one million peo...

Oregon is a recognized leader in home and community-based care and has more than 20 years of experience in moving long-term care clients from insti...

Long-term care issues have high prominence among state officials in Pennsylvania as a result of its large elderly population and concern about the ...

Ten percent of the Texas population is 65 and older. The state has a large, rapidly growing elderly population, estimated to reach 4.4 million, or ...

Our nation's schools should be safe havens for teaching and learning, free of crime and violence. Any instance of crime or violence at school not o...

Salvo was a Mafioso, but he did not traffic in narcotics, he did not run weapons, he did not kill anyone and he did not take part in the 'ordinary'...

The cover illustration of Mafia: Penge & politik på Sicilien 1950-1994 represents a picture of Antonio Salvo. Salvo was a Mafioso, but he did n...

The US Sentencing Commission defines mandatory minimum sentencing provisions as "statutory provisions requiring the imposition of at least a specif...

The federal Controlled Substances Act (CSA) outlaws the possession, cultivation, or distribution of marijuana except for authorised research. Twent...

Marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug across the world, including in the United States. The federal government prohibits the manufacture...

This book is an overview of the Healthy Marriage Initiative. The purpose of this book is also to understand more fully the strategies for improving...

America's incarceration rate raises several serious questions. These include: The correlation between mass imprisonment and crime rates; the impact...

This book explores consumer fraud and identity theft as well as telemarketing fraud which is both the oldest, and in some respects, the most persis...

Shooting incidents such as the one at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December 2012 and the one at Aurora, CO, movie theatre in July 2012 have focu...

In 2009–12, 68% of victims of serious violent crime -- rape or sexual assault, robbery, or aggravated assault -- reported experiencing socio-emotio...

This book is structured in four sections. Section 1 looks at the issues related to theoretical and methodological considerations. Chapter 1 to 5 de...

As part of a larger scheme to regulate drugs and other controlled substances, federal law prohibits the cultivation, distribution, and possession o...

Mental health is "a state of well-being in which the individual realises his or her own abilities; can cope with the normal stresses of life; can w...

Being the world's most populated country, the People's Republic of China shoulders the largest number of persons with mental illness in the world. ...

This book examines methamphetamines, which have risen to the top of the American drug-policy agenda. For most of its history, it was regarded in la...

The aim of this book is to uncover non-Western immigrants' integration and living conditions in Denmark and Germany comparatively. The results are ...

Where do I start? People who need to raise money for any type of organisation often wonder how to take the first steps. How can I ask others for mo...

The effectiveness of group counselling, as a treatment modality, has been well established. And while additional theoretical work will always be ne...

The boundary between public and private policing is messy and complex. Police executives deal with some aspect of it almost every day. Private inve...

Multicultural Counseling - Context, Theory & Practice & Competence

This book, prepared by the foreign law specialists and analysts of the Law Library of Congress, provides a review of laws adopted in Argentina, Aus...

The United States, at the local, state, tribal, and Federal levels, has made a concerted effort to enhance, expand, and codify multiple measures de...