This edited collection explores policing in America in regards to minority groups. The essays discuss how the relationship between police and minority groups affects politics, the economy, and minority groups’ daily lives and success. The contributors explore the Black Lives Matter movement, the Detroit, Los Angeles, and Atlanta Police Departments, immigration, incarceration, community policing, police violence, and detail causes, theories, and solutions to this important phenomenon.

En estos días, los términos “bueno” y “Dios” parecen sinónimos. Creemos que lo que generalmente se acepta como bueno debe estar en línea con la voluntad de Dios. La generosidad, la humildad, la justicia son buenas. El egoísmo, la arrogancia, la crueldad son malos. La distinción parece bastante clara.¿Pero es eso todo lo que hay? Si lo bueno es tan obvio, ¿por qué la Biblia dice que necesitamos discernimiento para reconocerlo? Porque lo que parece bueno, no siempre v...

This book focuses on the controversial aggressive police practices employed to control crime by the New York City Police Department (NYPD) and the harm that has resulted and may further be produced if not checked. Informed by the author’s personal experience as a retired NYPD Captain, as well as by his research in the field, this book explains the broad influence of stop and frisk as well as other aggressive policies.In the mid‑1990s, with the election of Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, a ...

Estamos publicando, sob este título, uma coletânea de textos relativos ao evangelho eterno de Jesus Cristo, o único que pode gerar vida eterna, os quais traduzimos e adaptamos do original em inglês em domínio público de autores renomados que viveram especialmente entre os séculos XVI e XIX, quando havia uma consagração de homens santos a uma verdadeira vida piedosa, respaldada na prática da Palavra de Deus, de modo que ainda falam e nos inspiram nestes nossos dias através do escreveram deb...

Este libro condensa lo mejor de la persona, la vida, la obra y el ser social de John Lennon: para muchos el mayor ícono del rock. ¿Quién era? ¿De dónde su fortaleza para llegar a ser quién fue? ¿Cómo está construido su enorme edificio musical? ¿Qué aportó a los Beatles y qué le dieron éstos? ¿Hasta dónde su colaboración/competencia con Paul McCartney? ¿Qué de Yoko como su amor, socia y compañera de causas justas? ¿Qué de sus traumas, temores y tensiones internas? En suma, un "revolucionari...

Os superastros Neil Gaiman e John Romita Jr. se apropriam corajosamente dos insanos conceitos de Jack Kirby e, movidos pela paixão, dão continuidade à fantástica criação do Rei dos Quadrinhos em uma história cheia de mistério, suspense e poder magistral para ajudar a reestabelecer aqueles personagens emblemáticos como parte vital do Universo Marvel de uma vez por todas! Uma obra que resgata velhos e geniais conceitos e servem de ponto de partida para um novo despertar na Marvel!

In the mid-1990s, the NYPD created a performance management strategy known as Compstat. It consisted of computerized data, crime analysis, and advanced crime mapping coupled with middle management accountability and crime strategy meetings with high-ranking decision makers. While initially credited with a dramatic reduction in crime, questions quic

Tienes cientos de años. Tienes asombrosos poderes. Has visto civilizaciones en su apogeo y en su caída. Entonces, ¿por qué no recuerdas nada de eso? El mítico autor Neil Gaiman (1602, The Sandman) se une a la superestrella del lápiz John Romita Jr. (Spiderman, Los Vengadores) para ofrecer la reinvención de Los Eternos, el concepto de culto creado por el maestro Jack Kirby.

This edited collection by internationally recognized authors provides essays on police behavior in the categories of police administration, police operations, and combating specific crimes. Individual chapters strike at critical issues for police today, such as maintaining the well-being of officers, handling stress, hiring practices, child sexual exploitation, gunrunning, crime prevention strategies, police legitimacy, and much more.Understanding how police are hired and behave is...

The Detective‘s Handbook details the vital information law enforcement officers need to know to become better detectives. Since all essential aspects of detective work cannot be covered in a single volume, the editors have selected 20 of the most critical issues detectives face in their day-to-day work and present them in separate chapters.Using a

Studying the flagship New York City Police Department is critical to understanding policing and democratic society. An examination of the department by experts who have been studying it for years, The New York City Police Department: The Impact of Its Policies and Practices provides a frank and open discussion about the NYPD from an elite group of scholars with varying viewpoints and concerns. The authors in this book are uniquely qualified to discuss and analyze the intricacies of policie...

This edited collection illuminates the weaknesses and strengths of crime reporting across a wide range of countries, with a focus on democratic countries in which the police bear some accountability to citizens. In one compendium, for the first time, this book documents how different countries record (or fail to record) crimes. With chapters written by native authors who are experts on the practices of their respective countries, the book explores practices in 15 different countries across...