Hot Spots and Dodgy Places

Hot Spots and Dodgy Places

Author: Tan Wee Cheng

Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd

Published: 2010-06-30

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 9812619690

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He visits a bizarre flower-show in Pyongyang, crosses confusing ethno-religious fault lines in the Balkans and Lebanon, drinks tea with friendly Yemenis near Osama bin Laden’s ancestral village, explores prehistoric caves with Tuareg tribesmen in Libya, and plays Indiana Jones among pyramids shortly after a rebel attack on Khartoum. Through long-forgotten characters, bizarre coincidences of history and personal stories of individuals he encountered, Wee Cheng turns faraway lands alive, and convinces the reader that these are more than just places in the news.


Community Policing

Community Policing

Author: Victor E. Kappeler

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-02-13

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13: 1317531264

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Community policing is a philosophy and organizational strategy that expands the traditional police mandate of fighting crime to include forming partnerships with citizenry that endorse mutual support and participation. The first textbook of its kind, Community Policing: A Contemporary Perspective delineates this progressive approach, combining the accrued wisdom and experience of its established authors with the latest research-based insights to help students apply what is on the page to the world beyond. This seventh edition extends the road map presented by Robert Trojanowicz, the father of community policing, and brings it into contemporary focus. The text has been revised throughout to include the most current developments in the field, including "Spotlight on Community Policing Practice" features that focus on real-life community policing programs in various cities as well as problem-solving case studies. Also assisting the reader in understanding the material are Learning Objectives, Key Terms, and Discussion Questions, in addition to numerous links to resources outside the text. A glossary and an appendix, "The Ten Principles of Community Policing," further enhance learning of the material.


Homicidal Ecologies

Homicidal Ecologies

Author: Deborah J. Yashar

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-12-06

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 1316832635

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Why has violence spiked in Latin America's contemporary democracies? What explains its temporal and spatial variation? Analyzing the region's uneven homicide levels, this book maps out a theoretical agenda focusing on three intersecting factors: the changing geography of transnational illicit political economies; the varied capacity and complicity of state institutions tasked with providing law and order; and organizational competition to control illicit territorial enclaves. These three factors inform the emergence of 'homicidal ecologies' (subnational regions most susceptible to violence) in Latin America. After focusing on the contemporary causes of homicidal violence, the book analyzes the comparative historical origins of weak and complicit public security forces and the rare moments in which successful institutional reform takes place. Regional trends in Latin America are evaluated, followed by original case studies of Central America, which claims among the highest homicide rates in the world.


Travels in Paradox

Travels in Paradox

Author: Claudio Minca

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780742528765

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This innovative volume focuses on tourism through the twin lenses of cultural theory and cultural geography. Presenting a set of innovative case studies on tourist destinations around the world, the contributors explore the paradoxes of the tourist experience and the implications of these paradoxes for our broader understanding of the problems of modernity and identity. The book examines how tourism reveals the paradoxical ways that places are both mobile and rooted, real and fake, inhabited by those who are simultaneously insiders and outsiders, and both subjectively experienced and objectively viewed. The concepts of travel and mobility long have been used to explain modern identity and social behavior, but this work pushes beyond the established literature by considering the ways that place and mobility are inherently related in unexpected, even contradictory ways. Travel, the international cast of authors contends, occurs 'in place' rather than 'between places.' Thus, instead of offering yet another interpretation of the ways modern societies are distinguished by their mobilities-in contrast to the supposed place-bound quality of traditional societies-the chapters here collectively argue for an understanding of modern identity as simultaneously grounded and mobile. This rich blend of empirical and theoretical analysis will be invaluable for cultural geographers, anthropologists, and sociologists of tourism.


Policing and Boundaries in a Violent Society

Policing and Boundaries in a Violent Society

Author: Guy Lamb

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2022-01-31

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1000536041

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This book explores how social and territorial boundaries have influenced the approaches and practices of the South Africa Police Service (SAPS). By means of a historical analysis of South Africa, this book introduces a new concept, ‘police frontierism’, which illuminates the nature of the relationships between the police, policing and boundaries, and can potentially be used for future case study research. Drawing on a wealth of research, this book examines how social and territorial boundaries strongly influenced police practices and behaviour in South Africa, and how social delineations amplify and distort existing police prejudices against those communities on the other side of the boundary. Focusing on cases of high-density police operations, public-order policing and the recent policing of the COVID-19 lockdown, this book argues that poor economic conditions combined with an increased militarisation of the SAPS and a decline in public trust in the police will result in boundaries continuing to fundamentally inform police work in South Africa. This book will be of interest to scholars and students interested in policing in post-colonial societies characterised by high levels of violence, as well as police work and police militarization.


An Uneasy Relationship

An Uneasy Relationship

Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13:

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Script Crypt

Script Crypt

Author: Chris Weedin

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2007-04-01

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 0977826341

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What do a perfectly ordinary and normal insane asylum, a secret, subterranean cavern infested by evil spirits and the gateway to Hell have in common? They're all in this book! And they're all lined up, ready and waiting to scare the living bejabbers out of your Players. "Script Crypt Volume 4: Very Bad Places" is a collection of four adventure scripts for "Horror Rules, the Simply Horrible Roleplaying Game," featuring an (un)healthy spread of fiendish and sinister locations for your gaming pleasure. Each site has a dark secret, a terrifying foe or some other just plain nasty feature that qualifies it as an *official* Very Bad Place and will undoubtedly maim, kill or drive insane any who venture into it. With places THIS bad, your Players will be DYING to go back over and over and over! Each Script is a complete adventure, including all the classic Horror Rules elements: Story, Bad Guys, Cast, Walk-Ons, Chain of Events... even Mood tips and Plot Pushers! Also, with expanded Sequel Suggestions and Plot Twists, each haunting and sinister Script becomes FOUR Scripts - that's 16 times the horror! It's enough dark corners, creaking floorboards and lurking menace to reduce even the hardiest Player into a sobbing, shattered heap... and with Horror Rules, they'll never have more fun getting there! Packed with all the wacky scares, edge-of-your-seat action and pee-your-pants thrills you've come to love, "Very Bad Places" is a sure hit and a must-have supplement for horror enthusiasts and gaming fans alike. So for those who dare, four Very Bad Places await. Enter at your own risk...


Regional Approaches to Mortuary Analysis

Regional Approaches to Mortuary Analysis

Author: Lane Anderson Beck

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-11-11

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 1489913106

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In this volume, archaeologists offer a new direction for burial research by expanding the models for mortuary analysis from a site-specific to a regional level. Contributors explore how regional mortuary approaches allow the introduction of new questions about peer polity interactions and regional alliances-extending traditional settlement system and exchange analyses. This volume features case studies examining mortuary sites as components of the archaeological landscape.


Geographic Profiling

Geographic Profiling

Author: D. Kim Rossmo

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 1999-12-28

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 9781420048780

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As any police officer who has ever walked a beat or worked a crime scene knows, the street has its hot spots, patterns, and rhythms: drug dealers work their markets, prostitutes stroll their favorite corners, and burglars hit their favorite neighborhoods. But putting all the geographic information together in cases of serial violent crime (murder, rape, arson, bombing, and robbery) is highly challenging. Just ask the homicide detectives of the Los Angeles Police Department who hunted the Hillside Stranglers, or law enforcement officers in Louisiana who tracked the brutal South Side rapist. Geographic Profiling introduces and explains this cutting-edge investigative methodology in-depth. Used to analyze the locations of a connected series of crimes to determine the most likely area of offender residence, geographic profiling allows investigators and law enforcement officers to more effectively manage information and focus their investigations. This extensive and exhaustive work explains geographic profiling theories and principles, and includes an extensive review of the literature and research in the areas of criminal profiling, forensic behavioral science, serial violent crime, environmental criminology, and the geography of crime. For investigators and police officers deployed in the field, as well as criminal analysts, Geographic Profiling is a "must have" reference.