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Women in Policing around the World is a historical, legal, political, and social examination of women in policing around the world.

Focused on two key topics regarding policing in the 21st century, this volume brings together highly insightful essays from world-class scholars on developments in contemporary community policing in advanced industrial societies, and peacekeeping in weak and failing states.

Based primarily upon information from the UK Special Branch Counterterrorism Unit, this book takes you through the mechanics of a counterterrorism investigation, from legal definitions to admissibility at trial.

Written by experts who conduct training and consulting worldwide, this text enables police and public safety agencies to more easily get these cases to court.

Police departments in many parts of the world have set up specific programs with crisis intervention teams to facilitate police contact with the mentally ill. Focusing chiefly on jurisdictions in Australia, this volume also examines several of these programs in North America, Europe, and parts of the developing world.

This book examines the major theoretical foundations of ethics, before zooming in on definitions of professional practice and applied professional ethics, as distinct from private morals, in general and then focusing on professional ethics for translators and interpreters in police and legal settings.

This book addresses the various strategies that are available to police management, such as consolidation, regionalization, and amalgamation of police agencies; new public management (NPM); enhanced performance management; civilianization; and organizational restructuring.

This book presents important advances in Israeli police science based on empirical data during the past decade while making significant contributions to broader aspects of the policing literature.

This book addresses shadow economies and the players involved by examining various aspects of criminal law and prosecution.