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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “mike mccahill”
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  • The Surveillance Web

    by Mike McCahill ...
    The rise of CCTV and surveillance technologies has been one of the key developments in contemporary society, but its impact has often been analysed in a fragmented manner. This book addresses this issue by providing a detailed, micro-sociological account of the construction of a CCTV network in one English city. It differs from previous studies (which have concentrated on open street CCTV systems) ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Surveillance and Crime

    by Roy Coleman, Mike McCahill ...
    Series series Key Approaches to Criminology
    Surveillance has a long-standing relationship with crime and its identification, prevention, detection and punishment. With information on each citizen spanning up to 700 databases, and over 4 million CCTV cameras in the United Kingdom alone, this book explores how new technologies have given rise to new forms of monitoring and control.Offering a comprehensive understanding of the relationship ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

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  • Canadian Policing in the 21st Century

    A Frontline Officer on Challenges and Changes

    by Robert Chrismas ...
    How can police remain effective and vital in an era of unprecedented technological advances, access to information, and the global transformation of crime? Written by a long-serving officer, Canadian Policing in the 21st Century offers a rare look at street-level police work and the hidden culture behind the badge.Robert Chrismas shares experiences from his years of service to highlight areas ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Blackstone's Police Operational Handbook: Practice and Procedure

    Edited by Clive Harfield ...
    This practical handbook follows the successful flexicover format of Blackstone's Police Operational Handbook and is designed to complement that publication by offering guidance on good practice in core policing areas. Aimed at junior patrol officers, student officers and trainee detectives, it draws together practical advice across a wide range of police duties, along with extracts and ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Handbook of Criminal Investigation

    Edited by Tim Newburn, Tom Williamson, Alan Wright ...
    This book provides the most comprehensive and authoritative book yet published on the subject of criminal investigation, a rapidly developing area within the police and other law enforcement agencies, and an important sub discipline within police studies.The subject is rarely out of the headlines, and there is widespread media interest in criminal investigation. Within the police rapid strides are ... Read more

    $133.99 CAD

  • Understanding Police Intelligence Work

    by Adrian James ...
    Series series Key Themes in Policing
    Although police intelligence is becoming increasingly reliant on technology, it remains a human activity. This is the first textbook to offer a comprehensive and up-to-date account of police intelligence work based on current research, and to assess how intelligence may be used wisely and ethically to influence policing policy and practice.After explaining the basic tenets of intelligence, the ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Police Work

    Principles and Practice

    by Colin Rogers, Rhobert Lewis, Tim John, Tim Read ...
    This book provides a highly readable account of police work. It builds upon Introduction to Police Work (Rogers and Lewis 2007) to provide a comprehensive, in depth and critical understanding of policing in today's diverse society.Police Work: Principles and Practice meets the need for an increasingly sophisticated and professional approach to training within the police, whether this is carried ... Read more

    $112.99 CAD

  • Technologies of InSecurity

    The Surveillance of Everyday Life

    Edited by Katja Franko Aas, Helene Oppen Gundhus, Heidi Mork Lomell ...
    Technologies of Insecurity examines how general social and political concerns about terrorism, crime, migration and globalization are translated into concrete practices of securitisation of everyday life.Who are we afraid of in a globalizing world? How are issues of safety and security constructed and addressed by various local actors and embodied in a variety of surveillance systems? Examining ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Police Corruption

    Exploring Police Deviance and Crime

    by Maurice Punch ...
    Policing and corruption are inseparable. This book argues that corruption is not one thing but covers many deviant and criminal practices in policing which also shift over time. It rejects the 'bad apple' metaphor and focuses on 'bad orchards', meaning not individual but institutional failure. For in policing the organisation, work and culture foster can encourage corruption. This raises issues as ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Ethical Issues in Covert, Security and Surveillance Research

    Edited by Ron Iphofen, Dónal O’Mathúna ...
    Series Book 8 - Advances in Research Ethics and Integrity
    The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online.The EU-funded PRO-RES Project aimed to produce a guidance framework that helps to deliver Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI). PRO-RES is a Horizon 2020 project coordinated by the European Science Foundation (ESF), involving 14 different partners across Europe. As one of a series of open access products of the ... Read more

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  • Informers

    Policing, policy, practice

    Edited by Roger Billingsley, Teresa Nemitz, Philip Bean ...
    The police rely heavily on paid and unpaid informers: without them clear-up rates would plummet, and many crimes would remain undetected. Yet little is known about the informer system and how it works, for example: who are these informers? how are they recruited? how are they handled? who handles them? what sort of information do they provide?Recent high profile cases have drawn attention to the ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Supermax

    Controlling Risk Through Solitary Confinement

    by Sharon Shalev ...
    This book examines the rise and proliferation of 'Supermaxes', large prisons dedicated to holding prisoners in prolonged and strict solitary confinement, in the United States since the late 1980s.Drawing on unique access to two Supermax prisons and on in-depth interviews with prison officials, prison architects, current and former prisoners, mental health professionals, penal, legal, and human ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD