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  • Ethics for the Public Service Professional

    Headlines of public service corruption scandals are painful reminders of the need for continuing education in the subjects of ethics and integrity. Public service professionals employed as government officials, forensic scientists, investigators, first responders, and those within the legal and justice systems, face daily decisions that can mean the difference between life or death and freedom or ... Leer más

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    A Leadership Strategy for Producing Results

    Series series Brookings / Ash Center Series, "Innovative Governance in the 21st Century"
    It started two decades ago with CompStat in the New York City Police Department, and quickly jumped to police agencies across the U.S. and other nations. It was adapted by Baltimore, which created CitiStat-the first application of this leadership strategy to an entire jurisdiction. Today, governments at all levels employ PerformanceStat: a focused effort by public executives to exploit the power ... Leer más

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  • Genetic Justice

    DNA Data Banks, Criminal Investigations, and Civil Liberties

    National DNA databanks were initially established to catalogue the identities of violent criminals and sex offenders. However, since the mid-1990s, forensic DNA databanks have in some cases expanded to include people merely arrested, regardless of whether they've been charged or convicted of a crime. The public is largely unaware of these changes and the advances that biotechnology and forensic ... Leer más

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  • Too Critical to Fail

    How Canada Manages Threats to Critical Infrastructure

    In the summer of 2013, just as a small town in Quebec was decimated due to a train derailment, heavy rainfall prompted thirty Alberta communities to declare a state of emergency. Whereas a SWAT team surrounded train conductor Thomas Harding and brought him to court where he was charged with the deaths of forty-seven in Quebec, Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi emerged from the Alberta crisis as a folk ... Leer más

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  • May It Please the Court

    Judicial Processes and Politics In America

    This practical, comprehensive, and engaging introduction to the American judicial system is designed primarily for undergraduate students in criminal justice, liberal arts, political science, and beginning law. It differs from other texts not only by delivering an insider’s view of the courts, but also by demonstrating how the judicial process operates at the intersection of law and politics ... Leer más

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  • The Art of Science in the Canadian Justice System

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    Part autobiography, part thought piece, part references, the book takes an insightful look at the experience and cases of renowned paediatrician and forensic expert witness Dr. Charles Ferguson. The book presents the interaction of science and law as it applies, specifically, the Canadian courts, but the justice process as a whole. Dr. Ferguson’s experience—from a scientist and medical ... Leer más

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  • Studies in Forensic Biohistory

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    Series Libro 75 - Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology
    The lives of kings, poets, authors, criminals and celebrities are a perpetual fascination in the media and popular culture, and for decades anthropologists and other scientists have participated in 'post-mortem dissections' of the lives of historical figures. In this field of biohistory, researchers have identified and analyzed these figures' bodies using technologies such as DNA fingerprinting, ... Leer más

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  • The Crime Numbers Game

    Management by Manipulation

    Series series Advances in Police Theory and Practice
    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 ... Leer más

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  • Policy Agendas in British Politics

    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Using a unique dataset spanning fifty years of policy-making in Britain, this book traces how topics like the economy, international affairs, and crime have shifted in importance. It takes a new approach to agenda setting called focused adaptation, and sheds new light on key points of change in British politics, such as Thatcherism and New Labour. ... Leer más

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  • The Politics of Disgust

    The Public Identity of the Welfare Queen

    Winner of the 2006 Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Organized Section Best First Book Award from the American Political Science AssociationWinner of the 2006 W.E.B. DuBois Book Award from the National Conference of Black Political ScientistsAnge-Marie Hancock argues that longstanding beliefs about poor African American mothers were the foundation for the contentious 1996 welfare reform debate that ... Leer más

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  • Educational Policy in an International Context

    Political Culture and Its Effects

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    Provides a provocative examination of the interplay between political culture and educational policy. The goal is to provide a better understanding of how different countries are responding to the global exchange of policy ideas that includes 'the standards movement' and 'new public management' or accountability in the public sector. ... Leer más

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