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 | Leadership, Ethics and Policing: Challenges for the 21st Century Product# 460549513 Selling for $64.6 "Showing clearly 'why' traditional leadership strategies are no longer appropriate, this unique, visionary text addresses leadership development for police officers in the 21st Century--with a focus on the leadership competencies required of 'line police officers' in community policing environments. Blending leadership theory with real-world practices (examples, case studies, problems and applications), it explores the full range of leadership competencies--in communications, problem solving, planning, organization, and human relations--and provides concrete examples of both effective 'and' ineffective leadership. A 'how to' section in each skills chapter discusses techniques for developing leadership curricula in the skill in police academies, college-level leadership courses, and continuing education programs. The Challenge of Modern Police Leadership. Who Is a Leader? Communication: Key to Interpersonal Relations Problem Solving. Motivation: Key to Success. Planning and Organizing. Actuation and Implementation. The Ethical Leader. For Criminal Justice profess" |
 | Criminology Today: An Integrative Introduction Product# 460679706 Selling for $80 "Debates the primary issue of whether crime should be addressed as a matter of individual responsibility and accountability, or treated as a symptom of a dysfunctional society. Addresses the latest social issues and discusses innovative criminological perspectives within a well-grounded and traditional theoretical framework. Emphasizes the wide and interdisciplinary variety of academic perspectives which contribute to a thorough and well-informed understanding of the crime problem. Considers Jack Kevorkian and the issue of whether the 'assisted death' should continue to be criminalized; the insanity defense and John E. du Pont; analyses of the Daubert standard and DNA testing, the FBI's new National Computer Crime Squad (NCCS), the Reno v. ACLU 1997 case on internet indecency, and much more. Includes an award-winning web site and numerous other supplementary resources." |
| Criminology Today: An Integrative Introduction Product# 460686317 Selling for $80 "Debates the primary issue of whether crime should be addressed as a matter of individual responsibility and accountability, or treated as a symptom of a dysfunctional society. Addresses the latest social issues and discusses innovative criminological perspectives within a well-grounded and traditional theoretical framework. Emphasizes the wide and interdisciplinary variety of academic perspectives which contribute to a thorough and well-informed understanding of the crime problem. Considers Jack Kevorkian and the issue of whether the 'assisted death' should continue to be criminalized; the insanity defense and John E. du Pont; analyses of the Daubert standard and DNA testing, the FBI's new National Computer Crime Squad (NCCS), the Reno v. ACLU 1997 case on internet indecency, and much more. Includes an award-winning web site and numerous other supplementary resources." |
 | The Definitive Guide to Criminal Justice and Criminology on the World Wide Web Product# 460765629 Selling for $32.4 "Designed specifically to look at the Internet from a Criminal Justice perspective, this comprehensive book and its supporting website explore the myriad of resources available to the CJ professional and to criminologists via the World Wide Web. Its relevant discussions and special-interest sections offer readers a clear, accessible guide to using the Web as a learning resource. The volume provides a brief history of the Internet, guidelines for surfing the web and a complete overview of criminology and criminal justice sites on the web, e-mail and e-mail software, e-mail discussion lists, newsgroups, 'zines and e-journals, search engines and web maps, netiquette and web manners, criminal justice careers on-line, security issues, and using the Talk Justice site. For those involved in criminal justice and criminology." |
| The Definitive Guide to Criminal Justice and Criminology on the World Wide Web Product# 460767342 Selling for $32.4 "Designed specifically to look at the Internet from a Criminal Justice perspective, this comprehensive book and its supporting website explore the myriad of resources available to the CJ professional and to criminologists via the World Wide Web. Its relevant discussions and special-interest sections offer readers a clear, accessible guide to using the Web as a learning resource. The volume provides a brief history of the Internet, guidelines for surfing the web and a complete overview of criminology and criminal justice sites on the web, e-mail and e-mail software, e-mail discussion lists, newsgroups, 'zines and e-journals, search engines and web maps, netiquette and web manners, criminal justice careers on-line, security issues, and using the Talk Justice site. For those involved in criminal justice and criminology." |
 | Compromised Campus; The Collaboration of Universities with the Intelligence Community, 1945-1955 Product# 460768105 Selling for $90 "In the early 1950s, a young Harvard professor named Henry Kissinger approached the FBI with alleged evidence of communist subversion among the foreign students of his summer seminar. His evidence was a flyer criticizing the nuclear arms build-up and promoting world peace. At the same time at Yale, young William F. Buckley, Jr., was discovering more than God while writing God and Man at Yale as an undergraduate. He was discovering J. Edgar Hoover. These are just two examples of how ambitious young men used the 'special relationship' developing between the FBI and the universities to advance their fledgling careers. Revelations such as these abound in Sigmund Diamond's Compromised Campus, an eye-opening look at the role American intelligence agencies played at some of America's most prestigious universities. It is often said that in the 1950s, American universities were free of the McCarthyism that pervaded the rest of the nation. Not so, says Diamond. Using previously secret materials newly made available under the Freedom of Information Act, and an impressive a" |
 | Responsive Regulation; Transcending the Deregulation Debate Product# 460768172 Selling for $149 "Debate on deregulation stems in large part from dissatisfaction with the efficacy of the contemporary regulatory state. The debate is often currently framed as an all-or-nothing choice between the laissez-faire policies of the right and the traditional centralized interventions of the left. The regulation of business by the United States government is often ineffective despite being more adversarial in tone than in other nations, especially Great Britain. This book transcends current debate on government regulation by outlining innovative forms of regulation. The authors argue that regulation does not have to proceed with an adversarial tone, nor does it have to be 'hard' or 'soft' to be effective. In considering regulation in such areas as occupational health and safety, the environment, nursing homes, consumer product safety, financial institutions, as well as securities and futures markets, they see the solution in a more creative interplay between state regulation and self-regulation by industry. The authors propose that government enlist what they call 'responsive regulation', in which a fruitful combination of advice and sanctions are given to corporations and increased as necessary within an 'enforcement pyramid'. They also propose the empowerment of public interest groups, institutionalizing their role in the regulatory process. Tripartite regulation, the authors argue, may enable the evolution of cooperation, while preventing the development of harmful capture. The work includes a provocative discussion of how government can support and encourage industry self-regulation. The authors draw on both empirical studies of regulation from around the world and modern game theory toillustrate innovative solutions to this challenge. Written in a lucid style with down-to-earth examples, it will interest not only attorneys and economists, but sociologists, law and society scholars, policy-makers, criminologists, and regulation scholars as well." |
 | Basic Concepts of Legal Thought Product# 460768233 Selling for $34.95 "In contemporary American society, law has nearly achieved the status of civil religion. Legal issues pervade many aspects of daily life; the media report aggressively on trials, pending legislation, and new decisions by the courts. Legally trained executives now run major motion picture studios, corporations, and universities. They speak to each other in the language of jurisprudence. Understanding the law today is an important aspect of literacy in American culture." |