“…Focusing on the unpredictable and increasingly volatile crime of the 1990s and 2000s, this episode reveals the changing face of armed offending and the huge impact it has had on the operations of the Armed Offenders Squads (AOS). With frontline police now routinely carrying firearms and criminals presenting weapons with alarming regularity, what is the future of the highly-trained specialist AOS?…”

“…This book shows how to recognize, prevent and cure burnout syndrome for nurses, teachers, counselors, doctors, therapists, police, social workers, and anyone else who cares about and for people. …”

“…Celle-ci fait appel aux forces de police, aux institutions, mais aussi à un ensemble de pratiques et de compromis incessants qui fondent un vivre ensemble, contesté et retissé au quotidien en croisant logiques spatiales, rapports sociaux et relations institutionnelles. …”

“…What role should the police have in schools? This essential volume, edited by two of the leading scholars on juvenile justice, and with contributors who are among the key experts on each issue, the volume focuses on the most pressing issues of the day: the impact of neuroscience on our understanding of brain development and subsequent sentencing, the relationship of schools and the police, the issue of the school-to-prison pipeline, the impact of immigration, the privacy of juvenile records, and the need for national policies—including registration requirements--for juvenile sex offenders. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Petersburg, Russia / The Paradoxes and Contradictions of Prostitution in Paris / Prostitution in Stockholm: Continuity and Change / Africa and the Middle East -- Prostitution in Cairo / Colonial and Post-Colonial Casablanca / Selling Sex in Istanbul / Sexualizing the City: Female Prostitution in Nigeria’s Urban Centres in a Historical Perspective / Sex Work and Migration: The Case of Tel Aviv and Jaffa, 1918–2010 / The Americas -- A Social History of Prostitution in Buenos Aires / Prostitution in the us: Chicago / Prostitution in Havana / Facing a Double Standard: Prostitution in Mexico City, 1521–2006 / The Future of an Institution from the Past: Accommodating Regulationism in Potosí (Bolivia) from the Nineteenth to Twenty-first Centuries / Sex Work in Rio de Janeiro: Police Management without Regulation / Section 4Asia-Pacific -- Commercial Sex Work in Calcutta: Past and Present / Prostitution in Colonial Hanoi (1885–1954) / Prostitution in Shanghai / Selling Sex in Singapore: The Development, Expansion, and Policing of Prostitution in an International Entrepôt / Prostitution in Sydney and Perth since 1788 / Thematic Overviews -- “We Use our Bodies to Work Hard, So We Need to Get Legitimate Workers’ Rights”*: Labour Relations in Prostitution, 1600–2010 / Working and Living Conditions / Migration and Prostitution1 / Prostitution and Colonial Relations / Seeing Beyond Prostitution: Agency and the Organization of Sex Work / Coercion and Voluntarism in Sex Work / A Gender Analysis of Global Sex Work / The Social Profiles of Prostitutes / Conclusion -- Sex Sold in World Cities, 1600s–2000s: Some Conclusions to the Project…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…National Myth, and the Legacy of Colonized ArtifactsSonja Dobroski -- THE POTENCY OF SYMBOLIC OBJECTS -- Chapter 6 The Symbolism of the Street in Portuguese Contention Guya Accornero, Tiago Carvalho and Pedro Ramos Pinto -- Chapter 7 Signature, Performance, Contention Hunter Dukes -- Chapter 8 Policing bodies: The role of bodywork and symbolic objects in police violence during the Toronto G20 Valerie Zawilski -- Chapter 9 Bodies on fire: Self-immolation as spectacle in contentious politics Dennis Zuev -- THE LEGACY OF SYMBOLIC OBJECTS -- Chapter 10 El Che: The (im)possibilities of a political symbol Eric Selbin -- Chapter 11 Mekap - A social history of the 'terrorist shoe' that fought ISIS Dilar Dirik -- Chapter 12 Biafran Objects and Contention in Nigeria Scholastica Ngozi Atata & Ayokunle Olumuyiwa Omobowale -- Chapter 13 The mask as political symbol: On the ritualization of political protest through mask wearing BjOrn Thomassen & Lone Riisgaard -- CONCLUSION -- Advancing the Study of Objects in Contention Benjamin Abrams and Peter Gardner -- Contributors -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…National Myth, and the Legacy of Colonized Artifacts Sonja Dobroski -- THE POTENCY OF SYMBOLIC OBJECTS -- Chapter 6 The Symbolism of the Street in Portuguese ContentionGuya Accornero, Tiago Carvalho and Pedro Ramos Pinto -- Chapter 7 Signature, Performance, Contention Hunter Dukes -- Chapter 8 Policing bodies: The role of bodywork and symbolic objects in police violence during the Toronto G20 Valerie Zawilski -- Chapter 9 Bodies on fire: Self-immolation as spectacle in contentious politics Dennis Zuev -- THE LEGACY OF SYMBOLIC OBJECTS -- Chapter 10 El Che: The (im)possibilities of a political symbol Eric Selbin -- Chapter 11 Mekap - A social history of the 'terrorist shoe' that fought ISIS Dilar Dirik -- Chapter 12 Biafran Objects and Contention in NigeriaScholastica Ngozi Atata & Ayokunle Olumuyiwa Omobowale -- Chapter 13 The mask as political symbol: On the ritualization of political protest through mask wearing BjOrn Thomassen & Lone Riisgaard -- CONCLUSION -- Advancing the Study of Objects in Contention Benjamin Abrams and Peter Gardner -- Contributors -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Foreword / Lina Dencik -- Data Justice and the Right to the City : An Introduction / Morgan Currie, Jeremy Knox and Callum McGregor -- Part I Algorithmic Government -- 1. Predictive policing: transforming the city into a medium for control / Fieke Jansen -- 2. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…; Global, Globalism, Globalisation; Chapter 2 War, Globalisation and Global Civil Society; Global Civil Society; Chapter 3 Globalisation and the New Security Agenda; Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD); Terrorism; Environment; Inequality; Migration; Organised Crime; HIV-AIDS; Rethinking Security in a Globalised Age; Chapter 4 The Risk Community; Risks as Global; Policing Risks; Chapter 5 NATO and the Challenge of Globalisation; The Challenge of Transnationalism; NATO as a Risk Community…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction: exceptionalism and agency in Nicaragua's revolutionary heritage / Hilary Francis -- 'We didn't want to be like Somoza's Guardia': policing, crime and Nicaraguan exceptionalism / Robert Sierakowski -- 'The revolution was so many things' / Fernanda Soto -- Nicaraguan food policy: between self-sufficiency and dependency / Christiane Berth -- On Sandinista ideas of past connections to the Soviet Union and Nicaraguan exceptionalism / Johannes Wilm -- Agrarian reform in Nicaragu in the 1980s: lights and shadows of its legacy / José Luis Rocha -- The difference the revolution made: decision-making in Liberal and Sandinista communities / Hilary Francis -- Grassroots verticalism?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Taxes and Welfare: The Tip of the Iceberg in White AmericaChapter 3. Police as the Face of Government: State Visibility Among People of ColorChapter 4. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Des relations raciales tendues par la gentrification -- Des politiques publiques à l'assaut de Harlem -- Le logement, nerf de la guerre -- La police, instrument de gentrification -- Michael Bloomberg : fusion du pouvoir politique et des élites économiques -- Les mobilisations citoyennes -- Le droit à la ville au centre des luttes -- Mobilisations contre la requalification de la 125e Rue -- "L'ouragan Columbia" ou la politique expansionniste de l'université…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Taxes and Welfare: The Tip of the Iceberg in White AmericaChapter 3. Police as the Face of Government: State Visibility Among People of ColorChapter 4. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…CHAPTER NINE The difference that dare not speak its name: the lexicon policeCHAPTER TEN The vicissitudes of discrimination; CHAPTER ELEVEN Islam: the new black; CHAPTER TWELVE Tolerating discrimination: discriminatory tolerance; CHAPTER THIRTEEN The road to nowhere: conceptual cul-de-sacs; REFERENCES; INDEX…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Moving to his own apartment -- The police report -- When a member of staff leaves - is it because he or she has died? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Secrecy, procedural fairness and state courts -- Secrecy, the media and the state : controlling and managing information about terrorism and security -- Secret material and anti-terrorism review in Australia and Canada -- Secret policing : boundaries of undercover evidence -- Anonymity and defamation -- Strategy for public interest leaking -- Open secrets, open justice -- Secret isle? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The end of hope -- 13. Secret police -- 14. Love letters -- 15. Love and marriage -- 16. …”
Sumario

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Les compagnies d'assurance-vie -- Nature de l'assurance-vie -- Types de polices d'assurance-vie -- 1. Les polices d'assurance non vie -- 2. …”

“…It argues that successful counterinsurgency requires effective indigenous security forces, especially police; a viable and legitimate local government; and the suppression of external support for insurgents…”