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2) Sea change
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After the body of a divorced Florida heiress washes ashore in Paradise, Jesse Stone discovers her kinky secrets--and a sordid past that casts suspicion on everyone she knew, from friends to family. Unfortunately no one is talking, so it's up to Stone to speak for the dead..
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"Denny Malone and his crew are the smartest, the toughest, the quickest, the bravest, and the baddest, an elite special unit given unrestricted authority to wage war on gangs, drugs and guns. Every day and every night for the eighteen years he's spent on the Job, Malone has served on the front lines, witnessing the hurt, the dead, the victims, the perps. He's done whatever it takes to serve and protect in a city built by ambition and corruption, where...
4) Bad monkey
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Andrew Yancy novels volume 1
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Andrew Yancy, late of the Miami Police, soon-to-be-late of the Key West Police, has a human arm in his freezer. There is a logical explanation for that, but not for how and why it parted from its owner. Yancy thinks the boating-accident/shark-luncheon explanation is full of holes, and if he can prove murder, his commander might relieve him of Health Inspector duties, aka Roach Patrol. But first Yancy will negotiate an ever-surprising course of events,...
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Alex Cross novels volume 10
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Alex Cross joins forces with Scotland Yard and Interpol in pursuit of the Wolf and the Weasel.
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Grant County series volume 3
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The third thrilling Grant County novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author, Karin Slaughter, featuring Sara Linton of the acclaimed Will Trent Series.
"A fearless writer...One of the boldest thriller writers working today."— New York Times bestselling author, Tess Gerritsen
"Scary, shocking and perfectly suspenseful."—BookPage
Sara Linton, medical examiner in the small town of Heartsdale,
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2017
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1 online resource (405 pages)
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"Die 10. Auflage bringt das Lehrbuch auf den Stand von Oktober 2016. Neu konzipiert sind insbesondere die Ausführungen zu den Adressaten polizeilicher Maßnahmen, zum Versammlungsrecht und zur Rolle der Polizei in der sich wandelnden Sicherheitsarchitektur. Aus Rezensionen zur 9. Auflage: "Besonders zu empfehlen ist jedoch nach der Auffassung des Verfassers das Lehrbuch von Gusy. Ihm gelingt es am besten, den Stoff auf die notwendigen Inhalte...
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1969
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1 online resource (xiv, 482 pages)
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As a pervasive and relatively modernized element of Indian society, the police are potentially a powerful vanguard in the establishment of a stable democratic process and a major factor in public attitudes toward the government. Professor Bayley's book, based upon 3,600 interviews during two extended periods of research in India, explores in depth the formative role police play in the maintenance and development of the Indian political system. As...
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©2010
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1 online resource (xxiii, 159 pages)
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Explores the personal experiences of a group of police chiefs who examine their leadership challenges in diverse cities. This book presents a historical overview and a short background of each police chief. It includes a set of recommendations for the future of police leadership in a democracy.
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2014.
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1 online resource
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Cooper answers two questions: why do police precincts look similar, despite being situated in very different environments? And, why do police engage in behavior that does not result in crime control? These two questions are closely related.
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[2022]
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1 online resource (xii, 66 pages)
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"Injury and death from use of excessive force by police officers remain a common concern in countries across the globe. Despite local, national, and international attempts to legislate and provide guidance for police use of force, there continue to be global accounts of excessive force by law enforcement. Reports of officer-involved killings, injuries to citizens, and attempts to control protests and demonstrations with chemical irritants, rubber...
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Sociology of Crime Law and Deviance volume 21
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2016
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1 online resource.
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"This volume in the series Sociology of Crime, Law, and Deviance edited by Mathieu Deflem addresses contemporary issues of policing with a focus on the characteristics of police power as a coercive force in society and its continued need for legitimacy in a democratic social order. The book brings scholars together to discuss a variety of important topics concerning police and policing. Developments and problems associated with police power are at...
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Alex Cross novels volume 1
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Discover the classic thriller that launched the bestselling detective series from the world's most popular storyteller.
Alex Cross is in a race against time after two private-school children are kidnapped by their teacher—a man looking to commit the crime of the century.
The inspiration for the Prime Video show, Cross.
Alex Cross is a homicide detective with a Ph.D. in psychology. He works and lives...
Alex Cross is in a race against time after two private-school children are kidnapped by their teacher—a man looking to commit the crime of the century.
The inspiration for the Prime Video show, Cross.
Alex Cross is a homicide detective with a Ph.D. in psychology. He works and lives...
18) Twentieth-century influences on twenty-first-century policing: continued lessons of police reform
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Twentieth-Century Influences on Twenty-First-Century Policing argues that to fully understand contemporary American policing, we must first understand its historical origins in the 1950s, '60s, and '70s. Such a historical grounding is further employed to consider where policing is heading now in the twenty-first century.
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[2022]
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1 online resource (xii, 122 pages) : illustrations (some color).
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This book explores the contours of the code of silence and provides policy recommendations geared toward creating an environment less conducive for police misconduct. It responds to the recent calls for police reform, in the wake of the perceived illegitimacy of police actions and the protection that the code of silence seems to provide to the police officers who violate the official rules.Using a case study of a medium-sized U.S. police agency, this...
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2023
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1 online resource (213 p.)
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Sexuality in the Swedish Police is based on the experiences of lesbian, gay and bisexual police officers and the author's observations of police work. The book analyses how processes of exclusion and inclusion of LGB sexuality coexist in the Swedish police.





