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By: Peter Schrag
ISBN: 9781565843578
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 1998
Publisher: The New Press
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Beginning with the passage of Proposition 13 in 1978, and continuing through the barrage of voter initiatives, the state tumbled to the bottom of the nation's "quality of life" rankings. In "Paradise Lost", Peter Schrag examines the relationship between the politics of that retrenchment and the great demographic changes in the state.
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By: Molly Geidel
ISBN: 9780816692224
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2015
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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In a provocative cultural history of the 1960s Peace Corps, Molly Geidel argues that the agency's representative development ventures legitimated the violent exercise of American power around the world and the destruction of indigenous ways of life.
(Paperback, Second Edition)
By: Sidney L. Harring
ISBN: 9781608468546
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2017
Publisher: Haymarket Books
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An in-depth critical analysis of how ruling elites use the police institution in order to control communities.
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By: Donatella della Porta Della Porta
ISBN: 9780816630646
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 1998
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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This work explores the various police strategies of coercion, negotiation, and information surveillance. It discusses specific countries' governments and considers public opinion, media and the police's perception of reality to illustrate the reciprocal ways in which police and protest are defined.
(Paperback)
By: Steve Herbert
ISBN: 9780816628650
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 1997
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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By: Martin Innes
ISBN: 9781837720842
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2024
Publisher: University of Wales Press
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Through the lens of South Wales Police, this volume reflects upon the changing role of the police in society. Written by police officers and researchers working collaboratively, it covers key topics including neighbourhood policing; major crime investigation and violence prevention; gender and policing; police technologies; and leadership.
(Paperback)
By: Dave Hage
ISBN: 9780816640942
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2004
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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(Paperback)
By: Tina Traster
ISBN: 9781613738283
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2018
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
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(Paperback)
By: Clarke A. Chambers
ISBN: 9780816657223
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1963
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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By: Ieuan Gwynedd Jones
ISBN: 9780708312582
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 1994
Publisher: University of Wales Press
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The contents of this text on social policy, crime and punishment include: crime in the South Wales police district; researching the child victims; justice and responsibility; and race relations in prisons.
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By: Marzena akowska
ISBN: 9781642598063
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2023
Publisher: Haymarket Books
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(Paperback)
By: Marzena akowska
ISBN: 9781642598117
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2023
Publisher: Haymarket Books
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By: Mia Arp Fallov
ISBN: 9781642595666
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2022
Publisher: Haymarket Books
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An important sociological intervention into the way that states enact welfare policies in the Neoliberal era.
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By: Carolyn Noble
ISBN: 9781920899691
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2011
Publisher: Sydney University Press
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The editors and contributors, who are engaged in a broad array of professional interests, hope that readers will find this book both inspiring and challenging as they teach and learn from each other across Asia Pacific. Australian and NZ authors.
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By: Ray Wilson
ISBN: 9781849549103
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2015
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
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This is the first complete history of the Special Branch of the Metropolitan Police from its formation in 1883 to its demise in 2006, when it was subsumed into the Counter Terrorism Command of the Metropolitan Police Service.
(Paperback, Third edition)
By: Lindy Clemson
ISBN: 9781743326640
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2019
Publisher: Sydney University Press
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The Stepping On program is a community-based falls-prevention program that shows participants how to reduce falls, increase confidence and maintain personal independence.
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By: Miki G Hayden
ISBN: 9781565848764
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2004
Publisher: The New Press
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This is a renowned activist's impassioned look at gangs and youth violence in Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York.
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By: Jenny Hocking
ISBN: 9780868407029
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2003
Publisher: UNSW Press
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The underlying concern of this book is the issue of balancing the needs for national security with individual rights and freedoms. Hocking argues that current security legislation compromises the separation of powers and individual legal and political rights.
(Hardback)
By: Ai-jen Poo
ISBN: 9781620970386
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2015
Publisher: The New Press
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By: U.S. Department of Justice
ISBN: 9781631582103
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2017
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Theodore M. Shaw
ISBN: 9781620971604
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2015
Publisher: The New Press
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(Paperback)
By: Andrew Herscher
ISBN: 9781517912222
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2021
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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(Paperback)
By: Stephen Langford
ISBN: 9781742588148
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2016
Publisher: UWA Publishing
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By: Martha Doyle
ISBN: 9780719090479
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2015
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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situates the discussion of older people's interests in the international context and outlines the findings of an Irish case study -- .
