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Missing pieces: 7 ways to improve employee well-being and organizational effectiveness.
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
ISBN 9780230576582
This book contends that an organization's efficiency and success is strongly dependent on the well-being and working conditions of its personnel. The book starts by explaining the missing pieces of management (to which the title refers) and the concept of organizational health. The next seven chapters provide practical advice on how to deal with each of these: recognition, social support of employees, a culture of respect, reconciling work and personal life, controlling the workload, employee autonomy and participation in decision-making, and role conflict and clarifying roles. The final chapter notes six keys to success, five obstacles and ten actions to help changes to be made.
Faces of terrorism: multidisciplinary perspectives.
Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009
ISBN 9780470753811
This is a collection of perspectives on terrorism, by various authors, mainly from the UK and USA. There are 16 chapters, four of which are case studies; each chapter has its own abstract. The first chapter is the editor's introductory review of the multi-faceted nature of terrorism, its characteristics and explanations. The four case studies are: the puzzling case (from a Western perspective) of lone terrorist Faheem Khalid Lodhi (Pakistani who became Australian citizen, convicted of terrorism-related offences in 2006); the 17th November Group: Europe's last revolutionary terrorists (Greek Marxist organization, operating 1975-2002); youth gangs and terrorism in Chechnya: recruitment, activities and networks; Ramzan Kadyrov in Chechnya: authoritarian leadership in the Caucasus. The other 11 chapters are: From naivety to insurgency: becoming a paramilitary in Northern Ireland; The rhetorical foundation of militant jihad; The primacy of grievance as a structural cause of oppositional political terrorism: comparing Al Fatah, FARC and PIRA; Terrorism and organized crime: a theoretical perspective; Terrorist networks and small group psychology; The enemy of my enemy is my friend (the Aryan Nations and the belief system Christian Identity, in the USA); The business of kidnap for ransom; From 7/7 to 8/10: media framing of terrorist incidents in the United States and United Kingdom (using Centering Resonance Analysis); Cyberterrorism: the emerging worldwide threat; Disengaging from terrorism; De-radicalization and the staircase from terrorism.
Policing the world: the practice of international and transnational policing.
Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2010
ISBN 9781594604256
This book discusses the new international dimension to policing, in terms of three aspects. The first aspect is comparative policing and the creation of international good practice. Chapters 1 to 3 review differences in policing around the world, provide three case studies (Belize, Norway and Uganda), and discuss cross-national comparisons of policing strategies and the challenges of transferring operational approaches from one country to another. The second aspect, discussed in Chapters 4 and 5, concerns responses to international and transnational crime, and formal structures of international co-operation between police. Chapter 6 concerns the third aspect: the role of the police in peace operations and in capacity-building in transitional societies.
If we can put a man on the moon: getting big things done in government.
Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 2009
ISBN 9781422166369
This book discusses the execution of large public initiatives, using a systems perspective to examine how democracies succeed or fail on large undertakings. It draws on a review of 75 government undertakings of various kinds, principally in the USA, although also in other countries (including London congestion charging) and also of international ventures such as the first Gulf War. The book identifies and discusses 'seven deadly traps' on the journey to success, and how to overcome them. It ends by relating the stories of two Americans, a politician and a bureaucrat, who made a difference because of their execution mindsets.
New understanding of terrorism: case studies, trajectories and lessons learned
New York: Springer Publishing, 2009
ISBN 9781441901149
This book examines terrorist events in order to to analyse these attacks, their motivations and the response, in order to learn ways in which prevention, reaction and pro-action can be made more effective. The book contains 16 chapters, with many case studies. The first chapter is: Proper proactive training to terrorist presence and operations in friendly urban environments (makes proposals for the focus of police training in counter-terrorism. Five chapters concern events in the USA: Waco (the law enforcement response); Theodore Kaczynski and Timothy McVeigh (solo crusaders); biological terrorism in the USA (salmonella poisoning by the Rajneeshees in 1984 and anthrax attacks in 2001); Earth Liberation Front attacks, and the response; September 11 terrorist attacks and law enforcement response. Six chapters discuss events in other parts of the world (although two concern targets with American connections): 1995 Tokyo subway attack: the Aum Shinrikyo case. 2005 London bombings. Russian counter-terrorism reform, following the Beslan school siege in 2004. Beirut 1983 (suicide bombing of US Marines barracks). Khobar Towers (Iranian-backed Hezbollah bombing of US military personnel in Saudi Arabia, 1996). The siege in Mumbai (November 2008). Four chapters address themes, with reference to specific events: Aviation security (particularly the Lockerbie bomb); Maritime security (including the suicide bombing of the destroyer USS Cole in 2000; Rail transport security (including attacks in Angola in 2001 and in Madrid in 2004); Olympic security from a counter-terrorist perspective.
Pathways of police misconduct: problem behavior patterns and trajectories from two cohorts.
Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2010
ISBN 9781594606328
This book examines problem police officers and, particularly, places them within a framework (the criminal career paradigm) that considers misconduct, deviance and problematic behaviour over the course of police careers, and the relationship between experience and misconduct. The first chapter reviews how criminology can contribute to understanding police misconduct; the second explores a developmental view of police misconduct. The main part of the study considers and test explanations of police misconduct and the pattern, or multiple patterns, of misconduct, over time. It analyses data on citizen complaints and internal complaints, collected by an early intervention system project in one (anonymous) US police department. It compares two cohorts of officers, who joined the agency in the late 1980s and early 1990s, respectively, up to mid-2001. The concluding chapter discusses the implications of the findings for policy and research.
Police culture in a changing world.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009
ISBN 9780199560905
This is a study of contemporary police cultures and practices in one English police force (anonymised as Northshire Police). It is based on extensive observational research in two divisions, one urban and one rural. It examines how the occupational value systems and practices of the police officers have been shaped by the national context of social, economic and political changes and by the local context of the force's top-down reform programme. Part 1 situates police culture by considering the theoretical concept and by discussing the new social field of policing, particularly the emergence of respect for diversity. Part 2 examines how the demands of diversity have affected the dominant culture of white, heterosexual, male officers, whence comes resentment about the institutionalization of diversity. It also considers (other than related to diversity) officers' attitudes and motivations, their policing styles, and their relations with colleagues and with different cultural and social sections of the public. It identifies social class as a continuing and significant issue that permeates officers' cultural knowledge and everyday practices, particularly towards poor and low-status white men; this issue is not addressed by the diversity agenda. Part 3 reviews the study's findings and implications; this section also reflects on the author's ethnographic research experiences in Northshire.
Forensic science in court: the role of the expert witness.
Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009
ISBN 9780470985779
This book is a practical guide to the legal process and the presentation of forensic expert evidence in court. It is particularly intended for forensic science students. Although the book generally relates to the adversarial system in Britain, its descriptions of standards, activities and interpretation of results have universal application. The book describes the courts and legal system of England and Wales. It explains the rules of evidence for the expert witness, the appointment of experts, the written report, and court procedures, and it advises on preparation for the court appearance. It also contains a chapter discussing statistics and statistical inferences and a chapter on ethical and scientific considerations for the forensic scientist.
