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   Policing Western Europe: Politics, Professionalism, and Public Order, 1850-1940 » Read Now

   by Clive Emsley, Barbara Weinberger. 258 pgs.

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   This collection of essays examines the growth of professionalization in national police forces in England, France, Germany, Ireland, and the Netherlands. Particular emphasis is placed on the expansion and development of police forces and the effect of this development on organization and strategy...

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   This collection of essays examines the growth of professionalization in national police forces in England, France, Germany, Ireland, and the Netherlands. Particular emphasis is placed on the expansion and development of police forces and the effect of this development on organization and strategy. By examining the police in five societies, the authors provide valuable analyses of the ways police forces differ, how they approach their tasks, and how they view themselves.

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   The Politics of EU Police Cooperation: Toward a European FBI? » Read Now

   by John D. Occhipinti. 286 pgs.

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   Occhipiniti's study of the European Police Office (Europol) brings to life the core themes in the study of European integration.
   
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   Government Ethics and Law Enforcement: Toward Global Guidelines » Read Now

   by William P. Carter, Mark Davies, Yassin El-Ayouty, Kevin J. Ford. 323 pgs.

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   Recognizing that the quality of governance is a crucial factor in the overall development of a country, experts on government ethics and law enforcement examine the principles that need to be applied to create more effective and efficient governments. While focusing on the approaches adopted by the...

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   Recognizing that the quality of governance is a crucial factor in the overall development of a country, experts on government ethics and law enforcement examine the principles that need to be applied to create more effective and efficient governments. While focusing on the approaches adopted by the City of New York, case studies from around the world are also given.

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   Feminist Freikorps: The British Voluntary Women Police, 1914-1940 » Read Now

   by R. M. Douglas. 172 pgs.

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   The Women Police Service was unique as a feminist organization dedicated to the supervision and control of women themselves. Formed in 1914 by middle-class veterans of the militant suffrage campaign in Britain, at odds throughout its history with both the authorities and mainstream feminist...

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   The Women Police Service was unique as a feminist organization dedicated to the supervision and control of women themselves. Formed in 1914 by middle-class veterans of the militant suffrage campaign in Britain, at odds throughout its history with both the authorities and mainstream feminist organizations and frequently operating in defiance of the law, the WPS combined authoritarianism and feminist activism to create its own distinctive concept of policing between the world wars.

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   The Rise of Scotland Yard: A History of the Metropolitan Police » Read Now

   by Douglas G. Browne. 394 pgs.

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   ...practice of maintaining law and order in British...the capital. The history of its police...in the eye of the law no town; it had...Geography and remote history had done...
   
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   Gendarmes and the State in Nineteenth-Century Europe » Read Now

   by Clive Emsley. 288 pgs.

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   The history of police and policing have been the subject of much interest and research in recent years, but this book provides the first serious academic exploration of the origins and development of the role of soldier-policemen: the gendarmeries of nineteenth-century Europe. The author presents a...

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   The history of police and policing have been the subject of much interest and research in recent years, but this book provides the first serious academic exploration of the origins and development of the role of soldier-policemen: the gendarmeries of nineteenth-century Europe. The author presents a detailed account of the French Gendarmeries from the old regime up to the First World War, and looks at the reasons for how and why this model came to be exported across continental Europe in the wake of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic armies. In particular their role is examined within the differing national contexts of Italy, Germany and the Habsburg Empire. The gendarmeries, it is argued, played a significant role in establishing the state, particularly in rural areas. As the physical manifestation of the state, gendarmes carried the state's law and a promise of protection, whilst at the same time ensuring in turn that the state received its annual levies of conscripts and taxes This account fully explores how the organisation and style of nineteenth-century soldier-policing in France developed in such a way that it brought the idea of the state and the state's law to much of twentieth-century continental Europe.

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   Stasi: The Untold Story of the East German Secret Police » Read Now

   by John O. Koehler. 460 pgs.

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   This is a review of the activities of the Stasi, East Germany's Ministry for State Security, including art theft, programmes for international espionage, terrorism and terrorist training, involvement in narcotics, and operations in Latin America.
   
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   Showing the Flag: The Mounted Police and Canadian Sovereignty in the North, 1894-1925 » Read Now

   by William R. Morrison. 222 pgs.

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   ...HV8157.M67 1985 International Standard Book...Department of History, Brandon University...N.W.M.P. and Law Enforcement, 1873-1905...at which the international boundary...
   
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   Canadian Police Chiefs and Law Reform: The Historical Perspective, in Canadian Journal of Criminology » Read Now

   by Greg Marquis. 22 pgs.

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   ...funded history of American...Finally, law enforcement, under the...modeled on the International Association...study of the International Association...books, a history of...
   
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    Money Laundering: Pinochet, the Junta, and a New International Law Enforcement Model » Read Now

    by Guy Stessens. 460 pgs.

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    This book gives a broad analysis of the legal issues raised by the international fight against money laundering. It offers extensive comparative research of the criminal and preventive law aspects from an international perspective. Most of this volume is devoted to specific legal problems that...

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    This book gives a broad analysis of the legal issues raised by the international fight against money laundering. It offers extensive comparative research of the criminal and preventive law aspects from an international perspective. Most of this volume is devoted to specific legal problems that spring from the international nature of the money laundering phenomenon. It contains the most detailed overview yet published on the rules and practices of international cooperation in the fight against money laundering, and the jurisdictional questions that inevitably arise in this context.

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    Policing the Conflict in South Africa » Read Now

    by Philip B. Heymann, A. S. Mathews, M. L. Mathews. 226 pgs.

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    ...1. Selective enforcement of the law in favor of the dominant...SAP. It is a police history of the police. Van...SAP in its role as a law-enforcement agency is seen to...The...
    
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    Policing Africa: Internal Security and the Limits of Liberalization » Read Now

    by Alice Hills. 213 pgs.

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    Policing Rio de Janeiro: Repression and Resistance in a 19th-Century City » Read Now

    by Thomas H. Holloway. 374 pgs.

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    ...and the state in the history of Brazil--itself a...concepts of criminality and law enforcement. It counterposes a dialectic...slickest examples in the history of class...