a critical theory of police

Pre-Owned An Introduction to American Policing 9781284110111 Used

An Introduction to American Policing continues to engage students with a balanced yet critical investigation of police history and theory. This comprehensive text connects criminal justice criminology and law enforcement knowledge to the progress of... more

Critical Issues in Crime and Society: Race and Police : The Origin of Our Peculiar Institutions (Paperback)

In the United States race and police were founded along with a capitalist economy dependent on the enslavement of workers of African descent. Race and Police builds a critical theory of American policing by analyzing a heterodox history of policing... more

Palgrave s Critical Policing Studies: Police-Citizen Relations in Nigeria: Procedural Justice Legitimacy and Law-Abiding Behaviour (Paperback)

This book offers an historical and contemporary analysis of policing and police-citizen relations in Nigeria to understand why people co-operate (or don t) with the police. It examines police legitimacy and the validity of procedural justice theory... more

Police Problem Solving Models and Theories (Edition 1) (Paperback)

A critical introduction to key concepts underpinning problem-solving models and theories seen in everyday policing encouraging critical thinking and ethical decision making for students and officers of the future. more

Pre-Owned An Introduction to American Policing 9781284110111

An Introduction to American Policing continues to engage students with a balanced yet critical investigation of police history and theory. This comprehensive text connects criminal justice criminology and law enforcement knowledge to the progress of... more

Routledge Advances in Management and Bus Mergers and Acquisitions: The Critical Role of Stakeholders Book 52 (Hardcover)

A merger or acquisition is usually a challenging endeavor with a single ultimate aim: to create value for the owner. However stakeholder theory shows how such a narrow and one-sided focus is detrimental to value-creation in general - not only for... more

Research in Multi Level Issues: Multi-Level Issues in Organizational Behavior and Strategy (Hardcover)

Part of a series that aims to present timely scholarly work on multiple levels of analysis multi-level theory research and methods. The focus is on critical essays theoretical work empirical studies methodological developments analytical techniques... more

Tonfa (Police Baton) Techniques for official use in the line of duty: Proven Techniques used by German police forces (Paperback)

This book written by an experienced German police officer and a long-time active martial artist is structured professionally and purposefully. This is not about individual tonfa tricks but rather simple solutions to the question: How can critical... more

Language Culture and Teaching Doing Critical Literacy: Texts and Activities for Students and Teachers (Paperback)

Compelling and highly engaging this text shows teachers at all levels how to do critical literacy in the classroom and provides models for practice that can be adapted to any context. Integrating social theory and classroom practice it brings... more

From Critical Race Theory to Critical Religion Theory (Paperback)

In order to properly respond to newly-emerging glocal dynamics it is crucial to understand the shifts in racisms from black versus white to East versus West. Concepts need to consider different dynamics and embrace issues related to gender sexuality... more

Critical Frontiers of Theory Research The Many Faces of Socioeconomic Change (Paperback)

Development is not a purely economic phenomenon; it also has a strong sociological element. The Many Faces of Socioeconomic Change explores how economic socio-cultural and political aspects of human progress have been studied since the time of Adam... more

Pre-Owned Critical Issues in Crime and Justice: Thought Policy and Practice (Paperback) 1483350622 9781483350622

Looking at theory cases laws and policies as they have been shaped by a larger social cultural and historical context this edition has new chapters on wrongful convictions victimology gangs comparative criminology and criminal justice and drug/sex... more

Performing Transversally: Reimagining Shakespeare and the Critical Future (Paperback)

Performing Transversally expands on Bryan Reynolds controversial transversal theory in exciting ways while offering groundbreaking analyses of Shakespeare s plays - Hamlet Othello Macbeth Taming of the Shrew Titus Andronicus Henry V The Tempest and... more

From the New Criticism to Deconstruction : The Reception of Structuralism and Post-Structuralism 9780252060021 Used / Pre-owned

From the New Criticism to Deconstruction traces the transitions in American critical theory and practice from the 1950s to the 1980s. It focuses on the influence of French structuralism and post-structuralism on American deconstruction within a... more

Critics of the Twentieth Century Antonio Gramsci: Beyond Marxism and Postmodernism (Hardcover)

This book provides the first detailed account of Gramsci s work in the context of current critical and socio-cultural debates. Renate Holub argues that Gramsci was ahead of his time in offering a theory of art politics and cultural production.... more

New Materialisms: Queer Defamiliarisation: Writing Mattering Making Strange (Hardcover)

Helen Palmer examines the Russian formalist concept of defamiliarisation from a contemporary critical perspective bringing together new materialist feminisms experimental linguistic formalism and queer theory. She explores how we might radically... more

Exploring Contemporary Craft: History Theory and Critical Writing 1552451070 (Paperback - Used)

The craft of craft the art of craft - here in Canada we re just starting to really talk about these things. In March 1999 Jean Johnson who runs Toronto s Craft Studio at Harbourfr ont Centre organized a wildly successful symposium on the state of... more

Product Management in Practice: A Practical Tactical Guide for Your First Day and Every Day After (Paperback)

Product management has become a critical function for modern organizations from small startups to corporate enterprises. And yet the day-to-day work of product management remains largely misunderstood. In theory product managers are high-flying... more

Politics of Intersectionality Social Change and Intersectional Activism: The Spirit of Social Movement (Hardcover)

Reading texts in relation to feminist queer and race theory and Buddhist philosophy this book argues that an understanding of spirit is critical to explaining the power that social movements have to change hearts minds and social structures. more

A study of the critical theory and practice of John Addington Symonds; an attempt to state John Addington Symonds s principles of literary criticism as given in Essay speculative and suggestive and

Leatherbound edition. Language: English Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Reprinted from 1903 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr d reprint. Illustrations... more

Police Social Work: Social Work Practice in Law Enforcement Agencies (Hardcover)

Grounded in contemporary social work practice approaches such as trauma-informed practice cultural competency and systems theory this book provides a model for developing implementing and evaluating police social work and social service... more

Teaching Critical Performance Theory: In Today s Theatre Classroom Studio and Communities (Paperback)

Teaching Critical Performance Theory offers teaching strategies for professors and artist-scholars across performance design and technology and theatre studies disciplines. The book s seventeen chapters collectively ask: What use is theory to an... more

The Reader in the Dickensian Mirrors (Paperback)

Through close attention to the representation of the reader in ten of Dickens s novels this study brings their specifically Victorian assumptions into direct confrontation with the insights of modern critical theory. The study locates in Dickens a... more

Pre-Owned Negotiation (Paperback) 0073381209 9780073381206

Negotiation is a critical skill needed for effective management. Negotiation 6/e explores the major concepts and theories of the psychology of bargaining and negotiation and the dynamics of interpersonal and intergroup conflict and its resolution.... more

Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities: The Edinburgh Companion to Critical Theory (Paperback)

Featuring an international team of specialists on the subject The Edinburgh Companion to Critical Theory provides a comprehensive analysis of the changing role of critical theory in the new century. Featuring an international team of specialists on... more

Critical Theory Handbooks A Handbook of Middle English Studies Book 4 (Hardcover)

A Handbook of Middle English Studies This sharp-minded coherent set of essays both maps and liberates: not only does it map the intellectual territory of contemporary cultural debate; it also liberates the extraordinary texts of later medieval... more

The Rocky Road to the Great War : The Evolution of Trench Warfare to 1914 (Hardcover)

Nicholas Murray s The Rocky Road to the Great War examines the evolution of field fortification theory and practice between 1877 and 1914. The technical and intellectual developments during this period were critical to the nature of the First World... more

Literature Culture Theory Critical Conditions Book 8 (Hardcover)

The postmodern debate has been heavily influenced by often contradictory conclusions about the foundations of knowledge. Horace Fairlamb contends that philosophy s foundationist quest has usually been misconceived as a choice between super-science... more

Routledge Studies in Intervention and St Critical Perspectives on the Responsibility to Protect: Interrogating Theory and Practice (Paperback)

This edited volume critically examines the widely supported doctrine of the Responsibility to Protect and investigates the claim that it embodies progressive values in international politics. Since the United Nations World Summit of 2005 a... more

Taking on the Political: Laughter as Politics: Critical Theory in an Age of Hilarity (Hardcover)

Laughter As Politics offers a novel account of laughter s role in contemporary political life. A world awash in hilarity has rendered the traditional philosophical question of whether laughter should play a role in politics obsolete. Faced with the... more

Advances in Police Theory and Practice Women in Policing around the World: Doing Gender and Policing in a Gendered Organization (Paperback)

Women in Policing around the World is a historical legal political and social examination of women in policing. The book opens with a comparison of cultural definitions of gender and how this affects women s work in general and policing... more

Law and Philosophy Library: Justice to Future Generations and the Environment (Paperback)

The analysis of justice between generations proposed in this book is based first of all on a critical reading of Rawls theory of justice but it also pays attention to the existential and cultural context of our intuitions about intergenerational... more

Transdisciplinary Souths: Changing Theory: Concepts from the Global South (Paperback)

This book is an original systematic and radical attempt at decolonizing critical theory. Drawing on linguistic concepts from 16 languages from Asia Africa the Arab world and South America the essays in the volume explore the entailments of words... more

Contemporary Food Studies: Economy Culture and Politics: Veganism: Politics Practice and Theory (Hardcover)

What exactly do vegans believe? Why has veganism become such a critical and criticized social movement and how does veganism correspond to wider debates about sustainability animal studies and the media? Eva Haifa Giraud offers an accessible route... more

Student Voice Research: Theory Methods and Innovations from the Field (Paperback)

This powerful resource is for researchers and educational leaders who are interested in understanding and applying research methods that emphasize youth voice. The authors argue that most educational research either omits critical understandings of... more

Words That Wound: Critical Race Theory Assaultive Speech and the First Amendment (Hardcover)

Words like sticks and stones can assault; they can injure; they can exclude. In this important book four prominent legal scholars from the tradition of critical race theory draw on the experience of injury from racist hate speech to develop a first... more

Philosophers and Law: Aquinas and Modern Law (Hardcover)

This volume collects some of the best recent writings on St. Thomas s philosophy of law and includes a critical examination of Aquinas s theory of the relation between law and morality his natural law theory as well as the modern reformulation of... more

Pre-Owned The Economics of Work and Pay (Hardcover) 0060453532 9780060453534

Provides a thorough grounding in the concepts of labour markets with supporting theories and empirical evidence. The text encourages analysis and critical thinking covering not only theory and historical perspectives but prompting readers to... more