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Discusses how the development of new technologies helped improve crime control during Prohibition and the Depression, and discusses how the police had to deal with problems they had never encountered, including interstate criminals, powerful gangsters, machine guns, cars, and organized crime.

A research guide with a chronology of treaties and events; brief biographies of activists and other important personages; the texts of the Geneva Conventions, statues establishing international tribunals and the International Criminal Court, and other pertinent documents, a directory of governmental and nongovernmental organizations, and listings of print and nonprint research materials. Also included are two interpretive essays that, in turn, look...

This is a fascinating story of a scientific breakthrough that solved one of the most brutal murders in England's history and forever changed the criminal justice system. "Fingerprints" traces fingerprinting to its present-day applications and illustrates why the unique tracks we leave with our fingers continue to be one of the most important means of identifying criminals.

Robert L. Belknap's theory of plot illustrates the active and passive roles literature plays in creating its own dynamic reading experience. Literary narrative enchants us through its development of plot, but plot tells its own story about the making of narrative, revealing through its structures, preoccupations, and strategies of representation critical details about how and when a work came into being. Through a rich reading of Shakespeare's King...

Community policing, as a philosophy, supports the systematic use of partnerships and problem-solving techniques to proactively address the immediate conditions that give rise to public safety issues, including crime, social disorder, and fear of crime?as opposed to responding to crime after it occurs. Community policing expands the traditional police mandate. It broadens the focus of fighting crime to include solving community problems and forming...

This book presents biographical, critical, and bibliographical information on Mark Twain's best-known short stories, including "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg," "Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut," and others.

The present work attempts to look closely at the texts of Dosoyevsky's major works to see how each functions as a work of art. After a brief survey of the early writing and an examination of "Notes from Underground," two chapters are devoted to each of the major novels in turn ("Crime and Punishment," "The Idiot," "The Devils," and "The Brothers Karamazov"). The final chapter attempts to draw conclusions from the evidence which emerges from this examination....

A comprehensive guide to the English novelist includes a chronology of his life, summaries of each of his works, and entries on major characters, important places, and relevant literary terms.

"This book offers the non-security professional an introduction to the security risks involved when using technology and discusses how to mitigate the risk of security incidents. The book introduces the information security topics every engineer should understand if they use a computer or any mobile device that is connected to the Internet. Most engineers work at employers that want their data secure, but not every employer invests in training their...