Neighbourhood policing is one of the most significant and high profile innovations in UK policing in recent times. It has also been one of the most successful, garnering widespread political and public support for its objectives and the processes of policing that it has sought to embed. Indeed, it has recently been described as the 'bedrock' of the British policing model. But it was not always so lauded. At the time of its initial development it encountered considerable opposition and scepticism from both within and outside of the police. This book tells the story of how and why the neighbourhood policing model was originally designed and implemented, and then, what has led to a decline in its prominence in terms of everyday police practice. To do this, Neighbourhood Policing draws upon unparalleled empirical data from the authors' ten-year programme of research to provide unique and compelling insights into the key practices and processes associated with the concept and implementation of neighbourhood policing. The chapters describe how: key processes and practices have evolved and matured; the ways neighbourhood policing delivers a range of local policing services; as well as how, in some towns and cities, it has provided a platform for tackling violent extremism and organised crime. This approach is used to set out a broader analytic frame that addresses the conditions under which innovative policing models emerge, are developed and decline. In so doing, the book engages with wider and deeper questions about the police function in contemporary society.
Expectations of the ISSP (Intensive Supervision and Surveillance Programme) and the ICCP (Intensive Control and Change Programme) have been high, but the evidence relating to their effectiveness is mixed. This book seeks to address these issues, providinga review of the literature, and presents findings of a national evaluation of ISSP.
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In The Codex, published in 1954, C.H. Roberts studied the process by which in the early centuries of our era the roll as the vehicle for literature was replaced by the codex, which has remained the format of the book ever since. New evidence that has accumulated in the last thirty years has set some of the problems in a new light and in this book, published here for the first time in paperback, the authors re-examine these and offer a different explanation for the remarkable part in the transformation played by the early Church.
21st Century Algebraic Equations" develops a standard method (loder) to solve algebraic equations of any practical degree in real coefficients. It also describes the process of iteration, gives exact solutions to quadratic, cubic and quartic equations, introduces complex arithmetic and provides relevant theorems and solutions by spreadsheet. The book contains many worked examples. This is book 2 in the series of 5 books. Further information can be found on the website https: //mcrfocus.com
The strange but true tale of two men who set out to walk the Appalachian Trail, America's most heralded footpath, extending over two thousand miles from Maine to Georgia. Along the way, they find uncouth beauty, collide head-on with America's churning technocracy and battle through a faith in the ruins. 'Road' is a story filled with adventure, absurdity, humor and gnarly soul-searching"--Cover.
This collection of essays offers a unique contribution to the study of violence and justice in a late medieval and early modern Italy by combining a multivocal perspective with a case-study focus on the city-state of Bologna. Drawing on the city’s singularly rich archival resources, the authors explore various facets of violence—ranging from the interpersonal to the less frequently studied typologies of blasphemy, rape, political rebellion, and student brawls—and set the institutions of the police and law courts into their socio-political and cultural contexts. They also apply a broad variety of quantitative and qualitative approaches—processual, microhistorical, legalism, comparative and criminological—to their assessments of the procedures and practices of criminal justice and the experiences of violent behavior, providing both short-term, in-depth analyses of specific events and over-arching reviews of long-term trends. Bologna itself, with its renowned university, economic innovations, strategic importance as a commercial and cultural crossroads, its political volatility and experiments with diverse constitutional structures, provides a rewarding laboratory for analyzing changes and continuities in late medieval and early modern violence and justice. From these studies emerges a narrative that challenges the traditional portrayal of those periods as eras when brutality and rage were “normal” in social relations and criminal justice was characterized mainly by punitive strategies of torture and repression.
The book "21st Century Simultaneous Equations" develops a standard method (sered) to solve simultaneous equations, whether linear or non-linear, algebraic or trigonometric. It also includes the development of 3D trigonometry, determinants, matrices and vectors. The book provides solutions by spreadsheet and contains many worked examples. This is book 3 in the series of 5 books. Further information can be found on the website https: mcrfocus.com
The Foundation of Mathematics" builds arithmetic and geometry from just three axioms and one postulate. This foundation is used to construct the elements of algebra, coordinate geometry, trigonometry, number theory, probability theory, metrology (units and conversion factors) plus some biographical sketches. Coverage includes introductions to determinants, matrices, sequences and series, extraction of roots, transcendental numbers, inequalities and logarithms. The text does not enter into the extensive fields of statistics, complex variable, abstract algebra or the differential/integral calculus. Many worked examples. This is book 1 in the series of 5 books. Further information can be found on the website https: //www.mcrfocus.com
Utterly uncompromising both on and off the pitch for Tottenham Hotspur, Chelsea and Rangers, Graham Roberts had a talent which was the envy of many. Now he tells the full story of his incredible career and also of the high profile court cases which he took on and won.
Colin describes this collection as his walk through life, thus far, and what a pleasure it is to join him, thus far. Reading these poems we share in experience from his start as a Guiseley lad, through dramas in his life and in 21st century Britain, to his observations as both a local historian and a lover of the natural world. We are permitted to join this self-effacing and sensitive man when his defences are down and he clearly needs to exorcise his innermost thoughts and doubts and frustrations. But turn the page, the mood changes and his quirky humour re-surfaces. His footnotes are an invaluable eye-opener when he gives his reasons for writing a particular poem, the background or location, source of inspiration, and examples of his very own stanza rhyming - as in the Ochre Chase. What an intriguing tale he tells of boyhood mischief in Yorkshire, unscrewing the nose cones off stored bombs on a pram factory cricket field, of all places, in confessions of a Twelve year Old Traitor! And how moving in Builded Here, an epitaph to the industrial Revolution and past lives in the West Riding. The black humour is sharp in Beachy Head - with the ghost who only needed one shoe. He expresses a view about high-profile victim Dr David Kelly, the casualties of war, and rejects of society. His sense of fun and his wonder of nature is brilliantly evoked in the slow worm's 'Slow striptease' Rooks flirting' 'abseiling spiders' worried curlews' and storm cocks busking at the heavens'.
The book explores the claim that English local government exists in one of the most centralised relationships with national government. Such a position fundamentally undermines any notion of local self-government and makes the term ‘government’ in local government a misnomer. The book will examine how the erosion of the autonomy, powers, roles, functions and responsibilities of English local government came about, the arguments of centralisers and localisers to support their view of the constitutional status of local government, and its overall role in the government of England. The book offers an antidote to the onward march of centralisation by offering a new vision of local government which emphasises both ‘local’ and ‘government’.
Concise development of the main topics of the differential and integral calculus using first principles. It includes an introduction to mathematical analysis, plus multiple integrals, partial differentiation, vector calculus, differential equations and applications of the calculus. Many worked examples. This is book 4 in the series of 5 books. Further information can be found on the website https: //www.mcrfocus.co
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