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Legal pluralism has often been associated with post-colonial legal developments especially where common law survived alongside tribal and customary laws. Focusing on Shari'a, this book examines the legal policies and experiences of various societies with different traditions of citizenship, secularism and common law.This book was publishe

Rethinking Policing and Justice critically examines the role of policing (both state and non-state forms) in the provision of justice (and injustice). It also shows a variety of theoretical, methodology, and other approaches for the critical evaluation of law enforcement, highlighing different insights into alternative modes o

Innovative Possibilities: Global Policing Research and Practice builds on partnerships between police and academics. It engages researchers and police practitioners to build a bridge between policing research and practice. This book was published as a special issue of Police Practice and Research.

The enclosed papers are the culmination of a project Professor John Crank and Dr. Colleen Kadleck carried out assessing issues facing the police into the early 21st century. This book was published as a special issue of Police Practice and Research.

This collection presents a comprehensive engagement of issues of human rights in an increasingly globalized world. Using a variety of methodologies to engage issues ranging from national court compliance, norm diffusion, and the role of the judiciary in fulfilling human rights to human trafficking, same-sex marriage, and judicial institution bui

This book explores how the EU's competition policy has responded to and shaped globalization of the world economy in the last few decades. With focused contributions on state aid, merger policy, cartels and the international dimensions of competition policy, the contributors examine how the European Commission has dealt with major challenges ari

This special issue of the International Journal of Cultural Policy sets out to address two related questions. Firstly, how can cultural policy address the complexities of creative processes and people? Secondly, to what extent can cultural policy be seen as a 'creative' process and how might such an approach to cultural policy play out in practi

The internet has changed perceptions of privacy, criminality and ownership this book questions whether the underlying legal concepts should also change.This book was published as a special issue of International review of Law Computers and Technology.

In this volume, noted forensic expert Nicholas Petraco helps move toolmark examination from an art to a science. The book first provides an anthology of tried and true methods, procedures, and traditional techniques used by practitioners of this discipline for over a century. It contains rationales and methodologies for casework, discusses new m

This pioneering volume provides a fresh view of police reform as occurring from the bottom up rather than the top down. It is based on special issues of Police Practice and Research and Policing and Society.

The book discusses how women in Ireland and Northern Ireland negotiate their civic and political claims today. Using the concept of political agency, it highlights women's challenge to the masculinist bias in political culture and practices on the island of Ireland.This book was published as a special issue of Irish Political Studies

This is a useful handbook for anyone involved in the current London Market that leads the insurance professional through all aspects of reinsurance practice.

In today's rapidly changing workplace, safety and loss prevention professionals cannot always "go by the book" for the answers to new and unique problems and issues. When there is no tried-and-true solution to a problem, safety and loss prevention professionals must think outside of the box of conventional solutions and develop new and creative

During the five decades since its origin, law and economics has provided an influential framework for addressing a wide array of areas of law ranging from judicial behaviour to contracts. This book will reflect the first-ever forum for law and economics scholars to apply the analysis and methodologies of their field to the subject of wildfire.

Policy making and implementation in natural resource management are often irrational, unpredictable and highly political. Understanding who influences policy at different levels, and how, is crucial to ensure that science is deployed most effectively to have an influence on conservation and natural resource management.

An in-depth examination of all the facets of investigating police-related deaths, this book includes coverage of death scene investigation for reconstruction. It discusses collection of physical evidence, interviews, medical examination of the decedent, psychological factors involving both parties, and litigation of alleged police misconduct. Th

Based on the author's extensive experience in the medical device, aerospace, and manufacturing engineering industries, this book presents a detailed structure for systems thinking that can help to prevent costly device recalls. Based on Dr. W. Edwards Deming's System of Profound Knowledge, this structure can help medical device designers and man

Disasters are the result of complex interactions between social and natural forces, acting at multiple scales from the individual and community to the organisational, national and international level. Effective disaster planning, response and recovery require an understanding of these interacting forces, and the role of power, knowledge and organizations. This book sheds new light on these dynamics, and gives disaster scholars and practitioners new and valuable lessons for management and planning in practice. The authors draw on methods across the social sciences to examine disaster response and recovery as viewed by those in positions of authority and the 'recipients' of operations. These first two sections examine cases from Hurricane Katrina, while the third part compares this to other international disasters to draw out general lessons and practical applications for disaster planning in any context. The authors also offer guidance for shaping institutional structures to better meet the needs of communities and residents.

Written for all members of the investigative team, this book is an in-depth study of the causes of motor vehicle injuries and deaths. It provides a scientific examination of circumstances underlying an incident and allows for a reasoned analysis of injuries. The book studies the nature and extent of injuries sustained during a variety of incident s