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Book Creating Defensible Space

Download or read book Creating Defensible Space written by Oscar Newman and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The appearance of Oscar Newman's Defensible SpaceÓ in 1972 signaled the establishment of a new criminological subdiscipline that has come to be called by many Crime Prevention Through Environmental DesignÓ or CPTED. Over the years, Mr. Newman's ideas have proven to have significant merit in helping the Nation's citizens reclaim their urban neighborhoods. This casebook will assist public & private organizations with the implementation of Defensible Space theory. This monograph draws directly from Mr. Newman's experience as consulting architect. Illustrations.

Book Defensible Policies

    Book Details:
  • Author : Raymond W. Beach, Jr.
  • Publisher : CRC Press
  • Release : 2005-05-30
  • ISBN : 9780972713436
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Defensible Policies written by Raymond W. Beach, Jr. and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2005-05-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on an FBI study involving face-to-face interviews with individuals who had murdered law enforcement officers, this book provides a guide to identifying where new police protection policies are needed and how to develop, implement, and defend them. Topics include writing and reviewing draft policies, training and enforcement, ongoing evaluation, and steps to take if an action based on policy comes under litigation. The book contains discussion questions in each chapter, case studies, and a discussion of expert witnesses and court testimony.

Book Defensible Policies

Download or read book Defensible Policies written by Charles Drescher and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text outlines the development, writing, and implementation of policies for law enforcement agencies. Chapter 1 discusses the key concepts of policy foundation laid by the United States Constitution, the impact of the civil rights statute, the role of law enforcement in society, and the role of policies in a law enforcement agency. Chapter 2 presents the policy implications of three cases affecting policy: Monell v. Dept. of Social Services of the City of New York, Canton v. Harris, and Tennessee v. Garner. Chapter 3 discusses proactive reviews of current agency operations, specific areas where policies are needed, steps for identifying additional areas needing policies, and the importance of documentation. Chapter 4 outlines the development process: compiling a list of preliminary needs, available resources for policy development, and putting together a policy development plan. Chapter 5, Developing Policy, focuses on the agenda for the initial meeting of the resource group, assigning and conducting research on policy issues, makings decisions based on research, the individual components required of all policies, and identifying the additional components of a particular policy should have. Chapters 6 and 7 highlight the writing and review of a draft policy. Key concepts are writing for the correct target audience, possible formats, and the initial review. Chapters 8 and 9 focus on the training and enforcement of policy with emphasis on policy certification and re-certification. Chapter 10 discusses feedback, the role of an Agency Risk Manager, and acting on policy feedback. Chapter 11 presents key concepts of litigation: the importance of documentation, a general plan to defend against lawsuits, planning measures to take when a lawsuit is likely, steps to take upon being notified of a lawsuit, and what to do once a case is over.

Book Defensible Policies

    Book Details:
  • Author : Raymond W. Beach
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9780367805005
  • Pages : 163 pages

Download or read book Defensible Policies written by Raymond W. Beach and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Group Homes

    Book Details:
  • Author : Brian J. Connolly
  • Publisher : American Bar Association
  • Release : 2014
  • ISBN : 9781627221658
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Group Homes written by Brian J. Connolly and published by American Bar Association. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Group Homes fills a critical gap in the literature by analyzing and applying federal antidiscrimination law to the practical problems of planning for and regulating group homes for people with disabilities.

Book Legally Defensible Vs  Organizationally Sensible

Download or read book Legally Defensible Vs Organizationally Sensible written by Mark V. Roehling and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Writing Defensible Policies for Elementary Schools

Download or read book Writing Defensible Policies for Elementary Schools written by Carroll Anne Baldwin and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Writing Useful  Accessible  and Legally Defensible Psychoeducational Reports

Download or read book Writing Useful Accessible and Legally Defensible Psychoeducational Reports written by Michael Hass and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-04-07 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This book focuses on how to write a psychological report that is first and foremost helpful to consumers, while also being technically and legally defensible. Like the reports the authors describe, the book is carefully organized, beautifully written, and accessible to practitioners as well as graduate students. It is a brilliant accomplishment that should be required reading for every school psychologist.” —Brent Duncan, PhD, Professor of Psychology, Humboldt State University, Arcata CA PRACTICAL GUIDANCE ON WRITING USEFUL, ACCESSIBLE, AND LEGALLY DEFENSIBLE PSYCHOEDUCATIONAL REPORTS From clearly identifying reasons for referral to making recommendations based on assessment results, Writing Useful, Accessible, and Legally Defensible Psychoeducational Reports offers practical guidance for creating reports that enhance the understanding of children and their strengths and challenges in order to better meet their educational and functional needs. The authors offer step-by-step guidelines for developing an assessment plan in a collaborative process with parents, teachers, and other professionals, choosing appropriate assessment and data collection tools, gathering relevant information, and providing clear and feasible individualized recommendations that directly respond to referral concerns in a format easily understood by parents and teachers. Ideal for graduate students in school psychology, school psychologists, and other professionals in related fields who work with children in a school setting, Writing Useful, Accessible, and Legally Defensible Psychoeducational Reports: Provides specific suggestions for increasing the usefulness and accessibility of reports including readability, positive phrasing, and vocabulary Illustrates how to develop well-formed questions and how to choose assessment tools to answer referral questions Reviews the legal mandates of report writing and discusses what must be included Demonstrates how to accurately document and integrate data from record review, interviews, observations, and tests Discusses how the use of the referral-based consultative assessment and report writing model can promote more active involvement in collaboration, prevention, and intervention Features numerous real-world cases, helpful checklists, examples of question-driven referral reports, and a model interview protocol

Book Creating Defensible Space

Download or read book Creating Defensible Space written by Oscar Newman and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concern over high crime rates and deteriorating inner-city neighborhoods has reawakened interest in Defensible Space, architect Oscar Newman's groundbreaking physical design approach to crime prevention. Creating Defensible Space, written by Newman and recently published by HUD's Office of Policy Development and Research, draws on Newman's experience carrying out and analyzing "Defensible Space" projects since the early 1970s. This publication provides an expert review of the "Defensible Space" concept and three step-by-step Case Studies to help communities redesign neighborhoods for greater safety.

Book Defensible Space on the Move

Download or read book Defensible Space on the Move written by Loretta Lees and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-02-02 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both theoretically informed and empirically rich, Defensible Space makes an important conceptual contribution to policy mobilities thinking, to policy and practice, and also to practitioners handling of complex spatial concepts. Critically examines the geographical concept Defensible Space, which has been influential in designing out crime to date, and has been applied to housing estates in the UK, North America, Europe and beyond Evaluates the movement/mobility/mobilisation of defensible space from the US to the UK and into English housing policy and practice Explores the multiple ways the concept of defensible space was interpreted and implemented, as it circulated from national to local level and within particular English housing estates Critiquing and pushing forwards work on policy mobilities, the authors illustrate for the first time how transfer mechanisms worked at both a policy and practitioner level Drawing on extensive archival research, oral histories and in-depth interviews, this important book reveals defensible space to be ambiguous, uncertain in nature, neither proven or disproven scientifically

Book Operational Policy Making for Professional Security

Download or read book Operational Policy Making for Professional Security written by Allen Sondej and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 2015-09-09 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Operational Policy Making for Professional Security: Practical Policy Skills for the Public and Private Sector is a clear, concise, and practical resource for drafting effective, legally defensible security policies. Presented in a clear, step-by-step style that can be tailored to fit the smallest organization to the largest, the book offers the strategies needed for reducing risk through solid policy construction. It is the first book available that provides a step-by-step guide to basic security policy construction, along with helpful hints on how to draft a document that conveys exactly what is intended. The book explores common policy creation pitfalls and how to avoid them, outlining proven methods for implementing and disseminating effective policies throughout any organization. Discussing the core security and safety policies that no organization should operate without, the book covers common types of policies, along with the pros and cons of different policy-making methodologies. It is a one-stop reference on functional security policy-making for organizational leaders. User-friendly resource that guides readers through the entire policy-making process Explores real-world solutions to common security policy issues Outlines legally defensible policy suggestions Provides analytical tools for assessing policies to ensure they are effective and lawful Illustrates key concepts with case studies, and offers an appendix with samples that support concepts explored in each chapter

Book Color Conscious

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kwame Anthony Appiah
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 1998-03-16
  • ISBN : 1400822092
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book Color Conscious written by Kwame Anthony Appiah and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1998-03-16 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In America today, the problem of achieving racial justice--whether through "color-blind" policies or through affirmative action--provokes more noisy name-calling than fruitful deliberation. In Color Conscious, K. Anthony Appiah and Amy Gutmann, two eminent moral and political philosophers, seek to clear the ground for a discussion of the place of race in politics and in our moral lives. Provocative and insightful, their essays tackle different aspects of the question of racial justice; together they provide a compelling response to our nation's most vexing problem. Appiah begins by establishing the problematic nature of the idea of race. He draws on the scholarly consensus that "race" has no legitimate biological basis, exploring the history of its invention as a social category and showing how the concept has been used to explain differences among groups of people by mistakenly attributing various "essences" to them. Appiah argues that, while people of color may still need to gather together, in the face of racism, under the banner of race, they need also to balance carefully the calls of race against the many other dimensions of individual identity; and he suggests, finally, what this might mean for our political life. Gutmann examines alternative political responses to racial injustice. She argues that American politics cannot be fair to all citizens by being color blind because American society is not color blind. Fairness, not color blindness, is a fundamental principle of justice. Whether policies should be color-conscious, class conscious, or both in particular situations, depends on an open-minded assessment of their fairness. Exploring timely issues of university admissions, corporate hiring, and political representation, Gutmann develops a moral perspective that supports a commitment to constitutional democracy. Appiah and Gutmann write candidly and carefully, presenting many-faceted interpretations of a host of controversial issues. Rather than supplying simple answers to complex questions, they offer to citizens of every color principled starting points for the ongoing national discussions about race.

Book Practical Guide to Inmate Discipline

Download or read book Practical Guide to Inmate Discipline written by William C. Collins and published by Civic Research Institute, Inc.. This book was released on 1997 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Philosophy of Daniel Dennett

Download or read book The Philosophy of Daniel Dennett written by Bryce Huebner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-26 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel C. Dennett began publishing innovative philosophical research in the late 1960s, and he has continued to do so for the past 45 years. He has addressed questions about the nature of mind and consciousness, the possibility of freedom, and the significance of evolution to addressing questions across the cognitive, biological, and social sciences. The Philosophy of Daniel Dennett explores the intellectual significance of this research project, bringing together the insights of eleven researchers who are currently working on themes that are relevant to Dennett's philosophical worldview. Some of the contributions address interpretive issues within Dennett's corpus, and aim to bring increased clarity to Dennett's project. Others report novel empirical data, at least in part, in the service of fleshing out Dennett's claims. Some of them provide a fresh take on a Dennettian theme, and others extend his views in novel directions. Like Dennett's own work, these papers draw on a wide range of different methodologies, from appeals to intuition pumps and scientific data, to turning the knobs on a theory to see what it can do. But each of them aims to be readable, and approachable. And as a whole, the volume provides a critical and constructive overview of Dennett's stance-based methodology, as well as explorations of his claims about metal representation, consciousness, cultural evolution, and religion.

Book Ethics and Military Strategy in the 21st Century

Download or read book Ethics and Military Strategy in the 21st Century written by George R. Lucas, Jr. and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-10 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the importance of "military ethics" in the formulation and conduct of contemporary military strategy. Clausewitz’s original analysis of war relegated ethics to the side-lines in favor of political realism, interpreting the proper use of military power solely to further the political goals of the state, whatever those may be. This book demonstrates how such single-minded focus no longer suffices to secure the interest of states, for whom the nature of warfare has evolved to favor strategies that hold combatants themselves to the highest moral and professional standards in their conduct of hostilities. Waging war has thus been transformed in a manner that moves beyond Clausewitz’s original conception, rendering political success wholly dependent upon the cultivation and exercise of discerning moral judgment by strategists and combatants in the field. This book utilizes a number of perspectives and case studies to demonstrate how ethics now plays a central role in strategy in modern armed conflict. This book will be of much interest to students of just war, ethics, military strategy, and international relations.

Book Theoretical Foundations of Homeland Security

Download or read book Theoretical Foundations of Homeland Security written by James D. Ramsay and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-20 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new textbook outlines the main theories and concepts from a variety of disciplines that support homeland security operations, structures and strategies. Following the terrorist attacks of September 11th, "homeland security" (HLS) grew in importance within the U.S. government (and around the world) and matured from a concept discussed among a relatively small cadre of policymakers and strategic thinkers to a broadly discussed issue in Congress and society with a growing academic presence. Yet the ability to discern a theory of homeland security that would support overall security strategy has been more elusive to both scholars and policymakers. This textbook aims to elucidate a grand theory of homeland security by leveraging the theoretical underpinnings of the disciplines that comprise the strategies, operations and structures of the HLS enterprise. In this way, each chapter contributes to a grand theory of homeland security as it explores a different discipline that influences or supports a domain of the homeland security enterprise. These chapters cover intelligence systems, terrorism origins and ideologies, emergency management, environmental and human security, cybersecurity policy, crime and security, global governance, risk management, public health, law and policy, technology, interagency collaboration and the sociology of security. This book will be essential reading for students of Homeland Security and Emergency Response, and recommended reading for students of terrorism, intelligence, cybersecurity, risk management and national security.

Book Making Western Europe Defensible

Download or read book Making Western Europe Defensible written by Arthur L Moore and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: