Tag: Officers

Free Download Serena Franchi, "Doing Shifts: The Role of Correctional Officers "
English | ISBN: 303144552X | 2024 | 198 pages | EPUB, PDF | 466 KB + 2 MB
This book offers an incisive account of correctional officers’ daily practices, their role and how they represent themselves in relation to the prison, and by extension, the state. Drawing on ethnographic research undertaken in an Italian prison, Doing Shifts explores how correctional officers’ perspectives and shared views reproduce and reinforce working behaviors with specific administrative and bureaucratic features. It explores how global penal trends are enacted in a local context and how the prison systems plays into our understanding of institutional and administrative power. It advances the discussion on organizational and institutional power through the lens of social control and street-level bureaucracy literature. It also explores gender variations in the discretional use of correctional officers’ power. This book has a cross-disciplinary appeal for criminologists, sociologists, anthropologists, and political scientists and to policy-makers.

Free Download Jonathan Merritt, "Law for Student Police Officers "
English | ISBN: 1844452506 | 2009 | 368 pages | EPUB | 1188 KB
This book provides a comprehensive examination of all the required areas of criminal and policing law, with explicit links to the National Occupational Standards. Chapters open with clear objectives and include regular revision notes, knowledge check questions and answers and practical activities.

Free Download Prison Officers: International Perspectives on Prison Work
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031410602 | 542 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 6 MB
This edited collection brings together academics, lawyers, civil servants, and researchers working in the human rights NGO sector, to explore the work and role of prison officers around the world. Each chapter offers a distinctive perspective on the work of prison officers within localised socio-economic and criminal justice contexts, to provide a unique overview and insight into the realities and complexities of the role through accessible scholarly interpretations of their work. The aim of the book is to advance knowledge and understanding of the crucial role that prison officers occupy within carceral systems. The collection has widespread applicability with relevance beyond academia into criminal justice practice and policy internationally.

Free Download Dick Kirby, "Death on the Beat: Police Officers Killed in the Line of Duty"
English | ISBN: 1848846207 | 2014 | 208 pages | EPUB | 19 MB
Little shocks the British public more than learning of the killing of policemen and women whilst tackling criminals. Even the vast majority of hardened crooks baulk at what is seen as the ultimate crime – the mandatory death sentence in days of capital punishment reflected public disgust at such a crime, particularly when the police were largely unarmed.

Free Download John Morrow, "British Flag Officers in the French Wars, 1793-1815: Admirals’ Lives"
English | ISBN: 1474277675 | 2018 | 352 pages | PDF | 7 MB
During the French wars (1793-1801, 1803-1815) the system of promotion to flag rank in the Royal Navy produced a cadre of admirals numbering more than two hundred at its peak. These officers competed vigorously for a limited number of appointments at sea and for the high honours and significant financial rewards open to successful naval commanders. When on active service admirals faced formidable challenges arising from the Navy’s critical role in a global conflict, from the extraordinary scope of their responsibilities, and from intense political, public and professional expectations. While a great deal has been written about admirals’ roles in naval operations, other aspects of their professional lives have not been explored systematically.

Free Download Edward S. Farrow, "Mountain Scouting: A Handbook for Officers and Soldiers on the Frontiers"
English | ISBN: 0806132094 | 2000 | 292 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
After serving in the Indian Wars, Edward S. Farrow set out to provide a manual for soldiers and officers bound for frontier army duty. "I have endeavored to present," Farrow writes, "such knowledge as the young officer often acquires by bitter experience and under the most unfavorable circumstances."