Cutting out waste, fraud, mismanagement, overlap, and duplication : exploring ideas for improving federal organization, management and spending : hearing before the Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress, first session, July 16, 2003

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910689629903321
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (iii, 115 p.) : ill
• Soggetti: Waste in government spending - United States - Prevention; Government employees' health insurance - United States; Government employees' life insurance - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

The practice of court interpreting / / Alicia Betsy Edwards

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910963221303321
• Autore: Edwards Alicia Betsy
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., c1995
• ISBN: 1-283-17456-1; 9786613174567; 90-272-8366-4
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (206 p.)
• Collana: Benjamins translation library ; ; v. 6
• Disciplina: 347.73/16; 347.30716
• Soggetti: Court interpreting and translating - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: THE PRACTICE OF COURT INTERPRETING; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; About the Author; Table of contents; To ; the Reader; Acknowledgements; CHAPTER 1. How to Become a Court Interpreter and a Brief Sketch of the Work; CHAPTER 2. Case Preparation - A Context and Documents; CHAPTER 3. Case Preparation - B Terminology, Reference Books and Dictionaries; CHAPTER 4. In the Courtroom Ethics, Roles, Procedures; CHAPTER 5. The Rich Potential for Error; CHAPTER 6. Translation of Legal Documents; CHAPTER 7. Tape Transcription and Translation; CHAPTER 8. The Interpreter as Expert WitnessCHAPTER 9. Continuing Your Education and Enjoying It; Bibliography; APPENDIX 1. The Court Interpreters Act of 1978; APPENDIX 2. Seltzer & Torres Cartagena v. Foley et al., 1980; APPENDIX 3. The Judicial Improvement and Access to Justice Act; Court Interpreters Amendments Act (1988); APPENDIX 4. Suggested Interpreter Oaths; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The Practice of Court Interpreting describes how the interpreter works in the court room and other legal settings. The book discusses what is involved in court interpreting: case preparation, ethics and procedure, the creation and avoidance of error, translation and legal documents, tape transcription and translation, testifying as an expert witness, and continuing education outside the classroom.The purpose of the book is to provide the interpreter with a map of the terrain and to suggest methods that will help insure an accurate result. The author, herself a practicing court int

Police Code of Silence in Times of Change

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910558485603321
• Autore: Kutnjak Ivković Sanja
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham, : Springer International Publishing AG, 2022
• ISBN: 3-030-96844-8
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (129 p.)
• Collana: SpringerBriefs in Criminology
• Classificazione: SOC004000
• Altri autori (Persone): MaskályJon; KuleAhmet; HaberfeldMaria (Maki)
• Soggetti: Crime & criminology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- About the Authors -- Chapter 1: The Pressing Need to Study the Code of Silence -- Introduction -- The Code of Silence -- The Code of Silence and the Theory of Police Integrity -- Measuring the Code of Silence -- Police Officer Sample -- Overview of the Book -- References -- Chapter 2: The Code of Silence and the Theory of Police Integrity -- Introduction -- Studying the Code of Silence -- Correlates of the Code of Silence -- Organizational Correlates -- Individual Correlates -- This Chapter -- Methodology -- Sample -- Measures -- Dependent Variable -- Organizational Independent Variables -- Individual Independent Variables -- Analytic Strategy -- Results -- Contours of the Code of Silence -- The Effects of Police Integrity Measures on the Code of Silence -- Police Corruption -- Use of Excessive Force -- Organizational Deviance -- Interpersonal Deviance -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: The Code of Silence and Disciplinary Fairness -- Introduction -- Discipline Fairness and Police Integrity -- Theoretical Approaches -- Empirical Measurement of Discipline Fairness -- Studying the Relationship Between the Code of Silence and Perceptions of Disciplinary Fairness -- This Chapter -- Methodology -- ; Sample -- Measures -- Dependent Variable -- Organizational Independent Variables -- Disciplinary Fairness Independent Variables -- Individual Independent Variables -- Analytic Strategy -- Results -- The Effects of Discipline Fairness on the Code of Silence -- The Effects of Discipline Fairness and Police Integrity Measures on the Code of Silence -- Police Corruption -- Use of Excessive Force -- Organizational Deviance -- Interpersonal Deviance -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: The Code of Silence and Organizational Justice -- Introduction -- Organizational Justice.; Effects of Organizational Justice on Police Attitudes and Behavior -- Organizational Justice and the Code of Silence -- This Chapter -- Methodology -- Sample -- Measures -- Dependent Variable -- Organizational Independent Variables -- Organizational Justice Independent Variables -- Individual Independent Variables -- Analytic Strategy -- Results -- The Effects of Organizational Justice on the Code of Silence -- The Effects of Organizational Justice and Police Integrity on the Code of Silence -- Police Corruption -- Use of Excessive Force -- Organizational Deviance -- Interpersonal Deviance -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: The Code of Silence and Self-Legitimacy -- Introduction -- Self-Legitimacy -- Effects of Self-Legitimacy on Police Attitudes and Behavior -- Self-Legitimacy and the Code of Silence -- This Chapter -- Methodology -- Sample -- Measures -- Dependent Variable -- Organizational Independent Variables -- Self-Legitimacy Independent Variables -- Analytic Strategy -- Results -- The Effects of Self-Legitimacy on the Code of Silence -- The Effects of Self-Legitimacy and Police Integrity on to the Code of Silence -- Police Corruption -- Use of Excessive Force -- Organizational Deviance -- Interpersonal Deviance -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: Lessons Learned About the Code of Silence -- Introduction -- Disciplinary Fairness and Organizational Justice -- Organizational Justice and Self-Legitimacy -- Disciplinary Fairness and Self-Legitimacy -- This Chapter -- Methodology -- Sample -- Measures -- Dependent Variable -- Organizational Independent Variables -- Disciplinary Fairness Independent Variables -- Organizational Justice Independent Variables -- Self-Legitimacy Independent Variables -- Individual Independent Variables -- Analytic Strategy -- Results.; The Effects of Police Integrity, Distributive Fairness, Organizational Justice, and Self-Legitimacy on the Code of Silence -- Police Corruption -- Use of Excessive Force -- Organizational Deviance -- Interpersonal Deviance -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book explores the contours of the code of silence and provides policy recommendations geared toward creating an environment less conducive for police misconduct. It responds to the recent calls for police reform, in the wake of the perceived illegitimacy of police actions and the protection that the code of silence seems to provide to the police officers who violate the official rules. Using a case study of a medium-sized U.S. police agency, this book employs the lens of police integrity theory to provide empirically grounded explanations of the code of silence. It examines the potential effects of organizational factors and the attitudes of individual police officers on their willingness to adhere to the code of silence in cases of police corruption, the use of excessive force, interpersonal deviance, and ; organizational deviance. The book focuses on the following factors that could influence the police code of silence in the times of change: The impact of organizational rule dissemination, discipline, and disciplinary fairness on the scope of the code of silence The role organizational justice plays in shaping police officer willingness to report misconduct The effect that police officers’ self-legitimacy has on their decisions to adhere to the code The influence of peer culture on individual police officer amenability to maintain the code The relationship between officers’ views of themselves, the organization, and the community on their willingness to report misconduct