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UNINA9910963661203321 |
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Lasley James R |
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Los Angeles Police Department meltdown : the fall of the professional-reform model of policing / / James Lasley |
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Boca Raton, Fla., : CRC Press, c2012 |
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1-4665-7587-5 |
0-429-25257-9 |
1-4398-9930-4 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xix, 271 p. ) : ill |
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Advances in police theory and practice series ; ; 14 |
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Police administration - California - Los Angeles |
Police - California - Los Angeles |
Police corruption - California - Los Angeles |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Parker's thin blue line: the professional/reform model of policing (PRM) -- The study: a qualitative analysis of LAPD's organizational dying declarations -- Assessing the meltdown -- The Rodney King incident -- Politicians, special interest groups, and community influences -- Hiring, promotions & affirmative action -- Management and administration -- Quantitative analyses -- Conclusions and policy recommendations. |
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This volume presents a chronicle of the LAPD's fall from grace following the beating of Rodney King and the Los Angeles Riots of 1992. It provides information from a special inside study performed by the author under authority of the LAPD Chief of Police to investigate why the LAPD was disintegrating as an organization. |
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UNINA9910974760903321 |
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Autore |
Lane Thomas. |
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Lithuania : stepping westward / / Thomas Lane |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge : , : Taylor & Francis Group, , 2001 |
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1-134-49934-5 |
1-134-49935-3 |
1-280-07481-7 |
9786610074815 |
0-203-40274-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (287 p.) |
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Postcommunist states and nations |
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Lithuania History |
Lithuania Politics and government |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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First published 2001 by Routledge. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Chronology; Preface; Introduction; Map of Lithuania; Section I: Revival and Repression 1914-1985; 1 Independent Lithuania between the Wars; 2 Sovietization 1940-1985; Section II: Independence and the Politics of Transition1985-1999; 3 The Achievement of Independence 1985-1991; 4 Government and Politics in Independent Lithuania; 5 The Lithuanian Economy after Independence; 6 Lithuania's Foreign and National Security Policy; Bibliography; Index |
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Lithuania restored her independence, after half a century of Soviet occupation, in the immediate aftermath of the failed Moscow coup in August 1991. As the multi-national Soviet state disintegrated, Lithuania evolved, without war or violence, from a communist state and a command economy to a liberal democracy, a free market, and a society guaranteeing human and minority rights. Lithuania therefore offers a notable example of peaceful transition, all the more impressive in the light of the bloody conflict elsewhere in the former Soviet Union of Yugoslavia, where the aspirations to independence |
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UNISA996694286203316 |
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Autore |
Bacon |
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Sylva Sylvarum: Or A Natural History, In Ten Centuries : Together With The History Natural And Experimental Of Life And Death, Or Of The Prolongation Of Life. Whereunto Is Added Articles Of Enquiry, Touching Metals And Minerals. And The New Atlantis. With An Alphabetical Table Of The Principal Things Contained In The Ten Centuries. Written By The Right Honorable Francis Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Albans. Published After The Authors Death, By William Rawley, D.D. His Lordships Chaplain: And Afterwards One Of His Majesties Chaplains. Now Is Added An Epitomy Of His Lordships Novum Organum Being Translated For The Clearer Understanding Of This His Natural History. Never Before Published In English |
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Materiale a stampa |
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