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"Offering guidelines and strategies for law enforcement on how to implement human rights policing in practice, this book relies on ethnographic research conducted with various police departments to apply human rights to policing. The book helps the reader (1) understand human rights and its history as well as the history of policing, (2) analyze the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, (3) look at the relationship between the use of power and human rights, (4) learn about the social construction of deviance, including the creation of folk devils and moral panics, (5) discover the meaning of human agency and how to use it in police work, (6) uncover the structural causes of crime, (7) place crime within the context of culture, and (8) consider critiques of the criminal justice system, including the issue of police use of force. The book includes numerous passages written by police officers discussing human rights within the context of their experience. This book sets the standard for new models of law enforcement as the profession pushes toward a future that demands change. Training in human rights policing helps law enforcement safely and humanely address the many challenges they face while providing service to communities. As US society questions an era of mass incarceration, an inhumane prison-industrial complex, police abuse of power, human rights violations, and unnecessary arrests of millions of people for minor offenses, the process of change begins with altering police behavior. This book helps make this change possible. This groundbreaking book will appeal to professionals at all levels of law enforcement. It will also be useful in programs offering degrees and/or certificates to students of criminal justice, including potential or current police officers and other criminal justice professionals who can use the lessons developed throughout the book to apply human rights to everyday policing situations"--

The introduction and use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in the process of research is extending beyond research management into research practice itself. This extension of the use of ICT in research is being termed as e-research. The characteristics of e-research are seen as the combination of three interrelated strands, which are: the increased computerization of the research process; research organized more predominantly in the form of distributed networks of researchers, and a strong emphasis on visualization. E-research has become established in the natural sciences but the development of e-research in relation to social sciences is variable and less pervasive. The richness of the social sciences and their variety of practices and engagement in diverse fields of study mean that e-research as utilized in the natural sciences cannot be easily migrated into the social sciences. This paper explores the development of e-research for the social sciences. The paper is based on an ESRC funded e-social science demonstrator project in which social scientists sought to shape the use of Grid ICT technologies in the research process. The project is called: 'Collaborative Analysis of Offenders' Personal and Area-based Social Exclusion': it addresses social exclusion in relation to how individual and neighbourhood effects account for geographical variations of crime patterns and explores the opportunities and challenges offered by e-research to address the research problem. The paper suggests that if e-research is driven from the needs of social research then it can enhance the practice of social science.

This cutting-edge book facilitates debate amongst scholars in law, humanities and social sciences, where comparative methodology is far less well anchored in most areas compared to other research methods. It posits that these are disciplines in which comparative research is not simply a bonus, but is of the essence.

Science and Social Work is a critical appraisal of the strategies and methods that have been used to develop knowledge for social work practice. It identifies the major ways in which social workers have drawn upon scientific knowledge and techniques, placing each one in historical perspective by explaining the nature of the problems it was designed to solve and the philosophical, political, and practical questions it raised. Kirk and Reid offer a balanced appraisal of the promises, accomplishments, and limits of such approaches, demonstrating how the fruits of scientific research can aid clini