Comparative Justice: Off the Beaten Path

Author(s): Victoria Time, W. Timothy Austin

Comparative Criminal Justice Systems encourages critical thinking by introducing students and policy makers to different ways of organizing the administration of justice in the different parts of the world without ethnocentric assumptions that ‘our’ ways must be superior to all others.Comparative Ju...

Juvenile Justice: Connecting Theory to Practice

Author(s): Megan Kurlychek

Studying and understanding human behavior in society and societal reaction to human behavior is not enough.Juvenile Justice: Connecting Theory to Practice looks closely at some of society’s most vulnerable members – troubled youth. This text draws concrete connections between theory and practice, tw...

A Guide to Writing Quality Police Reports

Author(s): Ronald Connolly, Christopher James Utecht

Skilled written communication is the foundation of effective service to communities. Police report writing has a long history in police education.A Guide to Writing Quality Police Reports presents the fundamentals of police report writing and features new elements based on recent events incorporated...

Cyber-Warfare: State and Local Governments Caught in the Crosshairs

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Cybersecurity is a high priority in today’s world.Cyber-Warfare: State and Local Governments Caught in the Crosshairs addresses highly important and current topics in a plain English, nontechnical manner. This text bridges the gap between what the state and local government executive needs to know i...

Listening Across Lives

Author(s): Molly Stoltz, Karen Sodowsky, Carl M Cates

Listening Skills Contribute to Successful Careers and Relationships Written by a myriad of experts, including contributors to the International Journal of Listening and other academic journals, Listening Across Lives features a unique contextual approach to the study of listening.  Each of Listen...

The Tourism System

Author(s): Alastair M Morrison, Xinran You Lehto, Jonathon Day

Tourism System: a set of interrelated parts working together toward shared outcomes and goals. The Tourism System, under the guidance of a new authoring team, have made this new 8th edition more global in scope through examples, cases, and approximately 120 Quick Trips.   The Tourism System: ...

Conflict Between Persons: The Origins of Leadership

Author(s): Ronald C. Arnett, Leeanne McManus, Amanda McKendree

We live in an age of ethical disputes, making conflict inevitable as we meet others with contrasting ethical positions and contrary communicative expectations. An ethical position held with conviction frequently generates conflict when one encounters another with a differing ethical standpoint embra...

Ethnowise: Embracing Culture Shock to Build Resilience, Responsiveness, & Connection

Author(s): MICHAEL KIMBALL

Negative intercultural encounters have diverse causes – fear, anger, ignorance, actual danger in some cases. But many simply boil down to culture shock – a knee-jerk reaction to the culturally unfamiliar. The signs of culture shock are everywhere these days—on social media, between nations and gr...

Introduction to Sport Management: Theory and Practice

Author(s): Mark Nagel, Richard Southall

Introduction to Sport Management: Theory and Practice bridges the theoretical-practical divide by providing students with practical perspectives on today’s sport management issues, based upon sound theoretical frameworks. Introduction to Sport Management introduces readers to the complex nature of t...

Human Resources Leadership in Hospitality

Author(s): John Walker

There is a distinct difference between managing a human resources team and leading it, and those in leadership positions must evolve with the industry.Human Resources Leadership in Hospitality addresses one of the biggest challenges that hospitality managers across the board express: finding and ret...