Product Description: No Colors is a Warning No community wants to admit it has a gang problem. Yet that denial and the unwillingness to address youth violence as a community problem will have tragic consequences. If your community does not address the crisis, the epidemic of youth violence will erode your city or town with a potential that is both frightening and tragic...read more

Product Description: This is Volume I of a two book drug education and crime prevention program designed specifically for distressed communities with a youth crime problem. Volume II is entitled Making Choices And Facing Consequences: Drugs And Alcohol...read more

Product Description: The rate of breastfeeding in the United States has risen and fallen over time as a result of changing lifestyles and the availability of substitutes for human milk. However, since the 1970s the rates of breastfeeding initiation and duration have increased, in part due to the increasing medical evidence of the significant health benefits both to mothers and children...read more

Product Description: Even before the terrorist attacks of September 2001, concerns had been rising among security experts about the vulnerabilities to attack of computer systems and associated infrastructure. Yet, despite increasing attention from federal and state governments and international organisations, the defence against attacks on these systems has appeared to be generally fragmented and varying widely in effectiveness...read more

Product Description: Quantum field theory was invented to deal simultaneously with special relativity and quantum mechanics, the two greatest discoveries of early twentieth-century physics, but it has become increasingly important to many areas of physics, including quantum hall physics, surface growth, string theory, D-branes and quantum gravity, as well as condensed-matter and high-energy applications and particle-physics...read more

Product Description: Book annotation not available for this title.Title: Focus On Quantum Field TheoryAuthor: Kovras, O. (EDT)Publisher: Nova Science Pub IncPublication Date: 2004/06/30Number of Pages: 244Binding Type: HARDCOVERLibrary of Congress:

Presented in this book are current practices within policing and juvenile justice (focusing on gangs), which utilize the community-policing model. By looking at specific strategies and their efficacy, the authors attempt to combat a major perceived problem with community policing; that the methodology of community policing can be subjective and nebulous, using ill-defined and misinterpreted practices. This book shows what is working for agencies across the country and how these 'best practices' can be employed. Includes a focus on Boston as a model for gang policing strategies, other chapters are set in different regions of the United States.

Product Description: Nationally recognized professionals join Dr. Goldstein and Dr. Huff in this unparalleled presentation of gang intervention strategies and tactics. Covers psychological, contextual, and criminal justice interventionsThe book focuses on both preventive and rehabilitative approaches and special intervention parameters such as cultural sensitivity, public policy issues, and balancing the needs of gang youth with the needs of society...read more

Product Description: UNDERSTANDING STREET GANGS offers a unique and pioneering approach to the street and prison gang dilemma and provides both local and national perspective. This popular book is used by colleges, universities, and academies, and also for advanced officer training throughout the country...read more