by
Kennedy, Leslie W.
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364.01 22
Publication Date
2009
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Work on risk has developed into a large industry applied in a variety of ways and locations. Here we locate crime research in the overall interdisciplinary study of risk and begin to address how risk can be used as a key element in our understanding of crime origins, evolution and prevention. We investigate how risk has been dealt with in crime theories and the usefulness of this concept in connecting crime perspectives together; we consider the ways in which risk is embedded in the evolution of crime; and how we might use the concept of risk to prevent crime and victimization. Using the crimi.
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Aven, T. (Terje)
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658.155 AVE
Publication Date
2010
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Waldron, Dr. Vincent R.
Call Number
650.13
Publication Date
2010
Summary
This book focuses on the types of risky interactions that threaten identities, relationships, and sometimes careers, including voicing dissent, repairing broken relationships, managing privacy, responding to harassment, offering criticism, and communicating emotion. Each chapter is grounded in real-life organizational scenarios, includes recent research, applies a standard theoretical framework, and illustrates a full range of communicative tactics and discourse practices. Throughout the book, authors Vincent R. Waldron and Jeffrey W. Kassing provide examples to spur thinking, raise questions.
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Van Brunschot, Erin Gibbs.
Call Number
363.10973 22
Publication Date
2008
Summary
Van Brunschot and Kennedy capture the interdisciplinary realities facing public security today, and the means in which a risk balance is evident in the secruity decisions made to deal with crime, terrorist activities and environmental disasters.
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