Colossal Control Failures

Author : Jack P. Gibbs
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317262220
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colossal Control Failures written by Jack P. Gibbs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating book analyzes 13 control failures in human history, from Robespierre's promotion of the French Revolution, to Hoover's efforts to stop the Great Depression, to the intelligence failures of 9/11. Assessing the causes of 10 additional historical cases, the author's comparative analysis shows how each leadership failure was caused by an expansion of the range of control attempts, their scope, and/or their diversity. A leader's or other actor's attempts to broaden the range of control targets have been most important in causing great human failures. The analysis is timely during an era when war, global warming, and other vexing problems plague our society.

Author : Jack P. Gibbs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781315635507
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Author : Lawrence G. McDonald
Publisher : Crown Currency
ISBN 13 : 0307588351
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Colossal Failure of Common Sense written by Lawrence G. McDonald and published by Crown Currency. This book was released on 2010-10-12 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the biggest questions of the financial crisis has not been answered until now: What happened at Lehman Brothers and why was it allowed to fail, with aftershocks that rocked the global economy? In this news-making, often astonishing book, a former Lehman Brothers Vice President gives us the straight answers—right from the belly of the beast. In A Colossal Failure of Common Sense, Larry McDonald, a Wall Street insider, reveals, the culture and unspoken rules of the game like no book has ever done. The book is couched in the very human story of Larry McDonald’s Horatio Alger-like rise from a Massachusetts “gateway to nowhere” housing project to the New York headquarters of Lehman Brothers, home of one of the world’s toughest trading floors. We get a close-up view of the participants in the Lehman collapse, especially those who saw it coming with a helpless, angry certainty. We meet the Brahmins at the top, whose reckless, pedal-to-the-floor addiction to growth finally demolished the nation’ s oldest investment bank. The Wall Street we encounter here is a ruthless place, where brilliance, arrogance, ambition, greed, capacity for relentless toil, and other human traits combine in a potent mix that sometimes fuels prosperity but occasionally destroys it. The full significance of the dissolution of Lehman Brothers remains to be measured. But this much is certain: it was a devastating blow to America’s—and the world’s—financial system. And it need not have happened. This is the story of why it did.

Author : James J. Chriss
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745680747
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Control written by James J. Chriss and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is social control? How do social controls become part of everyday life? What role does the criminal justice system play in exerting control? Is the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness a form of social control? Do we need more social controls to prevent terrorist atrocities? In this new edition of his popular and engaging introduction, James J. Chriss carefully guides readers through the debates about social control. The book provides a comprehensive guide to historical debates and more recent controversies, examining in detail the criminal justice system, medicine, everyday life, and national security. Assuming no specialist knowledge on the part of readers, Chriss uses a rich range of contemporary examples to illustrate the ways in which social control is exerted and maintained. The updated edition includes new and expanded discussion of the 2011 Tucson shootings, post-9/11 counterterrorism laws in the transition from the Bush to the Obama administrations, the death of bin Laden, racial profiling, housing segregation and white flight, hate crimes, (counter)surveillance and flash mobs, the diagnosis of conditions such as ADHD, and agents of socialization in the areas of work and consumption, religion, the family, and the mass media. This new edition of Social Control: An Introduction will be essential reading for students taking courses in deviance and social control, and will also appeal to those studying criminology, the sociology of law, and medical sociology.

Author : Mathieu Deflem
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119372348
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Handbook of Social Control written by Mathieu Deflem and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-01-11 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Social Control offers a comprehensive review of the concepts of social control in today's environment and focuses on the most relevant theories associated with social control. With contributions from noted experts in the field across 32 chapters, the depth and scope of the Handbook reflects the theoretical and methodological diversity that exists within the study of social control. Chapters explore various topics including: theoretical perspectives; institutions and organizations; law enforcement; criminal justice agencies; punishment and incarceration; surveillance; and global developments. This Handbook explores a variety of issues and themes on social control as being a central theme of criminological reflection. The text clearly demonstrates the rich heritage of the major relevant perspectives of social control and provides an overview of the most important theories and dimensions of social control today. Written for academics, undergraduate, and graduate students in the fields of criminology, criminal justice, and sociology, The Handbook of Social Control is an indispensable resource that explores a contemporary view of the concept of social control.

Author : Sheldon Ekland-Olson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351692291
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science and Sociology written by Sheldon Ekland-Olson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science and Sociology is from beginning to end an exploration of what this implies for the social sciences, and sociology in particular. The authors argue that over the last several decades, sociology has become less a science and more a quest for isolated assessments of situations, whether they come from demographic analyses, survey research, or ethnographic studies. Above all else, this book is an attempt to promote and advance scientific sociology, and we write at length specifying the how and why of this objective. With this objective in mind, the question becomes: What would a scientific sociology look like?

Author : John Horgan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415455049
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Terrorism Studies written by John Horgan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive reader seeks to equip the aspiring student, based anywhere in the world, with a comprehensive introduction to the study of terrorism.

Author : Clifton D. Bryant
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415482747
Total Pages : 633 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Deviant Behaviour written by Clifton D. Bryant and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, integrative and accessible overview of the contemporary body of knowledge in the field of social deviance in the 21st century.

Author : Mario Livio
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439192375
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brilliant Blunders written by Mario Livio and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Drawing on the lives of five great scientists -- Charles Darwin, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Linus Pauling, Fred Hoyle and Albert Einstein -- scientist/author Mario Livio shows how even the greatest scientists made major mistakes and how science built on these errors to achieve breakthroughs, especially into the evolution of life and the universe"--

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1204 pages
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