Books by John Beck

Discover the geographic approach to fighting crime while engaging citizens. Protecting the People: GIS for Law Enforcement explores a collection of real-life stories about law enforcement agencies successfully using GIS for crime analysis, open policing, and field mobility. Through these stories, this book illustrates how police departments and law enforcement organizations use GIS to enable data-driven crime-analysis strategies and drive decision making in everyday operations.The case studies in this book cover:Understanding data and crime analysisStreamlining improvements to police operationsDeveloping methods for engaging citizensThe book also includes a section on next steps that provides ideas, strategies, tools, and actions to help jump-start your own use of GIS for law enforcement. A collection of online resources, including additional stories, videos, new ideas and concepts, and downloadable tools and content, complements this book.Learn how location intelligence and the geographic approach can improve crime analysis, streamline operations, and promote community policing initiatives.

John Beck and Ryan Bishop explore the 1960s interdisciplinary art and technology collaborations between American avant-garde artists and the military-industrial complex that took place in universities, private labs, and museums.

Since World War II, the American West has become the nation's military arsenal, proving ground, and disposal site. Through a wide-ranging discussion of recent literature produced in and about the West, Dirty Wars explores how the region's iconic landscapes, invested with myths of national virtue, have obscured the West's crucial role in a post-World War II age of ""permanent war"".

Discusses Michael Young's book "The Rise of the Meritocracy" and analyses the ideas behind meritocracy, citizenship and education and offers an extension to Young's initial findings. It examines issues of continuity and change in New Labour policy on schools, the curriculum, and the professions (especially but not only the teaching profession).

This work highlights recent high profile debates about values and citizenship in education, providing the reader with an easily accessible framework within which to view Britain's moral predicament.