Author : Pamela Fehl
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 42,31 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1438133014
Local, state, and federal governments pass laws and develop polices to conserve and protect the environment. Learn about the careers of officials and professionals that ensure that these laws and regulations are follows, and that conservation goals are met.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 12,45 MB
Release : 2007-06-28
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0309134005
Privacy is a growing concern in the United States and around the world. The spread of the Internet and the seemingly boundaryless options for collecting, saving, sharing, and comparing information trigger consumer worries. Online practices of business and government agencies may present new ways to compromise privacy, and e-commerce and technologies that make a wide range of personal information available to anyone with a Web browser only begin to hint at the possibilities for inappropriate or unwarranted intrusion into our personal lives. Engaging Privacy and Information Technology in a Digital Age presents a comprehensive and multidisciplinary examination of privacy in the information age. It explores such important concepts as how the threats to privacy evolving, how can privacy be protected and how society can balance the interests of individuals, businesses and government in ways that promote privacy reasonably and effectively? This book seeks to raise awareness of the web of connectedness among the actions one takes and the privacy policies that are enacted, and provides a variety of tools and concepts with which debates over privacy can be more fruitfully engaged. Engaging Privacy and Information Technology in a Digital Age focuses on three major components affecting notions, perceptions, and expectations of privacy: technological change, societal shifts, and circumstantial discontinuities. This book will be of special interest to anyone interested in understanding why privacy issues are often so intractable.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 45,45 MB
Release : 1989
Category :
ISBN :
A letter to report the accuracy of the interest rate determination as reported by the governor of the Rural Telephone Bank and as required by the Rural Electrification Act of 1936.
Author : Texas
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 26,9 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Law
ISBN :
Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 35,45 MB
Release : 2003-02-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309133181
The anthrax incidents following the 9/11 terrorist attacks put the spotlight on the nation's public health agencies, placing it under an unprecedented scrutiny that added new dimensions to the complex issues considered in this report. The Future of the Public's Health in the 21st Century reaffirms the vision of Healthy People 2010, and outlines a systems approach to assuring the nation's health in practice, research, and policy. This approach focuses on joining the unique resources and perspectives of diverse sectors and entities and challenges these groups to work in a concerted, strategic way to promote and protect the public's health. Focusing on diverse partnerships as the framework for public health, the book discusses: The need for a shift from an individual to a population-based approach in practice, research, policy, and community engagement. The status of the governmental public health infrastructure and what needs to be improved, including its interface with the health care delivery system. The roles nongovernment actors, such as academia, business, local communities and the media can play in creating a healthy nation. Providing an accessible analysis, this book will be important to public health policy-makers and practitioners, business and community leaders, health advocates, educators and journalists.
Author : United States. Department of Justice
Publisher :
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 39,76 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Justice, Administration of
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Author : United States
Publisher :
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 11,58 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
ISBN :
Author : William J. Novak
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 50,85 MB
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0807863653
Much of today's political rhetoric decries the welfare state and our maze of government regulations. Critics hark back to a time before the state intervened so directly in citizens' lives. In The People's Welfare, William Novak refutes this vision of a stateless past by documenting America's long history of government regulation in the areas of public safety, political economy, public property, morality, and public health. Challenging the myth of American individualism, Novak recovers a distinctive nineteenth-century commitment to shared obligations and public duties in a well-regulated society. Novak explores the by-laws, ordinances, statutes, and common law restrictions that regulated almost every aspect of America's society and economy, including fire regulations, inspection and licensing rules, fair marketplace laws, the moral policing of prostitution and drunkenness, and health and sanitary codes. Based on a reading of more than one thousand court cases in addition to the leading legal and political texts of the nineteenth century, The People's Welfare demonstrates the deep roots of regulation in America and offers a startling reinterpretation of the history of American governance.
Author : Ted Gest
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 13,83 MB
Release : 2003-08-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0190290137
Why has America experienced an explosion in crime rates since 1960? Why has the crime rate dropped in recent years? Though politicians are always ready both to take the credit for crime reduction and to exploit grisly headlines for short-term political gain, these questions remain among the most important-and most difficult to answer-in America today. In Crime & Politics, award-winning journalist Ted Gest gives readers the inside story of how crime policy is formulated inside the Washington beltway and state capitols, why we've had cycle after cycle of ineffective federal legislation, and where promising reforms might lead us in the future. Gest examines how politicians first made crime a national rather than a local issue, beginning with Lyndon Johnson's crime commission and the landmark anti-crime law of 1968 and continuing right up to such present-day measures as "three strikes" laws, mandatory sentencing, and community policing. Gest exposes a lack of consistent leadership, backroom partisan politics, and the rush to embrace simplistic solutions as the main causes for why Federal and state crime programs have failed to make our streets safe. But he also explores how the media aid and abet this trend by featuring lurid crimes that simultaneously frighten the public and encourage candidates to offer another round of quick-fix solutions. Drawing on extensive research and including interviews with Edwin Meese, Janet Reno, Joseph Biden, Ted Kennedy, and William Webster, Crime & Politics uncovers the real reasons why America continues to struggle with the crime problem and shows how we do a better job in the future.
Author : Texas
Publisher :
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 33,43 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Local government
ISBN :
