Give children an in-depth look at what a career as a police officer is like. With this informative nonfiction title, readers will learn about various aspects of life as a police officer--from being accepted into the academy to keeping streets safe. Readers will learn what a typical day in the police academy is like as well as a day in the field as an officer. Through Time For Kids© content, helpful charts and diagrams, and colorful images in conjunction...

The Drug Enforcement Administration was created by President Richard Nixon in 1973 as a way to centralize drug control efforts. Since then, it has become a powerful agency that plays a part not just in enforcing drug laws, but in monitoring and targeting those who funnel drugs to the United States from overseas. Unfortunately, it has also been involved in significant controversies. This book looks at how this essential agency developed, the role it...

Once maravillosos creadores que se prestan a ilustrar diez de los Derechos del Niño. Un proyecto que busca hacer un potente recordatorio visual de unos principios que todos deberíamos tener tatuados en la memoria y en nuestra educación cívica.

Each Origins: Whodunnit: Forensics eShort is a single chapter from the full Origins: Whodunnit: Forensics title, packaged as a mini eBook. Origins: Whodunnit: Forensics eShorts include DNA and Blood Testing, Fingerprints, Autopsy, and The CSI Effect.

Each Origins: Whodunnit: Heists eShort is a single chapter from the full Origins: Whodunnit: Heists title, packaged as a mini eBook. Origins: Whodunnit: Heists eShorts include Bank Heists, Art Heists, Heists and Hostages, and Cash and Jewel Heists.

Teens today can hardly conceive of a world in which women did not have the right to vote and women's domain truly was the home. Showing the long way that American women have come, this book reviews the major events in the fight for women's rights. The narrative focuses on important leaders and the reforms that they demanded-and organized to win. The authors trace a fascinating path from the colonial period, when women's roles were highly circumscribed,...

The very first police in what is now the United States were Native American warriors who kept order during hunts. Today, American law enforcement includes the Texas Rangers, Secret Service, and U.S. Marshals Service, among many others. Find out more in Law Enforcement, one of the titles in The Hidden World of Crime series. T

A hot button issue that is in the news daily, the right to bear arms is one of Americans' most provincial and cherished rights. There are more guns per capita in the United States than anywhere else in the world. Through engaging and enlightening text, the Second Amendment, the right to bear arms, is studied in-depth. Analyzing the varying views on the amendment, students will get the opportunity to learn about the different interpretations of the...

One of our most fundamental rights as citizens of a democracy is our right to due process of law. This principle provides critical protection against arbitrary rule by the government. The text explores the origins of this very old constitutional principle and how its traditional definition has expanded over time. From a basic concern with fairness in criminal procedures (procedural due process), the legal concept expanded to become a key tool for...

Each Origins: Whodunnit: Forensics eShort is a single chapter from the full Origins: Whodunnit: Forensics title, packaged as a mini eBook. Origins: Whodunnit: Forensics eShorts include DNA and Blood Testing, Fingerprints, Autopsy, and The CSI Effect.