Police, Picket-lines and Fatalities explores public protests and their management by the police, focusing on the fatalities of strikers at the hands of police and outlining practices towards preventing such tragedies. Uniquely examining the only three worker fatalities in Australian industrial history due to police use of deadly force, this book analyses the frenzied policing involvement that led to the deaths; the lack of accountability of police leadership and individual actions; government and press partisanship; and the deficiencies in criminal justice administration. Baker ultimately questions: were the police merely performing their duty by enforcing the law or were they agents complicit in reckless violence and collusion? With analysis of the recent police shooting of 34 platinum miners at Marikana, South Africa in 2012, Baker looks at the lessons of these case-studies, both past and contemporary, to provide specific applications for developing best practice of police and union peace-keeping protocols during industrial protests and the wider issues pertinent to public order policing of demonstrations in general.

Examines the legal framework regulating picketing and the role of police at a strike scene. Includes the texts of Criminal Code provisions and of provincial statutes relating to strikes and trespass on property.

A small town is thrown into turmoil, when employees at a chocolate factory discover a body in the warehouse. Unknown to them, a deadly virus has been unleashed on the citizens by a terrorist cell operating in the U.S. They will stop at nothing to destroy the capitalistic, Christian ways of life in North America. Enlisting the aid of an agent from the counter-intelligence organization, a renowned psychic, a former hitman for the mafia, and detectives who don't rest until those responsible are brought to justice, they work to discover who is behind the plot and destroy the virus, before it destroys the nation. Racing against time, the group is thrown into life-and-death situations repeatedly. Will they succeed or perish themselves? Will the White House also hinder their plans to see the terrorist's brought to justice? Only time will reveal the answer and the fate of the world rests on one group with courage and integrity.

Dr. Jack Kevorkianthe enigmatic and intrepid physician dubbed Dr. Deathhas for years declined public interviews about his life and the events that led him to be a vehement advocate of doctor-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients. But here, finally, is his own life story, as told to Neal Nicol and Harry Wylie. Dr. Kevorkian gained international notoriety in the 1990s for his passionate advocacy of choice for terminal patients, who have increasingly won the right to decide the time, place, and method of their own death in several western countries. In 1998, he assisted Thomas Youk, a terminally ill patient suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease, with a lethal injection that was broadcast on CBS's 60 Minutes. Immediately thereafter, Kevorkian was arrested, charged with second-degree murder, tried, and sentenced to 10-25 years in Michigan's maximum-security prison system. Today, Dr. Kevorkian is in his late seventies and in failing health himself. He shares an eight-by-twelve-foot cell with another inmate in the Thumb Correctional Facility at Lapeer, Michigan. The unique story Prisoner Number 284797 shares far exceeds the battle to legalize euthanasia and end human suffering for terminal patients. Personal choice is really what it is all about. Quality of life, as opposed to maintaining existence (Kevorkian to Vanity Fair, 1994)Co-published with Vision, U.K.

Christopher Tasker should have it made. Right out of high school, he's landed a summer job helping troubled kids that'll earn him credit for college. After hours, he's got his two closest friends Bryan and Dusty helping him explore everything that nightlife in New Orleans has to offer. And if his plans work out, Chris might even have a shot at dating the young woman at work who's caught his eye. Yet with so much going for him, Chris isn't having the time of his life. What is it about Conrad, the young man he's in charge of, that's started Chris thinking about events from his childhood long since buried. And who in the world is the stranger following him all over The Big Easy?