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The Hatfield-McCoy feud has long been the most famous vendetta of the southern Appalachians. Over the years it has become encrusted with myth and error. Scores of writers have produced accounts of it, but few have made any real effort to separate fact from fiction. Novelists, motion picture producers, television script writers, and others have sensationalized events that needed no embellishment.Using court records, public documents, official correspondence,...
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"Seldom does a book have the impact of The New Jim Crow. Since it was first published in 2010, it has been the winner of numerous awards and has spent nearly 250 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. It has been cited in judicial decisions, read in countless faith-based and secular book clubs, and adopted in campus-wide and community-wide reads. Most important, it has inspired artists, philanthropists, policymakers, community leaders, and a...
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Using research data, including first-person accounts from the perpetrators themselves, a special investigator and psychologist and a sociologist, who built The Violence Project, a comprehensive database of mass shooters, share their solutions for putting an end to these tragedies that have defined the modern era.
4) Muertes que importan: Una mirada sociohistórica sobre los casos que marcaron la Argentina reciente
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La historia argentina reciente no sólo puede recorrerse desde los fenómenos políticos y económicos. También puede contarse hilvanando una serie de muertes violentas que conmocionaron a la sociedad. El secuestro y asesinato de Osvaldo Sivak, la masacre de Ingeniero Budge, los casos Carrasco, María Soledad y Cabezas, las muertes de Maximiliano Kosteki y Darío Santillán, la tragedia de Once, los casos de Mariano Ferreyra, Santiago Maldonado y...
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Publicado originalmente en 1985 y traducido por primera vez al español, este libro se cuenta, a la par de Vigilar y castigar, y Cárcel y fábrica, entre los clásicos para pensar la historia de la penalidad y, a partir de ella, entender las formas que asume el castigo en las sociedades contemporáneas. David Garland pone el foco en el pasaje de la penalidad del siglo XIX a la del siglo XX: ese momento de transición entre un sistema que concebía...
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In Sara Learns about Police Officers, Sara develops a newfound appreciation for law enforcement while learning some of the fun things they get to do and the kinds of positive interactions police officers make within the community. Sara Learns about Police Officers is a great educational guide to help parents and educators alike, teach children the importance of a good, strong bond with law enforcement.
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What role does coercion play in women's involvement in crime? This is the first book to explore coercion as a pathway into crime for co-offending women. Using newspaper articles and case and court files, it analyses four cases of women co-accused of a crime with their partner who suggested that coercive techniques had influenced their involvement in the offending. Based on a feminist perspective, it highlights the importance of gender role expectations...
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Get the Summary of T. J. English's Paddy Whacked in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Paddy Whacked" by T. J. English chronicles the rise and fall of the Irish American underworld, tracing its origins to the arrival of John Morrissey in New York City in 1849. Morrissey's journey from political enforcer to the first Irish Mob boss in America sets the stage for a saga of ambition, violence, and criminal enterprise....
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There's no question that law enforcement officers are under intense scrutiny. In high-profile Canadian cases like Robert Dziekanski and Willie Pickton, police are blamed by a critical public and the media for everything from excessive use of force to allowing criminals to get away with murder. In Souls Behind the Badge, retired veteran RCMP officer Wayne Ryan describes in graphic detail the emotional trauma the job inflicts on those who serve and...
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Few people experience life inside of prison. Even fewer are charged with the formidable responsibility of deciding whether inmates should be released. In his twenty-four years on the Rhode Island Parole Board, Frederic G. Reamer has judged the fates of thousands of inmates, deciding which are ready to reenter society and which are not. It is a complicated choice that balances injury to victims and their families against an offender's capacity for...
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*Shortlisted for the Bread and Roses Prize, 2013*
The exposure of undercover policeman Mark Kennedy in the eco-activist movement revealed how the state monitors and undermines political activism. This book shows the other grave threat to our political freedoms - undercover activities by corporations.
Secret Manoeuvres in the Dark documents how corporations are halting legitimate action and investigation by activists. Using exclusive access...
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Over the past 20 years, there have been many changes to probation governance in England and Wales aimed at controlling it from central government. However, the changes introduced under the Transforming Rehabilitation (TR) agenda, introduced in 2013, are unprecedented: the service has been divided and part-privatised and no longer exists as a unified public body. This topical book looks at the attitudes of probation practitioners and managers to the...
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A frightening look at Mexico's new power elitethe Mexican drug cartelsThe members of Mexico's drug cartels are among the criminal underworld's most ambitious and ruthless entrepreneurs. Supplanting the once dominant Colombian cartels, the Mexican drug cartels are now the major distributor of heroin and cocaine to the U. S. and Canada. Not only have their drugs crossed north of the border, so have the cartels (in 2009, 230 active Mexican drug cartels...
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La sociedad de los cautivos, escrita por un sociólogo estadounidense veterano de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y publicada por primera vez en 1958, fue y sigue siendo una obra fundante capaz de plantear con sencillez, sin tecnicismos académicos, verdades básicas del encierro penal y, por extensión, del orden social. Lectura ineludible para estudiosos de distintas áreas, despliega hipótesis de una vigencia sorprendente para identificar los grandes...
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This practical guide provides user-friendly, concise, expert and up-to-date guidance for both new and experienced hate crime caseworkers and advocates (whether professional or volunteers). Filling a gap in the growing debates and research literature on hate crime, it takes as its starting point a values-based casework practice that provides assistance, support and leads to the empowerment of victims of hate crimes. With core casework standards and...
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It is well known that the social definition of individuals and ethnic groups helps legitimize how they are addressed by law enforcement. The philosophy of the social construction of crime and criminal behaviour reflects how individuals, such as police officers, construct meaning from the perspective from which they emerge, which in turn influences their law enforcement outlook. In the field, this is generally viewed through a positivist frame of reference...
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Winner of the VanCity Book Prize, Unruly Women: The Politics of Confinement & Resistance is the seminal book about women's imprisonment that helped spark examinations around the world into the special circumstances women face in prison, as well as the sex and gender crimes that get them there. Most women who are incarcerated do not pose a danger to society but transgress patriarchal, capitalist norms that seek to control their bodies and choices,...
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El castigo que recibe un delincuente ¿sirve para rehabilitarlo o para incapacitarlo? ¿O es más bien un mensaje dirigido a la comunidad para inhibir potenciales impulsos por apartarse de la ley (y de paso asegurarle al "ciudadano honesto" que esta existe)? El tipo de penalidad que caracteriza a una sociedad en un momento dado se traduce en las tasas de encarcelamiento, en el funcionamiento del sistema de justicia y en el tipo de población que habita...
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Mass youth unemployment is now endemic and almost ubiquitous in the global north and south alike. This book offers an original and challenging interpretation of the ways in which young people's unemployment and general non-participation is becoming marginalized and criminalized. It re-examines the causes and consequences of non-participation from an unusually wide range of disciplines, using an innovative theorization of the fast-changing relationships...
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