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You Can't Win, the beloved memoir of real lowdown Americana by criminal hobo Jack Black, was first published in 1926, then reprinted in 1988 by Adam Parfrey's Amok Press, featuring an introduction by William S. Burroughs. After its Amok Press edition went out of print, You Can't Win found popularity once again with the AK Press edition. Feral House's new version will take this classic American narrative a lot further, including two remarkable nonfiction...
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S'appuyant sur des données empiriques riches et variées, ce livre porte sur les homicides perpétrés dans quatre pays d'Afrique de l'Ouest francophone. Ses auteurs décrivent et analysent toutes les manifestations de la violence criminelle — qu'il s'agisse de vengeance ou d'autodéfense, d'infanticide, de vol, ou de crime rituel — et se font un devoir d'indiquer des pistes de solution réalistes.
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This rare book brings together the writings of W. Byron Groves (Casey), possibly the most brilliant criminologist in America during the 1990s. Killed in a car accident at the height of his career, his students, teachers and friends worked to produce this book to preserve some of his best pieces and others that were unpublished. Casey's approach was unique, unorthodox for the 1990s, and quite frankly, 'in your face." From "organizational perversion"...
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Secrets of The Dark Knight Revealed! It's all about Vengeance! The authors of this landmark book are eminent criminologists who have brought together insights from history, anthropology, sociology, classical and literary studies, and mythology, that greatly enlarge our understanding of the problems of violence, criminal justice, and vigilantism in modern society. Drawing upon such diverse representations of vengeance as Greek mythology, the plays...
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First published in 1967, A Man of Good Abilities was Tony Parker's fifth book and told the story of 65-year-old 'Norman Edwards', a compulsive swindler-embezzler for his whole adult life, one punctuated by numerous ineffective terms of imprisonment. Using journals, letters, and interview transcripts Parker drew a finessing portrait of a man and a seemingly intractable problem that he posed to society.
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The police increasingly need to work with other government agencies, the third sector, community organisations and the private sector, an approach known as "Plural Policing". This book critically analyses the rise of this approach in England and Wales over the past decade, giving examples of national and international practice. Written by an author with experience in both practice and academia, it discusses the consequences of this approach for the...
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Renowned criminologist Mike Hough illuminates the principles and practices of good policing in this important analysis of the police service's legitimacy and the factors, such as public trust, that drive it. As concern grows at the growth in crimes of serious violence, he challenges conventional political and public thinking on crime and scrutinises strategies and tactics like deterrence and stop-and-search. Contrasting 'hard' and 'soft' approaches...
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The Short Guide to Criminal Justice provides a comprehensive, yet concise, introduction to the current state of the criminal justice system in the United Kingdom. Avoiding an overtly legalistic or philosophical approach, it offers an accessible entry point for students and researchers across disciplines, including many student-friendly features such as case study boxes, tables showing key facts and figures and links to data sources and further reading....
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A teacher reveals the callous truth about the ins and outs of working rehabilitation in a maximum security detention centre in the early nineties. With a broom closet for an office, she put up with harassment and jumbles of red tape from a constantly changing set of managers while trying to deliver correspondence courses and support to adult inmates, and learning the special modus operandi of working in a maximum security facility as she went along....
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Go Ahead and Shoot Me is a collection of stories written and edited by former probation officer Doug Heckbert about real people who have been convicted of real crimes and who have been on probation, on parole, or in prison. The title story is of a woman who shot her husband upon his insistence and who, like many other subjects in the book, have come to see their offences as being "pretty stupid." Some stories might be described as ordinary crimes...
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Concevoir la question des drogues illicites en dehors de leur contexte criminel est difficile. Certaines questions reviennent immanquablement: prendre de la drogue pousse-t-il vraiment à la délinquance? Existe-t-il des drogues aux propriétés criminogènes? Pourquoi un toxicomane se tourne-t-il vers la criminalité? Quelles sont les meilleures façons d'intervenir auprès des personnes qui ont de graves problèmes de consommation?
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The trade in counterfeit goods is growing and is increasingly linked to transnational organized crime. But little is known about the financial mechanisms that lie behind this trade. This is the first account of the financial management of the counterfeiting business. Written by experts in a wide range of fields, it examines the financial and business structures in relation to the illicit trade in counterfeit products. It also considers how the internet...
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The anticipated final book in the “Biggest Gang in Britain” trilogy. Moving on from the brutally honest accounts of police work during the 1960s and 1970s to the private detective sector of the 1980s and 1990s. The latest book gives further eye opening, and gripping revelations of accepted practices then and until the Human Rights Act of 1998 when such devious practices went underground and of course were constantly denied, but actively used until...
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With debate about police ethics intensifying, this stimulating book considers afresh the fundamental role of officers and their relations with society. - It is a comprehensive and up to date introduction to ethical policing, taking a moral philosophical perspective to the evidence base and literature on the subject. - Leading contemporary thinker Dominic Wood tackles the ethical issues of policing as a matter of compliance and discipline and reviews...
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Get the Summary of Susan Wise Bauer's The History of the Ancient World in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: This is the first volume in a bold new series that tells the stories of all peoples, connecting historical events from Europe to the Middle East to the far coast of China, while still giving weight to the characteristics of each country. Susan Wise Bauer provides both sweeping scope...
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Este libro cuenta la historia de las técnicas criminalísticas más curiosas e importantes aplicadas para la resolución de crímenes complejos como, por ejemplo, la entomología forense, la perfilación criminal, el uso del luminol, la antropología forense… Además, explica cómo son utilizadas estas técnicas y se desarrolla un caso histórico real en el que cada una jugó un papel decisivo. Cabe destacar que, aparte de las referencias bibliográficas,...
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José Luis Calva Zepeda fue uno de los asesinos más conocidos en México y uno de los casos más mediáticos que ha habido en este país. En este libro, se desgrana el tratamiento que los medios de comunicación mexicanos hicieron sobre lo sucedido y se realiza un análisis criminológico del caso.
¿Se trató el caso de Calva Zepeda de una manera objetiva por la prensa mexicana? ¿Fue Calva Zepeda apodado como "caníbal" para resaltar el morbo?...
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La seguridad pública es una de las principales preocupaciones de las personas en Chile, según todos los sondeos de opinión. Sin embargo, es poco lo que se ha escrito desde el ámbito político para abrir la reflexión e intentar esbozar algunas respuestas.
En este libro, Jaime Quintana se aproxima a estos debates a partir de su propia experiencia como integrante de la Comisión de Seguridad Pública del Senado, de conversaciones con el expresidente...
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