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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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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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Enjeux criminologiques contemporains confronte certaines des questions pressantes relatives aux pratiques pénales et carcérales, à la criminologie « clinique », et au contrôle du crime et ses conséquences.
Cet ouvrage présente des théories et des méthodes à la ne pointe de la recherche, dans le but explicite de contribuer au développement de politiques qui promeuvent la sécurité et l'inclusion sociale.
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This primer covers all the classic theory and research on the sociology of crime. CONTENTS: 1. Criminology and Social Deviance. 2. Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Criminology. 3. Ecological Theories of Crime and Delinquency. 4. Anomie and Social Deviance: Strain Theories. 5. Differential Association and its Progeny. 6. Control Theories of Crime and Delinquency. 7. Social Reaction to Crime: Stigma and Interaction. 8. Conflict and Radical Perspectives...
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On February 26, 1986, Mafia underboss Gennaro Angiulo was convicted of racketeering and sentenced to forty-five years in prison. In The Underboss, bestselling authors Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill tell the story of the fall of the house of Angiulo. The Federal Bureau of Investigation, aided in part by the Irish Mob's Whitey Bulger, entered the Boston Mafia's headquarters in Boston's North End early one morning in 1981 and began to compile the evidence...
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Policy Walking: Lighting Paths to Safer Communities, Stronger Families & Thriving Youth by author, speaker, and policy advocate John A. Calhoun is the moving culmination of a lifelong career spent restoring fragile communities, pulling youth back from the edge, supporting vulnerable children and their families, and helping build communities that don't produce crime. Heartwarming and inspiring, Policy Walking weaves the wisdom of years on the path...
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As crime rates inexorably rose during the tumultuous years of the 1970s, disputes over how to handle the violence sweeping the nation quickly escalated. James Q. Wilson redefined the public debate by offering a brilliant and provocative new argument-;that criminal activity is largely rational and shaped by the rewards and penalties it offers-;and forever changed the way Americans think about crime. Now with a new foreword by the prominent scholar...
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This was one of the first social science books to recognize migration as THE issue of the 21st century. The issue of immigration and crime in all of its many contexts and forms, is a problem which increasingly affects numerous countries throughout the world. In many countries, immigrants have been accused of disproportionate involvement in crime while, in others, immigrants are often claimed to be the victims of criminal offenders, as well as indifferent...
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