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41) The Plough Boy
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Those of you who have read Tony Parker's book The Plough Boy will be familiar with the story of Michael Davies. He was one of six youths concerned in an affray in which a boy was killed. Five of them received short terms of imprisonment, but Davies was condemned to death... The door to the execution shed was the first thing he saw when he opened his eyes every morning. That boy spent 92 days in the condemned cell watching that door before he was reprieved....
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Le 13 mars 2020 a marqué un tournant au Québec avec l'instauration de l'urgence sanitaire liée à la COVID-19, qui a contraint le gouvernement à faire de la gestion de la pandémie une priorité. En promulguant des décrets stricts, qui restreignent les libertés individuelles, l'État a dû mobiliser la police et ses patrouilleurs afin que les règles soient respectées. Ces mesures régulatoires ont toutefois entraîné des situations inédites...
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A la hora de pensar los populismos clásicos latinoamericanos, y al primer peronismo entre ellos, las ciencias sociales suelen suscribir el "paradigma de la aberración": se trataría de regímenes autoritarios y clientelistas, que tendieron a despreciar las instituciones, la división de poderes y las leyes. Desde esta perspectiva, la frase misma "justicia peronista" constituiría una suerte de oxímoron. Este libro se propone desarmar esa presunción...
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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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"Con un estilo ameno y riguroso, la autora se remonta al pasado para mostrarnos el progreso de la investigación científica a lo largo de la historia, hasta llegar a la actualidad."(Blog Me gustan los libros) "No sólo condimenta el texto con curiosidades y anécdotas de lo más llamativas (ideales para soltar entre amigos y quedar como el más interesante de la reunión) sino que concluye cada capítulo con una pequeña guía cinematográfica que...
46) 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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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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When the tough-on-crime politics of the 1980s overcrowded state prisons, private companies saw potential profit in building and operating correctional facilities. Today more than a hundred thousand of the 1.5 million incarcerated Americans are held in private prisons in twenty-nine states and federal corrections. Private prisons are criticized for making money off mass incarceration-to the tune of $5 billion in annual revenue. Based on Lauren-Brooke...
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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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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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Discussing illegal drugs without taking into account its criminal context is a difficult proposition. Certain questions come back repeatedly: Does doing drugs really lead to delinquency? Do some drugs have criminal properties? Why would a drug addict turn to crime? What are the best methods of intervention in dealing with individuals who have serious drug habits?
The third edition of Drogue et criminalité: Une relation complexe (Les Presses de l'Université...
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How many people are imprisoned across the globe? What factors can help explain variations in the use of imprisonment in different countries? What ethical considerations should apply to the way imprisonment is used? Providing a comprehensive account of prison populations worldwide, this new work links prison statistics from the last 15 years with considerations of how prisons and prison populations are managed. With commentary from its well-known,...
53) El celular como objeto de investigación: Relatos de los casos policiales más relevantes de Salta
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¿Qué información puede obtener la Policía y la Justicia investigando un teléfono celular? ¿Siempre se investiga de la misma manera? ¿La Policía y la Justicia investigan más o mejor dependiendo el apellido del damnificado? ¿Los investigadores de la Policía y los Fiscales están preparados para investigar?
Esta obra, que abarca tanto la teoría como la práctica, se convierte en un recurso indispensable tanto para investigadores dedicados...
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Way ahead of its time, in this classic text the authors convincingly introduce social science theory and methods to the field of private security. While they deal with the various approaches to private security including management styles and adaptations of regular policing styles, the significant innovation is the introduction of situational crime prevention -- at the time virtually unknown in the private policing field -- as a major tool of private...
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Dans un monde o les opérations policières de paix se substituent graduellement aux opérations exclusivement militaires, à quels défis organisationnels les services de police contributeurs et les sociétés htes sont-ils confrontés? Quelles sont les motivations institutionnelles et individuelles à participer à de telles opérations? Quels liens unissent les contingents internationaux aux polices locales et aux autres acteurs du maintien de...
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Get the Summary of Tom Wright & Bradley Hope's Billion Dollar Whale in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: In 2009, a chubby, mild-mannered graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business named Jho Low set in motion a fraud of unprecedented gall and magnitude - one that would come to symbolize the next great threat to the global financial system. Over a decade, Low,...
57) Judging Mohammed: Juvenile Delinquency, Immigration, and Exclusion at the Paris Palace of Justice
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In October 2005, three weeks of rioting erupted in France following the accidental deaths of two French boys of North African ancestry. Killed while fleeing the police, these boys were deemed dangerous based largely on their immigrant origins. In France, disadvantaged children of immigrant and foreign ancestry represent the vast majority of formal suspects and have increasingly been portrayed as a threat to public safety and as the embodiment of the...
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Contemporary Criminological Issues tackles some of today's most pressing social issues, from the criminalization of Indigenous peoples to interpersonal violence, border control, and armed conflicts. This book advances cutting-edge theories and methods, with the aim of moving beyond the scholarship that reproduces insecurity and exclusion. The breadth of approaches encompasses much of the current critical criminological scholarship, serving as a counterpoint...
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Get the Summary of Vincent Bugliosi's Helter Skelter in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Helter Skelter" recounts the chilling events and investigation of the Tate-LaBianca murders orchestrated by Charles Manson and his followers. On a hot night in Los Angeles, the home of actress Sharon Tate became the scene of a brutal crime, leaving multiple victims, including a pregnant Tate, savagely murdered. The investigation,...
60) Five Women
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Five Women, first published in 1965, was Tony Parker's fourth book. Its intended subjects had emerged from Holloway prison for women on the same cold spring morning in 1963. Between them they shared 73 criminal convictions and nearly a hundred years 'inside'. Parker intended to interview each of the women about their lives, hopes, intentions, fears; and to arrange follow-up conversations in due course. But one disappeared immediately, and six months...
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