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With the popularity of crime dramas like CSI focusing on forensic science, and increasing numbers of police and prosecutors making wide-spread use of DNA, high-tech science seems to have become the handmaiden of law enforcement. But this is a myth,asserts law professor and nationally known expert on police profiling David A. Harris. In fact, most of law enforcement does not embrace science-it rejects it instead, resisting it vigorously. The question...
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An examination of the forces and events that led to the most successful organized crime control initiatives in American history
Since Prohibition, the Mafia has captivated the media and, indeed, the American imagination. From Al Capone to John Gotti, organized crime bosses have achieved notoriety as anti- heroes in popular culture. In practice, organized crime grew strong and wealthy by supplying illicit goods and services and by obtaining control...
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El libro documenta un hecho histórico nunca antes revelado en sus detalles: la estrategia que determinó la extradición del expresidente Alberto Fujimori al Perú. El relato se ubica entre los años 2005 y 2006, periodo en que Fujimori abandonó territorio japonés luego de casi cinco años de permanencia, para aterrizar intempestivamente en Chile el 6 de noviembre de 2005.
Al dejar su cómoda residencia en Japón, el entonces prófugo Fujimori...
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"The Hemp Handbook: Understanding the Laws of Hemp, CBD, and Marijuana" is an enlightening guide penned by renowned attorney Mark Nicholson. With his legal experience, Nicholson navigates the complex landscape of laws governing hemp, CBD, and marijuana.
The book serves as a vital resource for anyone interested in understanding the intricacies of the rapidly evolving cannabis industry. From growers and consumers to entrepreneurs and investors, Nicholson's...
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Get the Summary of Ann Rule's Heart Full of Lies in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Heart Full of Lies" delves into the perplexing murder case that shook the serene "Oregon Alps." In 2000, district attorney Dan Ousley faced a confounding murder in Wallowa County, where undersheriff Rich Stein discovered a body by the Lostine River. Liysa Ann Northon, the wife of the deceased, claimed self-defense against her husband,...
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De la obra de Cesare Beccaria se ha escrito que «fermentó en las conciencias, renovó las instituciones y cambió las costumbres, hasta convertirse en patrimonio moral, inconsciente pero irrenunciable, de toda la humanidad». En ella, escrita con apenas veinticinco años, catalizó un buen conocimiento de las atrocidades del proceso penal de la época; una imaginación sensible y vigorosa capaz de conferir a la denuncia inéditas plasticidad y eficacia;...
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"The study of memory had become my specialty, my passion. In the next few years I wrote dozens of papers about how memory works and how it fails, but unlike most researchers studying memory, my work kept reaching out into the real world. To what extent, I wondered, could a person's memory be shaped by suggestion? When people witness a serious automobile accident, how accurate is their recollection of the facts? If a witness is questioned by a police...
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In 2006, four years after the illegal prison in Guantánamo Bay opened, the Pentagon finally released the names of the 773 men held there, as well as 7,000 pages of transcripts from tribunals assessing their status as 'enemy combatants'. Andy Worthington is the only person to have analysed every page of these transcripts and this book reveals the stories of all those imprisoned in Guantanamo.
Deprived of the safeguards of the Geneva Conventions,...
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True Crime: Behind the Scenes" takes you on an immersive journey into the heart of criminal investigations, providing a gripping exploration of the fascinating world of crime-solving. Uncover the intricacies of detective work, forensic science, and the relentless pursuit of justice that unfolds behind the scenes of true crime stories.This book peels back the layers of criminal behavior, offering a glimpse into the meticulous processes of crime scene...
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The old approaches to fighting crime just aren't working. Two thirds of people released from prison commit another crime within two years. In Smart on Crime, career prosecutor Kamala D. Harris shatters the old distinctions, rooted in false choices and myths, and offers a compelling argument for how to make the criminal justice system truly, not just rhetorically, tough. Harris spells out the necessary shifts that will increase public safety, reduce...
11) Crimes of Honor: Formal and Informal Adjudicatory Systems in India and Pakistan to Enforce and Co
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This study presents a comparative analysis of the formal and informal legal systems in India and Pakistan in relation to honour crimes. The two countries share a common historical context that is reflected in their socio-cultural ethos. This study analyses the commonalities in their historical contexts, the invasion of the subcontinent, the intrusion and inclusion of foreign settlers, and the factors that contributed towards the creation and maintenance...
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Investigating cinema under the magnifying glass
From a look at classics like Psycho and Double Indemnity to recent films like Traffic and Thelma & Louise, Nicole Rafter and Michelle Brown show that criminological theory is produced not only in the academy, through scholarly research, but also in popular culture, through film. Criminology Goes to the Movies connects with ways in which students are already thinking criminologically through engagements...
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Winner, 2018 Law & Legal Studies PROSE Award
The consequences of big data and algorithm-driven policing and its impact on law enforcement
In a high-tech command center in downtown Los Angeles, a digital map lights up with 911 calls, television monitors track breaking news stories, surveillance cameras sweep the streets, and rows of networked computers link analysts and police officers to a wealth of law enforcement intelligence.
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14) Tunnel Vision: A True Story of Multiple Murder and Justice in Chaos at America's Biggest Marine Base
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Carlton "Butch" Smith was a troubled teenager who'd been kicked out of school for aggressive behavior. His parents lived at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, in Jacksonville, North Carolina, and when Butch was home with them, his life was fairly normal. But that all changed on August, 24, 1981, when Butch's sister, aunt, and cousin were found slain in his parents' house. It was a horrifying crime that shook the Marine base community, not to mention...
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On a hot night in July 1995, Janet Downing was stabbed ninety-eight times in her Somerville home, two miles northwest of Boston. Within hours, fifteen-year-old Eddie O'Brien was identified as the prime suspect. The best friend of one of Janet's sons, Eddie was a peculiar choice. He had no criminal record or symptoms of mental illness. He had neither motive nor opportunity to commit the crime-while others had both. And yet, powers far beyond Somerville...
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Clarence Thomas, the youngest and most controversial member of the Supreme Court, could become the longest-serving justice in history, influencing American law for decades to come. Who is this enigmatic man? And what does he believe in?
Judging Thomas tells the remarkable story of Clarence Thomas's improbable journey from hardscrabble beginnings in the segregated South to the loftiest court in the land. With objectivity and balance, author Ken Foskett...
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From dognappings to Munchausen by proxy to early forensics and hot felons, these unbelievable true crime stories will blow your mind.
2019 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award Silver Winner in Humor
Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Winner-2018 BRONZE Winner for Humor (Adult Nonfiction)
Loaded with dozens of entertaining and amusing articles about actual crimes, this latest book from Portable Press will definitely leave you scratching your...
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On the night of April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln in what he envisioned part of a scheme to plunge the federal government into chaos and gain a reprieve for the struggling Confederacy. The plan failed. By April 26, Booth was killed resisting capture and eight of the nine conspirators eventually charged in Lincoln's murder were in custody. Their trial would become one of the most famous and most controversial...
19) Blood Relation
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A New Yorker writer investigates the life and career of his hit-man great-uncle and the impact on his family.
Growing up in a household as generic as Midwestern Jews get, author Eric Konigsberg always wished there was something different about his family, something exotic and mysterious, even shocking. When he was sent off to boarding school, he learned from an ex-cop security guard that there was: His great-uncle Harold, in prison in upstate New...
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A magisterial comparative study, Proud to Punish recenters our understanding of modern punishment through a sweeping analysis of the global phenomenon of "rough justice": the use of force to settle accounts and enforce legal and moral norms outside the formal framework of the law. While taking many forms, including vigilantism, lynch mobs, people's courts, and death squads, all seekers of rough justice thrive on the deliberate blurring of lines between...
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