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During a cold Massachusetts winter, a tragic car accident leaves a mother childless and her daughter-in-law a widow. Naomi and Ruth are now each other's only comfort. Naomi lost her own husband eight years ago, and now she has lost her son. Carrying a deep secret in her soul, Naomi decides to return to her childhood home in coastal South Carolina. When she tells Ruth her plan, she receives an unexpected reply: "Where you go, I will go." So the two...
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Senator Cruz argues that the high court decisions that affect your life have been decided by just one vote. Case studies illustrate his point that one vote preserves your right to speak freely, to bear arms, and to exercise your faith.
"In One vote away, you will discover how often the high court decisions that affect your life have been decided by just one vote. One vote preserves your right to speak freely, to bear arms, and to exercise your faith....
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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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Single-parent families succeed. Within these families children thrive, develop, and grow, just as they do in a variety of family structures. Tragically, they must do so in the face of powerful legal and social stigma that works to undermine them.
As Nancy E. Dowd argues in this bold and original book, the justifications for stigmatizing single-parent families are founded largely on myths, myths used to rationalize harshly punitive social policies....
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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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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...
8) 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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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.
This is just a...
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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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Alex Peterson as he navigates the harrowing aftermath of being falsely accused of a crime he did not commit. Set against the backdrop of a legal system fraught with complexities and injustices, this compelling narrative delves deep into the complexities of trust, resilience, and the pursuit of justice in the face of overwhelming adversity.
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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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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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Sheriff Singleton began hi law enforcement career as a reserve deputy with the Lauderdale County Sheriff's Office in 1972. He was later hired as a corrections officer with the office and in February 1973 was sworn in as a Deputy Sheriff.
In 1978 he ran unsuccessfully for the office of sheriff at the age of twenty-six making him the youngest candidate to seek the office in the history of the county. After the election he continued his career with...
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Este libro, escrito por Marcial Rubio Correa, es un comentario descriptivo de los artículos de la Constitución Política del Perú de 1993. Aquí el lector podrá encontrar, para cada artículo, un comentario sobre el significado de los términos técnicos o de los que pudieren prestarse a interpretaciones diversas. Igualmente, explica las razones por las cuales se dicta cada norma.
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La "predeterminación" y la "premeditación" son dos conceptos diferentes en el ámbito de la criminología y la justicia penal, aunque ambos están relacionados con la planificación y ejecución de delitos.
La "predeterminación criminal" se refiere a la idea de que ciertos individuos tienen una predisposición o mayor riesgo de involucrarse en actividades delictivas debido a factores genéticos, biológicos, ambientales y sociales. Esta perspectiva...
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Was macht eigentlich eine gelungene Karriere einer Führungskraft aus? Wann kann eine Führungskraft Leistung erbringen und wirksam führen? Worauf sollte sich die Vorbereitung auf Assessment-Center oder Jobinterviews konzentrieren? Wie helfen die Antworten auf diese Fragen, Auswahlverfahren souverän zu meistern? Fragen, mit denen sich Kerstin Harney stetig befasst. Karriere und persönliche Entwicklung sollten Hand in Hand gehen, denn in dieser...
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En un mundo lleno de obstáculos, existe un superpoder que eleva a aquellos que lo poseen a alturas insospechadas y se denomina la persistencia. Más allá de cualquier habilidad sobrehumana o destreza extraordinaria, es el motor que impulsa a los individuos a alcanzar metas aparentemente inalcanzables y a superar adversidades que quebrantan a otros.
Este superpoder no se adquiere en laboratorios secretos ni proviene de la exposición a elementos...
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Los abogados penalistas desempeñan un papel importante en el sistema de justicia. Su labor se orienta a la defensa de personas acusadas de cometer delitos, asegurando que se respeten sus derechos y se les brinde una representación legal efectiva. Estos abogados se especializan en el derecho penal y están familiarizados con las leyes, procedimientos y principios fundamentales relacionados con los delitos y las penas.La importancia de los abogados...
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La tesis central de este libro es que la noción de justicia funciona como puente entre el Derecho, en tanto que práctica social compleja orientada a fines y valores, y la utopía, en tanto que representación de una jerarquía de valores percibida como moralmente superadora de otras. Para ello, se proponen argumentos conceptuales e históricos en favor de esa conexión, desde una perspectiva iusfilosófica pospositivista y desde una perspectiva...
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