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"For fans of I'll Be Gone in the Dark, the thrilling true story of a would-be terrorist attack against a Kansas farming town's immigrant community, and the FBI informant who exposed it. In the spring of 2016, as immigration debates rocked the United States, three men in a militia group known as the Crusaders grew aggravated over one Kansas town's growing Somali community. They decided that complaining about their new neighbors and threatening them...
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No one thinks it can happen to them, but Americans are 40 times more likely to be defrauded than to have their cars stolen or their homes burgled. Con artists ruin people financially and emotionally, leaving in their wake a trail of destruction, broken hearts, and deflated dreams. The first step to combating fraud is to understand it. What do scams look like? Why are they effective? The next step is to take action. How can we protect ourselves and...
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Using research data, including first-person accounts from the perpetrators themselves, a special investigator and psychologist and a sociologist, who built The Violence Project, a comprehensive database of mass shooters, share their solutions for putting an end to these tragedies that have defined the modern era.
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The writings in this work were precipitated by a variety of events during the last decades of Merton's life, the civil rights and peace movements of the 1960s among them. His timeless moral integrity and tireless concern for nonviolent solutions to war are eloquently expressed.
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Acclaimed activist and scholar Gill Hague recounts the inspiring story of the domestic violence movement in the UK and beyond from the 1960s onwards in this captivating book. Memories, poems and interviews with activists, practitioners and abuse survivors shed new light on a period of immense change, shaped by a generation of feminist pioneers. From the women's liberation movement until now, this book, displays the campaigning zeal, with which policies,...
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El ejercicio de reunir estas historias, estos conocimientos disponibles, se propuso para encontrar las palabras y los signos que, como prenociones sobre la vida cotidiana de un grupo individuos, ilustraran (no solo) un mar de problemas (sociológicos): anomías, malestares -por ejemplo, los delirios de violencia, el abuso de alcohol y drogas, las rencillas familiares, etc., sino también solidaridades y, sobre todo, amores: múltiples y coloridas...
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El ejercicio que nos propone Ricardo Torres es un ejercicio de empatía. Se trata de ponernos en el lugar de los otros, sentir su tristeza, llorar sus pérdidas y afligirnos por lo dura que ha resultado la vida para algunos en nuestro país, en especial para aquellos a quienes la violencia ha perseguido y desplazado. Nos invita a escuchar cuatro historias de personas que viven en Las Gardenias, al sur de Barranquilla. Son las historias de Carmen,...
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Refusing to cast gangs in solely criminal terms, Robert J. Durán, a former gang member turned scholar, recasts such groups as an adaptation to the racial oppression of colonization in the American Southwest. Developing a paradigm rooted in ethnographic research and almost two decades of direct experience with gangs, Durán completes the first-ever study to follow so many marginalized groups so intensely for so long, revealing their core characteristics,...
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"My Prison Days" is a book that illustrates real life in Federal Prison. Hollywood has created many movies and TV shows that pretend to show what goes on within prison walls, but the truth is they have no clue. This book follows a new Felon from numerous holding facilities to his home prison in Kentucky. He walked a prickly road to get to this point. He had been a big shot while still in his thirties. His flaw was that he stole a large amount of money....
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La obra incita a los análisis biopolíticos diferenciados entre los cuerpos femeninos, masculinos y/o trans. Cuatro de los capítulos mapea cómo en el entramado de la gestión de los procesos biológicos, estos se materializan no sólo en las familias, sino en concreto se ensaña en los cuerpos de las mujeres como el blanco principal para la expansión feroz del neoliberalismo. Por otra parte, dos capítulos discuten sobre la recolonización y sujeción...
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Análisis crítico con un enfoque multidisciplinario, único hasta ahora en México, de las oportunidades y desafíos de los derechos humanos. Los autores aquí reunidos analizan los derechos humanos como una práctica social que se realiza en medio de relaciones asimétricas de poder, en el marco del ya convulsionado siglo xxi. Pensados como un discurso que se convierte en práctica social y en campo de disputa para la definición de significados,...
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Sobrevivientes a la violencia relata siete experiencias personales de víctimas de violencia de género. Siete casos reales de extrema crueldad, siete testimonios de mujeres que lograron sobrevivir y hoy pueden contar su historia. En la mayoría de los casos, esta fue la primera vez que contaban esas experiencias: ni sus familias ni psicólogos estaban al tanto.
Cada historia desentraña los miedos, las torturas emocionales y físicas, así como...
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The number of refugees forced to dump their homes and countries in search of safety has significantly increased. At the same time, governments’ commitment to offering asylum is dwindling, as is their political will to resolve the human rights disasters from which people have fled. There is a crisis in the protection of the human rights of refugees. Why are there so many refugees in the world today? Is it right for a country to turn away refugees?...
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The truth does not just set us free; it will keep us free. In A Nation of Haters and Victims, author Ruth E. Todd demonstrates the importance of seeking the truth about issues, events, and policies affecting the country. A Nation of Haters and Victims details how the United States is becoming a nation of haters and victims. Haters and victims have permeated our society and created a national malaise that makes us unable to think clearly. Because we...
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Gresham M. Sykes is Professor of Sociology Emeritus at the University of Virginia. He is the author of many books, including Social Problems in America and Crime and Society, and the coauthor of Criminology.
The Society of Captives, first published in 1958, is a classic of modern criminology and one of the most important books ever written about prison.
Gresham Sykes wrote the book at the height of the Cold War, motivated by the world's experience...
16) On Violence
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An analysis of the nature, causes, and significance of violence in the second half of the twentieth century. Arendt also reexamines the relationship between war, politics, violence, and power.
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Femicide, the killing of women and girls because of their gender, was until recently included in the category 'homicide', obscuring the special features of this social and gendered phenomenon. However, the majority of murders of women are perpetrated by men whom they know from family ties and are the result of intimate partner violence or so-called 'honour' killings. This book is the first one on femicide in Europe and presents the findings of a four-year...
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The instant her phone rang, Reverend Sharon Risher sensed something was horribly wrong. Something had happened at Emanuel AME Church, the church of her youth in Charleston, South Carolina, and she knew her mother was likely in the church at Bible study. Even before she heard the news, her chaplain's instinct told her the awful truth: her mother was dead, along with two cousins. What she couldn't imagine was that they had been murdered by a white supremacist....
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Este trabajo etnográfico explora las razones por las cuales algunos grupos de colonos-campesinos en Colombia se quedaron a vivir en zonas de confrontación y disputa armada, en lugar de huir de allí por violencia. Muestra los modos como muchos colombianos, principalmente los que habitan el campo, inmersos cotidianamente en una guerra que no acaba de terminar y que los amenaza a toda hora, logran sobrevivir a ella y hacerse un destino digno, a través...
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"Hablar de violación a tenor de casos mediáticamente "expandidos" parece haberse convertido en buque insignia de muchos debates (de esos que ponen a prueba la peculiar y variable escala de la sensibilidad social) así como de manifestaciones feministas y menos feministas. Pero no hemos llegado a la violación como materia de análisis y reflexión a causa de este humus crecido al amparo de la actualidad, sino a pesar de él: este ensayo pretende...
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