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La firma del Acuerdo de Paz que puso fin a los más de 50 años de conflicto armado con las FARC, dio paso a la implementación de una Justicia Transicional y Restaurativa administrada por la Jurisdicción Especial para la Paz cuyo componente principal se centra en el Sistema Integral de Verdad, Justicia, Reparación y No Repetición. A la JEP le fue encargada la valiosa labor de impartir justicia con el fin de satisfacer y garantizar los derechos...
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Partiendo de su conceptualización como una acción colectiva, esta investigación describe y analiza el fenómeno de los linchamientos en el México contemporáneo. Con evidencia empírica comprueba cuándo, por quiénes y en dónde se llevan a cabo, demuestra que su naturaleza es un correlato del grado de coordinación entre los sujetos que las protagonizan, que los
linchamientos se han conformado en un proceso de "ritualización" y en repertorio...
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What's been missing the past 30-years that prevented voters and leaders from hearing or acting upon the Gierach call -and the Civil Society call-for legalized, controlled and regulated drugs and drug markets? Why the public repulsion from the Silver Bullet Solution to the many-tentacled, drug-prohibition monster?Have you lost a child to fentanyl or heroin overdose?Are you worried about losing a loved one to drug addiction or drug accident?Is your...
44) Lost Girls
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"Rother is the next Ann Rule." —Gregg Olsen
Chelsea King was a popular high school senior, an outstanding achiever determined to make a difference. Fourteen-year-old Amber Dubois loved books and poured her heart into the animals she cared for. Treasured by all who knew them, both girls disappeared in San Diego County, just eight miles and one year apart. The families' anguish galvanized the community and captivated the media. A...
Chelsea King was a popular high school senior, an outstanding achiever determined to make a difference. Fourteen-year-old Amber Dubois loved books and poured her heart into the animals she cared for. Treasured by all who knew them, both girls disappeared in San Diego County, just eight miles and one year apart. The families' anguish galvanized the community and captivated the media. A...
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The New York Times–bestselling author of Shattered Innocence reveals the story of a two-time widow leading a double life in this true crime exposé.
Miriam Giles ran away to Colorado to escape her violent past. But this seductively charismatic widow had a dark side that could never stay buried. After finding the "sugar daddy" she was looking for in Alan Helmick, her new marriage seemed happy. Then, two years
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Cynthia Miller-Idriss is a professor in the School of Public Affairs and the School of Education at American University, where she runs the Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab (PERIL). She is the author of The Extreme Gone Mainstream: Commercialization and Far Right Youth Culture in Germany (Princeton) and Blood and Culture: Youth, Right-Wing Extremism, and National Belonging in Contemporary Germany. Twitter @milleridriss
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From "one of the most interesting sociologists of his generation" and a former cop, the story of three departments and their struggle to change aggressive police culture and achieve what Americans want: fair, humane, and effective policing.
What should we do about the police? After the murder of George Floyd, there's no institution more controversial: only 14 percent of Americans believe that "policing works pretty well as it is" (CNN, April 27,...
48) Little Dorrit
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The novel "Little Dorrit", published originally between 1855 and 1857, is a work of satire on the shortcomings of the government and society of the period. Much of Dickens' ire is focused upon the institutions of debtor's prisons-in which people who owed money were imprisoned, unable to work, until they have repaid their debts. The representative prison in this case is the Marshalsea where the author's own father had been imprisoned. Most of Dickens'...
49) Death Trap
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The true-crime story of a bitter divorcée and the murder of her ex and his new wife, by the New York Times bestselling author of Cruel Death.
It started when Alan Bates and his new wife arrived at his ex's house to pick up his two daughters for a weekend visit. Then two charred bodies were found in a burned-out car on a lonely Georgia road . . . and investigators pieced together a shattering story of a vicious divorce,...
It started when Alan Bates and his new wife arrived at his ex's house to pick up his two daughters for a weekend visit. Then two charred bodies were found in a burned-out car on a lonely Georgia road . . . and investigators pieced together a shattering story of a vicious divorce,...
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Cutting edge research into trends and social contexts of girls' violence.
Have girls really gone wild? Despite the media fascination with "bad girls," facts beyond the hype have remained unclear. Fighting for Girls focuses on these facts, and using the best data availabe about actual trends in girls' uses of violence, the scholars here find that by virtually any measure available, incidents of girls' violence are going down, not up. Additionally,...
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This interdisciplinary anthology explores a wide range of intersecting issues contributing to and arising from gun violence. Millions of people are hurt and killed by gun violence globally, and the traumatic realities of these events are navigated by individuals and communities widely. In this context, gun violence fundamentally threatens social functioning in significant ways, and profoundly test the resilience of families. The resulting transformations...
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"¿Qué es el extremismo? ¿Cómo se construyen las ideas extremistas? ¿Por qué el extremismo suele llevar a la violencia?
Una ola de movimientos extremistas amenaza con desestabilizar sociedades civiles en todo el mundo. Nunca había sido tan importante comprender el extremismo, y en el diccionario solo se encuentra que es "la cualidad o el estado de ser extremo".
En este volumen de la serie Conocimientos esenciales de MIT Press, J. M. Berger ofrece...
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El lector que se adentre en el libro Pasados y presentes de violencia en Colombia. Estudio de las comisiones de investigación, 19582011, saldrá de él con la sensación de haber hecho una travesía problemática e inspiradora. Los múltiples y sucesivos pasados de la violencia, aprehendidos por sucesivas comisiones de diferente mandato, perspectiva y composición, no solo interpelan nuestro presente sino que en estos tiempos sirven como referente...
56) Abetting Batterers: What Police, Prosecutors, and Courts Aren't Doing to Protect America's Women
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Whatever the number, domestic violence victims remain far too many for a preventable crime. More and more victims of intimate partner violence are reaching out to police, prosecutors and judges only to be sorely disappointed, even betrayed. While laws and programs have multiplied over the last few decades to address domestic violence, the country is getting safer for almost everyone except for women who have, or have had, abusive male intimate partners....
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You are alone and finishing up some shopping at the local mall when you hear a young woman scream for help. You notice that she's surrounded by several men. Your mind begins the justification process: she is just playing; someone else will come to her aid. As you hesitate, the young woman is dragged into a van and they disappear. Already late for a meeting, as you power walk toward your office you see a young boy crying and being dragged to a car....
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The world has changed drastically over the past decade. The Internet has had a huge part in that, as it has made the world more accessible to anyone of any age, race, or gender. Used for entertainment, education, shopping, dating and more, the internet has provided a whole new virtual world for everyone to enjoy. But with the good also comes the bad-and for kids and teens these days, the bad has becomes a constant threat from cyberbullies and cyberstalking.
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El libro explora uno de los debates más encarnizados del Perú moderno: ¿Fue la lucha contrasubversiva contra Sendero Luminoso un conflicto armado?
El propósito de la publicación es dar contenido a los términos de este debate estudiando la Época del Terrorismo desde la perspectiva del Derecho Internacional Humanitario. Analizado de esta forma, el autor concluye que sí existió un conflicto armado en el Perú, pero que las consecuencias de ello...
60) Gender, Power, and Violence: Responding to Sexual and Intimate Partner Violence in Society Today
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What do the Catholic Church, college sports, Hollywood, prisons, the military, fraternities and politics have in common? All have extraordinarily high rates of sexual and intimate partner violence, and child sexual abuse.
Sexual and intimate partner violence is part of the landscape that women and children live with. Women and children are subjected to high levels of sexual and intimate partner violence and in the era of #metoo, Gender, Power and...
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