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  • Happy Land - A Lover’s Revenge
    OJ Modjeska
    The scene was paralyzing. We stood there, numb. No one spoke. There were 69 bodies spread about the 24x50 foot area. They all could have been sleeping.In the small hours of the annual Punta Carnivale celebrations held by Central American communities of the West Bronx, residents witness flames and smoke coming from a popular nightspot known as Happy Land. Fire and rescue personn...
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    14,81 €

  • Happy Land - A Lover’s Revenge
    OJ Modjeska
    The scene was paralyzing. We stood there, numb. No one spoke. There were 69 bodies spread about the 24x50 foot area. They all could have been sleeping.In the small hours of the annual Punta Carnivale celebrations held by Central American communities of the West Bronx, residents witness flames and smoke coming from a popular nightspot known as Happy Land. Fire and rescue personn...
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    23,17 €

  • Happy Land - A Lover’s Revenge
    OJ Modjeska
    The scene was paralyzing. We stood there, numb. No one spoke. There were 69 bodies spread about the 24x50 foot area. They all could have been sleeping.In the small hours of the annual Punta Carnivale celebrations held by Central American communities of the West Bronx, residents witness flames and smoke coming from a popular nightspot known as Happy Land. Fire and rescue personn...
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    11,63 €

  • Legacies of Racial Violence
    David Cunningham
    Scholars increasingly agree that histories of racial violence relate to contemporary patterns of conflict and inequality, and growing interest exists among civic leaders in reckoning with these legacies today. This volume of The ANNALS examines the contributions and limitations of scientific research on legacies of racial violence and suggests implications for policy, practice,...
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    114,46 €

  • Deviant Women
    Sharon A. Kowalsky / Aleksandra Glebovskaia
    Deviant Women, first examines the emergence of the discipline of criminology in early Soviet Russia, tracing the development of principles and theories-particularly that of female deviance-and highlighting the ways in which criminologists, a diverse cohort of jurists, doctors, sociologists, anthropologists, psychiatrists, statisticians, and forensic experts, conducted innovativ...
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    40,73 €

  • Global Perspectives on Reforming the Criminal Justice System
    Michael Pittaro
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    216,39 €

  • Terror Town, USA
    John Ferak
    New From The Bestselling Author Of WRECKING CREW!During the early morning hours of July 17, 1983, fatigue became a factor for the young couple from central Illinois who spent their day under the hot sun at Marriott’s Great America amusement park north of Chicago. On their drive home, the tired teenagers pulled to the shoulder of Interstate 55 to get a restful sleep.As the teens...
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    14,19 €

  • Estado profundo - uma história de agendas secretas e de governos sombra
    Ian Fitzgerald
    Quem dirige nossas vidas? Quais segredos são escondidos de nós pelos governos? Estamos realmente sendo manipulados por um 'estado profundo'? Nada é o que parece. Quando governos democráticos são eleitos, você já se perguntou por que eles não parecem ser capazes de mudar muito? Em quem quer que votemos, prevalecem os interesses particulares. Ao longo do tempo, os grupos de inter...
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    29,69 €

  • Más armas, menos crimen:
    JThomas Saldias MSc.
    En su publicación inicial en 1998, Más Armas, Menos Crimen de John R. Lott recibió grandes elogios y críticas acaloradas. Más de una década después, continúa desempeñando un papel clave en las discusiones en curso sobre las leyes de control de armas: a pesar de todos los ataques de los defensores del control de armas, nadie ha podido refutar la simple y sorprendente conclusión ...
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    28,27 €

  • Mitos sobre el Control de Armas de Fuego
    John Lott Jr / JThomas Saldias MSc.
    Lott acaba con un falso mito sobre la posesión de armas de fuego uno tras otro! Como señala el Prólogo de Andrew Pollack; 'Conozca los hechos reales que los desacreditan'. Desde los mitos sobre los tiroteos públicos masivos hasta los suicidios, las tasas de posesión de armas y el crimen hasta las zonas libres de armas, Lott aborda las afirmaciones que escuchas con frecuencia en...
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    18,72 €

  • Green Crimes and International Criminal Law
    ’Green Crimes and International Criminal Law’ examines crimes against the environment, which impact not only humans, but also wildlife and ecosystems more generally. A significant point of discussion in the volume is whether green crimes can fit effectively into existing international criminal law frameworks or not. Chapter authors explore these crimes from both a definitional ...
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    77,01 €

  • Crimes of States and Powerful Elites
    Simon Prideaux
    A collection of case studies investigating the crimes of the powerful, the social harms caused and the perpetuation of inequalities through lack of prosecution. ...
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    180,26 €

  • Über Verbrechen und Straffen (Kommentiert)
    Cesare Beccaria
    'Aus allem bisher Gesagten kann man einen allgemeinen sehr nützlichen Lehrsatz ableiten, der mit dem Herkommen, das doch der gewöhnliche Gesetzgeber der Nation ist, wenig im Einklang steht: damit die Strafe nicht eine Gewalttat eines oder vieler gegen einen einzelnen Bürger sei, muß sie durchaus öffentlich, schnell eintretend, notwendig, so milde wie es die obwaltenden Umstände...
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    12,31 €

  • YANKEE DAWN
    Michael Cumiskey
    Would it be so easy to successfully challenge our democracy and alter our value system?Imagine a wealthy American determined in his belief and practice of the cult of Scientology, landing in Great Britain with the intention of pursuing a wholesale conversion of the country to a very different economic and belief system...In this instance, two serious criminal events presage Sta...
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    13,20 €

  • YANKEE DAWN
    Michael Cumiskey
    Would it be so easy to successfully challenge our democracy and alter our value system?Imagine a wealthy American determined in his belief and practice of the cult of Scientology, landing in Great Britain with the intention of pursuing a wholesale conversion of the country to a very different economic and belief system...In this instance, two serious criminal events presage Sta...
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    19,68 €

  • Good Trouble
    Brian Wolf
    This book is written in praise of the criminal; a unique kind of criminal, who is motivated not by personal gain, but ethical altruism. Deviant heroes are those individuals who violate unjust norms and laws, facing the repercussions of social control, effecting positive social change in the process. Using a method that examines how the biographies of individual deviants interse...
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    54,54 €

  • Historical Mysteries
    Andrew Lang
    First published in 1904, this volume contains a collection of 12 essays written by Scottish author Andrew Lang dealing with various baffling historical mysteries, including the famous Gowrie conspiracy and much-investigated case of Elizabeth Canning. A fantastic collection of detailed examinations concerning some the world’s most unsolvable secrets not to be missed by mystery l...
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    23,32 €

  • Danger! - A True History of a Great City’s Wiles and Temptations
    Abraham H. Hummel / Abraham HHummel / William F. Howe / William FHowe
    “Danger! - A True History of a Great City’s Wiles and Temptations” is an 1886 work by American lawyer William Frederick Howe. Howe worked for the Howe and Hummel New York City law firm, which became widely celebrated during the second half of nineteenth century for its cases related to world of crime and corruption. This volume goes into detail describing some of the firm’s mor...
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    25,52 €

  • Current Issues in Corrections
    Christopher Utecht
    Current Issues in Corrections explores a variety of the most timely and salient challenges facing the correctional system. The text is comprised of chapters written by experts in the field who have experience as both academic and criminal justice practitioners. The book begins with an exploration of issues in private corrections and then moves forward to discuss the history of ...
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    123,79 €

  • Security and Crime
    Alison Wakefield
    International in scope, Security and Crime is an authoritative and multidisciplinary analysis of the relationship between security and crime, addressing much of the confusion about its nature and meaning, clarifying its relevance to criminological analysis, and giving due attention to the interdisciplinary nature of the topic. ...
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    178,25 €

  • Security and Crime
    Alison Wakefield
    International in scope, Security and Crime is an authoritative and multidisciplinary analysis of the relationship between security and crime, addressing much of the confusion about its nature and meaning, clarifying its relevance to criminological analysis, and giving due attention to the interdisciplinary nature of the topic. ...
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    55,41 €

  • Invisible Victims and the Pursuit of Justice
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    216,74 €

  • Killing Justice in the Lone Star State
    Michael O’Brien
    Killing Justice in the Lone Star State is a reality check on active Death Row cases (and some post-execution ones). The book offers a fresh perspective for campaigners and reformers which ranges across theory, policy and practice. It also explains the much criticised Texas ’law of parties.’Many organizations are engaged in a race to prevent the execution of death sentenced pris...
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    35,97 €

  • The Criminal Investigator-Intelligence Analyst’s Handbook of Islam
    William Gawthrop Ph.D.
    The purpose of this text is to provide a handbook of Islam tailored to the needs of the Criminal Investigator and Intelligence Analyst. It draws from the doctrinal sources of Islamic Law, Sunni Tradition, that are overlooked by criminology and counterterrorism references. • The Life of Muhammad: A Translation of Ishaq’s Sirat Rasul Allah • The Quran • Hadith of Bukhari• Hana...
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    29,98 €

  • The Criminal Investigator-Intelligence Analyst’s Handbook of Islam
    William Gawthrop Ph.D.
    The purpose of this text is to provide a handbook of Islam tailored to the needs of the Criminal Investigator and Intelligence Analyst. It draws from the doctrinal sources of Islamic Law, Sunni Tradition, that are overlooked by criminology and counterterrorism references. • The Life of Muhammad: A Translation of Ishaq’s Sirat Rasul Allah • The Quran • Hadith of Bukhari• Hana...
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    23,04 €

  • Mass Mediated Representations of Crime and Criminality
    Julie B. Wiest
    Sponsored by the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association (CITAMS), this volume features social science research that examines the practices, patterns and messages related to representations of crime in mass media around the world. ...
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    167,90 €

  • Crossroads of Rural Crime
    Using the notion of ’crossroads’ to provide a unique lens through which to examine the realities of rural crime, Crossroads of Rural Crime provides an understanding of the nature of rural life and ways in which transgression manifests itself in the context of a presumed rural-urban divide. ...
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    136,07 €

  • Mitigating Mass Violence and Managing Threats in Contemporary Society
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    216,47 €

  • Black resistance to British policing
    Adam Elliott-Cooper
    Using a decade of activist research, this book offers a radical analysis of grassroots black resistance to policing in twenty-first-century Britain. ...
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    53,01 €

  • Love as human virtue and human need and its role in the lives of long-term prisoners
    Christina Valeska Straub
    While the importance of love is rarely questioned, the effects of its presence and absence in certain environments often goes unnoticed. This book analyses the role of love in the lives of prisoners in a low security English prison. It seeks to provide a deeper insight into the meaning and role of love as a dual concept in the social-ecology of human existence, human developmen...
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    70,25 €