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"The crime you'll never see coming. The people you'll never forget. A nineteen-year-old Romanian student stumbles into a criminal ransomware ring in her village. Soon she is extorting Silicon Valley billionaires for millions. A veteran cybersecurity specialist has built a deep network of top-notch hackers in one of the world's largest banks. But then the bank brings in a cadre of ex-military personnel to "help." A cynical Russian only leaves his tiny...
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"The 'mesmerizing... daring and important' story of a risk-taking girlhood spent in a working-class prison town--Andre Dubus III. For Maureen Stanton's proper Catholic mother, the town's maximum security prison was a way to keep her seven children in line ('If you don't behave, I'll put you in Walpole Prison!'). But as the 1970s brought upheaval to America, and the lines between good and bad blurred, Stanton's once-solid family lost its way. A promising...
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Punir est un acte social qui poursuit un but précis. C'est aussi une façon de tenter de faire valoir des valeurs prédominantes au moment o le jugement est prononcé. Être puni, c'est subir une souffrance déterminée socialement au nom de la protection de l'ordre public. L'ensemble soulève des questions qu'il convient de mettre en lumière. Les débats font rage autour de la pénalité contemporaine. Pour certains, nous punissons trop — trop...
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S'appuyant sur des données empiriques riches et variées, ce livre porte sur les homicides perpétrés dans quatre pays d'Afrique de l'Ouest francophone. Ses auteurs décrivent et analysent toutes les manifestations de la violence criminelle — qu'il s'agisse de vengeance ou d'autodéfense, d'infanticide, de vol, ou de crime rituel — et se font un devoir d'indiquer des pistes de solution réalistes.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the inadequacies of the state's response to public health and public order issues through deeply flawed legislation. Written in the context of the #Blacklivesmatter protests, this book explores why law enforcement responses to a public health emergency are prioritised over welfare provision and what this tells us about the state's criminal justice institutions. Informing scholarly, civic and activist thinking...
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This book is one of the great 20th century classics on the historical, cultural and social role of stigma in societies everywhere, but especially Western Society. Shoham, his erudition on display like no other, explores what it means to be stigmatized and how society becomes differentiated between "us" and "them." The case study on Jean Genet, famous playwright and infamous thief, is an essay of genius, surpassing, some say, Sartre's Saint Genet....
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Get the Summary of Vincent Bugliosi's Helter Skelter in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Helter Skelter" recounts the chilling events and investigation of the Tate-LaBianca murders orchestrated by Charles Manson and his followers. On a hot night in Los Angeles, the home of actress Sharon Tate became the scene of a brutal crime, leaving multiple victims, including a pregnant Tate, savagely murdered. The investigation,...
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The Short Guide to Criminal Justice provides a comprehensive, yet concise, introduction to the current state of the criminal justice system in the United Kingdom. Avoiding an overtly legalistic or philosophical approach, it offers an accessible entry point for students and researchers across disciplines, including many student-friendly features such as case study boxes, tables showing key facts and figures and links to data sources and further reading....
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Throughout history there has always been an 'other', often based on culture, race, gender or class, that has been demonised by the majority. This attribution of negative features onto others affects everyone, but Whitehead challenges the idea that this is an inevitable fact of life. While looking at the historical criminalisation of the 'other' and the subsequent modernising transformations in criminal justice and penal policy, such as 'Big Society',...
10) C4LEO: Communication for Law Enforcement: Promoting Police Legitimacy through Procedural Justice
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In an era marked by a perceived decline in police legitimacy, it becomes increasingly important for law enforcement professionals to develop effective communications strategies. C4LEO not only examines contemporary explanations for a decline in police-public relations; C4LEO provides an evidence-based plan that law enforcement professionals and police leaders can use as a roadmap to improve their relationships with their citizens.
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Secrets of The Dark Knight Revealed! It's all about Vengeance! The authors of this landmark book are eminent criminologists who have brought together insights from history, anthropology, sociology, classical and literary studies, and mythology, that greatly enlarge our understanding of the problems of violence, criminal justice, and vigilantism in modern society. Drawing upon such diverse representations of vengeance as Greek mythology, the plays...
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Dans un monde o les opérations policières de paix se substituent graduellement aux opérations exclusivement militaires, à quels défis organisationnels les services de police contributeurs et les sociétés htes sont-ils confrontés? Quelles sont les motivations institutionnelles et individuelles à participer à de telles opérations? Quels liens unissent les contingents internationaux aux polices locales et aux autres acteurs du maintien de...
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How many people are imprisoned across the globe? What factors can help explain variations in the use of imprisonment in different countries? What ethical considerations should apply to the way imprisonment is used? Providing a comprehensive account of prison populations worldwide, this new work links prison statistics from the last 15 years with considerations of how prisons and prison populations are managed. With commentary from its well-known,...
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Way ahead of its time, in this classic text the authors convincingly introduce social science theory and methods to the field of private security. While they deal with the various approaches to private security including management styles and adaptations of regular policing styles, the significant innovation is the introduction of situational crime prevention -- at the time virtually unknown in the private policing field -- as a major tool of private...
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Get the Summary of Patrick Kennedy & Robyn Maharaj's Grilling Dahmer in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Grilling Dahmer" by Patrick Kennedy and Robyn Maharaj delves into the chilling case of Jeffrey Dahmer, a notorious serial killer whose gruesome acts shocked Milwaukee and the world. The book juxtaposes the release of the film "The Silence of the Lambs" with the real-life horror unfolding in Dahmer's apartment....
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Discussing illegal drugs without taking into account its criminal context is a difficult proposition. Certain questions come back repeatedly: Does doing drugs really lead to delinquency? Do some drugs have criminal properties? Why would a drug addict turn to crime? What are the best methods of intervention in dealing with individuals who have serious drug habits?
The third edition of Drogue et criminalité: Une relation complexe (Les Presses de l'Université...
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Get the Summary of Tom Wright & Bradley Hope's Billion Dollar Whale in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: In 2009, a chubby, mild-mannered graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business named Jho Low set in motion a fraud of unprecedented gall and magnitude - one that would come to symbolize the next great threat to the global financial system. Over a decade, Low,...
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Noted Attorney and Seminary Graduate Matthew T. Martens Answers the Question: Does the Design and Operation of the American Criminal Justice System Reflect Christian Love of Neighbor?
Jesus told his followers that the entirety of the Old Testament's law is encapsulated in the commands to love God and to love their neighbors as themselves. In Reforming Criminal Justice: A Christian Proposal, Matthew T. Martens argues that love of neighbor must be...
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This primer covers all the classic theory and research on the sociology of crime. CONTENTS: 1. Criminology and Social Deviance. 2. Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Criminology. 3. Ecological Theories of Crime and Delinquency. 4. Anomie and Social Deviance: Strain Theories. 5. Differential Association and its Progeny. 6. Control Theories of Crime and Delinquency. 7. Social Reaction to Crime: Stigma and Interaction. 8. Conflict and Radical Perspectives...
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