Criminal Law category: 2380 books
La corruzione passiva del pubblico ufficiale straniero
Repressione nell'ambito del contrasto della criminalità organizzata
Language: Italian
Release Date: August 29, 2017
La monografia scientifica destinata agli operatori del diritto, esamina il quadro normativo internazionale e nazionale in materia di repressione della corruzione passiva internazionale, evidenziandone le limitazioni. Al riguardo, valutate in prospettiva comparatistica la prassi statunitense e le discendenti...
Murder in the Bayou
Who Killed the Women Known as the Jeff Davis 8?
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
New York Times Bestseller
A Southern Living Book of the Year
“Part murder case, part corruption exposé, and part Louisiana noir” (New York magazine), Murder in the Bayou chronicles the twists and turns of a high-stakes investigation into the murders of eight women in a troubled Louisiana...
Str8 Outta Maximum Security: Tales From The Inside
Str8 Outta Maximum Security: Tales From The Inside
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2018
Mac provides a raw, realistic and comprehensive look inside the nations maximum-security prison system. If you have ever wondered what really goes on on the inside, this is the book for you.
Burning Rainbow Farm
How a Stoner Utopia Went Up in Smoke
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
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On a mission to build a peaceful, pot-friendly Shangri-La, Tom Crosslin and his lover Rollie Rohm founded Rainbow Farm, a well-appointed campground and concert venue tucked away in rural Southwest Michigan. The farm quickly became the center of marijuana and environmental...
Wolf Boys
Two American Teenagers and Mexico's Most Dangerous Drug Cartel
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
The tale of two American teenagers recruited as killers for a Mexican cartel, and the Mexican-American detective who realizes the War on Drugs is unstoppable. “A hell of a story…undeniably gripping.” (The New York Times)
In this astonishing story, journalist Dan Slater recounts the unforgettable...
Amnesties, Pardons and Transitional Justice
Spain's Pact of Forgetting
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
In a consolidated democracy, amnesties and pardons do not sit well with equality and a separation of powers; however, these measures have proved useful in extreme circumstances, such as transitions from dictatorships to democracies, as has occurred in Greece, Portugal and Spain. Focusing on Spain,...
Stalling for Time
My Life as an FBI Hostage Negotiator
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
The FBI’s chief hostage negotiator recounts harrowing standoffs, including the Waco siege with David Koresh and the Branch Davidians, in a memoir that serves as a basis for the upcoming series Waco.
In Stalling for Time, the FBI’s chief hostage negotiator takes readers on a harrowing tour...
Punishment and Modern Society
A Study in Social Theory
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
In this path-breaking book, David Garland argues that punishment is a complex social institution that affects both social relations and cultural meanings. Drawing on theorists from Durkheim to Foucault, he insightfully critiques the entire spectrum of social thought concerning punishment, and reworks...
I Don't Wish Nobody to Have a Life Like Mine
Tales of Kids in Adult Lockup
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Since the early 1990s, thanks to inflamed rhetoric in the media about “superpredators” and a wave of get-tough-on-crime laws, the number of juveniles in prison has risen by 35 percent, according to the U.S. Department of Justice, and their placement in adult prison has increased by 208 percent,...
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Language: Italian
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Il connubio fra sport e luoghi di vacanza è da tempo parte integrante delle strategie del marketing turistico. Garantire la sicurezza degli sport funzionali alla fruizione turistica è sempre più importante per assecondare la competitività dell’offerta rivolta al turista. Prosegue nel solco di...
Among the Lowest of the Dead
The Culture of Capital Punishment
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2010
Thorough and unbiased, Among the Lowest of the Dead is a gripping narrative that provides an unprecedented journalistic look into the actual workings of the capital punishment system.
"Has all the tension of the best true crime stories . . . This is journalism at its best."
--Library...
Criminology Goes to the Movies
Crime Theory and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
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...
What is Criminology About?
Philosophical Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Since its inception, criminology has had trouble answering the question of what it is about. But although many consider the answer to this question to be self-evident, this book pursues the provocative possibility that criminology does not know what the object of its study is; it merely knows what...
When Lawyers Screw Up
Improving Access to Justice for Legal Malpractice Victims
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Unhappy clients bring thousands of legal malpractice claims every year, against mega law firms and solo practitioners, for simple errors or egregious misconduct, and for losses than can reach $100 million or more. This in an industry, legal services, generating nearly $300 billion a year in revenue...