Criminal Law category: 2380 books
Rauschdrogen
Marktformen und Wirkungsweisen
Language: German
Release Date: December 9, 2012
Das Werk bietet grundlegende Informationen zu den Wirkungsweisen verschiedener Drogen. Die ausführliche Darstellung in Form eines Nachschlagewerks ermöglicht den Vergleich der jeweiligen Wirkungen. Neben „klassischen“ Drogen wie Kokain werden in der Neuauflage auch vollsynthetische, ursprünglich...
by Kallia Gavela
Language: German
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Language: German
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Das deutsche Strafgesetzbuch kennt keinen Sondertatbestand der Suizidbeteiligung. Rechtliche Konstruktionen und Wertungen insbesondere höchstrichterlicher Herkunft füllen diese Lücke. Die sich daraus vor allem für behandelnde Ärzte ergebenden Probleme drängen sich bei unheilbar kranken, dem...
Dead Man Walking
An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2011
In 1982, Sister Helen Prejean became the spiritual advisor to Patrick Sonnier, the convicted killer of two teenagers who was sentenced to die in the electric chair of Louisiana’s Angola State Prison. In the months before Sonnier’s death, the Roman Catholic nun came to know a man who was as terrified...
Managing Business Integrity
Prevent, Detect, and Investigate White-collar Crime and Corruption
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
This book deals with the highly complex but exciting subject of corporate fraud and corruption, which has since become the cops and robbers game of the 21st century: accounting fraud, embezzlement, bribery and many other forms of corruption and non-compliance cause turmoil between board members, supervisory...
International White Collar Crime
Cases and Materials
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
Contemporary transnational criminals take advantage of globalization, trade liberalization, and emerging new technologies to commit a diverse range of crimes, and to move money, goods, services, and people instantaneously for purposes of pure economic gain and/or political violence. This book captures...
by Curd Cornelius
Language: German
Release Date: May 16, 2014
Language: German
Release Date: May 16, 2014
Durch Zufall erkennt die junge Dänin Claire ihre Fähigkeit zu fliegen. Dumm nur, dass dies im Urlaub in den USA passiert. Zehn lange Jahre wird Claire von Geheimdiensten und Wissenschaftlern durchleuchtet. Ihre Jugend ist trostlos. Doch zum Glück gibt es in Europa Armanda Marbely mit ihrem treuen...
Cannabis
The Illegalization of Weed in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
From the nineteenth century to the twenty-first, cannabis legislation in America and racism have been inextricably linked. In this searing nonfiction graphic novel, Box Brown sets his sights on this timely topic.
Mexico, 1519 CE.
During the Spanish conquests Cortés introduced hemp farming...
The Run of His Life
The People v. O. J. Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The inspiration for American Crime Story: The People v. O. J. Simpson on FX, starring Cuba Gooding, Jr., John Travolta, David Schwimmer, and Connie Britton
The definitive account of the O. J. Simpson trial, The Run of His Life is a prodigious feat of reporting that...
by Douglas Preston
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2008
In the nonfiction tradition of John Berendt and Erik Larson, the author of the #1 NYT bestseller, The Lost City of The Monkey King, presents a gripping account of crime and punishment in the lush hills surrounding Florence, Italy as he seeks to uncover one of the most infamous figures in Italian history.
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by Angela Y. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. As she quite correctly notes, American life is replete with abolition movements, and when they were engaged in these struggles,...
Manual de derecho procesal penal
Principios, derechos y reglas
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 10, 2017
A lo largo de sus seis apartados, en esta obra se expone, con ánimo didáctico, el desarrollo del proceso penal acusatorio en México, se sistematizan los nuevos temas de estudio del derecho procesal en México, al mismo tiempo que se proporcionan herramientas didácticas para la comprensión de...
Drugs, Crime and Public Health
The Political Economy of Drug Policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Drugs, Crime and Public Health provides an accessible but critical discussion of recent policy on illicit drugs. Using a comparative approach - centred on the UK, but with insights and complementary data gathered from the USA and other countries - it discusses theoretical perspectives and provides...
Old Sparky
The Electric Chair and the History of the Death Penalty
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
A shocking exploration of America’s preferred method of capital punishment.
In early 2013, Robert Gleason became the latest victim of the electric chair, a peculiarly American execution method. Shouting Póg mo thóin (Kiss my ass” in Gaelic), he grinned as electricity shot through his...
by Editors of Portable Press
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
These oddball stories about real-life crimes will make you shake your head.
Loaded with dozens of entertaining and amusing articles about actual crimes, this latest book from Portable Press will definitely leave you scratching your head. Dumb crooks, celebrities gone bad, unsolved mysteries,...