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Love give us one death
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ISBN: 1680030981 9781680030983 9781680030976 1680030973 Year: 2016 Publisher: Huntsville, Texas

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"Bonnie and Clyde are the most famous outlaw pair in American history, children of the Dust Bowl, illicit lovers whose criminal run inspired fear and admiration in a country desperate for antiheroes. Their bloody path, spoking outward from their family homes in Dallas, ranged across the Southwest, the desiccated southern plains, and the Midwest. Frank Hamer, the legendary Texas Ranger, was hired to stop them. The story of their death on a lonely Louisiana back road, as well as their short life together, is a story of a nation reaping the results of environmental degradation, injustice, and greed"--Provided by publisher.


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Crime & security in Trinidad and Tobago
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ISBN: 9766379335 9789766379339 9789766379100 9766379106 Year: 2016 Publisher: Kingston ; Miami : Ian Randle Publishers,


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The executioner's journal : Meister Frantz Schmidt of the imperial city of Nuremberg
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ISBN: 0813938716 9780813938714 9780813938691 0813938694 9780813938707 0813938708 Year: 2016 Publisher: Charlottesville, Virginia ; London, [England] : University of Virginia Press,


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Migration of unaccompanied children from Central America : causes, assistance and effectiveness
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ISBN: 1634846052 9781634846059 9781634846042 Year: 2016 Publisher: New York, [New York] : Nova Publishers,

Crime, gender and consumer culture in nineteenth-century England
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ISBN: 1138251429 1315258943 0754652076 1351947575 9781351947572 9780754652076 9781315258942 9781351947558 9781138251427 1351947567 Year: 2016 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,


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The myth of mob rule : violent crime and democratic politics
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ISBN: 0190228725 0190228717 0190602376 Year: 2016 Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press,

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Drawing on a comparative analysis of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands, this book explores when and with what consequences crime becomes a politically salient issue. Reversing much of the conventional wisdom, the analysis finds that serious violence and public and political attention to it are highly correlated and that the United States has high levels of both crime and punishment, in part, because it suffers from a democratic deficit, rather than a surplus, in the production of fundamental collective goods, including risk of violence.


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From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime
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ISBN: 0674737237 0674969200 0674969227 9780674969209 9780674969223 Year: 2016 Publisher: Cambridge, MA

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"In the United States today, one in every 31 adults is under some form of penal control, including one in eleven African American men. How did the "land of the free" become the home of the world's largest prison system? Challenging the belief that America's prison problem originated with the Reagan administration's War on Drugs, Elizabeth Hinton traces the rise of mass incarceration to an ironic source: the social welfare programs of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society at the height of the civil rights era. Johnson's War on Poverty policies sought to foster equality and economic opportunity. But these initiatives were also rooted in widely shared assumptions about African Americans' role in urban disorder, which prompted Johnson to call for a simultaneous War on Crime. The 1965 Law Enforcement Assistance Act empowered the national government to take a direct role in militarizing local police. Federal anticrime funding soon incentivized social service providers to ally with police departments, courts, and prisons. Under Richard Nixon and his successors, welfare programs fell by the wayside while investment in policing and punishment expanded. Anticipating future crime, policy makers urged states to build new prisons and introduced law enforcement measures into urban schools and public housing, turning neighborhoods into targets of police surveillance. By the 1980s, crime control and incarceration dominated national responses to poverty and inequality. The initiatives of that decade were less a sharp departure than the full realization of the punitive transformation of urban policy implemented by Republicans and Democrats alike since the 1960s"--Provided by publisher.


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Infanticide, secular justice, and religious debate in Early Modern Europe
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ISBN: 9782503531748 2503531741 Year: 2016 Volume: 10 Publisher: Turnhout, Belgium Brepols

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This book focuses on an obscure case of infanticide (18th century) in order to pursue a heated debate on the essence of life and the nature of the soul, where theological, moral and scientific principles come into conflict. On 5 December 1709 in Bologna Lucia Cremonini is accused of a terrible crime: the murder of her newborn son. This tragic episode, exhumed from the depths of time, is placed at the centre of an enthralling study by one of the leading scholars of modern history and the history of religious beliefs. During the course of a dramatic trial the crime is debated by representatives of religious, philosophical, moral, and scientific culture, all characteristic of the formative period of the modern world and all seeking a convincing answer to fundamental questions.


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Prison Vocational Education and Policy in the United States : A Critical Perspective on Evidence-Based Reform
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ISBN: 1137564687 1137564695 Year: 2016 Publisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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This book explores California’s prison system in the context of vocational education reform. For prisons in the early twenty-first century, ideologies of evidence-based management meant that reform efforts to change the purpose of prisons from punishment to rehabilitation through vocational education required “evidence” to justify policy prescriptions. Yet who determines what constitutes evidence? In political environments, solutions are typically pre-conceived, which means that the nature of the evidence collected is also preconceived. As a result, key assumptions about outcomes are often wished away to show improvement and be accountable. Through a detailed analysis interspersed with stories from the authors’ experiences “behind the wall” among California’s prison population, the authors challenge the nature of evidence-based research as used in the prison environment. In the process they describe the thorny problems facing reformers.


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La mort du bourreau : reflexions interdisciplinaires sur le cadavre des criminels de masse
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ISBN: 9782847431513 2847431519 Year: 2016 Publisher: Paris Pétra

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Que faire de la dépouille d'un Milosevic, d'un Pinochet ou d'un Ben Laden ? Mêlant droit, histoire, anthropologie, littérature et psychologie, ces études abordent les modalités de la mort des criminels de guerre, génocidaires, dictateurs ou tyrans, le traitement post mortem de leur corps et la question de la patrimonialisation face aux exigences de la justice et de réparation. Electre 2017

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