Catálogo de libros: Delito y criminología

2736 Catálogo de libros: Delito y criminología

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  • 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 €

  • 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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    166,95 €

  • 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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    51,88 €

  • Invisible Victims and the Pursuit of Justice
    Victims of crime may experience a wide variety of traumas that result in physical, sexual, financial, psychological, emotional, and/or social consequences. While the types of trauma can vary greatly and include lesser-known forms such as vicarious and secondary trauma, identifying and recognizing victims can be complicated. Throughout this book, experts and professionals from a...
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    282,59 €

  • 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 €

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

  • Mitigating Mass Violence and Managing Threats in Contemporary Society
    In a decade that has seen the rise of far-right extremism, Western countries still face myriad threats of mass violence, including terrorism. Of particular concern is the phenomenon of 'lone-wolf terrorism,' whereby acts of political violence are committed by individuals who are operating independently of any organized terrorist group, something which makes them inherently more...
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    282,32 €

  • 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 €

  • Ten Days in a Mad-House;Feigning Insanity in Order to Reveal Asylum Horrors
    Nellie Bly
    Pioneering journalist Nellie Bly went undercover in the late 1800s to shed light on the horrific conditions of Victorian mental asylums. This is the eye-opening account of her experience. Nellie Bly feigned insanity to be admitted to a mental institution with the intent of exposing its awful conditions first-hand. Her account reveals the institution’s inhumane treatment, abuse ...
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    19,05 €

  • 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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    21,16 €

  • Right Here, Right Now
    Lynden Harris
    Upon receiving his execution date, one of the thousands of men living on death row in the United States had an epiphany: 'All there ever is, is this moment. You, me, all of us, right here, right now, this minute, that’s love.' Right Here, Right Now collects the powerful, first-person stories of dozens of men on death rows across the country. From childhood experiences living wi...
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    114,96 €

  • Right Here, Right Now
    Lynden Harris
    Upon receiving his execution date, one of the thousands of men living on death row in the United States had an epiphany: 'All there ever is, is this moment. You, me, all of us, right here, right now, this minute, that’s love.' Right Here, Right Now collects the powerful, first-person stories of dozens of men on death rows across the country. From childhood experiences living wi...
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    21,80 €

  • Information Pollution as Social Harm
    Anita Lavorgna
    By relying on a virtual ethnography approach carried out on Italian-speaking alternative lifestyle and counter-information online communities, this book shows how the nature of personal interactions online and the construction of both personal and group identities, are central to the creation and propagation of medical misinformation. ...
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    88,10 €

  • Killing Cousins
    OJ Modjeska
    After an investigation spanning nearly two years, Los Angeles investigators come up empty in the case of a terrifying serial sex killer.But then, a seemingly unrelated arrest is made across state lines. In book two of Murder by Increments, we journey deeper into the life and mind of the suspect at the center of the case: one of the most confounding and mysterious serial killers...
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    16,39 €

  • Killing Cousins
    OJ Modjeska
    After an investigation spanning nearly two years, Los Angeles investigators come up empty in the case of a terrifying serial sex killer.But then, a seemingly unrelated arrest is made across state lines. In book two of Murder by Increments, we journey deeper into the life and mind of the suspect at the center of the case: one of the most confounding and mysterious serial killers...
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    20,69 €

  • Killing Cousins
    OJ Modjeska
    After an investigation spanning nearly two years, Los Angeles investigators come up empty in the case of a terrifying serial sex killer.But then, a seemingly unrelated arrest is made across state lines. In book two of Murder by Increments, we journey deeper into the life and mind of the suspect at the center of the case: one of the most confounding and mysterious serial killers...
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    29,05 €

  • Killing Cousins
    OJ Modjeska
    After an investigation spanning nearly two years, Los Angeles investigators come up empty in the case of a terrifying serial sex killer.But then, a seemingly unrelated arrest is made across state lines. In book two of Murder by Increments, we journey deeper into the life and mind of the suspect at the center of the case: one of the most confounding and mysterious serial killers...
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    16,30 €

  • Killing Cousins
    OJ Modjeska
    After an investigation spanning nearly two years, Los Angeles investigators come up empty in the case of a terrifying serial sex killer.But then, a seemingly unrelated arrest is made across state lines. In book two of Murder by Increments, we journey deeper into the life and mind of the suspect at the center of the case: one of the most confounding and mysterious serial killers...
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    24,75 €

  • Policing
    Peter Joyce / Wendy Laverick
    The second edition of this lively and comprehensive textbook helps policing students to understand the challenges of modern policing and the current debates associated with the profession, with reference to key topics such as diversity and the police, methods of policing, police accountability, and women in policing. ...
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    65,29 €

  • Policing
    Peter Joyce / Wendy Laverick
    The second edition of this lively and comprehensive textbook helps policing students to understand the challenges of modern policing and the current debates associated with the profession, with reference to key topics such as diversity and the police, methods of policing, police accountability, and women in policing. ...
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    187,28 €

  • Transforming State Responses to Feminicide
    Fiona Macaulay
    This book provides a new, positive story from Latin America by tracing the transformation of state responses to feminicide in Brazil. It is the first single country study to examine how action by the women’s movement has resulted in significant improvements in the investigation, prosecution and prevention of domestic violence and feminicide. ...
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    87,88 €

  • Global Perspectives on People, Process, and Practice in Criminal Justice
    The United States incarcerates nearly one quarter of the world’s prison population with only five percent of its total inhabitants, in addition to a history of using internment camps and reservations. An overreliance on incarceration has emphasized long-standing and systemic racism in criminal justice systems and reveals a need to critically examine current processes in an effo...
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    281,91 €

  • Spiritual Entrepreneurs
    Brad Stoddard
    The overall rate of incarceration in the United States has been on the rise since 1970s, skyrocketing during Ronald Reagan’s presidency, and recently reaching unprecedented highs. Looking for innovative solutions to the crises produced by gigantic prison populations, Florida’s Department of Corrections claims to have found a partial remedy in the form of faith and character-bas...
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    121,70 €


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