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  • Privatising Justice
    John Lea / Wendy Fitzgibbon
    Privatising Justice takes a broad historical view of the role of the private sector in the British state, from private policing and mercenaries in the eighteenth century to the modern rise of the private security industry in armed conflict, policing and the penal system.The development of the welfare state is seen as central to the decline of what the authors call ’old privatis...
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    38,28 €

  • Privatising Justice
    John Lea / Wendy Fitzgibbon
    Privatising Justice takes a broad historical view of the role of the private sector in the British state, from private policing and mercenaries in the eighteenth century to the modern rise of the private security industry in armed conflict, policing and the penal system.The development of the welfare state is seen as central to the decline of what the authors call ’old privatis...
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    127,13 €

  • County Lines
    Simon Harding
    Drawing upon extensive research amongst gang members, dealers and drug users, this timely book provides a comprehensive insight into the ‘County Lines’ phenomenon. Shedding new light on this urgent topic on government agendas, this is an invaluable contribution to the literature on gangs, youth violence and organised crime ...
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    106,66 €

  • County Lines
    Simon Harding
    Drawing upon extensive research amongst gang members, dealers and drug users, this timely book provides a comprehensive insight into the ‘County Lines’ phenomenon. Shedding new light on this urgent topic on government agendas, this is an invaluable contribution to the literature on gangs, youth violence and organised crime ...
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    51,46 €

  • The Good Lessons
    Arturo Hernandez-Sametier
    'A necessary read for anyone serious about personal transformation and peace in our communities.' Luis Rodriguez, Poet Laureate of Los Angeles, and author of 'Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A.'A provocative, inspiring, and highly original take on the education and healing of troubled, alienated and gang involved youth. These are beautiful, harrowing stories of tra...
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    7,78 €

  • Feeling the heat
    Alan March / James Ogloff / Janet Stanley
    In the context of climate change, world population growth and crashing ecological systems, wildfire is often a catastrophic and traumatic event. Its impact can include loss of life, life-changing injuries, long-term psychological stress; increases in domestic violence; destruction of properties, business and livestock; long-term housing insecurity; increased insurance premiums,...
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    84,94 €

  • LIFE episode 2
    Richard Houdershell
    Violence is the basis upon which prison life is built. We all know this. What we sometimes forget is that there is much more to this small but deadly cosmos that surrounds those within. This book takes the reader on a special journey through aspects of prison life we never see. An insiders look and feel for what it is to leave freedom and the dangers and adaptations within.From...
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    20,95 €

  • Code Blue
    Jamell Crouthers
    The end of the series, Gary has gained his sanity back along with his soul. He continues to expose truths that he’s experienced and dealt with. He begins to build back the relationships he has with his family and friends. He also goes through a lot of emotions to end the series as he speaks his truth about life, the police force and how society has changed in so many ways in re...
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    10,49 €

  • Changing Times
    Many times, the police are the first to respond to an individual in crisis; even those involving mentally ill. While we see evidence of positive change, there are still shortcomings when it comes to criminal justice response in the behavioral health system. There is a lack of access, availability, continuity, coordination, and responsiveness. But we see accomplishments to chang...
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    87,41 €

  • Raising Moral Barriers
    Teun Van Ruitenburg
    This book is about the concerns and unremitting attempts of Dutch state authorities to control and raise barriers against outlaw motorcycle gangs. It discusses how Dutch mayors go to great lengths to prevent the settlement of outlaw motorcycle gangs in clubhouses and bars; how state authorities look for ways to divert members away from civil service and private security compani...
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    130,97 €

  • Crime, Security and Global Politics
    Anja P. Jakobi
    This engaging new textbook presents a comprehensive, nuanced and multidimensional perspective on global crime and its governance. As global criminal activity becomes increasingly sophisticated and elusive, so the means to counter it must adapt. Every day our news media is dominated by incidents that span countries and continents, often presented as an all-encompassing threat or...
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    57,43 €

  • A Hard Cell
    Bob Bates
    A TRUE LOOK INSIDE THE US CORRECTIONAL SYSTEMApril 2, 2015 started like any other day for reserve deputy Bob Bates. He left his home in South Tulsa to report to the sheriff ’s office. Their mission—apprehend a criminal by the name of Eric Harris. Unfortunately, Harris would not live through the night, and the course of events that transpired would change Bob’s life forever.In A...
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    17,27 €

  • A History of the Assessment of Sex Offenders
    D. Richard Laws
    There are many varieties of procedures to assess criminal and sex offenders that have emerged throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. This book is an attempt to bridge that gap, to provide some historical background of sex offender assessment from 1830 to the present. ...
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    142,89 €

  • Punishment and Society
    Breea Willingham
    Punishment and Society features a distinct focus on the societal impact of incarceration, rather than the institutions of prison and jail. The anthology provides students with diverse perspectives regarding imprisonment from those who are experiencing and directly affected by incarceration. Readers learn about the widespread impact of punishment and incarceration not only from ...
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    92,25 €

  • Transnational Organized Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean
    R. Evan Ellis / REvan Ellis
    Transnational Organized Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean: From Evolving Threats and Responses to Integrated, Adaptive Solutions provides a comprehensive overview of and introduction to transnational organized crime in Latin America for the student and practitioner. It addresses the geography of illicit activities, including relationships between source, transit, and con...
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    54,40 €

  • Contemporary Issues in Victimology
    Contemporary Issues in Victimology: Identifying Patterns and Trends examines current topics in victimology and explores the main issues surrounding them. Key topics include: intimate partner violence and dating violence, rape and sexual assault on the college campus, Internet victimization, elder abuse, victimization of inmates, repeat and poly-victimization, fear of crime and ...
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    54,17 €

  • Occupied Territory
    Simon Balto
    In July 1919, an explosive race riot forever changed Chicago. For years, black southerners had been leaving the South as part of the Great Migration. Their arrival in Chicago drew the ire and scorn of many local whites, including members of the city’s political leadership and police department, who generally sympathized with white Chicagoans and viewed black migrants as a probl...
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    50,78 €

  • City of Inmates
    Kelly Lytle Hernández
    Los Angeles incarcerates more people than any other city in the United States, which imprisons more people than any other nation on Earth. This book explains how the City of Angels became the capital city of the world’s leading incarcerator. Marshaling more than two centuries of evidence, historian Kelly Lytle Hernandez unmasks how histories of native elimination, immigrant exc...
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    44,44 €

  • Policing Los Angeles
    Max Felker-Kantor
    When the Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts erupted in violent protest in August 1965, the uprising drew strength from decades of pent-up frustration with employment discrimination, residential segregation, and poverty. But the more immediate grievance was anger at the racist and abusive practices of the Los Angeles Police Department. Yet in the decades after Watts, the LAPD res...
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    50,64 €

  • ON THE OTHER SIDE BARS
    Dan M. Reynolds
    Author DAN REYNOLDS has written an enthralling account of a decades-long career in Oklahomacorrections. In On the Other Side of the Bars, he describes his first execution as a warden after onlyninety days on the job to the moments of seeing the wisdom of experience come to fruition.For those considering entering a career in corrections, he also details the most critical compone...
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    12,02 €

  • Labelled a Black Villain
    Trevor Hercules
    Heavily featured in the media when it first appeared, Trevor Hercules has now updated and added to a work that led to his involvement challenging Government ministers and MPs on youth and black crime. Part biography, part critique of the system, part innovative proposals, this book is essential reading at a time of gun, knife and gang crime.Heavily influenced by the author’s th...
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    35,93 €

  • Cybercrimes
    Anita Lavorgna
    This new textbook offers a systematic introduction to a wide array of cybercrimes, exploring their diversity and the range of possible responses to them. Combining coverage of theoretical perspectives with more technical knowledge, the book is divided into ten chapters which first lay the foundations of the topic and then consider the most important types of cybercrimes - from ...
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    54,86 €

  • Cybercrimes
    Anita Lavorgna
    This new textbook offers a systematic introduction to a wide array of cybercrimes, exploring their diversity and the range of possible responses to them. Combining coverage of theoretical perspectives with more technical knowledge, the book is divided into ten chapters which first lay the foundations of the topic and then consider the most important types of cybercrimes - from ...
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    160,70 €

  • Life
    Richard Houdershell
    Wir alle haben schon sowohl in Gefängnisfilmen als auchden Nachrichten gesehen, wie Verbrecher festgenommen,abgeführt und dann eingesperrt werden.Was passiert mit ihrem Körper und ihrer Psyche, nachdemsich die Zellentür hinter ihnen das erste Mal geschlossenhat und die Kameras nicht mehr laufen? Welche Schocks,Überraschungen und unfreiwilligen Veränderungenerwarten sie? Was g...
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    18,16 €

  • Life
    Richard Houdershell
    A German boy who emigrates to America at the age of three, experiences severe sexual and physical abuse, ultimately ending up in this spiral of violence himself. When he is 13, the father dies on Christmas Eve, which tears him and his mother into the abyss. Out of desperation, his mom dives into Church and college studies, leaving him to his own devices where he then falls into...
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    14,44 €

  • Violence
    Alex Alvarez / Ronet D. Bachman
    Violence: The Enduring Problem offers an interdisciplinary and reader-friendly exploration of the patterns and correlations of individual and collective violent acts using the most contemporary research, theories, and cases. Responding to the fear of pervasive violence in the world, authors Alex Alvarez and Ronet Bachman address the various legislative, social, and political ef...
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    191,14 €

  • Acts of Violence in the School Setting
    Kimberly A. McCabe / Kimberly AMcCabe
    Since the year 2000, there have been approximately 200 school shootings in the United States. Unfortunately, this is not simply a U.S. problem. In 2017, a 15-year-old Canadian male student committed suicide after shooting two other students and a teacher. During that same year, in Brazil, a private school student fatally shot two classmates and injured four. In 2018, a 13-year-...
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    114,99 €

  • Live from Death Row
    Mumia Abu-Jamal
    'A rare and courageous voice speaking from a place we fear to know: Mumia Abu-Jamal must be heard.' --Alice Walker'Resonates with the moral force of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Letter From Birmingham Jail.' -Boston GlobeAfter twenty years on death row, Mumia Abu-Jamal was released from his death sentence . . . but not the conviction. This once prominent radio reporter was convict...
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    16,65 €

  • Those Who Know Don’t Say
    Garrett Felber
    Challenging incarceration and policing was central to the postwar Black Freedom Movement. In this bold new political and intellectual history of the Nation of Islam, Garrett Felber centers the Nation in the Civil Rights Era and the making of the modern carceral state. In doing so, he reveals a multifaceted freedom struggle that focused as much on policing and prisons as on scho...
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    126,93 €

  • Those Who Know Don’t Say
    Garrett Felber
    Challenging incarceration and policing was central to the postwar Black Freedom Movement. In this bold new political and intellectual history of the Nation of Islam, Garrett Felber centers the Nation in the Civil Rights Era and the making of the modern carceral state. In doing so, he reveals a multifaceted freedom struggle that focused as much on policing and prisons as on scho...
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    35,46 €


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