Indecent Exposure: A True Story of Hollywood and Wall Street
ISBN: 9780060508159 / Angielski / Miękka / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) When the head of Columbia Pictures, David Begelman, got caught forging Cliff Robertson's name on a $10,000 check, it seemed, at first, like a simple case of embezzlement. It wasn't. The incident was the tip of the iceberg, the first hint of a scandal that shook Hollywood and rattled Wall Street. Soon powerful studio executives were engulfed in controversy; careers derailed; reputations died; and a ruthless, take-no-prisoners corporate power struggle for the world-famous Hollywood dream factory began. First published in 1982, this now classic story of greed and lies in Tinseltown... When the head of Columbia Pictures, David Begelman, got caught forging Cliff Robertson's name on a $10,000 check, it seemed, at first, like a simpl... |
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76,88 zł |
Dangerous Doses: A True Story of Cops, Counterfeiters, and the Contamination of America's Drug Supply
ISBN: 9780156030854 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In the tradition of the great investigative classics, Dangerous Doses exposes the dark side of America's pharmaceutical trade. Stolen, compromised, and counterfeit medicine increasingly makes its way into a poorly regulated distribution system--where it may reach unsuspecting patients who stake their lives on its effectiveness.
Katherine Eban's hard-hitting exploration of America's secret ring of drug counterfeiters takes us to Florida, where tireless investigators follow the trail of medicine stolen in a seemingly minor break-in as it funnels into a sprawling national... In the tradition of the great investigative classics, Dangerous Doses exposes the dark side of America's pharmaceutical trade. Stolen, compromi...
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119,66 zł |
Blood Justice: The Lynching of Mack Charles Parker
ISBN: 9780195054293 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Based on previously unreleased FBI and Justice Department documents, extensive interviews with many of the surviving principals involved in the case, and a variety of newspaper accounts, Smead meticulously reconstructs the full story of one of the last lynchings in America, detailing a grim, dramatic, but nearly forgotten episode from the Civil Rights era.
In 1959, a white mob in Poplarville, Mississippi abducted a young black man named Mack Charles Parker--recently charged with the rape of a white woman--from his jail cell, beat him, carried him across state lines, finally shot him, and... Based on previously unreleased FBI and Justice Department documents, extensive interviews with many of the surviving principals involved in the case, ...
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94,70 zł |
Street Gang Patterns and Policies
ISBN: 9780195163445 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In the past two decades, many prevention and suppression programs have been initiated on a national and local level to combat street gangs--but what do we really know about them? Why do youths join them? Why do they proliferate? Street Gang Patterns and Policies is a crucial update and critical examination of our understanding of gangs and major gang-control programs across the nation. Often perceived solely as an urban issue, street gangs are also a suburban and rural dilemma. Klein and Maxson focus on gang proliferation, migration, and crime patterns, and highlight known risk...
In the past two decades, many prevention and suppression programs have been initiated on a national and local level to combat street gangs--but what d...
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232,29 zł |
Crime and Markets: Essays in Anti-Criminology
ISBN: 9780198268383 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This book examines a range of criminal activities conducted in different European contexts. Offences committed by individuals and groups endowed with different resources and status are examined. Each chapter contains an implicit rejection of generalizations and attention is paid to variations and differences. Rather than searching for a unified theory of crime, the author highlights the interpretive oscillations, which always occur when we are faced with criminal behaviour. In other words, each time we subscribe to one cause of crime we may realize that also the opposite cause possesses some...
This book examines a range of criminal activities conducted in different European contexts. Offences committed by individuals and groups endowed with ...
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414,16 zł |
Crime and Markets: Essays in Anti-Criminology
ISBN: 9780199248117 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This book examines a range of criminal activities conducted in different European contexts. Offences committed by individuals and groups endowed with different resources and status are examined. Each chapter contains an implicit rejection of generalizations and attention is paid to variations and differences. Rather than searching for a unified theory of crime, the author highlights the interpretive oscillations, which always occur when we are faced with criminal behaviour. In other words, each time we subscribe to one cause of crime we may realize that also the opposite cause possesses some...
This book examines a range of criminal activities conducted in different European contexts. Offences committed by individuals and groups endowed with ...
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271,66 zł |
Banking on Fraud: Drexel, Junk Bonds, and Buyouts
ISBN: 9780202304663 / Angielski / Miękka / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In analyzing the fraud-facilitated leveraged buyouts engineered by Michael Milken and the firm of Drexel Burnham Lambert, the author suggests that such buyouts have multiple and extensive consequences for the organization of business and the economy. Zey also demonstrates how ordinary bond trading networks were linked to the extraordinary networks of the Boesky Organizations and Employee Private Partnerships in order to defraud bond issuers and buyers. This book debunks the myth of rational economic organization in the 1980s and establishes broad implications for theories of... In analyzing the fraud-facilitated leveraged buyouts engineered by Michael Milken and the firm of Drexel Burnham Lambert, the author suggests that ... |
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228,18 zł |
Corrupt Exchanges: Actors, Resources, and Mechanisms of Political Corruption
ISBN: 9780202306001 / Angielski / Miękka / 329 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Political corruption has traditionally been presented as a phenomenon characteristic of developing countries, authoritarian regimes, or societies in which the value system favored tacit patrimony and clientelism. Recently, however, the thesis of an inverse correlation between corruption and economic and political development (and therefore democratic "maturity") has been frequently and convincingly challenged. Countries with a long democratic tradition, such as the United States, Belgium, Britain, and Italy, have all experienced a combination of headline-grabbing scandals and smaller-scale...
Political corruption has traditionally been presented as a phenomenon characteristic of developing countries, authoritarian regimes, or societies in w...
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238,55 zł |
Hate Crimes: New Social Movements and the Politics of Violence
ISBN: 9780202306025 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In addressing a timely set of questions about the politics and dynamics of inter-group violence manifest as discrimination, this volume explores such issues as why injuries against some groups of people (Jews, people of color, gays and lesbians, and, sometimes, women, and those with disabilities) capture notice, while similar acts of bias-motivated violence against others continue to go unnoticed. Throughout, the authors develop a compelling argument about the social processes through which new social problems emerge, social policy is developed and diffused, and new cultural forms are...
In addressing a timely set of questions about the politics and dynamics of inter-group violence manifest as discrimination, this volume explores such ...
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228,18 zł |
Robbing Drug Dealers: Violence Beyond the Law
ISBN: 9780202306476 / Angielski / Twarda / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This volume fills a research gap of striking proportions by exploring the contingencies that mediate the crimes perpetrated on those who are themselves perpetrators. The notion that violence is something that happens only to law-abiding citizens is both widely held and inaccurate. The disproportionate share of victims of crime are, in reality, themselves involved in crime. Yet existing scholarship has failed to explore the contingencies that mediate offenses like drug robbery--from the forces that inspire it, to the methods used to select targets, to the means employed to generate... This volume fills a research gap of striking proportions by exploring the contingencies that mediate the crimes perpetrated on those who are thems... |
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700,25 zł |
Robbing Drug Dealers: Violence Beyond the Law
ISBN: 9780202306483 / Angielski / Miękka / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This volume fills a research gap of striking proportions by exploring the contingencies that mediate the crimes perpetrated on those who are themselves perpetrators. The notion that violence is something that happens only to law-abiding citizens is both widely held and inaccurate. The disproportionate share of victims of crime are, in reality, themselves involved in crime. Yet existing scholarship has failed to explore the contingencies that mediate offenses like drug robbery--from the forces that inspire it, to the methods used to select targets, to the means employed to generate... This volume fills a research gap of striking proportions by exploring the contingencies that mediate the crimes perpetrated on those who are thems... |
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238,55 zł |
Courting Disaster: Intimate Stalking, Culture and Criminal Justice
ISBN: 9780202306612 / Angielski / Twarda / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This book is about women who are coerced, intimidated, and stalked by former intimates. It is about the things these women do to manage this situation, and what happens to them as a consequence. Stalking is a behavior that has relatively recently been defined as problematic, and as criminal when violence or the threat of violence occurs. This new category of crime has created a new type of victim. How such victims come into being, interact with their former partners, and seek help, is the subject of this book. It is also about living through what some women consider a form of secondary... This book is about women who are coerced, intimidated, and stalked by former intimates. It is about the things these women do to manage this situa... |
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518,65 zł |
Courting Disaster: Intimate Stalking, Culture and Criminal Justice
ISBN: 9780202306629 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In this fi rst book on the subject by a sociologist, Dunn offers a wide-ranging, thought-provoking, and sensitive examination of the lived experience of intimate stalking victimization. In exploring the ways in which we socially construct and confer meaning upon intimate violence, the author draws upon interviews with stalkers and victims, courtroom testimony, analyses of case reports, and an independent survey instrument that reveals ambivalence of the prevailing culture to the problem. Courting Disaster will be valuable in women's studies and counseling courses and a useful text in...
In this fi rst book on the subject by a sociologist, Dunn offers a wide-ranging, thought-provoking, and sensitive examination of the lived experience ...
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228,18 zł |
White-Collar Criminal: The Offender in Business and the Professions
ISBN: 9780202308951 / Angielski / Miękka / 462 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In his presidential address to the American Sociological Society more than half a century ago, Edwin H. Sutherland advanced the idea that crime was being perpetrated by members of society who are considered "normal," "affluent," and "well-adjusted." This notion of a new criminal class played havoc with the traditional theories of crime causation and directed considerable research away from the criminal at war with society to the criminal nestled snugly in society's lap. Since then, the concept of "white-collar crime" has become even more important for the understanding not only of criminal...
In his presidential address to the American Sociological Society more than half a century ago, Edwin H. Sutherland advanced the idea that crime was be...
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228,18 zł |
The Pursuit of Absolute Integrity: How Corruption Control Makes Government Ineffective
ISBN: 9780226020518 / Angielski / Twarda / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In this comprehensive and controversial case study of anticorruption efforts, Frank Anechiarico and James B. Jacobs show how the proliferating regulations and oversight mechanisms designed to prevent or root out corruption seriously undermine our ability to govern. By constraining decision makers' discretion, shaping priorities, and causing delays, corruption control no less than corruption itself has contributed to the contemporary crisis in public administration.
"Anechiarico and Jacobs . . . have pushed aside the claims and posturing by officials and reformers and revealed a critical... In this comprehensive and controversial case study of anticorruption efforts, Frank Anechiarico and James B. Jacobs show how the proliferating regulat...
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436,80 zł |
Improper Advances: Rape and Heterosexual Conflict in Ontario, 1880-1929
ISBN: 9780226167541 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Why do men rape women? This is a question for which there are many political, psychological, and sociological answers, but few historical ones. "Improper Advances" is one of the first books to explore the history of sexual violence in any country. A study of women, men, and sexual crime in rural and northern Ontario, it expands the terms of current debates about sexuality and sexual violence.
Karen Dubinsky relies on criminal case files, a revealing but largely untapped source for social historians, to retell individual stories of sexual danger crimes such as rape, abortion, seduction,... Why do men rape women? This is a question for which there are many political, psychological, and sociological answers, but few historical ones. "Impro...
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152,88 zł |
Ill-Gotten Gains: Evasion, Blackmail, Fraud, and Kindred Puzzles of the Law
ISBN: 9780226425931 / Angielski / Twarda / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In "Ill-Gotten Gains," Leo Katz describes the underlying principles that not only guide the law but also moral decisions. Mixing wit with insight, anecdotes with analysis, Katz uncovers what is really at stake in crimes such as insider trading, blackmail, and plagiarism. With its startling conclusions and myriad twists, this book will fascinate all those intrigued by the perplexing relationship between morality and law.
"An ambitious and well-written book of legal and moral theory to overthrow both utilitarianism and its cousin, the economic approach to law." Richard A. Posner, "New... In "Ill-Gotten Gains," Leo Katz describes the underlying principles that not only guide the law but also moral decisions. Mixing wit with insight, ane...
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240,24 zł |
The Business of Crime: Italians and Syndicate Crime in the United States
ISBN: 9780226571324 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) "Dr. Nelli . . . describes the kinds of crime that prevailed in Italian immigrant enclaves in America; like most American crime, then as now, Italian crime was one aspect of the so-called culture of urban poverty boys graduated from street gangs to criminal gangs. None of these gangs were very big until Prohibition brought the Great Leap Forward, to a level that Dr. Nelli calls 'entrepreneurial crime.' His fine account makes sense of many murderous incidents, differentiates among places, and sketches individuals and the talents (Torrio's brains, Capone's brutality) that enabled them to rise...
"Dr. Nelli . . . describes the kinds of crime that prevailed in Italian immigrant enclaves in America; like most American crime, then as now, Italian ...
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163,80 zł |
Inventing the Public Enemy: The Gangster in American Culture, 1918-1934
ISBN: 9780226732183 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In this richly detailed account of mass media images, David Ruth looks at Al Capone and other "invented" gangsters of the 1920s and 1930s. The subject of innumerable newspaper and magazine articles, scores of novels, and hundreds of Hollywood movies, the gangster was a compelling figure for Americans preoccupied with crime and the social turmoil it symbolized. Ruth shows that the media gangster was less a reflection of reality than a projection created from Americans' values, concerns, and ideas about what would sell.
We see efficient criminal executives demonstrating the multifarious... In this richly detailed account of mass media images, David Ruth looks at Al Capone and other "invented" gangsters of the 1920s and 1930s. The subject...
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147,42 zł |
Kamikaze Biker: Parody and Anomy in Affluent Japan
ISBN: 9780226735252 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In this firsthand account of high-risk car and motorcycle racing in Japan, Ikuya Sato shows how affluence and consumerism have spawned various experimental and deviant life-styles among youth. "Kamikaze Biker" offers an intriguing look at a form of delinquency in a country traditionally thought to be devoid of social problems.
"Ikuya Sato's "Kamikaze Biker" is an exceptionally fine ethnographic analysis of a recurrent form of Japanese collective youth deviance. . . . Sato has contributed a work of value to a wide range of scholarly audiences." Jack Katz, "Contemporary Sociology" "A... In this firsthand account of high-risk car and motorcycle racing in Japan, Ikuya Sato shows how affluence and consumerism have spawned various experim...
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436,80 zł |