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Body Snatching: The Robbing of Graves for the Education of Physicians in Early Nineteenth Century America
ISBN: 9780786422326 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Also called "resurrectionists," body snatchers, were careful not to take anything from the grave but the body--stealing only the corpse was not considered a felony since the courts had already said that a dead body had no owner. ("Burking"--i.e., murder--was the alternative method of supplying "stiffs" to medical schools; it is covered here as well). This book recounts the practice of grave robbing for the medical education of American medical students and physicians during the late 1700s and 1800s in the US, why body snatching came about and how disinterment was done, and presents...
Also called "resurrectionists," body snatchers, were careful not to take anything from the grave but the body--stealing only the corpse was not consid...
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182,41 zł |
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Violence and Social Injustice Against Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual People
ISBN: 9780789006509 / Angielski / Twarda / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Looks past the stereotypical picture of violence against sexual minorities to investigate the many daily acts of quiet violence that go on in legal, social, educational, and law enforcement institutions. Discusses violence and gay and lesbian youth, suicide, same-sex marriage and the law, and issues of sexual minorities of color. Useful for social
Looks past the stereotypical picture of violence against sexual minorities to investigate the many daily acts of quiet violence that go on in legal, s...
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539,40 zł |
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Alcohol and Homicide: A Deadly Combination of Two American Traditions
ISBN: 9780791424643 / Angielski / Miękka / 185 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The relationship between alcohol and homicide in America is explored both historically and theoretically, providing the groundwork for two empirical analyses. The first, a theoretical approach, leads to the development of a selective disinhibition hypothesis, the implications of which are tested in a longitudinal analysis of alcohol availability and homicide in 256 U.S. cities between 1960 and 1980. Alcohol availability was found to significantly increase homicide rates. Availability also interacted with city poverty rates, lack of social bonds, and the age structure to further increase the...
The relationship between alcohol and homicide in America is explored both historically and theoretically, providing the groundwork for two empirical a...
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134,00 zł |
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Perspectives on Organizing Crime: Essays in Opposition
ISBN: 9780792310334 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. than any of the others in this collection. They represent a merging of academic interest with a commitment to environmental activism which occu"ed after several years of research conducted under the wing of the New York State Senate Select Committee on Crime created in the 1960s to investigate organized crime. I had the rare opportunity to work with this committee under the direction of counsel leremiah McKenna at the time attention was focused on organized criminals moved into the hazardous waste disposal industry. Much of my data came rom committee investigations, hearings and reports. In...
than any of the others in this collection. They represent a merging of academic interest with a commitment to environmental activism which occu"ed aft...
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386,41 zł |
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Corruption and Market in Contemporary China
ISBN: 9780801442841 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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595,91 zł |
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Corruption and Market in Contemporary China
ISBN: 9780801489426 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Is corruption an inevitable part of the transition to a free-market economy? Yan Sun here examines the ways in which market reforms in the People's Republic of China have shaped corruption since 1978 and how corruption has in turn shaped those...
Is corruption an inevitable part of the transition to a free-market economy? Yan Sun here examines the ways in which market reforms in the People's Re...
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159,25 zł |
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Doctor Dealer: The Rise and Fall of an All-American Boy and His Multimillion-Dollar Cocaine Empire
ISBN: 9780802137579 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the bestselling author of "Black Hawk Down" comes the true story that "The Baltimore Sun" calls "shocking . . . briskly and brilliantly told" of Larry Lavin, a wealthy dentist who built the foundation for a cocaine empire that would grow to generate over $60 million in annual sales.
From the bestselling author of "Black Hawk Down" comes the true story that "The Baltimore Sun" calls "shocking . . . briskly and brilliantly told" of ...
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71,40 zł |
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I, Pierre Riviere, Having Slaughtered My Mother, My Sister, and My Brother: A Case of Parricide in the 19th Century
ISBN: 9780803268579 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. To free his father and himself from his mother's tyranny, Pierre Riviere decided to kill her. On June 3,1835, he went inside his small Normandy house with a pruning hookand cut to death his mother, his eighteen-year-old sister, and his seven-year-old brother. Then, in jail, he wrote a memoir to justify the whole gruesome tale.
Michel Foucault, author of Madness and Civilization and Discipline and Punish, collected the relevant documents of the case, including medical and legal testimony, police records. and Riviere's memoir. The Riviere case, he points out, occurred at a time when... To free his father and himself from his mother's tyranny, Pierre Riviere decided to kill her. On June 3,1835, he went inside his small Normandy house ...
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133,52 zł |
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Rape: The Misunderstood Crime: The Misunderstood Crime
ISBN: 9780803937079 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rape: The Misunderstood Crime is an excellent resource for professionals and students of psychology, sociology, education, social work, criminal justice, and law who seek to dispel rape myths and wish to better understand the nature and dynamics of both the rapist and the victim.
Rape: The Misunderstood Crime is an excellent resource for professionals and students of psychology, sociology, education, social work, criminal justi...
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529,13 zł |
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Violence Against Women: The Bloody Footprints
ISBN: 9780803950450 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Violence against women permeates our society at every level, in every setting. Murder, rape, intimidation, pornography, workplace harassment, incest are all part of a general belief built into the roots of patriarchal society: Women are proper targets of male violence. The chapters in this book, contributed by some of the most prolific contemporary writers on women's issues, explore this culture of violence and oppression, examining its ideological underpinnings and its structural supports in the social, political and legal systems that protect the violent by blaming the victim.
Violence against women permeates our society at every level, in every setting. Murder, rape, intimidation, pornography, workplace harassment, incest a...
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621,59 zł |
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Do Arrests and Restraining Orders Work?
ISBN: 9780803970731 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this provocative contribution to the debate on which interventions are most effective in reducing domestic violence, a wide range of research methods and analyses are presented and a number of issues raised. These include: whether the criminal justice response to domestic violence is inadequate; whether there is a conflict of interest between society and the victim of violence; and whether alternative means should be used to deter chronic batterers who are undeterred by the criminal justice response.
In this provocative contribution to the debate on which interventions are most effective in reducing domestic violence, a wide range of research metho...
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390,42 zł |
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Dirty Business: Exploring Corporate Misconduct: Analysis and Cases
ISBN: 9780803976047 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Explores organizational deviance, its damaging consequences and the opportunities for organizational misbehaviour provided by deregulation and globalization. Ten major case studies are provided through which the practices, mechanisms and explanations of deviance can be analyzed.
Explores organizational deviance, its damaging consequences and the opportunities for organizational misbehaviour provided by deregulation and globali...
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308,18 zł |
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West of Hell's Fringe: Crime, Criminals, and the Federal Peace Officer in Oklahoma Territory, 1889 - 1907
ISBN: 9780806122649 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When the remaining Indian lands of Old Oklahoma were made available for settlement in a series of openings beginning in 1889, thousands of people flocked to the region to try for a homestead. It was a grand chance for a new life. Unfortunately, ahead of, with, and after the homeseekers came the dregs of human society: those who would steal, kill-do anything to avoid working for even the necessities of life. Most of these outlaws operated across the imaginary border between Oklahoma Territory and Indian Territory-called Hell's Fringe by the early U.S. deputy marshals. At first the felons...
When the remaining Indian lands of Old Oklahoma were made available for settlement in a series of openings beginning in 1889, thousands of people floc...
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182,41 zł |
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Racial Violence in Kentucky: Lynchings, Mob Rule, and Legal Lynchings
ISBN: 9780807120736 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Wright vividly portrays the clash between racist militants and blacks who would not submit to terror. The book makes clear the brutality concealed beneath the surface veneer of moderation." -- Journal of Southern History In this investigative look into Kentucky's race relations from the end of the Civil War to 1940, George C. Wright brings to light a consistent pattern of legally sanctioned and extralegal violence employed to ensure that blacks knew their "place" after the war. In the first study of its kind to target the racial patterns of a specific state, Wright demonstrates that... "Wright vividly portrays the clash between racist militants and blacks who would not submit to terror. The book makes clear the brutality concealed... |
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121,45 zł |
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White Women, Rape, and the Power of Race in Virginia, 1900-1960
ISBN: 9780807855140 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For decades, historians have primarily analyzed charges of black-on-white rape in the South through accounts of lynching or manifestly unfair trial proceedings, suggesting that white southerners invariably responded with extralegal violence and sham trials when white women accused black men of assault. Lisa Lindquist Dorr challenges this view with a careful study of legal records, newspapers, and clemency files from early-twentieth-century Virginia. White Virginians' inflammatory rhetoric, she argues, did not necessarily predict black men's ultimate punishment.
While trials were... For decades, historians have primarily analyzed charges of black-on-white rape in the South through accounts of lynching or manifestly unfair trial pr...
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224,91 zł |
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Liquid Assets, Dangerous Gifts: Presents and Politics at the End of the Middle Ages
ISBN: 9780812236507 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book Valentin Groebner addresses the notions and practices of gift giving in late medieval and early modern Europe between 1400 and 1550. Focusing on the prosperous cities of the Upper Rhine, it explores the uses of gifts in political ritual and the different functions of these donations. Contemporaries spoke of these gifts--sometimes wine, sometimes coins or other precious metals--as liquid; indeed, the same German word was used for giving a present or pouring a fluid. These gifts were integral parts of an economy of information marking complex differences and dependencies in... In this book Valentin Groebner addresses the notions and practices of gift giving in late medieval and early modern Europe between 1400 and 1550. F... |
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344,19 zł |
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Great Pretenders : Pursuits And Careers Of Persistent Thieves
ISBN: 9780813328119 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Persistent thievescriminals who resume committing crimes of burglary, robbery, vehicle theft, and ordinary theft despite previous attempts to stopare a main focal point of American criminology and criminal justice. Cast as career criminals, they are also one of the principal targets of the war on crime that American governments have waged for more than two decades.Building on a theoretical interpretation of crime as choice, crime-control policies and programs justified by notions of deterrence and incapacitation have proliferated. America's urban police departments now have repeat...
Persistent thievescriminals who resume committing crimes of burglary, robbery, vehicle theft, and ordinary theft despite previous attempts to stopare ...
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225,98 zł |
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Spectral Evidence: The Ramona Case: Incest, Memory, and Truth on Trial in Napa Valley
ISBN: 9780813335872 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The outward appearance of success of the Ramona family of Napa Valley, California, was destroyed by allegations of sexual abuse by Gary Ramona made by Holly, the eldest of his three daughters, by her mother, and by Holly's therapists. This is an account of the case.
The outward appearance of success of the Ramona family of Napa Valley, California, was destroyed by allegations of sexual abuse by Gary Ramona made by...
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104,96 zł |
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The Gang as an American Enterprise
ISBN: 9780813518060 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Padilla writes with earnestness and concern ... the author never exploits or sensationalizes the kids he has written about ... this is vastly preferable to other recent titles on this timely subject."- Publisher's Weekly "This is the most thorough look at the operation of a violent street gang."-Library Journal "Makes a unique contribution to the literature on Puerto Rican ethnicity, a turf already centrally occupied by the author."-Jeffrey Fagan, Rutgers University "Padilla has dealt with gang drug dealing-one of the more sensationalized features of urban life-in a down-to-earth and...
"Padilla writes with earnestness and concern ... the author never exploits or sensationalizes the kids he has written about ... this is vastly prefera...
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148,92 zł |
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State-Corporate Crime: Wrongdoing at the Intersection of Business and Government
ISBN: 9780813538891 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "State-Corporate Crime is the most comprehensive articulation of an important criminological concept and is a valuable contribution to the literature of criminology."-David Friedrichs, University of Scranton "This volume is a welcome addition for those scholars who study the relationship between government and corporate crime."-Gray Cavender, coauthor of Corporate Crime Under Attack: The Fight to Criminalize Business Violence "This collection offers thoughtful, provocative analyses of crimes and other wrongs committed at the intersection of political and economic power. . . . Few issues...
"State-Corporate Crime is the most comprehensive articulation of an important criminological concept and is a valuable contribution to the literature ...
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205,49 zł |