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Joseph Wambaugh and the Jay Smith Case
ISBN: 9781436348478 / Angielski / Twarda / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. No reader of this book will be more surprised than was the public by the truly bizarre beliefs and benthic depths of the evil (the Supreme Court s repeated word, evil) encountered in this longest murder investigation in Pennsylvania s history thirteen years. Over fifty state troopers, eighteen FBI agents, and numerous local police departments were involved as this longest investigation began when the naked body of Susan Reinert was found, obviously sexually abused, a strap-on sexual device lying near her corpse. Her body was found stuffed in the tire well of her Plymouth Horizon and left with...
No reader of this book will be more surprised than was the public by the truly bizarre beliefs and benthic depths of the evil (the Supreme Court s rep...
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185,17 zł |
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The Cocaine Wars
ISBN: 9780393336641 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reading like a riveting true crime thriller, The Cocaine Wars moves from the jungles of South America where coca leaves are grown to the streets of America where the white powder is sold. The inside story of how the powerful cocaine business has become America's number one problem.
Reading like a riveting true crime thriller, The Cocaine Wars moves from the jungles of South America where coca leaves are grown to the streets of Am...
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113,19 zł |
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Silent Partner: Law Enforcement Adventures FEAR NOTHING RISK EVERYTHING
ISBN: 9780595523306 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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75,39 zł |
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Murder 101: Essays on the Teaching of Detective Fiction
ISBN: 9780786436576 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection examines how college professors teach the genre of detective fiction and provides insight into how the reader may apply such strategies to his own courses. The essays cover teaching this type of work in such areas as literature, law history, and literary theory.
This collection examines how college professors teach the genre of detective fiction and provides insight into how the reader may apply such strategie...
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241,21 zł |
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Under Every Rock
ISBN: 9781436376792 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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99,91 zł |
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Under Every Rock
ISBN: 9781436376808 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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158,71 zł |
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Vigilantism: Political History of Private Power in America
ISBN: 9780275935481 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. America does not have a tradition of violence, but it does have a history of violence that can be traced through struggles and popular causes that date from colonial times to the modern era. The psychology of private violence by the American people is deeply ingrained in the concept of popular sovereignty. Repeatedly in American history, the peoples' deep-seated beliefs have led to confrontations and implementations of private will against the state and against groups viewed as harmful to existing values. In "Vigilantism," Culberson argues for a clear-cut distinction between domestic... America does not have a tradition of violence, but it does have a history of violence that can be traced through struggles and popular causes that ... |
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212,10 zł |
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American Skinheads: The Criminology and Control of Hate Crime
ISBN: 9780275943554 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. American Skinheads is the first criminological analysis of organized hate crime violence. Mark Hamm presents historical specificity for a modern theory of hate crime, then rigorously tests the theory with interview data derived from skinheads who have committed an array of violent acts against persons because of their race, religion, or sexual preference--people who are members of the classic outgroups of American society. Part One traces the roots of the Skinhead Nation through the Beats, Mods, Hippies, and Punks in London, and then examines the rise of the Neo-Nazi Skinheads in the... American Skinheads is the first criminological analysis of organized hate crime violence. Mark Hamm presents historical specificity for a modern th... |
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564,90 zł |
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Babies for Sale: The Tennessee Children's Home Adoption Scandal
ISBN: 9780275945855 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The only nonfiction account of the adoption agency scandal that began in the 1920s and eventually implicated not only the agency's administration but also local attorneys, court justices, and politicians.
The only nonfiction account of the adoption agency scandal that began in the 1920s and eventually implicated not only the agency's administration but ...
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447,30 zł |
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The Second Assault: Rape and Public Attitudes
ISBN: 9780313225420 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first in-depth empirical study that goes beyond the initial trauma of rape and considers the interplay between society and the experience of rape, the interaction between the victim and her own social world.
The first in-depth empirical study that goes beyond the initial trauma of rape and considers the interplay between society and the experience of ra... |
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564,90 zł |
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Using Computers to Combat Welfare Fraud: The Operation and Effectiveness of Wage Matching
ISBN: 9780313248702 / Angielski / Twarda / 279 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this study, David Greenberg and Douglas Wolf describe, systematize, and evaluate the cost effectiveness of computerized anti-fraud procedures in public welfare programs. In particular, they discusss the Congressionally mandated wage matching systems used to check for under-reported or non-reported incomes of participants in the AFDC and Food Stamp Programs. The authors describe the implementation of such systems in several local areas around the country, point out factors that currently impede the use of wage matching, and suggest ways of reducing such impediments. They also enumerate... In this study, David Greenberg and Douglas Wolf describe, systematize, and evaluate the cost effectiveness of computerized anti-fraud procedures in... |
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564,90 zł |
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America's Correctional Crisis: Prison Populations and Public Policy
ISBN: 9780313254871 / Angielski / Twarda / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. These essays treat the legal, financial, ethical, political, institutional, and social dimensions of the most important element of America's correctional crisis: prison overcrowding. The collection may become a standard work in the field, especially for those who question the feasibility and wisdom of building more prisons. The need for rational policy-making that links prison sentences with available prison space comes through clearly and forcefully. Chapters by well-known authorities describe the extent of overcrowding in prisons and jails, review current law regarding the... These essays treat the legal, financial, ethical, political, institutional, and social dimensions of the most important element of America's correc... |
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388,50 zł |
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A Sword for the Convicted: Representing Indigent Defendants on Appeal
ISBN: 9780313268816 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using New York City as a research model, this study explores the organizational, tactical, and ethical challenges of providing zealous advocacy for every convicted indigent wishing to appeal. David Wasserman, a former staff attorney with New York's Legal Aid Society, examines the unique form of representation that has emerged since the Supreme Court recognized the right to free appellate counsel, and details the conflict between the role of assigned appellate counsel and the demands of an overcrowded and underfunded criminal justice system. As the first study of indigent criminal appellate... Using New York City as a research model, this study explores the organizational, tactical, and ethical challenges of providing zealous advocacy for... |
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564,90 zł |
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Curbing Unethical Behavior in Government
ISBN: 9780313286087 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This comprehensive work details the special efforts that need to be initiated by governments on a continuing basis to eliminate unethical behavior by public officers and employees. The current conflict-of-interest programs are inadequate to eliminate corruption, and special controls should be installed to detect and deter unethical behavior. The evaluation of different approaches to ethical government and the development of a model ethics program are of special interest.
This comprehensive work details the special efforts that need to be initiated by governments on a continuing basis to eliminate unethical behavior ... |
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388,50 zł |
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The Assassination of John F. Kennedy: An Annotated Film, Tv, and Videography, 1963-1992
ISBN: 9780313289828 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This comprehensive bibliography is the first to catalog, describe, and index the vast body of TV, video, and film materials dealing with John F. Kennedy's assassination. This guide to the first newsreels, and later films and documentaries, TV programs, videos, and little-known materials is organized for the most part chronologically and by genre of work. This research guide points also to North American and United Kingdom film libraries and archives and provides a short list of key sources of printed materials. The appendix and indexes to titles; TV stations and production companies;... This comprehensive bibliography is the first to catalog, describe, and index the vast body of TV, video, and film materials dealing with John F. Ke... |
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265,02 zł |
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Rape and the Limits of Law Reform
ISBN: 9780865690837 / Angielski / Twarda / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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329,70 zł |
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Beating the System: The Underground Economy
ISBN: 9780865691056 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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564,90 zł |
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Corporate Misconduct: The Legal, Societal, and Management Issues
ISBN: 9780899308791 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An in-depth discussion and analysis of corporate misconduct and its complexities. Volume editors and their contributors explore the legal, societal, and business ramifications; offer a wide range of real-world and theoretical examples and the lessons they teach; and provide practical recommendations to management for countering misconduct in their own organizations. The book is also a valuable resource for teachers and students of business ethics, management, and business-government relations.
An in-depth discussion and analysis of corporate misconduct and its complexities. Volume editors and their contributors explore the legal, societal... |
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564,90 zł |
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Wannabe
ISBN: 9781557866158 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. America's Suburban Gangs is the first book written about youth gangs in suburbs and schools. Based on interviews with over 400 boys and girls between the ages of ten and twenty, the author offers a vivid portrayal of their lives in and around gangs. It chronicles the way in which suburban youths become involved with gangs, learn about committing crimes and violent acts, and gradually begin to question their loyalty to gang life.
America's Suburban Gangs is the first book written about youth gangs in suburbs and schools. Based on interviews with over 400 boys and girls between ...
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188,99 zł |
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Slip-Up: How Fleet Street Caught Ronnie Biggs and Scotland Yard Lost Him: The Story Behind the Scoop
ISBN: 9780955823831 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Keith Waterhouse, who wrote an ill-fated screenplay based on this book, said that Slip-Up was Perhaps the best analysis of Fleet Street at work ever written . It is the story of the discovery in Rio de Janeiro of Ronald Biggs, a celebrity fugitive on the run for 12 years after the Great Train Robbery of 1963 and the fiasco that resulted when newsmen and detectives worked out a bizarre plot to bring him back to Britain. Initially a cosy, if highly irregular, conspiracy between Scotland Yard and the Daily Express, the hunt for Biggs soon embroiled every circulation-hungry rival newspaper. And...
Keith Waterhouse, who wrote an ill-fated screenplay based on this book, said that Slip-Up was Perhaps the best analysis of Fleet Street at work ever w...
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100,55 zł |