Lynching in the West: 1850-1935
ISBN: 9780822337812 / Angielski / Twarda / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Accounts of lynching in the United States have primarily focused on violence against African Americans in the South. Ken Gonzales-Day reveals racially motivated lynching as a more widespread practice. His research uncovered 350 instances of lynching that occurred in the state of California between 1850 and 1935. The majority were perpetrated against Latinos, Native Americans, and Asian Americans; more Latinos were lynched in California than were persons of any other race or ethnicity.
An artist and writer, Gonzales-Day began this study by photographing lynching sites in order to... Accounts of lynching in the United States have primarily focused on violence against African Americans in the South. Ken Gonzales-Day reveals racially...
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Stringbean: The Life and Murder of a Country Legend
ISBN: 9780252044984 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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502,65 zł |
Women Murdered by the Men They Loved
ISBN: 9781560241065 / Angielski / Twarda / 187 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This important new book presents eye-opening documentation of the often-overlooked problem of domestic violence and murder. Alarming statistics show that in Massachusetts alone a spouse/partner murder occurs every 22 days, and approximately fifty percent of female homicide victims are murdered by their husbands or lovers. Women Murdered by the Men They Loved examines the critical problem of male violence against spouses and partners and society s tendency to regard domestic violence as an insignificant problem. While the media publicizes only sensational cases, this powerful volume reveals...
This important new book presents eye-opening documentation of the often-overlooked problem of domestic violence and murder. Alarming statistics show t...
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507,68 zł |
My Harem: It's an Expensive Game
ISBN: 9781911273806 / Angielski / Twarda / 580 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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509,85 zł |
Sapphic Slashers: Sex, Violence, and American Modernity
ISBN: 9780822326090 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On a winter day in 1892, in the broad daylight of downtown Memphis, Tennessee, a middle class woman named Alice Mitchell slashed the throat of her lover, Freda Ward, killing her instantly. Local, national, and international newspapers, medical and scientific publications, and popular fiction writers all clamored to cover the ensuing girl lovers murder trial. Lisa Duggan locates in this sensationalized event the emergence of the lesbian in U.S. mass culture and shows how newly modern notions of normality and morality that arose from such cases still haunt and distort lesbian and gay politics...
On a winter day in 1892, in the broad daylight of downtown Memphis, Tennessee, a middle class woman named Alice Mitchell slashed the throat of her lov...
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518,42 zł |
Fatal Families: The Dynamics of Intrafamilial Homicide
ISBN: 9780761907596 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work examines the nature, causes and consequences of family homicide in modern American society. Using a case study approach, the author explores the social, cultural and psychological forces that lead people to kill members of their own families.
This work examines the nature, causes and consequences of family homicide in modern American society. Using a case study approach, the author explores...
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522,96 zł |
Contemporary Perspectives on Serial Murder
ISBN: 9780761914211 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. PLEASE UPDATE SAGE INDIA AND SAGE UK ADDRESSES ON IMPRINT PAGE.
PLEASE UPDATE SAGE INDIA AND SAGE UK ADDRESSES ON IMPRINT PAGE.
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Homicide: The Hidden Victims: A Resource for Professionals
ISBN: 9780803957770 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The author of this volume is not only a social scientist and victim advocate - but also the mother of a murder victim. Deborah Spungen illustrates how and why family members become co-victims when a loved one is murdered, and addresses the emotional, physical, and psychological effects of these events.
The author of this volume is not only a social scientist and victim advocate - but also the mother of a murder victim. Deborah Spungen illustrates how...
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522,96 zł |
Murder in America
ISBN: 9780761920922 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume presents an examination of both the common and unusual acts of murder in light of society's changing norms, values, attitudes, and customs. Each chapter explores a specific type of murder by examining trends, methods, motives and statistics, and concludes with suggestions aimed at prediction and prevention. This volume presents an examination of both the common and unusual acts of murder in light of society's changing norms, values, attitudes, and cust... |
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Mothers Who Kill Their Children: Understanding the Acts of Moms from Susan Smith to the Prom Mom
ISBN: 9780814756430 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A special kind of horror is reserved for mothers who kill their children. Cases such as those of Susan Smith, who drowned her two young sons by driving her car into a lake, and Melissa Drexler, who disposed of her newborn baby in a restroom at her prom, become media sensations. Unfortunately, in addition to these high-profile cases, hundreds of mothers kill their children in the United States each year. The question most often asked is, why? What would drive a mother to kill her own child? Those who work with such cases, whether in clinical psychology, social services, law... A special kind of horror is reserved for mothers who kill their children. Cases such as those of Susan Smith, who drowned her two young sons by dri... |
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Given: 1° Art 2° Crime: Modernity, Murder and Mass Culture
ISBN: 9781845191115 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This exciting new study investigates links between avant-garde art and the aesthetics of crime in order to bridge the gap between high modernism and mass culture, as emblematized by tabloid reports of unsolved crimes. Throughout Jean-Michel Rabate is concerned with two key questions: what is it that we enjoy when we read murder stories? and what has modern art to say about murder? Indeed, Rabate compels us to consider whether art itself is a form of murder. The book begins with Marcel Duchamp s fascination for trivia and found objects conjoined with his iconoclasm as an anti-artist. The...
This exciting new study investigates links between avant-garde art and the aesthetics of crime in order to bridge the gap between high modernism and m...
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534,45 zł |
Homicide: A Sociological Explanation
ISBN: 9780847694723 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The American homicide rate remains dramatically higher than that in other Western nations. News of a murder has become a routine event. How do we explain such high levels of lethal violence in the world's leading democracy? Echoing Durkheim's Suicide, this book focuses on one important phenomenon to explain larger currents in American society. Leonard Beeghley examines the historical and cross-national dimensions of homicides and evaluates previous attempts to explain it. He finds the sources of America's murder rate in the greater availability of guns, the expansion of illegal drug markets,...
The American homicide rate remains dramatically higher than that in other Western nations. News of a murder has become a routine event. How do we expl...
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Blind-Sided: Homicide Where It Is Least Expected
ISBN: 9780275969295 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While print and broadcast media are filled every day with homicide accounts, the general public seems most disturbed by crimes attributed to individuals who otherwise seem normal. Murders by those perceived to be historically non-violent often appear to erupt with no warning whatsoever. Moffatt argues that certain key predictors of a predisposition to violence are usually present. Citing case studies of workplace, school, and domestic homicides, he debunks the myth that these murders happen out of the blue. He also includes valuable information on predicting and preventing future... While print and broadcast media are filled every day with homicide accounts, the general public seems most disturbed by crimes attributed to indivi... |
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Sympathy for the Devil: The Emmanuel Baptist Murders of Old San Francisco
ISBN: 9780275970543 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On the day before Easter Sunday 1895, four women entered the Emmanuel Baptist Church in San Francisco's Mission District to decorate the altar with flowers. When they opened the door to the little room containing the library, they were greeted with a horrible sight: the stabbed and strangled body of 21-year-old Minnie Williams, her blood coating the floor and spattering the walls. A search of the church revealed another grisly discovery in the belfry: the decomposing body of another young woman, reported as missing ten days before. She, too, had been strangled. But unlike the victim in the... On the day before Easter Sunday 1895, four women entered the Emmanuel Baptist Church in San Francisco's Mission District to decorate the altar with... |
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Flash Point: The American Mass Murderer
ISBN: 9780275959258 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The crime of mass murder is surrounded by myth, false assumptions, and misinformation. It is frequently sensationalized in the press, while the complex motivations of the perpetrator are ignored or soon forgotten. The mass murderer is rarely a crazed killer who lashes out against his victims in a mindless frenzy of violence. This book examines not only the crime of mass murder, but also the complex motivations of the mass murderer, presenting a completely new method of categorizing and analyzing the crime and its perpetrator. The evolving nature of the crime is examined in the context of... The crime of mass murder is surrounded by myth, false assumptions, and misinformation. It is frequently sensationalized in the press, while the com... |
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The Racist Murder of Stephen Lawrence: Media Performance and Public Transformation
ISBN: 9780275979416 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There have been many racially motivated murders in Britain in recent years that have received little media attention or public expressions of concern. The 1993 murder of 18-year-old Stephen Lawrence, a black student, proved to be very different. Through time and growing media interest, the name of Stephen Lawrence became a potent symbol and catalyst for change. This particular killing prompted widespread re-examination of questions of (in)justice, cultural identity, and continuing racism in British society, and it eventually initiated processes of institutional reflexivity, including... There have been many racially motivated murders in Britain in recent years that have received little media attention or public expressions of conce... |
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The Myth of Medea and the Murder of Children
ISBN: 9780313305368 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Corti focuses on the meaning and importance of the act of child murder in literary treatments of the ancient myth. A projection of commonly experienced emotions that are often repressed and denied, Medea is the central figure in a tragedy encompassing the psychology of abusive individuals as well as the destructive quality of patriarchal institutions. In the Euripidean prototype of the tragedy, child murder exposes the ironic issue of archaic communal values, and in the version by the Roman Seneca, disaster results from decadent emotional excess, but Corti asserts that the ancient... Corti focuses on the meaning and importance of the act of child murder in literary treatments of the ancient myth. A projection of commonly experie... |
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The Crime of Poison in the Middle Ages
ISBN: 9780313346996 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book will lead readers into a medieval culture of ambition, greed, and jealousy that motivated men and women to take the lives of individuals who trusted them. Collard examines the perception of the crime of poisoning in the West in medieval times, from about 500 to 1500 AD, exploring the ways the alleged crime was perceived in contemporary minds. His primary sources are chronicles that cover the entire medieval period and legal texts that are limited to the late medieval centuries. In order to portray the culture of murder by poisoning in the West, it was necessary to take into... This book will lead readers into a medieval culture of ambition, greed, and jealousy that motivated men and women to take the lives of individuals ... |
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Assassination of a Saint: The Plot to Murder Óscar Romero and the Quest to Bring His Killers to Justice
ISBN: 9780520286795 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "A tale told well that provides valuable insights into the motives and modus operandi of the death squads in El Salvador, and of the financiers who commissioned and facilitated such crimes. It also highlights the difficulties that face those who pursue such cases many years after the crimes have taken place."--New York Review of Books On March 24, 1980, the assassination of El Salvador's Archbishop Oscar Romero rocked that nation and the world. Despite the efforts of many in El Salvador and beyond, those responsible for Romero's murder remained unpunished for their...
"A tale told well that provides valuable insights into the motives and modus operandi of the death squads in El Salvador, and of the financi...
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569,09 zł |
Profiling Cop-Killers
ISBN: 9781138458550 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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583,88 zł |