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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559,31 zł |
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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559,31 zł |
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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559,31 zł |
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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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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559,84 zł |
No One Helped: Kitty Genovese, New York City, and the Myth of Urban Apathy
ISBN: 9780801452789 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In "No One Helped" Marcia M. Gallo examines one of America's most infamous true-crime stories: the 1964 rape and murder of Catherine "Kitty" Genovese in a middle-class neighborhood of Queens, New York. Front-page reports in the New York Times incorrectly identified thirty-eight indifferent witnesses to the crime, fueling fears of apathy and urban decay. Genovese's life, including her lesbian relationship, also was obscured in media accounts of the crime. Fifty years later, the story of Kitty Genovese continues to circulate in popular culture. Although it is now widely... In "No One Helped" Marcia M. Gallo examines one of America's most infamous true-crime stories: the 1964 rape and murder of Catherine "Kitt... |
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582,03 zł |
Ballad of Karla Faye Tucker (Hardback)
ISBN: 9781496846624 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Respect, Defense, and Self-Identity; Profiling Parricide in Nineteenth-Century America, 1852-1899
ISBN: 9781433121067 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ever since Oedipus unwittingly killed his father and married his mother in Sophocles play, parricide the killing of a parent or another close relative has been a dominant motif in works of literature, film, psychoanalytic theory, and criminology. Yet, parricide, for much of the twentieth and twenty-first century, has been framed as an adolescent phenomenon, with child abuse proffered as the overriding cause related to the killing of parents. Respect, Defense, and Self-Identity provides a new way of understanding parricides by analyzing the behavior of offenders and victims at the scene...
Ever since Oedipus unwittingly killed his father and married his mother in Sophocles play, parricide the killing of a parent or another close relative...
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587,84 zł |
The Human Side of Homicide
ISBN: 9780231049641 / Angielski / Twarda / 317 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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588,42 zł |
Profiling Cop-Killers
ISBN: 9781138458550 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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602,09 zł |
Mass Shootings in America: Understanding the Debates, Causes, and Responses
ISBN: 9781440856242 / Angielski / Twarda / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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605,88 zł |
Studying and Preventing Homicide: Issues and Challenges
ISBN: 9780761907671 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An introduction summarizes the social theories of homicide and the methodological issues in the study of homicide. This accessible volume then focuses on specific types of homicides including: mass and serial murders, homicides by youth, gang homicides, domestic homicides, homicides by female offenders, and alcohol/drug related homicides.
An introduction summarizes the social theories of homicide and the methodological issues in the study of homicide. This accessible volume then focuses...
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607,11 zł |
Praying with One Eye Open: Mormons and Murder in Nineteenth-Century Appalachian Georgia
ISBN: 9780820355252 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ptrovides a true crime account of religion, mob violence, and vigilante justice in postbellum Georgia.
Ptrovides a true crime account of religion, mob violence, and vigilante justice in postbellum Georgia.
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Infanticide: Historical Perspectives on Child Murder and Concealment, 1550-2000
ISBN: 9780754603184 / Angielski / Twarda / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The history of infanticide from the 16th through to the late 20th century is the subject of this volume. Collectively, the contributions explore how the concealment of pregnancy, birth and death, particularly by unmarried women, became a central preoccupation of witnesses, doctors, courts and legislatures concerned with suspicious infant deaths. While the emphasis is upon Britain, original and stimulating accounts of infanticide accusations and trials in France, Germany, and South Africa provide compelling comparative analyses. Presenting a series of case studies, successive chapters expose...
The history of infanticide from the 16th through to the late 20th century is the subject of this volume. Collectively, the contributions explore how t...
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627,18 zł |
Wicked Deeds: Murder in America
ISBN: 9780765802897 / Angielski / Twarda / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. To most Americans, homicide appears to be a random act, one committed by a deranged and irrational killer in a haphazard, unpredictable manner. Murder is seen as a chaotic, disorganized act beyond the realm of reason. In Wicked Deeds, James O'Kane shows that homicide is actually rather predictable, and patterned with respect to its assailants and victims, the circumstances in which it takes place, the time and location where it occurs, and the motives which precipitate the murderous act. Engagingly written and solidly grounded in evidence, this is a definitive study of murder in... To most Americans, homicide appears to be a random act, one committed by a deranged and irrational killer in a haphazard, unpredictable manner. Mur... |
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Serial Violence: Analysis of Modus Operandi and Signature Characteristics of Killers
ISBN: 9781420066326 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Linking the murders of an alleged serial killer to successfully present a case in court involves a specific methodology that has been scrutinized by the judicial system but is largely absent in the current literature. Serial Violence: Analysis of Modus Operandi and Signature Characteristics of Killers fully explains the process of finding the nexus between one violent crime and another for the purpose of pursuing the same offender at trial.
Examines real cases of some of the world's most notorious serial killers ... Linking the murders of an alleged serial killer to successfully present a case in court involves a specific methodology that has been scrutinized b... |
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Using Murder: The Social Construction of Serial Homicide
ISBN: 9780202304991 / Angielski / Twarda / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the last decade, serial murder has become a source of major concern for law enforcement agencies, while the serial killer has attracted widespread interest as a villain in popular culture. There is no doubt, however, that popular fears and stereotypes have vastly exaggerated the actual scale of multiple homicide activity. In assessing the concern and the interest, Jenkins has produced an innovative synthesis of approaches to social problem construction. It includes an historical and social-scientific estimate of the objective scale of serial murder; a rhetorical analysis of the... In the last decade, serial murder has become a source of major concern for law enforcement agencies, while the serial killer has attracted widespr... |
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677,36 zł |
Murder: Social and Historical Approaches to Understanding Murder and Murderers
ISBN: 9781843921707 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book seeks to unravel the issues associated with the crime of murder, providing a highly accessible account of the subject for people coming to it for the first time. Murder uses detailed case studies as a way of exemplifying and exploring more general questions of socio-cultural responses to murder and their explanation. The book incorporates a historical perspective which both provides some fascinating examples from the past and enables readers to gain a vision of what has changed and what has remained the same within those socio-cultural responses to murder. The book also embraces...
This book seeks to unravel the issues associated with the crime of murder, providing a highly accessible account of the subject for people coming to i...
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Forced Marriage and 'Honour' Killings in Britain: Private Lives, Community Crimes and Public Policy Perspectives
ISBN: 9781472432490 / Angielski / Twarda / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the contemporary phenomenon of forced marriage and 'honour' killings in Britain. Set against a background of increasing 'honour'-based violence within the country's South Asian and Muslim Diasporas, the book traces the development of the 'honour' question over the past two decades. It accordingly witnesses unprecedented changes in public awareness and government policy including ground-breaking 'honour'-specific legislation and the criminalisation of forced marriage. All of which makes Britain an important context for the study of this now indigenous and self-perpetuating...
This book explores the contemporary phenomenon of forced marriage and 'honour' killings in Britain. Set against a background of increasing 'honour'-ba...
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677,36 zł |