An empirically powerful account of why interpersonal violence across the globe exacts a far greater cumulative cost on society than war and terrorism combinedCivil wars, interstate wars, and terrorism receive a great deal of media and policy attention, for good reasons.
In the high-stakes arena of corporate and community association governance, a single allegation of a breach of fiduciary duty can jeopardize careers, drain financial resources, and dismantle corporate structures.
A bold retelling of the 1960s civil rights struggle through its work against police violenceand a prehistory of both the Black Lives Matter and Blue Lives Matter movements that emerged half a century laterPolice Against the Movement shatters one of the most pernicious myths about the 1960s: that the civil rights movement endured police violence without fighting it.
A bold retelling of the 1960s civil rights struggle through its work against police violenceand a prehistory of both the Black Lives Matter and Blue Lives Matter movements that emerged half a century laterPolice Against the Movement shatters one of the most pernicious myths about the 1960s: that the civil rights movement endured police violence without fighting it.
Since May 1966 when Ian Brady and Myra Hindley were sentenced to lifeimprisonment at Chester Assizes the British public has been absorbed andhorrified by the Moors Murders.
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the UK s leading forensic scientist and Sunday Times bestselling author of All That Remains and Written in Bone: a gripping exploration of forensic science, told through often shocking real cases to assess its triumphs, failures, and future.
In the wake of Indonesia's historic legal reform, the new Criminal Code (KUHP) marks a critical turning point for legal professionals across the country.
The gripping inside story of a major British scandal, a man who conned the elderly out of millions of pounds, and an expose of the terrifying reality of what happens to the elderly behind closed doors, from award-winning journalist Kate Snell.
'Extraordinary' Daily MailAs seen on BBC BreakfastHorrifying, heartbreaking and eye-opening, these are the stories, the patients and the cases that have characterised a career spent being a doctor behind bars.
Using contemporary documents, police files, Home Office papers and newspaper reports, 'Jack the Ripper: The Facts' recreates the notorious crimes and police investigation of 1888 to provide the best available overview of the 'Great Victorian Mystery', the greatest unsolved, true crime story of all time.
Winner of 'Best Book' and 'Impact for Change' True Crime Awards 2025The shocking true story of one of Britain's most secretive, groundbreaking and successful police covert operationsBristol, 1979.
Scaldingly honest, impeccably researched and movingly written, 'MAXED OUT' is, as 'FAST FOOD NATION' was to the food industry, the book the captains of the debt industry wish you would never read.
A powerful story about hope, humanity, and the possibility of changeThe inspiration for James Graham's OIivier Award winning play PUNCHIn 2011 Jacob Dunne threw a single punch that ended another man's life.
From the Sunday Times Bestselling author Dr Amanda BrownRevisit the wold of The Prison Doctor, as she describes stories of her time spent with foreign national prisoners.
A FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZEA FINALIST FOR THE MOORE PRIZEA NEW STATESMAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR'A gripping and rigorous crime story about the murder of a once thriving democracy, exposing an arsenal of lethal weapons, some wielded on the streets, others in the courts and press' NAOMI KLEIN'Essential reading' YANIS VAROUFAKISThe world's largest democracy is facing the greatest challenge since the end of British colonial rule in 1947.
Este libro es fruto de un proyecto conjunto de investigación entre los Departamentos de Derecho Penal y Constitucional de la Universidad Externado de Colombia.
¿Cuál es el fundamento para que un juez nacional aplique tipos de penales y estructuras de imputación que, aunque reconocidos por el derecho internacional, no se encuentran expresamente incorporados en la ley penal Colombiana?
Este libro es el resultado de las investigaciones realizadas, durante el 2018, por la Red de Investigadores del Centro de Investigación en Política Criminal de la Universidad Externado de Colombia, y presentadas en el Congreso Internacional "Presunción de inocencia, libertad y abolicionismo", en el cual se discutieron los efectos y riesgos que tiene el punitivismo en el ejercicio de la presunción de inocencia.
Esta obra reúne varias contribuciones derivadas de las XXXIX Jornadas Internacionales de Derecho Penal, realizadas en la Universidad Externado de Colombia en agosto de 2017.
Strafverteidigung ist weit mehr als Gesetzeskenntnis – sie ist strategisches Handwerk, taktisches Denken und die Kunst, unter Druck die richtigen Entscheidungen zu treffen.
En un contexto de constantes reformas y desaf�os judiciales, Curso de Derecho Procesal Penal de Ignacio Ried ofrece una visi�n completa y actualizada del sistema chileno.
El libro refleja los avances de la teoria feminista en su dialogo con la justicia y reune los textos de autoras y autores provenientes de Argentina, Chile, Peru, Mexico y Espana, lo que pone en evidencia el papel de estos debates en diferentes contextos.
Bewährte KonzeptionDie seit 25 Jahren bewährte Konzeption des Handbuchs berücksichtigt weiterhin alle Herausforderungen, die sich der kriminalistischen Wissenschaft und der Praxis der Kriminalitätsbekämpfung täglich stellen.
Tras una baja médica por el covid decidí "ponerme al día" de una manera algo extensa, ya que la base legal en todo lo referente a la detención policial se encuentra muy dispersa, y más aún el tema del uso de la fuerza abordado en abstracto por nuestras leyes.
El hallazgo en el Archivo General de la Nacion de las actas originales del debate que en el seno de la comision de asesoramiento legislativo dio origen al Regimen penal de la minoridad hoy vigente (decreto 22.
Este libro contiene ocho articulos de academicos, abogados o jueces que aportan ideas originales y arrojan luz sobre problemas muy diversos del razonamiento probatorio (relativos a jurisdicciones y paises distintos).
