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421) Race to incarcerate
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In this revised edition of his seminal book on race, class, and the criminal justice system, Marc Mauer, executive director of one of the United States' leading criminal justice reform organizations, offers the most up-to-date look available at three decades of prison expansion in America. Including newly written material on recent developments under the Bush administration and updated statistics, graphs, and charts throughout, the book tells the...
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"A former FBI undercover agent and whistleblower gives us a riveting and troubling account of the contemporary FBI- essential reading for our times. Impressively researched and eloquently argued, former special agent Mike German's Disrupt, Discredit, and Divide tells the story of the transformation of the FBI after the 9/11 attacks from a law enforcement agency, made famous by prosecuting organized crime and corruption in business and government,...
423) Kill or be killed
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In May 1998, in the small northern California town of Cottonwood, Norman Daniels, 28, opened a wax-sealed envelope given to him by friend Todd Garton, 27, who claimed to be a paid assassin for an elite organization called the Company. Now the Company was recruiting Daniels. His initiation would be to kill the person named inside the envelope: Carole Garton, 28 - Todd Garton's pregnant wife.
On May 16, 1998, Daniels shot Carole Garton five times,...
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"How the police create an imaginary criminal gang to trick homicide suspects into a confession and a prison cell There are people in prison who got away with murder until they told the boss of a powerful criminal gang all about it. When the handcuffs were snapped on, the killers learned they'd been duped -- that "Mr. Big" was actually an undercover police officer. These killers ended up with lots of time to think about how tricky police can be. In...
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An Unimaginable Crime.
An Unlikely Place.
An Unrelenting Killer.
On December 16, 2004, a Nodaway County, Missouri 911 operator received a frantic call from the mother of 23-year-old Bobbie Jo Stinnett. Bobbie Jo, an eight-months-pregnant mom-to-be, had been found lying on her family room floor bleeding profusely and barely breathing. Her unborn baby was gone.
Only 150 miles away, in Melvern, Kansas, Lisa Montgomery dressed the baby
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Forty years in, the War on Drugs has done almost nothing to prevent drugs from being sold or used, but it has nonetheless created a little-known surveillance state in America's most disadvantaged neighborhoods. Arrest quotas and high-tech surveillance techniques criminalize entire blocks, and transform the very associations that should stabilize young lives--family, relationships, jobs--into liabilities, as the police use such relationships to track...
427) Kill for me
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His Target
Aspiring model Sandee Rozzo's big mistake was being kind to Timothy "Tracey" Humphrey. After Rozzo refused the 'roided-up ex-con's advances, she described how he imprisoned, raped, and brutalized her for two days. When the courageous woman pledged to testify against him, Humphrey knew he had to silence her. . .
His Weapon
That's when he turned to 19-year-old Ashley Laney. She had fallen in love with Humphrey, her personal trainer, and...
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A true look inside the US Correctional System
April 2, 2015 started like any other day for reserve deputy Bob Bates. He left his home in South Tulsa to report to the sheriff 's office. Their mission-apprehend a criminal by the name of Eric Harris. Unfortunately, Harris would not live through the night, and the course of events that transpired would change Bob's life forever.
In A Hard Cell, Bob tells his side of the story-from the events of that...
429) Love or Honor: The True Story of an Undercover Cop Who Fell in Love with a Mafia Boss's Daughter
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An honest cop loses his head and his heart in this gripping account of a love affair on the wrong side of the law On the eve of his second wedding anniversary, Chris Anastos feels secure in his marriage and in his work with the NYPD's anticrime unit in the South Bronx. A summons to the downtown headquarters of the Intelligence Division spells trouble, however. Links between the Italian mob and a Greek criminal network in Queens have been discovered,...
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The areas along the U.S.-Mexico border are commonly portrayed as a hot spot for gang activity, drug trafficking, and violence. Yet when Robert J. Durán conducted almost a decade's worth of ethnographic research in border towns between El Paso, Texas, and southern New Mexico-a region notorious for gang activity, according to federal officials-he found significantly less gang membership and activity than common fearmongering claims would have us believe....
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Peter McLoughlin spent years believing the Leftist narrative, namely it was 'a racist myth' that organised Muslim groups in Britain and the Netherlands ('grooming gangs') were luring white schoolgirls into a life of prostitution. But in 2009 he first encountered people who said their children had been groomed like this. These informants had non-white people in their immediate and extended family, and were thus unlikely to be racists. So McLoughlin...
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In the summer of 1992, Christopher Morgan, a farmer, joined a pen friend scheme whose aim was to give prisoners a window on the world. He was allocated Tom Shannon, a lifer, inside for murder. Through their correspondence, a strong and honest friendship developed between the two men whose lives were poles apart.
Never intended for publication, the authenticity of these letters is all the more powerful and convincing. Whilst portraying the grim reality...
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Recent years have witnessed a resurgence of biological research into the causes of crime, but the origins of this kind of research date back to the late nineteenth century. Here, Richard Wetzell presents the first history of German criminology from Imperial Germany through the Weimar Republic to the end of the Third Reich, a period that provided a unique test case for the perils associated with biological explanations of crime.Drawing on a wealth...
434) The FBI Killer
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Dirt poor, divorced, the mother of two young children, Susan Daniels Smith, 27, prayed for a handsome Prince Charming who would take her away from the squalor of her rural Kentucky community to live in romance and luxury. When a good-looking, big city FBI agent named Mark Putnam entered her life, Susan thought her prayers had been answered. She was dead wrong.
Their relationship began when Susan agreed to be Putnam's paid informant in an investigation...
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Throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the US Congress engaged in bitter debates on whether to enact a federal law that would prosecute private citizens who lynched black Americans. In Getting Away with Murder, the fundamental question under scrutiny is whether Southern Democrats' racist attitudes toward black Americans pardoned the atrocities of lynching. The book investigates underlying motives of opposition to Senate filibustering...
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Explore the Shadows of the American Justice System
Delve into the unspoken transgressions deeply embedded in the very fabric of America's legal landscape. "America's Silent Crimes: What Justice Doesn't Speak Of" is a gripping exploration of the systemic failures and silent miscarriages of justice that plague our society. This compelling narrative sheds light on the untold stories and overlooked victims hidden behind the façade of legal fairness.
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The story of a year-long confrontation in 1972 between the Vancouver police and the Clark Park gang, a band of unruly characters who ruled the city's east side. Corrupt cops, hapless criminals, and murder figure in this story that questions which gang was tougher: the petty criminals, or the police themselves.
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Employment for former prisoners is a critical pathway toward reintegration into society and is central to the processes of desistance from crime. Nevertheless, the economic climate in Western countries has aggravated the ability of former prisoners and people with criminal records to find gainful employment. After Prison opens with a former prisoner's story of reintegration employment experiences. Next, relying on a combination of research interviews,...
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La face cachée des célébrités !
Découvrez des dossiers, archives de filatures, rapports, enquêtes de la police et des services secrets qui, partout en Europe, surveillaient, filaient et enquêtaient sur des personnages comme Victor Hugo, Zola, Louise Michel, Théodore Herzel, Dumas, Pouchkine, Lénine, Trotski, Gorki, Gabriele d'Annunzio, Marx, Engel...
...mais aussi des personnnages dont la filature étonne : le roi d'Angleterre Édouard...
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The New York Times bestselling author takes readers on "a fascinating journey into the trenches of crime [investigation]"-now revised and updated (Lowell Cauffiel, New York Times bestselling author).
A body stuffed in a car trunk swallowed by the swirling, muddy waters of the Missouri River. A hiker brutally murdered, then thrown off a steep embankment in a remote mountain range. A devious killer who hid his wife's body under a thick cement patio.
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