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  • Delegados de polícia

    Quem são e o que pensam os delegados de polícia? Para responder a essas perguntas, o Idesp realizou, com o apoio da Fundação Ford e da Fapesp, a mais ampla e inédita pesquisa sobre o perfil dos delegados de polícia no Brasil. ... Read more

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  • Doing Indefinite Time

    An Ethnography of Long-Term Imprisonment in Switzerland

    by Irene Marti ...
    Series series Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology
    This open access book provides insights into the everyday lives of long-term prisoners in Switzerland who are labelled as ‘dangerous’ and are preventatively held in indefinite, probably lifelong, incarceration. It explores prisoners’ manifold ways of inhabiting the prison which can be used to challenge well established notions about the experience of imprisonment, such as ‘adaptation’, ‘coping’, ... Read more

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  • The Culture of Capital Punishment in Japan

    Series series Palgrave Advances in Criminology and Criminal Justice in Asia
    This open access book provides a comparative perspective on capital punishment in Japan and the United States. Alongside the US, Japan is one of only a few developed democracies in the world which retains capital punishment and continues to carry out executions on a regular basis. There are some similarities between the two systems of capital punishment but there are also many striking differences ... Read more

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  • The Routledge International Handbook on Decolonizing Justice

    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    The Routledge International Handbook on Decolonizing Justice focuses on the growing worldwide movement aimed at decolonizing state policies and practices, and various disciplinary knowledges including criminology, social work and law. The collection of original chapters brings together cutting-edge, politically engaged work from a diverse group of writers who take as a starting point an analysis ... Read more

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  • Are You Free

    Freedom, #1

    by Tim Bankes II ...
    Series Book 1 - Freedom
    Growing up in America made me think that I was as free as anyone could be. I ran into libertarianism and that changed everything. Do you want to find out the truth about freedom? The truth about why being free is the most important thing in the world. This book will offer an angle for all sides of the political spectrum. It will open your eyes to a new way, a completely separate way of thinking ... Read more

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  • Free Prison Camp Guide

    This free guide will tell you how to survive Herlong Federal Prison Camp and any other federal prison camp. It has over 100 pages of survival tips, official prison memos, and stories from when I was sentenced to Herlong Federal Prison Camp.During my seventeen month sentence, I was quiet and very observant. Most of my experiences are detailed in Subprime Felon: Inside Federal Prison Camp. However, ... Read more

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  • The Sex Offender Housing Dilemma

    Community Activism, Safety, and Social Justice

    The controversy surrounding community responses to housing for sexually violent predatorsWhen a South Carolina couple killed a registered sex offender and his wife after they moved into their neighborhood in 2013, the story exposed an extreme and relatively rare instance of violence against sex offenders. While media accounts would have us believe that vigilantes across the country lie in wait for ... Read more

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  • Genetic Surveillance and Crime Control

    Social, Cultural and Political Perspectives

    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice
    Genetic Surveillance and Crime Control presents a new empirical and conceptual framework for understanding trends of genetic surveillance in different countries in Europe and in other jurisdictions around the world.The use of DNA or genome for state-level surveillance for crime governance is becoming the norm in democratic societies. In the post-DNA, contemporary modes of criminal identification ... Read more

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  • Criminal Futures

    Predictive Policing and Everyday Police Work

    Series series Routledge Studies in Policing and Society
    This book explores how predictive policing transforms police work. Police departments around the world have started to use data-driven applications to produce crime forecasts and intervene into the future through targeted prevention measures. Based on three years of field research in Germany and Switzerland, this book provides a theoretically sophisticated and empirically detailed account of how ... Read more

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  • Le regole e la vita

    Del buon uso di una crisi, tra letteratura e diritto

    by Gabrio Forti ...
    Series series Varia. Saggistica
    Pur nella drammatica crisi in corso, ci sono esperienze di cui occorre fare buon uso, fin d’ora. Tra esse, quella, nuova e fondamentale, tanto per i professionisti del diritto quanto per i comuni cittadini, di un mondo di regole sulla cui osservanza o trasgressione si sta giocando la vita delle persone. Regole che sembrano porsi all’ascolto del linguaggio con cui la vita, la natura e l’ambiente ci ... Read more

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  • Beyond Bars

    A Path Forward from 50 Years of Mass Incarceration in the United States

    Series series SSSP Agendas for Social Justice
    Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. The year 2023 marks 50 years of mass incarceration in the United States. This timely volume highlights and addresses pressing social problems associated with the US’s heavy reliance on mass imprisonment. In an atmosphere of charged political debate, including "tough on crime" rhetoric, the editors bring together scholars and experts in the ... Read more

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  • The Pleasure of Punishment

    Series series Routledge Advances in Criminology
    Based on a reading of contemporary philosophical arguments, this book accounts for how punishment has provided audiences with pleasure in different historical contexts. Watching tragedies, contemplating hell, attending executions, or imagining prisons have generated pleasure, according to contemporary observers, in ancient Greece, in medieval Catholic Europe, in the early-modern absolutist states, ... Read more

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  • Outsourcing Legal Aid in the Nordic Welfare States

    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This edited collection provides a comprehensive analysis of the differences and similarities between civil legal aid schemes in the Nordic countries whilst outlining recent legal aid transformations in their respective welfare states. Based on in-depth studies of Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Iceland, theauthors compare these cases with ... Read more

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  • Impacto en procesos de resocialización con población carcelaria. Sistematización de experiencias en tres establecimientos penitenciarios del Suroccidente colombiano

    Radio Sutatenza nació en el año de 1947 como una emisora rural de carácter cultural, fundada por el padre José Joaquín Salcedo, para ofrecer educación fundamental integral a los campesinos de Colombia y, de esta manera, transformar sus condiciones de vida personales, familiares y sociales. Con fines y métodos propios, se pretendía, a través de la comunicación y de la educación, hacer del campesino ... Read more

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  • Improving Interagency Collaboration, Innovation and Learning in Criminal Justice Systems

    Supporting Offender Rehabilitation

    This Open Access edited collection seeks to improve collaboration between criminal justice and welfare services in order to help prepare offenders for life after serving a prison sentence. It examines the potential tensions between criminal justice agencies and other organisations which are involved in the rehabilitation and reintegration of offenders, most notably those engaged in mental health ... Read more

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  • Elkton Rules: The Little Prison That Thought It Could

    This is the working outline for my screenplay "Elkton Rules: The Little Prison That Thought It Could." I will be adding more chapters as I progress as well as fleshing out this outline as I go along. I want to make it available right now as a collaborative project. Any and all suggestions for improvement are more than welcome.The premise behind the screenplay is that life in a federal correctional ... Read more

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  • Electric-Shock Weapons, Tasers and Policing

    Myths and Realities

    by Abi Dymond ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Policing and Society
    Building on five years of research, and drawing on criminology, science and technology studies (STS), socio-legal studies and social psychology, this book is the first non-medical book written on electric-shock weapons, of which the best well known is the TASER brand.The police’s ability to use force is one of their most crucial powers, yet one that has been relatively neglected by criminology. ... Read more

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  • Governing Delinquency Through Freedom

    Control, Rehabilitation and Desistance

    Series series International Series on Desistance and Rehabilitation
    This book analyses the non-custodial government of young offenders in two major cities in Brazil. In doing so, it delves into the paradox of an institution exerting control over youths while at the same time promoting their autonomy and responsibility. The study sheds light on the specific logics of power, control, and inequality produced by such institutional settings.The book’s analysis is based ... Read more

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  • Sexual History Evidence in Rape Trials

    Is the Jury Out?

    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice
    This book provides an in-depth examination of current, high-profile debates about the use of sexual history evidence in rape trials and its impact on jurors. In doing so, it presents findings of the first mock jury dataset in England and Wales to explore how jurors interpret, discuss, and rely upon such evidence within their deliberations.Drawing on both qualitative and quantitative insights from ... Read more

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  • A Cynic Looks at Life

    First published in 1912, "A Cynic Looks at Life" is a collection of essays in which American author Ambrose Bierce talks about modern civilization and all its faults, including the death penalty, emancipated women, immortality, civilisation and more.These essential essays continue to be thought provoking, offering a valid outlook on life. ... Read more

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  • A Fair Cop

    The true story of a young police officer’s imprisonment for a crime he did not commit.It was Michael Bunting's life ambition to follow in his father's footsteps and become a police officer. But six years after his family watch him pass out and begin his life's dream, he is serving a sentence for a crime he didn't commit. This is his story.Beaten almost senseless as he tried to arrest a violent ... Read more

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  • Children in Prison and Other Cruelties of Prison Life

    by Oscar Wilde ...
    Series series Oscar Wilde Books
    "Children in prison and other cruelties of prison life" is a letter that Oscar Wilde wrote to the editor of the London Daily Chronicle after a warder (guard) in the prison in Reading (one of the prisons where Wilde himself was incarcorated) was dismissed after having fed a starving child that was imprisoned. Feeding the children who were in prison was against regulations.Wilde writes about cruelty ... Read more

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  • Arthur Conan Doyle: The Complete Sherlock Holmes

    Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. He is the creation of Scottish born author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A brilliant London-based detective, Holmes is famous for his intellectual prowess, and is renowned for his skillful use of deductive reasoning (somewhat mistakenly - see inductive reasoning) ... Read more

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  • Jonathan Alder: A Prisoner with the Indians Thirteen Years

    "Alder's Indian incarnation began with a...run of the gauntlet...he was adopted into a Mingo tribe...he became accustomed to his rugged life." Dayton Daily News, Dec. 25, 1960The stories of those who have survived captivity by hostile frontier tribes are full of harrowing interest, and one of the most intriguing is that told by Jonathan Alder in his narrative of captivity among the Shawnee Indians ... Read more

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