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With the popularity of crime dramas like CSI focusing on forensic science, and increasing numbers of police and prosecutors making wide-spread use of DNA, high-tech science seems to have become the handmaiden of law enforcement. But this is a myth,asserts law professor and nationally known expert on police profiling David A. Harris. In fact, most of law enforcement does not embrace science-it rejects it instead, resisting it vigorously. The question...
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Get the Summary of Ann Rule's Heart Full of Lies in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Heart Full of Lies" delves into the perplexing murder case that shook the serene "Oregon Alps." In 2000, district attorney Dan Ousley faced a confounding murder in Wallowa County, where undersheriff Rich Stein discovered a body by the Lostine River. Liysa Ann Northon, the wife of the deceased, claimed self-defense against her husband,...
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I was in Law Enforcement for forty-five years. Thirty Years with the Jackson County Sheriff's Department in Illinois as a patrol Sergeant, and fifteen years with the Southern Illinois Airport as the Police Chief.
This book contains some of the calls I was on during my career. This consists of homicides, suicides, etc. There is also down time while on patrol, and I included some humorous things that we did during that time.
Hopefully, this will give...
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Alex Peterson as he navigates the harrowing aftermath of being falsely accused of a crime he did not commit. Set against the backdrop of a legal system fraught with complexities and injustices, this compelling narrative delves deep into the complexities of trust, resilience, and the pursuit of justice in the face of overwhelming adversity.
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"The study of memory had become my specialty, my passion. In the next few years I wrote dozens of papers about how memory works and how it fails, but unlike most researchers studying memory, my work kept reaching out into the real world. To what extent, I wondered, could a person's memory be shaped by suggestion? When people witness a serious automobile accident, how accurate is their recollection of the facts? If a witness is questioned by a police...
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VisuaLaw Study Guide Vol 2: Criminal Law is designed to aid you in study and preparation for exams. The book contains three sections: Outlines, Diagrams, and Crib Sheets. Outlines are detailed outlines of the course material, arranged by topic. Diagrams are perfect companions to the Outlines, containing flow charts, diagrams, and other visual aids for each topic. Exam Study Sheets are condensed outlines, perfect for getting the 'big picture,' for...
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IN THIS ISSUE:Unrepresented Litigants in Modern Courts – Ordeal by CombatFatos SelitaPublic Participation and Environmental Degradation inDeveloping Markets: The Challenges in Focusing on Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) in NigeriaSamuel E. OjogboNo Sympathy to Women and Children in Securing Their Family HomeGina HeungA Critical Analysis of Section 26 of the Constitution of Zimbabwein Relation to Child Marriage: Key Insights for Zimbabwe's...
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The arrival of Europeans in Aotearoa brought about an inevitable clash between the laws and values of Maori societies and those of the newcomers.Like a subduction zone between two tectonic plates, each pressing against the other, this clash led to ruptures, often with long-term consequences. This ground-breaking book examines a series of notable criminal trials in order to understand how the indiscriminate application of English criminal law in New...
9) Crimes of Honor: Formal and Informal Adjudicatory Systems in India and Pakistan to Enforce and Co
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This study presents a comparative analysis of the formal and informal legal systems in India and Pakistan in relation to honour crimes. The two countries share a common historical context that is reflected in their socio-cultural ethos. This study analyses the commonalities in their historical contexts, the invasion of the subcontinent, the intrusion and inclusion of foreign settlers, and the factors that contributed towards the creation and maintenance...
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In 2006, four years after the illegal prison in Guantánamo Bay opened, the Pentagon finally released the names of the 773 men held there, as well as 7,000 pages of transcripts from tribunals assessing their status as 'enemy combatants'. Andy Worthington is the only person to have analysed every page of these transcripts and this book reveals the stories of all those imprisoned in Guantanamo.
Deprived of the safeguards of the Geneva Conventions,...
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True Crime: Behind the Scenes" takes you on an immersive journey into the heart of criminal investigations, providing a gripping exploration of the fascinating world of crime-solving. Uncover the intricacies of detective work, forensic science, and the relentless pursuit of justice that unfolds behind the scenes of true crime stories.This book peels back the layers of criminal behavior, offering a glimpse into the meticulous processes of crime scene...
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Investigating cinema under the magnifying glass
From a look at classics like Psycho and Double Indemnity to recent films like Traffic and Thelma & Louise, Nicole Rafter and Michelle Brown show that criminological theory is produced not only in the academy, through scholarly research, but also in popular culture, through film. Criminology Goes to the Movies connects with ways in which students are already thinking criminologically through engagements...
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Examines the outsized influence of jurors on prosecutorial discretion
Thanks to television and popular media, the jury is deeply embedded in the American public's imagination of the legal system. For the country's federal prosecutors, however, jurors have become an increasingly rare sight. Today, in fact, less than 2% of their cases will proceed to an actual jury trial. And yet, when federal prosecutors describe their jobs and what the profession...
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Legal Issues is an international journal managed and published by the UK Law Students' Association (UKLSA). The Journal publishes fine research in all fields of law on the basis of its contribution to the society, originality, interdisciplinary interest, and elegance. Legal Issues also provides important news and interpretation on changes in the legal world and coming trends affecting law, lawyers, and society. It aims first to facilitate a forum...
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In this thrilling true crime book, bestselling and award-winning author John Ferak explores the murder, investigation, trial, conviction and eventual exoneration-the largest such ever in the United States-of the Beatrice 6.
On February 5, 1985, one of the coldest nights on record, Beatrice, Nebraska widow Helen Wilson was murdered inside her second-floor apartment. The news of six arrests was absolutely stunning to the locals in this easy-going,...
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From dognappings to Munchausen by proxy to early forensics and hot felons, these unbelievable true crime stories will blow your mind.
2019 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award Silver Winner in Humor
Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Winner-2018 BRONZE Winner for Humor (Adult Nonfiction)
Loaded with dozens of entertaining and amusing articles about actual crimes, this latest book from Portable Press will definitely leave you scratching your...
17) Blood Relation
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A New Yorker writer investigates the life and career of his hit-man great-uncle and the impact on his family.
Growing up in a household as generic as Midwestern Jews get, author Eric Konigsberg always wished there was something different about his family, something exotic and mysterious, even shocking. When he was sent off to boarding school, he learned from an ex-cop security guard that there was: His great-uncle Harold, in prison in upstate New...
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"Erreurs judiciaires et injustice sociale" constitue une analyse de notre système judiciaire actuel, capable du meilleur comme du pire. La justice, rendue par les hommes pour les hommes, en est le symbole. Comment pouvons-nous accuser une personne sans preuves formelles tout en laissant en liberté un délinquant dont les éléments de preuve sont accablants ? Cette ambiguïté alimente l'injustice sociale déjà présente dans notre société.
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In the wake of the Second World War, how were the Allies to
respond to the enormous crime of the Holocaust? Even in an ideal world, it
would have been impossible to bring all the perpetrators to trial.
Nevertheless, an attempt was made to prosecute some.
This book uncovers ten "forgotten trials" of the Holocaust,
selected from the many Nazi trials that have taken place over the course of the
last seven decades. It showcases how perpetrators...
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A recent study estimates that thousands of innocent people are wrongfully imprisoned each year in the United States. Some are exonerated through DNA evidence, but many more languish in prison because their convictions were based on faulty eyewitness accounts and no DNA is available. Prominent criminal lawyer and law professor Abbe Smith weaves together real life cases to show what it is like to champion the rights of the accused. Smith describes the...
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