The Torture Letters: Reckoning with Police Violence, Ralph Laurence

Автор: Ren? Girard
Название: Violence and the Sacred
ISBN: 1472520815 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472520814
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: Violence and the Sacred is Rene Girard's landmark study of human evil. Here Girard explores violence as it is represented and occurs throughout history, literature and myth. Girard's forceful and thought-provoking analyses of Biblical narrative, Greek tragedy and the lynchings and pogroms propagated by contemporary states illustrate his central argument that violence belongs to everyone and is at the heart of the sacred.

Автор: Sheehan-Dean Aaron
Название: The Calculus of Violence: How Americans Fought the Civil War
ISBN: 0674984226 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780674984226
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: Discarding tidy abstractions about the conduct of war, Aaron Sheehan-Dean shows that the notoriously bloody US Civil War could have been much worse. Despite agonizing debates over Just War and careful differentiation among victims, Americans could not avoid living with the contradictions inherent in a conflict that was both violent and restrained.

Автор: Seigel Micol
Название: Violence Work: State Power and the Limits of Police
ISBN: 1478000171 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781478000174
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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Автор: Dorn Michael, Nguyen Phuong, Nichols R. Leslie
Название: Extreme Violence: Understanding and Protecting People from Active Assailants, Hate Crimes, and Terrorist Attacks
ISBN: 1516518020 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781516518029
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Extreme Violence: Understanding and Protecting People from Active Assailants, Hate Crimes, and Terrorist Attacks provides readers with a comprehensive treatment of critical knowledge needed to understand, prevent, prepare for, and respond to catastrophic acts of violence.

In Part One of the book, readers learn about various types of extreme violence, terrorist organizations, attack methodologies, weapon types, mass transit targeting, and vulnerabilities of critical infrastructures. Part Two focuses on prevention strategies, including hazard and vulnerability assessments, evaluating anonymous threats, target-hardening, crime prevention through environmental design, security technology, and behavioral approaches. It also discusses how attackers can leverage an organization's own security technologies to carry out more effective attacks. Part Three explores preparedness and emergency responses, emergency communication systems, and the National Incident Management System. Part Four speaks to the aftermath of extreme violence by addressing public communications, mental health recovery measures, litigation and reputation damage protection, business resilience, and conducting post-incident reviews.

Written by internationally experienced security experts who have helped prevent, respond to, and provide post-incident assistance for more than 32 planned attacks globally, Extreme Violence is an ideal resource for courses in security management, homeland security, terrorism, public administration, and law enforcement. This timely text is invaluable for practitioners working in homeland security, emergency management, policing, security, criminal justice, public administration, and terrorism.

Название: Routledge handbook of critical criminology
ISBN: 1138656194 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138656192
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Designed for students, researchers and policymakers, this handbook highlights new theoretical directions within the context of international multidisciplinary critical research, namely southern criminology, queer criminology, and green criminology.

Автор: Ralph Laurence
Название: The Torture Letters: Reckoning with Police Violence
ISBN: 022665009X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226650098
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: Torture is an open secret in Chicago. Nobody in power wants to acknowledge this grim reality, but everyone knows it happens--and that the torturers are the police. Three to five new claims are submitted to the Torture Inquiry and Relief Commission of Illinois each week. Four hundred cases are currently pending investigation. Between 1972 and 1991, at least 125 black suspects were tortured by Chicago police officers working under former Police Commander Jon Burge. As the more recent revelations from the Homan Square "black site" show, that brutal period is far from a historical anomaly. For more than fifty years, police officers who took an oath to protect and serve have instead beaten, electrocuted, suffocated, and raped hundreds--perhaps thousands--of Chicago residents.

In The Torture Letters, Laurence Ralph chronicles the history of torture in Chicago, the burgeoning activist movement against police violence, and the American public's complicity in perpetuating torture at home and abroad. Engaging with a long tradition of epistolary meditations on racism in the United States, from James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time to Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me, Ralph offers in this book a collection of open letters written to protesters, victims, students, and others. Through these moving, questing, enraged letters, Ralph bears witness to police violence that began in Burge's Area Two and follows the city's networks of torture to the global War on Terror. From Vietnam to Geneva to Guantanamo Bay--Ralph's story extends as far as the legacy of American imperialism. Combining insights from fourteen years of research on torture with testimonies of victims of police violence, retired officers, lawyers, and protesters, this is a powerful indictment of police violence and a fierce challenge to all Americans to demand an end to the systems that support it.

With compassion and careful skill, Ralph uncovers the tangled connections among law enforcement, the political machine, and the courts in Chicago, amplifying the voices of torture victims who are still with us--and lending a voice to those long deceased.

Автор: Gilpin R. Blakeslee
Название: John Brown Still Lives!: America S Long Reckoning with Violence, Equality, and Change
ISBN: 1469613956 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469613956
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: From his obsession with the founding principles of the United States to his cold-blooded killings in the battle over slavery's expansion, John Brown forced his countrymen to reckon with America's violent history, its chequered progress toward racial equality, and its resistance to substantive change. Tracing Brown's legacy through writers and artists like Thomas Hovenden, W. E. B. Du Bois, Robert Penn Warren, Jacob Lawrence, Kara Walker, and others, Blake Gilpin transforms Brown from an object of endless manipulation into a dynamic medium for contemporary beliefs about the process and purpose of the American republic. Gilpin argues that the endless distortions of John Brown, misrepresentations of a man and a cause simultaneously noble and terrible, have only obscured our understanding of the past and loosened our grasp of the historical episodes that define America's struggles for racial equality. By showing Brown's central role in the relationship between the American past and the American present, Gilpin clarifies Brown's complex legacy and highlights his importance in the nation's ongoing struggle with the role of violence, the meaning of equality, and the intertwining paths these share with the process of change.

Автор: Meirelles, Renata
Название: State violence, torture, and political prisoners
ISBN: 0815353715 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780815353713
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This book examines one of Amnesty International`s first major campaigns against torture, and the impact this had on the organization`s development of a new agenda. It makes a strong contribution to research on state crime, human rights, and torture.

Автор: Beauregard, Eric (simon Fraser University, Canada) Martineau, Melissa (royal Canadian Mounted Police)
Название: Sexual murderer
ISBN: 1138499528 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138499522
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This book provides an analytical review of the state of knowledge on the sexual murderer and his offense and presents new data that challenges some of the myths that surround this specific type of homicide.

Автор: Roslin Alex
Название: Police Wife: The Secret Epidemic of Police Domestic Violence
ISBN: 0994861761 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780994861764
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 16510.00 T
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You are not alone. As many as 40% of police officers have abused their intimate partner or child. Authorities mostly ignore the widespread violence. But help is out there. My award-winning book "Police Wife" explains why so many officers are abusive, what women can do to increase their safety and how we can help them.

"I loved your book.... This is a book that should be given to the wife or girlfriend of every single male police officer."

- Sgt. Amy Ramsay, Retired, PhD, former president, International Association of Women Police

Awards for "Police Wife" (second edition):

- 2018 Reader's Favorite International Book Awards, honorable mention

- American Book Fest's 2017 Best Book Awards Finalist

- 2018 Global Ebook Awards, bronze

- 2018 Arthur Ellis Awards for Excellence in Canadian Crime Writing, finalist, best nonfiction crime book category

- 2018 New York Book Festival, finalist

- 2018 Los Angeles Book Festival, finalist

- 2018 San Francisco Book Festival, finalist

- 2017 New England Book Festival, finalist

Awards for the first edition of "Police Wife" include the American Society of Journalists and Authors' Arlene Book Award.

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"5 STARS... SHOCKING.... EYE-OPENING.... You will find yourself shaking your head in disbelief more than once.... Could save a person's life."

- Viga Boland, Reader's Favorite review

"EXCELLENT JOB.... An important read."

- Det. Albert Seng, PhD, Retired, Tucson Police Department, Arizona

"NEEDS TO BE WIDELY CIRCULATED"

- Leanor Johnson, sociologist, Arizona State University, former member, FBI advisory board on police stress and family violence

"POLICE WIFE DELIVERS"

- Staff Sgt. Margaret Shorter, Retired, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, former president, International Association of Women Police

POLICE ARE supposed to be the ones breaking up fights and putting the bad guy in jail. But what happens when they go home? Journalist Amy Morrison lived another side of policing in her marriage to a violent, controlling cop who drove her to the brink of suicide.

In "Police Wife," Morrison and other police wives share their harrowing and inspiring survival stories with award-winning investigative journalist Alex Roslin as he takes you inside the tightly closed police world and one of its most explosive secrets: domestic violence in up 40% of police homes, which departments mostly ignore or let slide.

"Police Wife" gives a rare front-seat look at the amazing struggles and courage of abused police spouses worldwide--from Los Angeles to Montreal, Puerto Rico and South Africa--the ordeals of a handful of intrepid cops trying to change policing from within and why the abuse is an epidemic, one that may be getting worse.

We learn that police officers commit up to 15 times more domestic violence than the public. But many police agencies don't typically fire an officer even after a sustained domestic violence complaint or criminal conviction.

"Police Wife" shows how violence in police families affects us all and is closely linked to botched responses to 911 domestic calls at other homes, police killings of African Americans, officer sexual misconduct and growing inequality in our communities.

ALSO READ ADVICE for survivors, loved ones, advocates and researchers and recommendations for change.

Автор: Seeperdsad Randy, Dianne Williams
Название: Crime and Security in Trinidad and Tobago
ISBN: 9766379106 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789766379100
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Across the Caribbean, crime is arguably the leading social problem facing the small tourism and foreign exchange dependent countries that make up the region.In Crime and Security in Trinidad and Tobago Drs Seepersad and Williams, both criminologists, offer an in-depth and comprehensive examination of crime in the twin island republic. Moving away from a reliance on perception and using empirical data and research, they analyse the justice system; criminal victimization; juveniles in the criminal justice system; gangs and gang-related crime and violence; the risk factors relevant for understanding crime, and the response of the populace to crime and provide a substantive and sound basis for understanding the key issues. Buttressed by several illustrations presenting the most up to date crime statistics for Trinidad and Tobago as well as reference to most of the available local, Caribbean and international sources of scholarly work, this work provides a platform for policy development as well as several strategies and solutions to reduce crime.Undoubtedly of value to criminologists, police personnel at all levels and those involved in the administration of justice and national security, Crime and Security in Trinidad and Tobago presents the example and foundation upon which all Caribbean countries could model the treatment of this crippling ill.

Автор: Stinson Philip Matthew
Название: Criminology Explains Police Violence
ISBN: 0520300092 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520300095
Издательство: Wiley
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Criminology Explains Police Violence offers a concise and targeted overview of criminological theory applied to the phenomenon of police violence. In this engaging and accessible book, Philip M. Stinson, Sr. highlights the similarities and differences among criminological theories, and provides linkages across explanatory levels and across time and geography to explain police violence.

This book is appropriate as a resource in criminology, policing, and criminal justice special topic courses, as well as a variety of violence and police courses such as policing, policing administration, police-community relations, police misconduct, and violence in society. Stinson uses examples from his own research to explore police violence, acknowledging the difficulty in studying the topic because violence is often seen as a normal part of policing.