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In the late hours of July 22, 1991, Detective Patrick "Pat" Kennedy of the Milwaukee Police Department was asked to respond to a possible homicide. Little did he know that he would soon be delving into the dark mind of one of America's most notorious serial killers, the "Milwaukee Cannibal", Jeffrey Dahmer. Kennedy spent the next six weeks locked in an interrogation room with Dahmer. There, the killer described in lurid detail how he lured 17 young men to his apartment, where he strangled, sexually assaulted, dismembered, and in some cases, cannibalized his victims.

On a May morning in 1939, eighteen-year-old Velma Demerson and her lover were having breakfast when two police officers arrived to take her away. Her crime was loving a Chinese man, a “crime” that was compounded by her pregnancy and subsequent mixed-race child. Sentenced to a home for wayward girls, Demerson was then transferred (along with forty-six other girls) to Torontos Mercer Reformatory for Females. The girls were locked in their cells for twelve hours a day and required to work in the on-site laundry and factory.

Manchmal "überfällt" es jede*n von uns: das Böse. Warum habe ich böse Gedanken? Neige ich zur Gewalt? Wie gehe ich mit ihnen um, aus psychologischer, aber auch spiritueller (in weitester Sicht) Perspektive? Die Forensische Psychiatrie hat verschiedene Erklärungsansätze für böses Handeln. Warum der Mensch aber überhaupt zum Bösen befähigt ist, bedarf einer Vernetzung mit Antworten der Entwicklungspsychologie, der Hirnforschung, Epigenetik, bei der auch der spirituelle Blick auf das Menschsein nicht fehlen sollte.

Prison abolition and decarceration are increasingly debated, but it is often without taking into account the largest exodus of people from carceral facilities in the 20th century: the closure of disability institutions and psychiatric hospitals. Decarcerating Disability provides a much-needed corrective, combining a genealogy of deinstitutionalization with critiques of the current prison system.

"Fariña" és un relat interessant que narra, a través de testimonis directes, el narcotràfic a Galicia des del principi del contraban fins a l’actualitat. Del contraban de tabac es va passar al de cocaïna. La manca de legislació, impunitat, permissivitat, l’acceptació social i el desconeixement del gran problema que allà es gestava va ajudar a crear una organització que va ser la responsable de què el 80 % de la cocaïna arribés a Europa per les costes gallegues.

Jails are the principal people-processing machines of the criminal justice system. Mostly they hold persons awaiting trial who cannot afford or have been denied bail. Although jail sentences max out at a year, some spend years awaiting trial in jail - especially in counties where courts are jammed with cases. City and county jails, detention centers, police lockups, and other temporary holding facilities are regularly overcrowded, poorly funded, and the buildings are often in disrepair.

An eye-opening, thought-provoking and mind-blowing account from a genuine prison governor of what it's really like behind bars. The Secret Prison Governor has spent decades surrounded by every type of prisoner known to man, from petty thieves and common drug dealers to crime bosses and dangerous serial killers. Since starting as a rookie, he has experienced the reality of the UK's harsh prison system and the hard challenge of ruling those within it. In his own words, the Secret Prison Governor spares no detail of prison life.

In this gripping narrative, Ben Macintyre tackles one of the most famous prison stories in history and makes it utterly his own. During World War II, the German army used the towering Colditz Castle to hold the most defiant Allied prisoners. For four years, these prisoners of the castle tested its walls and its guards with ingenious escape attempts that would become legend. But as Macintyre shows, the story of Colditz was about much more than escape.

In 1984, Jean Road, a 49-year-old mother of three, awakes at home in Bath, Somerset, and wonders where her 17-year-old daughter Melanie can be. Her bed hasn’t been slept in. Just then, Jean and her husband, Tony, hear someone shouting through a loudspeaker: ‘Does anyone know Melanie?’ Jean runs to the police car outside only to discover that her daughter has been murdered in a nearby street as she walked home from a club in the early hours. Britain’s biggest manhunt begins.

The Women’s House of Detention, a landmark that ushered in the modern era of women’s imprisonment, is now largely forgotten. But when it stood in New York City’s Greenwich Village, from 1929 to 1974, it was a nexus for the tens of thousands of women, transgender men, and gender-nonconforming people who inhabited its crowded cells. Some of these inmates—Angela Davis, Andrea Dworkin, Afeni Shakur—were famous, but the vast majority were incarcerated for the crimes of being poor and improperly feminine.

Come with former social care worker Angela Kirwin for a journey inside prison like no other. For over a decade, she witnessed the very best and worst of humanity in the most extreme of circumstances. Now she wants to tell the stories of the men she met, because she believes that prison is failing everyone, damaging the most vulnerable people in our societies, creating habitual criminals, leaving us all less safe and contributing to a society that is immeasurably less humane.

One in three American children will be arrested by the time they are 23, and many will spend time locked inside horrific detention centers that defy everything we know about what motivates young people to change. Nell Bernstein argues that there is no right way to lock up a child. A landmark book, Burning Down the House sparked a national conversation about our inhumane and ineffectual juvenile prisons, and ultimately makes the radical argument that the only path to justice is for state-run detention centers to be abolished completely.

Ein so unterhaltsames wie streitbares Hörbuch über die Betrachtung der Dummheit. Was haben so unterschiedliche Dinge wie "alternative Fakten", menschenleere Begegnungszonen in Satellitensiedlungen und Schönheits-OPs als Schulabschluss-Geschenk gemeinsam? Heidi Kastner wagt sich an den aufgeladenen Begriff der Dummheit und betrachtet sowohl die sogenannte messbare Intelligenz (IQ) sowie die "heilige Einfalt" und die emotionale Intelligenz, deren Fehlen immensen Schaden anrichten kann.

Una storia di ribellione e coraggio. Accade a Milano: protagonista Lea Garofalo, sequestrata, uccisa e ridotta in cenere dai suoi familiari nel 2009 per aver rotto con una cultura criminale di violenza omertosa. Con lei la figlia, Denise Cosco, che ottiene giustizia ma è costretta a vivere, ventenne, sotto protezione dopo aver denunciato suo padre Carlo, gli zii, il fidanzato e altri due imputati.

Kriminalhauptkommissar Oliver von Dobrowolski ist seit 23 Jahren bei der Polizei in Berlin und legt in seinem Buch ein leidenschaftliches Plädoyer für eine bessere Polizei vor. Er beobachtet mit Sorge die Entwicklungen innerhalb der Polizei, rechtsextreme Chatgruppen, rassistisches Verhalten, Gewalt und Diskriminierungen kennt er nur zu gut aus seinem Berufsalltag. Wir brauchen die Polizei - aber nicht diese, so der Kriminalhauptkommissar. Zu oft führt die Polizei unbeobachtet ihr Eigenleben und kann der Gesellschaft großen Schaden zufügen, was ein dringliches innenpolitisches Problem darstellt.

An empowering memoir of courage and hope in the face of injustice—and the basis for the ABC television show, For Life—Marked for Life is the true story of Isaac Wright Jr.’s battle to win his freedom after being wrongfully imprisoned for crimes he didn’t commit, and a critical indictment of America’s judicial system.

La palabra "gandalla" nos persigue y acosa. Sabemos que es un vocablo ligado a nuestra cultura, pero ¿el papel del gandalla está determinado por las clases sociales o existe más bien un factor criminal que atraviesa todos los estamentos? Para responder a esta pregunta, el autor desmenuza los mecanismos socioculturales en nuestro país, y nos presenta a cuatro gandallas de peso: un secuestrador (el Mochaorejas), una asesina serial (la Mataviejitas), un depredador sexual (Marcial Maciel) y un político corrupto (Javier Duarte).

From CSI to Forensic Files to the celebrated reputation of the FBI crime lab, forensic scientists have long been mythologized in American popular culture as infallible crime solvers. Juries put their faith in "expert witnesses", and innocent people have been executed as a result. Innocent people are still on death row today, condemned by junk science.

A tragic death, a murder trial and a 170-year-old mystery - but what really happened? Shortly after Maria Kirwan died in a lonely inlet on Ireland’s Eye, it was decided that she had drowned accidentally during a day spent with her husband on the picturesque island. This inquest verdict appeared to conclude the melancholy events that consumed the fishing village of Howth, Co Dublin, in September 1852.

Lana Atakisieva ist Polizeioberkommissarin in einem der anspruchsvollsten Abschnitte Deutschlands und fährt Streife in Berlin-Neukölln. Bewegend erzählt die Polizistin von ihrer Lebens- und Familiengeschichte, aber auch von dem, was Polizeiarbeit für sie persönlich bedeutet. Wie der Alltag auf Streife aussieht, warum der Zusammenhalt der Kolleginnen und Kollegen so wichtig ist und was es heißt, als eingewanderte Frau in Deutschland Fuß zu fassen.