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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 individuals who inhabited its crowded cells.

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).

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.

Not everyone can become a tyrant. It requires a particular confluence of events to gain absolute control over entire nations. First, you must be born with the potential to develop brutal personality traits. Second, your predisposition to antisocial behavior must be developed and strengthened during childhood. Finally, you must come of age when the political system of your country is unstable.

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.

Was läuft im Kopf eines Serienmörders ab? Wie kann sich ein freundlicher, harmlos wirkender Zeitgenosse von einem auf den anderen Moment in ein abscheuliches Monster verwandeln, das bestialisch foltert und mordet, und sich danach wieder verhalten, als wäre nichts geschehen? Der weltbekannte Kriminologe Christopher Berry-Dee hat über viele Jahre Kontakt zu inhaftierten Serienkillern aufgebaut und sie ausführlich befragt. Herausgekommen sind dabei mörderische Storys, von denen sich jede wie ein eigener Thriller liest.

From the Number One bestselling author, a memoir full of hilarious, personal and surprising stories from their working life in the law. * The Sunday Times Bestseller * * A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week* ‘The SB is a gifted writer. Words tumble out with extraordinary fluency . . . entertaining...

Andy West teaches philosophy in prisons. He has conversations with people inside about their lives, discusses their ideas and feelings and listens as the men and women he works with explore new ways to think about their situation. Could we ever be good if we never felt shame? What makes a person worthy of forgiveness? Could someone in prison ever be more free than someone outside? These questions about how to live are ones we all need to ask, but in this setting they are even more urgent.

Abolition for the People brings together 30 essays representing a diversity of voices - political prisoners, grassroots organizers, scholars, and relatives of those killed by the anti-Black terrorism of policing and prisons. This collection presents listeners with a moral choice: “Will you continue to be actively complicit in the perpetuation of these systems,” Kaepernick asks in his introduction, “or will you take action to dismantle them for the benefit of a just future?”

Este increíble y fascinante relato real es un viaje al imperio empresarial y delictivo de la Camorra, que comienza y termina bajo el signo de las mercancías. Las mercancías «frescas», bajo las formas más variadas (videojuegos, relojes, ropa de marca) llegan al puerto de Nápoles, y para ser almacenadas y escondidas se sacan de los gigantescos contenedores e invaden antiguos palacetes, previamente vaciados por completo.

Seven Bones is the story of one of the more bizarre murder investigations in Australia’s history. Two wives die in suspicious circumstances: co-incidence or, as husband Thomas Keir describes it, ‘bad luck’? Three years after Thomas Keir alleged his first wife, Jean, deserted him and her young son for another man, his second wife, Rosalina, Jean’s cousin, lay scorched and strangled on her bed. Arriving on the scene, Detective Peter Seymour realised he was either dealing with the world’s unluckiest husband or a serial wife killer.

Nahlah Saimeh weiß, dass aus scheinbar "normalen" Menschen Mörder werden können, dass die Anlage zur Gewalt in jedem steckt, und was das für eine immer brutaler werdende Gesellschaft bedeutet. Als forensische Psychiaterin kennt die Autorin die verschiedensten Arten von Gewalt. In faszinierenden Fallbeispielen spannt sie den Bogen von Gewalt im sozialen Umfeld bis zu Gewalt und Terror im öffentlichen Raum und regt jeden dazu an, sich zu fragen, wo er selbst steht.

In 1930, the Ohio Penitentiary caught fire shortly after inmates had returned to their locked cells after supper. In less than an hour, 320 men succumbed to fire and smoke in what remains the deadliest prison disaster in United States history.