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La biografía de una de las leyendas de la delincuencia madrileña de los ochenta, y un retrato espectacular de una época que marcó la historia social y cultural de España. Un viaje al corazón oscuro de los ochenta: violencia, drogas, bandas urbanas y una juventud decidida a vivir sin...

Hay dos mundos que coexisten gracias a la fuerza de lo secreto: uno ficticio, en el que los gobiernos intentan defender los valores de los ciudadanos y los derechos democráticos, y otro real, en el que se mezclan los intereses del Estado y de las élites económicas. Esta obra es una ventana al...

Bullock is not just a book about conditions in a horrifying Alabama prison—it is a collective testimony, a record of survival and resistance, and a call to confront the prison system as an instrument of state violence. Through in-depth interviews with prisoners at Bullock Correctional Facility, journalist Matthew Vernon Whalan brings forward the voices of people most often silenced: those who have lived, suffered, and endured in the world's largest prison system.

We all know what psychopathy is. Or, at least, we think we do. For decades, we have looked at psychopaths as something 'other': as monsters, or bogeyman. But psychopaths don't just exist on our screens - they exist in our communities, offices and, sometimes, in our very own families. The...

This Wasn’t Supposed to Be My Story is a powerful memoir of resilience, reinvention, and truth-telling by Dr. Vanda Seward. Becoming a mother at sixteen, dropping out of high school, and growing up in public housing were supposed to define—and limit—her future. Instead, they became the foundation of a life lived on her own terms.

This innovative history explores the rich tradition of music behind bars and shows how policing and prisons have shaped our musical culture from blues to hip-hop. In American popular music, we often glorify rebellious artists and “outlaws.” But in The Midnight Special, Colin Asher tells a...

“Tragic, infuriating, impeccably researched…. [A] remarkable story, brilliantly told.” — John Grisham A shocking story of fire science gone wrong and mob mentality run amok, when Victor Rosario, an immigrant in Lowell, Massachusetts, is wrongfully convicted following a deadly blaze and...

What if you could walk into any room and instantly know who to trust, who's lying, and who's genuinely on your side? Every conversation reveals secrets that most people never notice. Stop second-guessing your instincts about people and learn to read them like an open book.

A powerful and moving memoir about how the youth detention system is letting down our most desperate and damaged kids, and how one rookie teacher fought the system on their behalf. Explosive, heart-breaking, inspiring. What happens when your first teaching job isn't in a classroom - but in...

The criminal justice system is diverse and complex and raises questions about the use of imprisonment, the effects of capital punishment, the purposes of sentencing, and the role of the victim. In this Very Short Introduction, Julian V. Roberts discusses all stages of the criminal justice system...

Soon to be a MAJOR MOVIE. A gripping and heartbreaking story, A Thousand Miles from Care tells the 30-year quest Steve Johnson undertook to uncover the truth about his brilliant brother’s death. At the entrance of Sydney Harbor, the cliffs rise fourteen stories above the Pacific, like a...

In Abolitionist Intimacies, El Jones examines the movement to abolish prisons through the Black feminist principles of care and collectivity. Understanding the history of prisons in Canada in their relationship to settler colonialism and anti-Black racism, Jones observes how practices of intimacy become imbued with state violence at carceral sites including prisons, policing and borders, as well as through purported care institutions such as hospitals and social work.

*** SHORTLISTED FOR THE ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION 2025*** Ten wrongful conviction cases. Twenty-one innocent people. Framed tells ten stories with a truth more shocking than fiction. John Grisham, the master of the legal thriller, teams up with Jim McCloskey, who has dedicated his life to...

True stories of death and desperation One survivor chooses loneliness. One chooses exile. One chooses oblivion. Some have violent tendencies, ruining lives indiscriminately. Some seal their own fate in slow motion; others do so in the blink of an eye. In The Survivors, award-winning true-crime...

Incarceration has a long and inglorious history, from dungeons in the bowels of castles to oppressive penal colonies in Australia. Karen Farrington brings this history up to the 21st century, exploring some of the world's worst prisons, from Alcatraz to Pollsmoor, and the unending battles that rage between convicts and warders. Inside the prison walls, gangs rule, guards devise sadistic punishments, and newcomers suffer abuse at the hands of experienced tormentors.

The 'if' of death is certain. The 'when' is unknown. It is the 'why' that really gets people's interest ... From a rare and deadly amniotic avalanche to a victim of roasted peanuts ... The bestselling author of The Cause of Death and The Quick and the Dead returns with more stranger-than-fiction...

EDITOR'S PICK ON AMAZON.COM 'As captivating and nuanced as the drawings themselves' - The New York Times 'Against the odds, her prose keeps pace with her pastels' - Patrick Bringley, author of All the Beauty in the World 'Readers will be hard-pressed to put this down' - Publisher's Weekly A...

Judge, jury, and executioner, Judge Dredd is the brutal comic book cop policing the chaotic future urban jungle of Mega-City One, created by John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra and launching in the pages of 2000 AD in 1977. But what began as a sci-fi action comic quickly evolved into a searing satire on hardline, militarized policing and "law and order" politics, its endless inventiveness and ironic humor acting as a prophetic warning about our world today—and with important lessons for our future.

Шокирующее исследование мотивов самых жестоких убийц всех времен и народов. Не всегда заостряя внимание на чудовищной жестокости палачей, социолог К.Н. Бальский пытается взглянуть на их кровавые дела с точки зрения криминологии — науки, изучающей личность и мотивы преступников, а также социальные условия возникновения преступности.

Contrary to competing popular beliefs, police violence against African Americans has neither remained unchanged since the era of slavery nor is it a recent phenomenon disconnected from the past. In Bluecoated Terror, Jeffrey S. Adler draws on rich archival accounts to show how racialized police brutality is part of a larger system of state oppression with roots in the early twentieth-century South, particularly New Orleans.