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An Australian True Crime investigation of wrongful imprisonment by the bestselling author of The Kingpin and the Crooked Cop. Nine wrongful imprisonments. Nine innocent men and women freed. Australia has a robust legal system. According to conventional wisdom, only the guilty end up behind bars...

Автор фиксирует состояние и положение дел в российской тюрьме на период 2022 года. Условия содержания заключенных, тюремная медицина, питание, режим, обстановка в камерах, свидания, этапирование и многие другие подробности из жизни арестантов описывает известный правозащитник и журналист Ева Меркачёва. За каждой главой стоят человеческие судьбы не только заключенных, но и жертв их преступлений и правоохранителей.

Тадж Нейтан, судебный психиатр, проработавший в британской пенитенциарной системе много лет. Десять историй из его практики—это десять судеб людей, попавших в обстоятельства, которые привели к преступлениям. Рассказывая о своих героях, автор ставит вопросы гораздо шире, чем того требуют его профессиональные обязанности. Что толкает человека на преступление? Можно ли это предотвратить? Можно ли изменить психологию преступника?

Арлин Одергон, психотерапевт, специалист по постконфликтной реабилитации и консультант ООН, исследует, как насилие проникает в наше сознание, превращая обычных людей в участников разрушительных конфликтов. Основываясь на собственном опыте и истории ХХ–XXI веков, она утверждает, что война начинается не с выстрела, а с манипуляции чувствами справедливости и принадлежности. Автор описывает механизмы, раскручивающие маховик войны: чувство моральной правоты подпитывает жестокость, страх становится оружием, а травма—наследием поколений.

Playbook: Become the CEO of Your Life is a self-directed workbook for people facing the criminal justice system, preparing for prison, serving time, or preparing for life after they return to society. Michael Santos served 26 years in federal prison after receiving a 45-year sentence. Following his arrest, while going through the criminal justice process, he learned from leaders. They taught him how to think differently. If he wanted to return to society with dignity, purpose, and opportunity, he would have to build that path himself.

This book aims to describe and demystify what makes criminal gangs so culturally powerful. It examines their codes of conduct, initiation rites, secret communications methods, origin myths, symbols, and the like that imbue the gangsters with the pride and nonchalance that goes hand in hand with...

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...

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...

In his account of the sensational life and murder of Grady Stiles Jr., also known as the legendary carnival "freak" Lobster Boy, author Fred Rosen explains how Stiles's death was engineered by his wife, Mary Teresa, the carny known as the Electrified Girl. Rosen describes how Mary Teresa arranged for her husband's murder after years of physical and emotional abuse. The narrative is full of appearances from the couple's colorful acquaintances, including the World's Only Living Half Girl, Midget Man, and the Human Blockhead.

¿Por qué hablar de la maldad cuando tendríamos que ocuparnos del lado noble y bueno de la vida? Tal vez porque enfrentamos al mal todos los días y debemos ser fuertes y estar preparados para que no nos hagan daño las envidias, los enojos, las frustraciones y, sobre todo, para no padecer sus efectos, pues todos somos propensos a sentir la ira, el rencor: la esencia de la maldad.

The One Who Searched is a spellbinding story of Detective Bill Drozd, a veteran police officer searching for a methodical serial killer who has been leaving a trail of bodies for twenty-five years. What Detective Drozd does not realize, however, is this killer is also searching for something: peace at the end of his path, which he defines as a reckoning.

2026 Michigan Notable Book Winner An urgent examination of the invisibility of Black women and girls as victims of targeted killings, and the lack of police intervention and media coverage When Black women and girls are targeted and murdered their cases are often categorized by police officers...

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...

Focused Interviewing is the third edition of the popular law enforcement text used to instruct interview and interrogation. The newest version has been updated to include only the scientifically validated approaches to the art of interviewing. Of particular interest in the section dealing with False Confession Syndrome and how to easily avoid similar allegations. Formerly strictly a law enforcement text, Focused Interviewing 2013 has been expanded to include approaches for parents, teachers, employers, employees, doctors and patients, military officers and investigators.

Pablo Escobar sigue siendo un personaje legendario y 30 años después de su muerte, todavía hay muchos secretos de su vida que siguen sorprendiendo. Este libro recoge varios de ellos. Hace 30 años, Pablo Escobar fue cazado porque violo el secreto que lo hacia ver invencible: hablar poco y muy...

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...