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"Shortlisted for the 2025 BREAD & ROSES AWARD*Can the state deliver justice when the state itself is the perpetrator?'A fierce, uncompromising testament to love and resistance.' Jacqueline CrooksChristopher Alder had been left to die on the floor of Queen's Gardens...
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Dialogue Books
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2024-10-17
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Written “in the manner of a good crime thriller” (The Wall Street Journal), the inside story of the largest law-enforcement sting operation ever, in which the FBI created its own tech start-up to wiretap the world In 2018, a powerful app for secure...
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PublicAffairs
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2024-06-04
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The January 6th attack is an unprecedented crime in American history. Sprawling and openly political, it can't be handled by the traditional rules and norms of law enforcement--threatening the very idea of justice and its role in society.The attack on the Capitol...
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PublicAffairs
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2023-10-17
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“An unforgettable reading experience.”―Eric HolderWith this powerful and intimate trial diary, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison asks the key question: How do we break the wheel of police violence and finally make it stop? The murder of George...
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Twelve
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2023-05-23
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Part manifesto, part exploration of what justice truly means for survivors of trauma and abuse, Judith Herman forces us to reconsider our perspective on victims, revealing uncomfortable truths about our justice systems and proposing new ways to implement justice. A...
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Basic Books
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2023-03-16
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'A warts-and-all memoir of an ex-cop from probationer days on. Fascinating' IAN RANKIN'A humane but unflinching look at the sharp end of contemporary policing' LUKE JENNINGS'I loved this book. Gritty and gripping, moving and shocking, this brilliant police memoir shows...
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John Murray
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2018-05-17
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From one of America's most prominent philanthropists, an eye-opening, myth-busting new perspective on the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border. Howard G. Buffett has seen first-hand the devastating impact of cheap Mexican heroin and other opiate cocktails across America....
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Grand Central Publishing
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2018-04-03
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States around the world imprison people for their beliefs or politically-motivated actions. Oppositional movements of all stripes celebrate their comrades behind bars. Yet they are more than symbols of repression and human rights. Dance in Chains examines the...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-10-02
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Established in the wake of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947-8 by the Australian army officer Major-General Walter Cawthorne, then Deputy Chief of Staff in the Pakistan Army, Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) for years remained an under-developed and obscure...
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Hurst
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2016-11-15
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American conservatism rose hand-in-hand with the growth of mass incarceration. For decades, conservatives deployed "tough on crime" rhetoric to attack liberals as out-of-touch elitists who coddled criminals while the nation spiraled toward disorder. As a result,...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-05-02
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**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING TRUE STORY BEHIND ITV’S THE HACK**WITH EXPLOSIVE NEW EVIDENCE, THIS IS THE UPDATED EDITION OF THE BOOK THAT EXPOSED THE PHONE HACKING SCANDALCrime, conspiracy, abuse of power – this is the inside story of the scandal that blew the lid off...
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Vintage Digital
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2014-07-31
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The Sting Man:The True Story Behind the Film AMERICAN HUSTLEThe inspiration behind the film American Hustle, directed by David O'Russell (Silver Linings Playbook,The Fighter) and starring Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence and Amy AdamsHow did a Bronx...
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Penguin
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2013-12-02
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The epic, disturbing story of how the FBI is America's real secret service'Such creatures of passion, disloyalty, and anarchy must be crushed out.The hand of our power should close over them at once' President Woodrow Wilson, 1919The United States is a country founded...
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Penguin
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2012-03-01
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This is the first history of the French police and gendarmerie, for the period since the establishment of a democratic Republican regime in 1870 down to the present day. Based on archival material and on the vast amount of recent research by French scholars on the...
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OUP Oxford
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2011-08-25
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The SAGE Dictionary of Policing is the definitive reference tool for students, academics and practitioners in police studies. The Dictionary delivers a complete guide to policing in a comprehensive, easy-to-use format. Contributions by 110 of the world's leading...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2008-12-22
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In the first half of nineteenth century France was characterized by extraordinary regional and linguistic diversity but the state increasingly became a central force in the lives of its citizens. One way that it did so was through its police force, which, as John...
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Oxford University Press
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2005-11-24
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This first socio-organizational history of the Gestapo, the SD, and the regular detectives of the Third Reich, 1932-1937, this book explores the roots of their roles in police terror and programs of mass murder. These personnel helped to form the character and missions...
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Oxford University Press
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1996-10-10
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In 1941, the RCMP recruited Frank Hadesbeck, a Spanish Civil War veteran, as a paid informant to infiltrate the Communist Party. For decades, he informed not only upon communists, but also upon hundreds of other people who held progressive views. Hadesbeck’s “Watch...
Editeur :
Between the Lines
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2024-06-18
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In a series of illuminating essays, the renowned Harry Glasbeek unpacks how law has been used to ensure that workers' aspirations are kept in check. Law at Work uncovers how the legal system, through its structures and mechanisms, legitimizes and reinforces the...
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Between the Lines
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2024-04-02
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Canadian laws are just, the police uphold the rule of law and treat everyone equally, and without the police, communities would descend into chaos and disorder. These entrenched myths, rooted in settler-colonial logic, work to obscure a hard truth: the police do not...
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Between the Lines
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2022-04-04
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