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The dead can tell us all about themselves: where they came from, how they lived, how they died, and, of course, who killed them. Forensic scientists can unlock the mysteries of the past and help serve justice using the messages left by a corpse, a crime scene, or the faintest of human traces. This book draws on crime novelist McDermid's own interviews and firsthand experience on scene with top forensic scientists. Along the way, McDermid discovers...
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The Allure of Premeditated Murder examines why some people plan and implement terrible violence against others. Drawn from extensive research and interviews with murderers, the authors help readers understand why such vicious murders occur and what we can do to minimize their occurrence.
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Obsession, Unrequited Love, Jealousy, Revenge, and Violence Collide in this Page-Turning Anthology
Crimes of passion are both eerie and strangely tantalizing. How can someone you hold dear become someone you fear? This riveting anthology explores the question through some of the most compelling true crime accounts and stories of obsession and vengeance.
Crimes fueled by emotions. Love, passion, obsession, jealousy, and betrayal. When it comes to...
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Reveals how gender intersects with race, class, and sexual orientation in ways that impact the legal status and well-being of women and girls in the justice system.
Women and girls' contact with the justice system is often influenced by gender-related assumptions and stereotypes. The justice practices of the past 40 years have been largely based on conceptual principles and assumptions-including personal theories about gender-more than scientific...
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Honest but mistaken eyewitnesses are the leading cause of wrongful convictions in the United States. As the innocent go to prison their lives are shattered; as the criminal goes free, the public remains vulnerable. With a vivid cast of brilliant scientists, street-wise cops, and former prosecutors--all haunted by the legacy of wrongful convictions, some directly involved with one--Doyle sheds light on the intersection of personal ambition, legal and...
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Wounded Workers: Tales from a Working Man's Shrink is Dr. Bob Larsen's first book intended for an audience of folks who have worked or are still working. The book recounts the stories of America's workforce subjected to physical and psychological trauma for doing their jobs. Tales from the trenches, of workers tormented by ill fortune, both natural and manmade, is the book's focus. A bank teller robbed one too many times, a paramedic who cannot save...
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Young girl's panties started to go missing; sexual assaults began to occur, and then female bodies were found! Soon this quiet town of Tweed, Ontario, was in panic. What's even more shocking was when an upstanding resident stood accused of the assaults. This was not just any man, but a pillar of the community; a decorated military pilot who had flown Canadian Forces VIP aircraft for dignitaries such as the Queen of England, Prince Philip, the Governor...
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The lie detector (polygraph) has been scientifically, proven to be, faulty. It cannot discern, whether a human being is lying or being truthful, and yet, it is, used daily to enforce laws, prosecute citizens, dismiss people from jobs and keep others from acquiring the career they are fully qualified for. Two million people a year in the U.S. are, forced to take a polygraph despite the fact that telling the truth does not help the person pass the "exam"....
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El abordaje de la salud mental, a partir de sanción y la reglamentación de la Ley Nacional 26.657 se encuadró en un paradigma de carácter interdisciplinario, intersectorial y comunitario. A partir de dicho marco legal, el dispositivo que más ágilmente se vio transformado fue la guardia externa de los hospitales polivalentes, donde los equipos interdisciplinarios de salud mental entraron en escena y fueron gradualmente afianzando su presencia,...
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On a sweltering summer night, an outcast, brutally tortured, was left to die in a field behind a Houston, Texas graveyard. Later, police discover another victim, but are the two related?
Written in cinematic narrative, Out Here in the Darkness draws its reader back to 1985 and the dawn of Satanic Panic. Within the first few pages, you'll find yourself an unwilling sixth member of a group of heavy metal fans as they sink into drug-fueled fantasies...
12) Successful Aging Discovering the Factors Which Old People Regard as Essential to Optimal Old Age
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The substantial increases in life expectancy at birth achieved over the previous century, combined with medical advances, escalating health and social care costs, and higher expectations for older age, have led to international interest in how to promote a healthier old age and how to age "successfully." Changing patterns of illness in old age, with morbidity being compressed into fewer years and effective interventions to reduce disability and health...
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The Insanity Myth is a discourse on the psychology and neurology of psychosomatic disorders or so-called "mental illnesses" and "altered states of consciousness," given as part of the classic argument between the medical sciences and the humanities, in this case neurology/psychiatry and the "uncovering therapies." The work aims to reach a broad audience of those interested in subjective material and, although some of the neurological material may...
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Conducting interviews into serious workplace issues can be a difficult and sometimes daunting task.
Investigative Interviewing - A Guide for Workplace Investigators is a comprehensive guide to steer HR professionals and specialist investigators through the challenging process.
Complied by professional investigator Harriet Stacey and Industrial Relations legal expert Alison Page, this book provides an outline of the rules, theory and practice on workplace...
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Peter Brooks is the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Scholar at Princeton University. He is the author of many works of literary criticism, including Henry James Goes to Paris (Princeton), Reading for the Plot, Psychoanalysis and Storytelling, and Troubling Confessions. He is also the author of two novels, The Emperor's Body and World Elsewhere.
From eminent critic Peter Brooks, an exploration of the modern preoccupation with identity
"We know that...
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Offers psychological insights into how people perceive, respond to, value, and make decisions about the environment
Environmental law may seem a strange space to seek insights from psychology. Psychology, after all, seeks to illuminate the interior of the human mind, while environmental law is fundamentally concerned with the exterior surroundings-the environment-in which people live.
Yet psychology is a crucial, undervalued factor in how laws shape...
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Actualmente se promueve de forma universal la justicia restaurativa, lo que la hace un modelo y método prometedor; pero ¿en qué consiste? ¿Por qué se diferencia de otros mecanismos alternativos de solución de conflictos? ¿Cómo se adapta al contexto colombiano? ¿ofrece beneficios psicológicos y jurídicos? ¿Qué aplicaciones tiene en las problemáticas delincuenciales y procesos de reconciliación?
Aquellas preguntas las responde el presente...
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Murder has been considered the most heinous and unforgivable sin yet it has become the most fascinating to mankind due to its implications. In this you'll learn the history of murder, how to defend yourself if charged with it as well as constitutional violations usually standardized such as felony murder and malice murder being multiplicities.
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First published in 1895, "The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind" is a pivotal work in the field of group psychology written by French social psychologist Gustave Le Bon. Le Bon theorizes that there are several characteristics of crowds as distinguishable from individual behavior. As it states in the preface: "The following work is devoted to an account of the characteristics of crowds. The whole of the common characteristics with which heredity endows...
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In October of 2002, a series of sniper attacks paralyzed the Washington Beltway, turning normally placid gas stations, parking lots, restaurants, and school grounds into chaotic killing fields. After the spree, ten people were dead and several others wounded. The perpetrators were forty-one-year-old John Allen Muhammad, a veteran of the first Gulf War, and his seventeen-year-old protégé, Lee Boyd Malvo.
In this intimate and carefully documented...
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