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Toward a Society under Law: Citizens and Their Police in Latin America (Woodrow Wilson Center Press S)

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Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press: 2006-12-20

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Crime continues to undermine the rule of law and democracy in Latin America. The incidence and severity of crime reduce the community's trust in police and in government, and many attempts to address the crime problem have stalled.

Directly empowering citizens has, however, been a promising avenue for change. Toward a Society under Law focuses on community policing and on police reform.

The first part of the book covers general issues and themes, with chapters on the impact of community policing, the role of advocacy networks, urban social policies and crime, and the cos...
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Victimisation

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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan: 2003-01-02

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Crime's Power: Anthropologists and the Ethnography of Crime

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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan: 2004-01-20

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Health Issues Among Incarcerated Women

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Publisher: Rutgers University Press: 2006-07-19

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Moving Targets: Women, Murder, and Representation

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Publisher: University of California Press: 1994-08-08

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Organized Crime in America: Concepts and Controversies (Issues in Crime and Justice)

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Publisher: Criminal Justice Pr: 1987-02-01

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Encyclopedia of Women and Crime

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Publisher: Checkmark Books: 2003-06-01

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Critical Criminology

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Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul: 1975-06-01

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The Struggle Against Corruption: A Comparative Study (Perspectives in Comparative Politics)

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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan: 2005-07-29

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Crime's Power: Anthropologists and the Ethnography of Crime

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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan: 2004-01-20

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ISBN: 1403961808

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The changes that are engulfing the world today - the fall of nation-states and dictatorships, migrations and border crossings, revolution, democratization, and the international spread of capital - call for new approaches to the subject of crime. Anthropologists engage a variety of methods to answer that call in Crime's Power . Their view of crime extends into the intimacies of everyday life as war transforms personal identities, the violence of a serial killer inhabits paintings, and as the feel of imprisonment reveals society's potentials. Moving beyond the fixities of law, this book explore...
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Health Issues Among Incarcerated Women

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Publisher: Rutgers University Press: 2006-07-19

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This text addresses the physical and mental needs of women prisoners and suggests that they can't be
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Facing the Death Penalty: Essays on a Cruel and Unusual Punishment

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Publisher: Temple University Press: 1990-01-16

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The Struggle Against Corruption: A Comparative Study (Perspectives in Comparative Politics)

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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan: 2005-07-29

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Encyclopedia of Women and Crime

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According to the US Department of Justice, the number of females in the correctional population more than doubled between 1986 and 1997, and between 1990 and 2000 the number of adult female inmates increased at a faster rate than that of men.
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Victimisation

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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan: 2003-01-02

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Moving Targets: Women, Murder, and Representation

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Publisher: University of California Press: 1994-08-08

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The rampaging female has become a new clich in Hollywood cinema, a sexy beauty stabbing and shooting her way to box-office success. Fatal Attraction, Thelma and Louise, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, and Single White Female are a few of the recent mainstream films that have attracted huge audiences. Meanwhile, true accounts of a teenager shooting her lover's wife and a battered woman bludgeoning her husband to death get prime news media coverage-and are quickly made into TV movies.

This pioneering collection of essays looks at our enduring fascination w...
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The Struggle Against Corruption: A Comparative Study (Perspectives in Comparative Politics)

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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan: 2005-07-29

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Understanding and responding to corruption is a worldwide challenge. This book offers a general overview of the nature, pattern, anddiffering perspectives on political and economic corruption. Providing detail and depth, the book examines and compares corruption infour countries: the United States, Israel, Russia, and India. Each country chapter explores how corruption is defined and understood in that country and provides case material illustrating corrupt practice and responses to it. The country chapters also cover whistleblowing activities, their prevalence, importance, and impact. A compa...
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Crimes of New York: Stories of Crooks, Killers, and Corruption from the World's Toughest City (Adrenaline Classics)

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Publisher: Da Capo Press: 2003-03-31

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Support for Crime Victims in a Comparative Perspective: A Collection of Essays Dedicated to the Memory of Prof. Frederic McClintock (Samenleving, Criminaliteit en Strafrechtspleging)

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Publisher: Leuven University Press: 1998-02-15

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This reader is dedicated to the memory of Prof. Frederic McClintock who was to be a co-editor. Dr. McClintock passed away in May 1994. In part one of this book, acknowledged experts from Finland, Holland, Switzerland, Spain and the U.K. report on the developments in victimology and discuss the discipline's impact on criminal justice policy.

Part two takes a broader perspective explaining how restorative justice initiatives could provide a viable and less costly alternative to the current retributive criminal justice system. In this part, three essays contrast the retributive and resto...
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WRITING FOR THEIR LIVES: Death Row USA

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Publisher: University of Illinois Press: 2006-12-21

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