The Natural History Of Crime

Author : Patricia Wiltshire
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-14
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781789466508

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The Natural History of Crime by Patricia Wiltshire Pdf

'I love puzzles, and finding answers is the only truly enjoyable part of what I do.' Professor Patricia Wiltshire is a forensic ecologist, her days spent at crime scenes collecting samples, standing over dead bodies in a mortuary, or looking down her microscope for evidence. Working at the interface of where the criminal and natural world interact, Patricia has been involved in some of the most high-profile murder cases. Now, through a study of her most infamous, and fascinating cases - including the murder of Sarah Payne, and the Soham murders of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman - Patricia will show us how she finds the answers to some of the worst crimes imaginable. Not only does she help the police solve crimes and give answers to the most bemusing circumstances, she can help to exonerate the innocent and enable confessions from the guilty. In The Natural History of Crime we join Patricia in putting the puzzle together, teasing the evidence out of her cases and showing us all how life and death have always been, and always will be, intertwined. Nature has given us a messy, imperfect world, but her job is to help make sense of it when we need it to most.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Mango
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-12-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1684816971

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The Natural History of Crime by Anonim Pdf

Author : Pablo Piccato
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520966079

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A History of Infamy by Pablo Piccato Pdf

A History of Infamy explores the broken nexus between crime, justice, and truth in mid-twentieth-century Mexico. Faced with the violence and impunity that defined politics, policing, and the judicial system in post-revolutionary times, Mexicans sought truth and justice outside state institutions. During this period, criminal news and crime fiction flourished. Civil society’s search for truth and justice led, paradoxically, to the normalization of extrajudicial violence and neglect of the rights of victims. As Pablo Piccato demonstrates, ordinary people in Mexico have made crime and punishment central concerns of the public sphere during the last century, and in doing so have shaped crime and violence in our times.

Author : Nancy Cushing
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000822311

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A History of Crime in Australia by Nancy Cushing Pdf

This book provides a lively and accessible account of Australia’s most prominent crimes and criminals of the nineteenth and twentieth century and offers an informative background for those seeking to understand crimes committed today. A History of Crime in Australia examines the imposition of English law on this ancient continent, and how its operation affected both transported offenders from Great Britain and Ireland, and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples whose own systems of Law were overlaid. Drawing upon cutting-edge research in the field, original work by the author, and essays from leading crime history researchers, it addresses the question of whether there was an Australian underworld. In doing so, it provides background for well known offenders including bushranger Ned Kelly and the razor gangs of the 1920s and for sensational crimes like the Mount Rennie Outrage, the Pyjama Girl Mystery and the Shark Arm Murder and the miscarriage of justice following the disappearance of Azaria Chamberlain at Uluru in 1980. Through these case studies, the book draws out points of tension and cohesion within Australian society, exposing the enduring anxiety around those who were considered to be outsiders, and how the criminal justice system was used to manage these concerns. This book includes a guide to conducting research in the field of Australian crime history and sources for further study. Designed as an introductory text for students, this book will be of interest to those studying criminology and crime history, and anyone who would like to deepen their understanding of crime’s place in Australia’s social and cultural history.

Author : Karl Jacoby
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520282292

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Crimes Against Nature by Karl Jacoby Pdf

"This Study of the Early American conservation movement reveals the hidden history of three of the nation's first parks: the Adirondacks, Yellowstone, and the Grand Canyon. Karl Jacoby traces the effects that the criminalization of such traditional rural practices as hunting, fishing, and foraging had on country people in these areas. Despite the presence of new environmental regulations, poaching arson, and timber stealing became widespread among the Native Americans, poor whites, and others who had long relied on the natural resources now contained within conservation areas. Jacoby reassesses the nature of these "crimes," providing a rich and multifaceted portrayal of rural people and their relationship with the natural world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries." "Crimes against Nature includes previously unpublished historical photographs depicting such subjects as poachers in Yellowstone and a Native American "squatters' camp" at the Grand Canyon. This study demonstrates the importance of considering class for understanding environmental history and opens a new perspective on the social history of rural and poor people a century age."--Jacket of 2001 edition

Author : Robert Peckham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135045951

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Disease and Crime by Robert Peckham Pdf

Disease and crime are increasingly conflated in the contemporary world. News reports proclaim "epidemics" of crime, while politicians denounce terrorism as a lethal pathological threat. Recent years have even witnessed the development of a new subfield, "epidemiological criminology," which merges public health with criminal justice to provide analytical tools for criminal justice practitioners and health care professionals. Little attention, however, has been paid to the historical contexts of these disease and crime equations, or to the historical continuities and discontinuities between contemporary invocations of crime as disease and the emergence of criminology, epidemiology, and public health in the second half of the nineteenth century. When, how and why did this pathologization of crime and criminalization of disease come about? This volume addresses these critical questions, exploring the discursive construction of crime and disease across a range of geographical and historical settings.

Author : Luke Owen Pike
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368183400

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A History of Crime in England by Luke Owen Pike Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

Author : Luke Owen Pike
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Crime
ISBN : UCAL:$B296704

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A History of Crime in England by Luke Owen Pike Pdf

Author : Neil Cross
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781847394750

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Natural History by Neil Cross Pdf

From the acclaimed writer of Luther and Hard Sun, Natural History is a work of exquisite tension Strange things are happening in Monkeyland, the ailing Devonshire sanctuary that Patrick and his zoologist wife, Jane, took on in a bid to save their marriage. Their oldest female primate, the wise and gentle Rue, is found murdered in a corner of the compound. And a big, panther-like cat, preys around the park. It evades capture, lurking in the shadows and in the back of Patrick's mind. Private, threatening, elusive. With Patrick's son, Charlie, having left Monkeyland in disgrace and his wife on a field trip in Zaire, Patrick is left alone with his black cat and his fears. Until one night something happens that is so shocking, so deplorable, that it rips apart everything Patrick had ever held to be true. They say that a parent's worse nightmare is to suffer the death of a child. But what if that's not true? Praise for Natural History: 'The skill with which the author manipulates the narrative, revealing its developments only by degrees, is what gives this sharply observed and suspenseful novel its edge – so that when the shocking climax takes place, it is both entirely unexpected and frighteningly plausible' The Times 'Powerfully intelligent... the frightening permeability of borders lies at the centre of this complex and troubling book... Compressed lyricism generates sudden shifts between transitory events and durable historical patterns, Cross's novel is serious and compelling in equal measure' Guardian 'Taut domestic intrigue, sprung with mistrust and the menacing stealth of hunting... A subtle interplay of anxieties and tolerances that keep parental treacheries in glaring focus' Financial Times 'I'm a big fan of this author and particularly of this menacing novel, which on the surface could be a family drama but turns into something very nasty indeed. It's clever, tense and chilling. Highly recommended' Sarah Broadhurst, The Bookseller 'Dark and densely plotted...the plot reaches a violent climax, challenging notions of guilt and the limits of parental responsibility' Daily Mail 'A masterpiece… seductively readable, no matter how much one dreads what may happen next… mercilessly realistic… This is a dangerous novel. Everyone in it has a lot to worry about' Daily Telegraph

Author : Paul Knepper
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472518552

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Writing the History of Crime by Paul Knepper Pdf

Writing the History of Crime investigates the development of historical writing on the subject of crime and its wider place in social and cultural history. It examines long-standing and emerging traditions in history writing, with separate chapters on legal and scientific approaches, as well as on urban, Marxist, gender and empire history. Each chapter then explores these historical approaches in relation to crime, paying particular attention to the relationship between theory and the interpretation of evidence. Rather than a timeline for the historical appearance of ideas about crime or a catalogue of the range of topics that comprise the subject matter, Writing the History of Crime reveals the ideas behind crime as a subject of historical investigation; it looks at how these ideas generate questions that may be asked about the past and the way in which these questions are answered. This is a crucial analysis for anyone interested in the history of crime, the historiography of social history or the art of history writing more broadly.

Author : Luke Owen Pike
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Crime
ISBN : HARVARD:HNTM14

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A History of Crime in England: From the Roman invasion to the accession of Henry VII by Luke Owen Pike Pdf

Author : Mitchel P. Roth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 761 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351373777

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A History of Crime and the American Criminal Justice System by Mitchel P. Roth Pdf

This book offers a history of crime and the criminal justice system in America, written particularly for students of criminal justice and those interested in the history of crime and punishment. It follows the evolution of the criminal justice system chronologically and, when necessary, offers parallels between related criminal justice issues in different historical eras. From its antecedents in England to revolutionary times, to the American Civil War, right through the twentieth century to the age of terrorism, this book combines a wealth of resources with keen historical judgement to offer a fascinating account of the development of criminal justice in America. A new chapter brings the story up to date, looking at criminal justice through the Obama era and the early days of the Trump administration. Each chapter is broken down into four crucial components related to the American criminal justice system from the historical perspective: lawmakers and the judiciary; law enforcement; corrections; and crime and punishment. A range of pedagogical features, including timelines of key events, learning objectives, critical thinking questions and sources, as well as a full glossary of key terms and a Who’s Who in Criminal Justice History, ensures that readers are well-equipped to navigate the immense body of knowledge related to criminal justice history. Essential reading for Criminal Justice majors and historians alike, this book will be a fascinating text for anyone interested in the development of the American criminal justice system from ancient times to the present day.

Author : Luke Owen Pike
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Crime
ISBN : BSB:BSB11158069

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A History of Crime in England Illustrating the Changes of the Laws in the Progress of Civilisation Written from the Public Records and Other Contemporary Evidence by Luke Owen Pike by Luke Owen Pike Pdf

Author : Paul Knepper,Anja Johansen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780190602840

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The Oxford Handbook of the History of Crime and Criminal Justice by Paul Knepper,Anja Johansen Pdf

The historical study of crime has expanded in criminology during the past few decades, forming an active niche area in social history. Indeed, the history of crime is more relevant than ever as scholars seek to address contemporary issues in criminology and criminal justice. Thus, The Oxford Handbook of the History of Crime and Criminal Justice provides a systematic and comprehensive examination of recent developments across both fields. Chapters examine existing research, explain on-going debates and controversies, and point to new areas of interest, covering topics such as criminal law and courts, police and policing, and the rise of criminology as a field. This Handbook also analyzes some of the most pressing criminological issues of our time, including drug trafficking, terrorism, and the intersections of gender, race, and class in the context of crime and punishment. The definitive volume on the history of crime, The Oxford Handbook of the History of Crime and Criminal Justice is an invaluable resource for students and scholars of criminology, criminal justice, and legal history.

Author : Greta LaFleur
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421438849

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The Natural History of Sexuality in Early America by Greta LaFleur Pdf

Ultimately, The Natural History of Sexuality in Early America not only rewrites all dominant scholarly narratives of eighteenth-century sexual behavior but poses a major intervention into queer theoretical understandings of the relationship between sex and the subject.