Violated

Author : Bill Pronzini
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781632866622

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The Violated by Bill Pronzini Pdf

A new stand-alone thriller by an acclaimed master of the genre and author of the Nameless Detective series. Bill Pronzini is crime-writing royalty. His more than eighty published novels have won or been nominated for Edgar, Hammett, Anthony, Shamus, and Macavity awards--a clean sweep of the crime fiction award field--and received rave reviews from critics. He crafts masterful stories, often from multiple perspectives, in which the human condition is on full display. The Violated is no exception. In Echo Park, in the small town of Santa Rita, California, the mutilated body of Martin Torrey is found by two passersby. A registered sex offender, Torrey has been a suspect in a string of recent rapes, and instant suspicion for his murder falls on the relatives and friends of the women attacked. Police chief Griffin Kells and detective Robert Ortiz are under increasing pressure from the public and from a mayor demanding results in a case that has no easy solution. Pronzini cleverly unfolds the case through alternating perspectives--Martin Torrey's wife, caught between her grief and the fear her husband was guilty; the outraged husbands of the women violated; the enterprising editor of the local paper; the mayor concerned most with his own ratings; the detectives, often spinning in circles--until a surprising break leads to a completely unexpected conclusion. The Violated is Bill Pronzini at the height of his storytelling powers.

Author : Paula Lavigne,Mark Schlabach
Publisher : Center Street
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-22
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781478974079

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Violated by Paula Lavigne,Mark Schlabach Pdf

Written by ESPN investigative reporters VIOLATED narrates the sexual abuse by members of Baylor's football team and the university's attempt to silence the victims. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to RAINN to help fight sexual abuse. Throughout its history, Baylor University has presented itself as something special: As the world's largest Baptist university, it was unabashedly Christian. It condemned any sex outside of marriage, and drinking alcohol was grounds for dismissal. Students weren't even allowed to dance on campus until 1996. During the last several years, however, Baylor officials were hiding a dark secret: Female students were being sexually assaulted at an alarming rate. Baylor administrators did very little to help victims, and their assailants rarely faced discipline for their abhorrent behavior. Finally, after a pair of high-profile criminal cases involving football players, an independent examination of Baylor's handling of allegations of sexual assault led to sweeping changes, including the unprecedented ouster of its president, athletics director, and popular, highly successful football coach. For several years, campuses and sports teams across the country have been plagued with accusations of sexual violence, and they've been criticized for how they responded to the students involved. But Baylor stands out. A culture reigned in which people believed that any type of sex, especially violent non-consensual sex, simply "doesn't happen here." Yet it was happening. Many people within Baylor's leadership knew about it. And they chose not to act. Paula Lavigne and Mark Schlabach weave together the complex - and at times contradictory - narrative of how a university and football program ascending in national prominence came crashing down amidst the stories of woman after woman coming forward describing their assaults, and a university system they found indifferent to their pain.

Author : Sarah Wilson
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780008508319

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Violated: A Shocking and Harrowing Survival Story by Sarah Wilson Pdf

The shocking first true account from one of the young girls who lived through and survived the Rotherham sex abuse scandal.

Author : I. I. Bigi,A. I. Sanda
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781139478243

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CP Violation by I. I. Bigi,A. I. Sanda Pdf

Why didn't the matter in our Universe annihilate with antimatter immediately after its creation? The study of CP violation may help to answer this fundamental question. This book presents theoretical tools necessary to understand this phenomenon. Reflecting the explosion of new results over the last decade, this second edition has been substantially expanded. It introduces charge conjugation, parity and time reversal, before describing the Kobayashi-Maskawa (KM) theory for CP violation and our understanding of CP violation in kaon decays. It reveals how the discovery of B mesons has provided a new laboratory to study CP violation with KM theory predicting large asymmetries, and discusses how these predictions have been confirmed since the first edition of this book. Later chapters describe the search for a new theory of nature's fundamental dynamics. This book is suitable for researchers in high energy, atomic and nuclear physics, and the history and philosophy of science.

Author : Kent Roach
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 633 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108417877

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Remedies for Human Rights Violations by Kent Roach Pdf

Justifies a two-track approach that includes individual and systemic remedies in both domestic and international human rights law.

Author : Josephine Elizabeth Grey Butler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Constitutional law
ISBN : PRNC:32101074769264

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The Constitution Violated by Josephine Elizabeth Grey Butler Pdf

Author : Aaron Betsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Architects
ISBN : OCLC:78046949

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Violated Perfection by Aaron Betsky Pdf

Author : Stefanie Khoury,David Whyte
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317216063

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Corporate Human Rights Violations by Stefanie Khoury,David Whyte Pdf

This book develops an analysis of the historical, political and legal contexts behind current demands by NGOs and the United Nations Human Rights Council to hold corporations accountable for their human rights violations. Based on an analysis of the range of mechanisms of accountability that currently exist, it argues that that those demands are a response to the failure of neo-liberal policies that have dominated the practice of politics and law since the emergence of this debate in its current form in the 1970s. Offering a new approach to understanding how struggles for hegemony are refracted through a range of legal challenges to corporate human rights violations, the book offers a fresh perspective for understanding how those struggles are played out in the global sphere. In order to analyse the prospects for using human rights law to challenge the right of corporations to author human rights violations, the book explores the development of a range of political initiatives in the UN, the uses of tort law in domestic courts, and the uses of human rights law at the European Court of Human Rights and at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. This book will be essential reading for all those interested in how international institutions and NGOs are both shaping and being shaped by global struggles against corporate power.

Author : Sallie Tisdale
Publisher : Hawthorne Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-18
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780990437093

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Violation: Collected Essays by Sallie Tisdale Pdf

Most Anticipated, Too: The Great 2016 Nonfiction Book Preview The Millions GROUNDBREAKING. A career-defining book. -The New Yorker Sallie Tisdale is the author of seven books on such varied subjects as medical technology, her pioneer ancestors and Buddhist women teachers. Her many essays have appeared in Harper's, Conjunctions, The New Yorker, Antioch Review, Threepenny Review and many other journals. This first collection of work spans thirty years, and includes an introduction and brief epilogues to each essay. Tisdale's questing curiosity pursues subjects from the biology of flies to the experience of working in an abortion clinic, why it is so difficult to play sports with men, and whether it's possible for writers to tell the truth. She restlessly returns to themes of the body, the family, and how we try to explain ourselves to each other. She is unwilling to settle for easy answers, and finds the ambiguity and wonder underneath ordinary events. The collection includes a recent essay never before published, about the mystery of how we present ourselves to each other and whether it is possible to know even our own inner lives.

Author : Paulus Kaufmann,Hannes Kuch,Christian Neuhaeuser,Elaine Webster
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789048196616

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Humiliation, Degradation, Dehumanization by Paulus Kaufmann,Hannes Kuch,Christian Neuhaeuser,Elaine Webster Pdf

Degradation, dehumanization, instrumentalization, humiliation, and nonrecognition – these concepts point to ways in which we understand human beings to be violated in their dignity. Violations of human dignity are brought about by concrete practices and conditions; some commonly acknowledged, such as torture and rape, and others more contested, such as poverty and exclusion. This volume collates reflections on such concepts and a range of practices, deepening our understanding of human dignity and its violation, bringing to the surface interrelationships and commonalities, and pointing to the values that are thereby shown to be in danger. In presenting a streamlined discussion from a negative perspective, complemented by conclusions for a positive account of human dignity, the book is at once a contribution to the body of literature on what dignity is and how it should be protected as well as constituting an alternative, fresh and focused perspective relevant to this significant recurring debate. As the concept of human dignity itself crosses disciplinary boundaries, this is mirrored in the unique range of perspectives brought by the book’s European and American contributors – in philosophy and ethics, law, human rights, literature, cultural studies and interdisciplinary research. This volume will be of interest to social and moral philosophers, legal and human rights theorists, practitioners and students.

Author : Florentin Blanc
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781788112499

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From Chasing Violations to Managing Risks by Florentin Blanc Pdf

Florentin Blanc focuses specifically on regulatory inspections and enforcement, their historical development, contrasted approaches and methods, and their relative effectiveness in achieving regulatory objectives. Inspections aimed at verifying compliance with regulations are one of the most significant activities of modern states in terms of the number of staff employed or of people affected, and one of the most visible ones – but have long remained relatively under-researched, or at least not considered "as such".

Author : Ewa Bagińska
Publisher : Springer
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783319189505

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Damages for Violations of Human Rights by Ewa Bagińska Pdf

This volume analyses the legal grounds, premises and extent of pecuniary compensation for violations of human rights in national legal systems. The scope of comparison includes liability regimes in general and in detail, the correlation between pecuniary remedies available under international law and under domestic law, and special (alternative) compensation systems. All sources of human rights violations are embraced, including historical injustices and systematical and gross violations. The book is a collection of nineteen contributions written by public international law, international human rights and private law experts, covering fifteen European jurisdictions (including Central and Eastern Europe), the United States, Israel and EU law. The contributions, initially prepared for the 19th International Congress of Comparative law in Vienna (2014), present the latest developments in legislation, scholarship and case-law concerning domestic causes of action in cases of human rights abuses. The book concludes with a comparative report which assesses the developments in tort law and public liability law, the role of the constitutionalisation of the right to damages as well as the court practice related to the process of enforcement of human rights through monetary remedies. This country-by-country comparison allows to consider whether the value of protection of human rights as expressed in international treaties, ius cogens and in national constitutional laws justifies the conclusion that the interests at stake should enjoy protection under the existing civil liability rules, or that a new cause of action, or even a whole new set of rules, should be created in national systems.

Author : Hina Azam
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107094246

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Sexual Violation in Islamic Law by Hina Azam Pdf

Centered on legal discourses of Islam's first six centuries, this book analyzes juristic writings on the topic of rape.

Author : United States. National Labor Relations Board
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1502 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Labor laws and legislation
ISBN : OSU:32437011533136

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Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board by United States. National Labor Relations Board Pdf

Author : Susan Bitensky
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006-06-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789047431169

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Corporal Punishment of Children: A Human Rights Violation by Susan Bitensky Pdf

The core of this book is a detailed analysis of the status of corporal punishment of children, including Areasonable spankings by parents, under international human rights law. The analysis leads compellingly to the conclusion that such punishment is indeed a human rights violation, consonant with modern norms about right and decent treatment of juveniles. The book further provides a comparative analysis between the domestic laws of the seventeen nations that ban all corporal punishment of children (Sweden, Finland, Norway, Austria, Cyprus, Denmark, Germany, Iceland, Bulgaria, Croatia, Latvia, Hungary, Romania, Ukraine, Israel, Italy, and Portugal) and examples of the domestic laws in the countries that still permit some physical chastisement of children (United States and Canada). Because it is anticipated that a good number of readers will be surprised to learn that this disciplinary practice has become a human rights law violation, the book also engages in an in-depth exegesis of the psychological evidence and historical and philosophical reasons warranting prohibition of all corporal punishment of children as an imperative policy choice. The work probes as well why, once that choice is made, it is essential to use legal bans on the punishment inasmuch as they have uniquely effective pedagogical and therapeutic roles and give some permanence to humanity’s hard won understanding about protecting the young from violence. Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint.