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The wolf you feed refers to a powerful Native American metaphor.
Feeding the good wolf builds a moral and social order of inclusion
and tolerance, whereas feeding the bad wolf leads to fear, hatred,
exclusion, and violence. You must decide which wolf to feed. E.N.
Anderson and Barbara A. Anderson use this metaphor to examine
complicity in genocide. Anderson and Anderson argue that everyday
frustration and fear, combined with hatred and social othering
toward rivals and victims of discrimination, are powerful
precursors to conforming to genocide and the very tools that
genocidal leaders use to instigate hatred. Anderson and Anderson
examine why individuals and whole nations become complicit in
genocide. They propose powerful actions that can both protect
against complicity and create social change, as exemplified from
populations recovering from genocidal regimes. This book is
targeted toward scholars and persons who are interested in
understanding genocidal complicity and examining social strategies
to counteract it.
Winner, 2019 Outstanding Book Award, given by the American Society
of Criminology's Division of Policing Section The first in-depth
history and analysis of a much-abused policing policy No policing
tactic has been more controversial than "stop and frisk," whereby
police officers stop, question and frisk ordinary citizens, who
they may view as potential suspects, on the streets. As Michael
White and Hank Fradella show in Stop and Frisk, the first
authoritative history and analysis of this tactic, there is a
disconnect between our everyday understanding and the historical
and legal foundations for this policing strategy. First ruled
constitutional in 1968, stop and frisk would go on to become a
central tactic of modern day policing, particularly by the New York
City Police Department. By 2011 the NYPD recorded 685,000
'stop-question-and-frisk' interactions with citizens; yet, in 2013,
a landmark decision ruled that the police had over- and mis-used
this tactic. Stop and Frisk tells the story of how and why this
happened, and offers ways that police departments can better serve
their citizens. They also offer a convincing argument that stop and
frisk did not contribute as greatly to the drop in New York's crime
rates as many proponents, like former NYPD Police Commissioner Ray
Kelly and Mayor Michael Bloomberg, have argued. While much of the
book focuses on the NYPD's use of stop and frisk, examples are also
shown from police departments around the country, including
Philadelphia, Baltimore, Chicago, Newark and Detroit. White and
Fradella argue that not only does stop and frisk have a legal place
in 21st-century policing but also that it can be judiciously used
to help deter crime in a way that respects the rights and needs of
citizens. They also offer insight into the history of racial
injustice that has all too often been a feature of American
policing's history and propose concrete strategies that every
police department can follow to improve the way they police. A
hard-hitting yet nuanced analysis, Stop and Frisk shows how the
tactic can be a just act of policing and, in turn, shows how to
police in the best interest of citizens.
I have to assume that there is a very real chance that Putin or
members of his regime will have me killed some day. If I'm killed,
you will know who did it. When my enemies read this book, they will
know that you know. Reads like a classic thriller, with an everyman
hero alone and in danger in a hostile foreign city ... but it's all
true, and it's a story that needs to be told. LEE CHILD An
unburdening, a witness statement and a thriller all at the same
time ... electrifying. THE TIMES A shocking true-life thriller. TOM
STOPPARD --- In November 2009, the young lawyer Sergei Magnitsky
was beaten to death by eight police officers in a freezing cell in
a Moscow prison. His crime? Testifying against Russian officials
who were involved in a conspiracy to steal $230 million of taxes.
Red Notice is a searing expose of the whitewash of this
imprisonment and murder. The killing hasn't been investigated. It
hasn't been punished. Bill Browder is still campaigning for justice
for his late lawyer and friend. This is his explosive journey from
the heady world of finance in New York and London in the 1990s,
through battles with ruthless oligarchs in turbulent post-Soviet
Union Moscow, to the shadowy heart of the Kremlin. With fraud,
bribery, corruption and torture exposed at every turn, Red Notice
is a shocking political roller-coaster.
The man who revolutionized the way we think about baseball examines
our cultural obsession with murder--delivering a unique,
engrossing, brilliant history of tabloid crime in America.
Celebrated writer and contrarian Bill James has voraciously read
true crime throughout his life and has been interested in writing a
book on the topic for decades. With "Popular Crime, "James takes
readers on an epic journey from Lizzie Borden to the Lindbergh
baby, from the Black Dahlia to O. J. Simpson, explaining how crimes
have been committed, investigated, prosecuted and written about,
and how that has profoundly influenced our culture over the last
few centuries--even if we haven't always taken notice.
Exploring such phenomena as serial murder, the fluctuation of crime
rates, the value of evidence, radicalism and crime, prison reform
and the hidden ways in which crimes have shaped, or reflected, our
society, James chronicles murder and misdeeds from the 1600s to the
present day. James pays particular attention to crimes that were
sensations during their time but have faded into obscurity, as well
as still-famous cases, some that have never been solved, including
the Lindbergh kidnapping, the Boston Strangler and JonBenet Ramsey.
Satisfyingly sprawling and tremendously entertaining, "Popular
Crime "is a professed amateur's powerful examination of the
incredible impact crime stories have on our society, culture and
history.
In 1997, George Henderson, who was staying in a homeless shelter,
asked for the help of author, Dr. Bonnie Clark Douglass. George's
brother Paul Henderson, who was nicknamed "Poncho," was only 17
when he went missing on Halloween night. Poncho's lifeless body was
found a couple of weeks later on Nov. 14th, 1981, at the end of the
catwalk under the Centennial Bridge in Miramichi City. Poncho's
sneakers were found neatly placed, side by side, atop a pillar
approximately 50 yards from the body; not one police report
retrieved mentions this fact. George refused to "live with it,"
after the family was told Poncho fell off the bridge, and that was
not what the Pathologist's report concluded. "I'd say he was
beaten. When a person falls, you expect to see trademark injuries,
especially to the hands and face." Sheriff Pollard said that if he
did not know better, he would guess that someone put Poncho on a
rack and stretched him. (Telegraph Journal, February 6, 1999,
Calvin Pollard, with 25 years combined experience as a sheriff and
coroner). George and Dr. Bonnie dug up every piece of information
they could find. This included old RCMP records retrieved from the
New Brunswick Archives, and news articles from 1981. A
comprehensive written report was submitted to the N.B. RCMP Major
Crime Unit and, in 1999, the RCMP announced that the case was being
opened. After George's violent death in 2007, Dr. Bonnie knew that
one day she had to tell George's story, because of his tenacity and
courage in the face of a system that seemed dead against him.
George remained the eye of the storm, no matter what he came up
against. After starting a Facebook site, miraculously, 10 pages of
tips came in. The truth about that fateful night and what happened
on the catwalk began to unravel. Who would ever believe how the
truth surfaced because of social media? A loyal group of people,
who ravaged the storm and fought to honor George's vow for justice,
are revealed in the story.
The term ""victim"" recognizes a wide variety of victimizations
that include but are not limited to physical, sexual, financial,
psychological, emotional, and/or social consequences, including
vicarious trauma. With such widespread types of victims, it is
important that research focuses on these rarely discussed groups to
give a better understanding of victimology. Traditional victimology
texts focus on broad crime typology, such as the general crime of
assault, without looking into victim selection or context. However,
understanding the victim of the crimes is extremely important in
the pursuit of justice. In addition, these traditional texts
continue to exclude certain victimizations such as environmental
crimes or white-collar crimes and more. This gap in the field needs
to be addressed as some of the most victimized populations remain
absent from critical research. Invisible Victims and the Pursuit of
Justice: Analyzing Frequently Victimized Yet Rarely Discussed
Populations expands the study of crime victims to be more inclusive
of common types of victimization by exploring invisible crime
victims that are rarely, if ever, addressed in traditional
victimology. This book also provides an understanding of
victimization and barriers to victim assistance. The chapters will
illustrate the scope and response to these crime victims, as well
as answer important questions about victimology and grant
real-world perspectives of victimization. This book is appropriate
for a wide range of readership including but not limited to
criminologists, victim service providers, psychologists,
sociologists, social workers, advocate groups, law enforcement,
lawyers, defense attorneys, criminal justice practitioners,
academicians, researchers, and students studying criminology,
criminal justice, victimology, social work, psychology, and social
justice.
The United States incarcerates nearly one quarter of the world's
prison population with only five percent of its total inhabitants,
in addition to a history of using internment camps and
reservations. An overreliance on incarceration has emphasized
long-standing and systemic racism in criminal justice systems and
reveals a need to critically examine current processes in an effort
to reform modern systems and provide the best practices for
successfully responding to deviance. Global Perspectives on People,
Process, and Practice in Criminal Justice is an essential scholarly
reference that focuses on incarceration and imprisonment and
reflects on the differences and alternatives to these policies in
various parts of the world. Covering subjects from criminology and
criminal justice to penology and prison studies, this book presents
chapters that examine processes and responses to deviance in
regions around the world including North America, Europe, the
Middle East, and Asia. Uniquely, this book presents chapters that
give a voice to those who are not always heard in debates about
incarceration and justice such as those who have been incarcerated,
family members of those incarcerated, and those who work within the
walls of the prison system. Investigating significant topics that
include carceral trauma, prisoner rights, recidivism, and
desistance, this book is critical for academicians, researchers,
policymakers, advocacy groups, students, government officials,
criminologists, and other practitioners interested in criminal
justice, penology, human rights, courts and law, victimology, and
criminology.
Challenging the standard paradigm of terrorism research through the
use of Norbert Elias's figurational sociology, Michael Dunning
explores the development of terrorism in Britain over the past two
centuries, focusing on long-term processes and shifting power
dynamics. In so doing, he demonstrates that terrorism as a concept
and designation is entwined with its antithesis, civilization. A
range of process sociological concepts are deployed to tease out
the sociogenesis of terrorism as part of Britain's relationships
with France, Ireland, Germany, the Soviet Union, the industrial
working classes, its colonies, and, most recently, jihadism. In
keeping with the figurational tradition, Dunning examines the
relationships between broad, macro-level processes and processes at
the level of individual psyches, showing that terrorism is not
merely a 'thing' done to a group, but part of a complex web of
interdependent relations.
In Big Pharma, lives are secondary to profit margins. But Lisa Pratta
stood her ground—risking everything to expose the lies of a
billion-dollar pharmaceutical business mired in deception, greed, and
the systemic abuse of both patients and employees
As a rising star in pharmaceutical sales, Lisa Pratta wanted to believe
that she was helping improve the lives of people who suffered from
illness. But as she climbed the corporate ladder, she uncovered a
sinister world of bribery, fraud, and sexual harassment—all papered
over with a thin veneer of corporate respectability.
At Questcor Pharmaceuticals, Lisa found herself at a small company with
a blockbuster drug that could have been a lifeline for patients
suffering from multiple sclerosis—that is, if it was prescribed
properly. But instead, Questcor chose profits over patients, training
its sales force to push untested treatment regimens with the sole
purpose of beating its competition. Lisa recognized this as not only
dangerous but highly illegal. In the midst of this controversy,
Questcor arbitrarily inflated the drug’s price to a jaw-dropping
$28,000 per vial. Torn between her morals and the financial stability
the job provided for her special-needs son, Lisa made a decision that
would change her life forever: she reported the fraudulent practices of
the company to the federal government.
For nearly a decade, she led a double life—feeding insider information
to the Department of Justice while enduring the relentless demands of
her company to sell their drug using illegal marketing tactics. She
faced constant fear of exposure, knowing that the government offered
her no protection if her secrets were revealed. Nonetheless, Lisa
pressed on, determined to hold Questcor accountable for the laws they
were breaking and the lives they were endangering.
This incredible true story offers a sobering look at the unscrupulous
sales methods used by America’s corrupt pharmaceutical industry,
spotlights the levers they pull to extract ludicrous profits from the
sick and dying, and is a page-turning portrait of one woman’s heroic
fight against Big Pharma and a mother’s struggle to protect her family.
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