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St. Vincent (DVD)
Naomi Watts, Jaeden Lieberher, Chris O'Dowd, Kimberly Quinn, Melissa McCarthy, …
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R41
Discovery Miles 410
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Bill Murray and Melissa McCarthy star in this comedy drama written
and directed by Theodore Melfi. Murray plays Vincent, a
misanthropic and curmudgeonly old man who becomes responsible for
his neighbour Maggie (McCarthy)'s son Oliver (Jaeden Lieberher).
Maggie, who has enough on her mind with starting her new job at the
hospital while going through divorce proceedings from Oliver's
father, employs Vincent to take care of Oliver after school.
Unbeknown to Maggie, Vincent is a heavy drinker and smoker and
likes to hang around bars and racetracks in his spare time. But is
there more to Vincent than meets the eye?
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Ghostbusters (DVD)
Chris Hemsworth, Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Sigourney Weaver, …
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R53
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Paul Feig directs this comedy sequel starring Melissa McCarthy,
Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones. 30 years after their
male predecessors saved the world from the ghosts and ghouls that
haunted it, the new Ghostbusters Abby (McCarthy), Erin (Wiig),
Jillian (McKinnon) and Patty (Jones) get news of spirits lurking
beneath the streets of New York City. With the help of their
secretary Kevin (Chris Hemsworth), the ladies don the famous boiler
suits and set out on a mission to destroy the ghosts and save the
world.
Research on gender, sex, and crime today remains focused on topics
that have been a mainstay of the field for several decades, but it
has also recently expanded to include studies from a variety of
disciplines, a growing number of countries, and on a wider range of
crimes. The Oxford Handbook of Gender, Sex, and Crime reflects this
growing diversity and provides authoritative overviews of current
research and theory on how gender and sex shape crime and criminal
justice responses to it. The editors, Rosemary Gartner and Bill
McCarthy, have assembled a diverse cast of criminologists,
historians, legal scholars, psychologists, and sociologists from a
number of countries to discuss key concepts and debates central to
the field. The Handbook includes examinations of the historical and
contemporary patterns of women's and men's involvement in crime; as
well as biological, psychological, and social science perspectives
on gender, sex, and crimal activity. Several essays discuss the
ways in which sex and gender influence legal and popular reactions
to crime. An important theme throughout The Handbook is the
intersection of sex and gender with ethnicity, class, age, peer
groups, and community as influences on crime and justice.
Individual chapters investigate both conventional topics - such as
domestic abuse and sexual violence - and topics that have only
recently drawn the attention of scholars - such as human
trafficking, honor killing, gender violence during war, state rape,
and genocide. The Oxford Handbook of Gender, Sex, and Crime offers
an unparalleled and comprehensive view of the connections among
gender, sex, and crime in the United States and in many other
countries. Its insights illuminate both traditional areas of study
in the field and pathways for developing cutting-edge research
questions.
An Edgar Award finalist for Best Fact Crime, this
"impressive...open-eyed investigative inquiry wrapped within a
cultural history of rural America" (The Wall Street Journal) shows
legendary statistician and baseball writer Bill James applying his
analytical acumen to crack an unsolved century-old mystery
surrounding one of the deadliest serial killers in American
history. Between 1898 and 1912, families across the country were
bludgeoned in their sleep with the blunt side of an axe. Jewelry
and valuables were left in plain sight, bodies were piled together,
faces covered with cloth. Some of these cases, like the infamous
Villasca, Iowa, murders, received national attention. But few
people believed the crimes were related. And fewer still would
realize that all of these families lived within walking distance to
a train station. When celebrated baseball statistician and true
crime expert Bill James first learned about these horrors, he began
to investigate others that might fit the same pattern. Applying the
same know-how he brings to his legendary baseball analysis, he
empirically determined which crimes were committed by the same
person. Then after sifting through thousands of local newspapers,
court transcripts, and public records, he and his daughter Rachel
made an astonishing discovery: they learned the true identity of
this monstrous criminal. In turn, they uncovered one of the
deadliest serial killers in America. Riveting and immersive, with
writing as sharp as the cold side of an axe, The Man from the Train
paints a vivid, psychologically perceptive portrait of America at
the dawn of the twentieth century, when crime was regarded as a
local problem, and opportunistic private detectives exploited a
dysfunctional judicial system. James shows how these cultural
factors enabled such an unspeakable series of crimes to occur, and
his groundbreaking approach to true crime will convince skeptics,
amaze aficionados, and change the way we view criminal history.
This book is a guide into the spirit realm. It uses real scientific
data collected by multiple sessions with spirits to find out the
truth to many of life's biggest questions. It serves as a pocket
book for beginners as well as containing vital knowledge on the
spirit realm. Learn defensive practices as well as how to explore
with caution. If your curious about the spirit realm or want to
dive into it, this book will dispel myths and rumors all while
bringing the truth right to your doorstep. The journey starts
here...
This field study features intensive personal interviews of more than four hundred young people who have left home and school and are living on the streets of Toronto and Vancouver. The study examines why youth take to the streets, their struggles to survive there, their victimization and involvement in crime, their associations with other street youth, especially within "street families," their contacts with the police, and their efforts to rejoin conventional society. Major theories of youth crime are analyzed and reappraised in the context of a new social capital theory of crime.
A searing examination of the long history of police misconduct and
political corruption in Chicago that produced the city's current
racial reckoning Chicago faces a racial reckoning. For over 50
years, Chicago Mayors Richard J. and Richard M. Daley were at the
helm of a law-and-order dynasty that disadvantaged predominantly
Black and Brown neighborhoods and covered up heinous crimes against
Black men. During his 1980-2012 tenure as State's Attorney and
Mayor, Richard M. Daley (son of Richard J. Daley) led a law
enforcement bureaucracy which permitted police detective John Burge
to supervise the torture of over 100 Black men on Chicago's South
and West Sides. Misguided policies on "gangs, guns, and drugs,"
support for a racialized code of silence and police misconduct, and
a lack of meaningful punishment, have ensured that these leaders'
effects on Chicago are still sorely felt. In this book, John Hagan,
Bill McCarthy, and Daniel Herda confront the complicated history of
race, politics, and policing in Chicago to explain how crime works
from the top-down through urban political machines and the elite
figures who dominate them. The authors argue that the Daleys' law
enforcement system worked largely to benefit and protect White
residential areas and business districts while excluding Black and
Brown Chicagoans and concentrating them in highly segregated
neighborhoods. The stark contradiction between the promise "to
serve and protect" and the realities of hyper-segregation and mass
incarceration created widespread cynicism about policing that
remains one of the most persistent problems of contemporary Chicago
law enforcement. By holding a sociological lens up to the history
of this quintessential American city, Chicago's Reckoning reveals
new insights into the politics of crime and how, until we come to
terms with our history and the racial and economic divisions it
created, these dynamics will continue to shape our national life.
Spatial Representation presents original, specially written essays by leading psychologists and philosophers on a fascinating set of topics at the intersection of these two disciplines. Each of the five sections covers a central area of research into spatial cognition and opens with a short introduction by the editors, designed to facilitate cross-disciplinary reading. The volume offers a rich and compelling expression of the view that to advance our understanding of the way we represent the external world it is necessary to draw on both philosophical and psychological approaches.
This field study features intensive personal interviews of more than four hundred young people who have left home and school and are living on the streets of Toronto and Vancouver. The study examines why youth take to the streets, their struggles to survive there, their victimization and involvement in crime, their associations with other street youth, especially within "street families," their contacts with the police, and their efforts to rejoin conventional society. Major theories of youth crime are analyzed and reappraised in the context of a new social capital theory of crime.
Research on gender, sex, and crime today remains focused on topics
that have been a mainstay of the field for several decades, but it
has also recently expanded to include studies from a variety of
disciplines, a growing number of countries, and on a wider range of
crimes. The Oxford Handbook of Gender, Sex, and Crime reflects this
growing diversity and provides authoritative overviews of current
research and theory on how gender and sex shape crime and criminal
justice responses to it. The editors, Rosemary Gartner and Bill
McCarthy, have assembled a diverse cast of criminologists,
historians, legal scholars, psychologists, and sociologists from a
number of countries to discuss key concepts and debates central to
the field. The Handbook includes examinations of the historical and
contemporary patterns of women's and men's involvement in crime; as
well as biological, psychological, and social science perspectives
on gender, sex, and criminal activity. Several essays discuss the
ways in which sex and gender influence legal and popular reactions
to crime. An important theme throughout The Handbook is the
intersection of sex and gender with ethnicity, class, age, peer
groups, and community as influences on crime and justice.
Individual chapters investigate both conventional topics - such as
domestic abuse and sexual violence - and topics that have only
recently drawn the attention of scholars - such as human
trafficking, honor killing, gender violence during war, state rape,
and genocide. The Oxford Handbook of Gender, Sex, and Crime offers
an unparalleled and comprehensive view of the connections among
gender, sex, and crime in the United States and in many other
countries. Its insights illuminate both traditional areas of study
in the field and pathways for developing cutting-edge research
questions.
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Dark Sonnet (Paperback)
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