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Experiments with Power Obeah and the Remaking of Religion in Trinidad
ISBN: PB: 9780226705484, ISBN: HB: 9780226700649, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 halftones
In 2011, Trinidad declared a state of emergency. This massive state intervention lasted for 106 days and led to the rounding up of over 7,000 people in areas the state deemed "crime hot spots". The government justified this action and subsequent poli...
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£24,00
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£72,00
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Charles Manson Manson's Life Behind Bars
ISBN: PB: 9781454940869, GMC Group, Sterling, May 2020
384 pp., 21.3x14 cm, illus.
Charles Manson was perhaps the most infamous criminal of the 20th century. Convicted for orchestrating the shocking Tate-LaBianca murders in 1969, and for two other killings, there has been much written about him. But not many people knew him as well...
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£14,99
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Woman on the Windowsill A Tale of Mystery in Several Parts
ISBN: HB: 9780300234282, Yale University Press, April 2020
296 pp., 20.9x13.9 cm, 32 black&white illus.
On the morning of July 1, 1800, a surveyor and mapmaker named Cayetano Diaz opened the window of his study in Guatemala City to find a horrific sight: a pair of severed breasts. Offering a meticulously researched and evocative account of the quest to...
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£25,00
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Beyond the Usual Beating The Jon Burge Police Torture Scandal and Social Movements for Police Accountability in Chicago
ISBN: HB: 9780226700472, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones
The malign and long-lasting influence of Chicago police commander Jon Burge cannot be overestimated, particularly as fresh examples of local and national criminal-justice abuse continue to surface with dismaying frequency. Burge's decades-long tenure...
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£36,00
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Torture Letters Reckoning with Police Violence
ISBN: PB: 9780226650098, ISBN: HB: 9780226490533, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Torture is an open secret in Chicago. Nobody in power wants to acknowledge this grim reality, but everyone knows it happens – and that the torturers are the police. Three to five new claims are submitted to the Torture Inquiry and Relief Commission o...
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£57,00
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Discourse of Police Interviews
ISBN: PB: 9780226647791, ISBN: HB: 9780226647654, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 line drawings, 3 tables
Forensic linguistics, or the study of language and the law, is a growing field of scholarly and public interest. Yet books on the subject have predominantly been introductions to the field or aimed at summarizing its applications, often with a focus...
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£32,00
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£90,00
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Going All City Struggle and Survival in LA's Graffiti Subculture
ISBN: PB: 9780226493589, ISBN: HB: 9780226493442, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones
"We could have been called a lot of things: brazen vandals, scared kids, threats to social order, self-obsessed egomaniacs, marginalized youth, outsider artists, trend setters, and thrill seekers. But, to me, we were just regular kids growing up hard...
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£15,00
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£53,00
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Murder in New Orleans The Creation of Jim Crow Policing
ISBN: HB: 9780226643311, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 line drawings
New Orleans in the 1920s and 1930s was a deadly place. In 1925, the city's homicide rate was six times that of New York City and twelve times that of Boston. Jeffrey S. Adler has explored every homicide recorded in New Orleans between 1925 and 1940 –...
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£27,00
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Secret Poisoner A Century of Murder
ISBN: PB: 9780300250053, Yale University Press, August 2019
344 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 32 black&white illus.
Murder by poison alarmed, enthralled, and in many ways encapsulated the Victorian age. Linda Stratmann's dark and splendid social history reveals the nineteenth century as a gruesome battleground where poisoners went head-to-head with authorities who...
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£12,99
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Human Trafficking An Organised Crime?
ISBN: HB: 9781787381285, Hurst Publishers, July 2019
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! "Human trafficking" brings to mind gangsters forcing people, often women and girls, to engage in dangerous activities against their will, under threat of violence. However, human trafficking is not limited to the sex trade, and...
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£35,00
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