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Uma reportagem de alta temperatura, que comprova a falência da segurança pública no Brasil. Os autores entrevistaram diversos integrantes do PCC e revelam as entranhas das organizações criminosas. Este livro é uma reportagem capaz de fixar a fisionomia do crime no Brasil. Os autores obtiveram relatos inéditos de integrantes das facções e contam essa história sob um ângulo inédito e revelador. Geridas de dentro dos presídios, as facções criminosas se profissionalizaram. Quem assumiu a dianteira desse processo foi o PCC, responsável por um grau inédito de organização nos presídios brasileiros.

'Pentridge was a place of murder and mayhem. A bluestone hell. The worst prison Australia has ever seen.' Andrew Kirby, former inmate Welcome to Pentridge, Australia's most infamous prison. In the long-awaited return to his bestselling true crime series on life behind bars, James Phelps has...

Al entrar en prisión, muchas veces por un delito que no cometieron, las mujeres en México enfrentan la dureza que implicasu condena, y también, de manera sistemática, severas injusticias en sus procesos penales, desatención en las mínimas normas de higiene y discriminación. Este libro ofrece un panorama desolador de la forma en la que viven las mujeres encarceladas en este país: humilladas y ofendidas.

In an era of increasing digital deception, Peter M. offers a timely guide to recognizing and countering the art of deception in everyday life. Drawing from espionage techniques, historical accounts, and cutting-edge psychology, How to Spot a Fraud like a British Spy provides listeners with invaluable insights into the world of deceit and the tools to navigate it. Whether it's discerning a lie in a conversation, detecting financial scams, or understanding the grander tactics of mass manipulation, this book equips its listeners with skills reminiscent of Britain's finest intelligence agents.

The journey from being a correctional officer to a warden wasn’t easy and taught many lessons, highlighting the overlooked areas in the prison management system. Richard Rison, who earned the title of a warden, narrates his experience working in different correctional facilities, how he identified the flaws in the system and felt the need to develop a unit management model based on his experiences.

Bestselling author Loren W. Christensen served as a Military Policeman in Saigon, Vietnam, "the most dangerous city in the world," as it was called at the time. Shortly after returning home, he joined the Portland Police Bureau in Oregon, serving for twenty-five years. As a street cop, there were times he was dispatched to dead body calls so frequently that other officers teasingly called him the "Death Car."

Told from the perspective of an adult female who was sexually abused as a child, this book takes a deep look into the world of pedophiles and their behaviors. Through cases from history and real events from her past, she helps paint a more vivid picture of the "Chester Molesters" who are hiding in plain sight.

Today, art theft is one of the most profitable criminal enterprises in the world, exceeding $6 billion in losses to galleries and art collectors annually. And the masterpieces of Rembrandt van Rijn are some of the most frequently targeted. In Stealing Rembrandts, art security expert Anthony M. Amore and award-winning investigative reporter Tom Mashberg reveal the actors behind the major Rembrandt heists in the last century. Through thefts around the world—from Stockholm to Boston, Worcester to Ohio—the authors track daring entries and escapes from the world's most renowned museums.

From the one-of-kind mind of Bill James, famous for revolutionizing the way we think about baseball, comes a “thought-provoking meditation” (Seattle Times) and epic tour through American crime—now available in paperback. The man who revolutionized the way we think about baseball examines...

Dr. Michael Baden has been involved in some of the most high-profile civil rights and police brutality cases in United States history, from the government's 1976 re-investigation of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., to the 2014 death of Michael Brown, whose case sparked the initial Ferguson protests that grew into the Black Lives Matter movement. The playbook hasn't changed since 1979, when Dr. Baden was demoted from his job as New York City's Chief Medical Examiner after ruling that the death of a Black man in police custody was a homicide.

Stop the Killing shares an insider look at what we’ve learned and failed to learn about protecting our places of commerce, houses of worship, businesses, and schools. Furthermore, the book demystifies the language around active shooters, mass killings, threat assessment teams, and more.

C’era bisogno davvero del pentimento del boss Tommaso Buscetta per convincersi della forza della mafia, quando esistevano già il rapporto del questore di Palermo Ermanno Sangiorgi di fine Ottocento e quello degli anni Settanta del generale dei carabinieri dalla Chiesa? Perché quei documenti non portarono a una reazione pronta dello Stato? Che rapporto si è creato nel tempo tra la mafia e le istituzioni più inerti e accidiose, e come possiamo rimediare oggi a errori e ritardi?

¿Has llegado a casa desesperado por entrar a Google Maps desde tu computadora para recorrer la calle en la que ocurrió un homicidio y encontrar nuevas pistas? Si la respuesta es «sí», entonces tienes un lugar asegurado en este grupo selecto, donde los fanáticos del true crime se convierten en detectives de la vida real.

The much anticipated follow-up to the bestseller that exposed the escalation of organised crime in New Zealand. Gangster's Paradise is about drugs, guns, gangs and money. Lots of money. A gang which took over a small rural town. A police officer shot and killed in a routine traffic stop. A...

Indigenous Justice is Book 10 in the Durvile True Cases series. In the spirit of truth and reconciliation and respectful of Indigenous cultural integrity, judges, lawyers, and law enforcement officers write about working with First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Peoples through their trials and tribulations with the criminal justice system. The stories are a mix of previously published essays from the True Cases anthologies with an equal number of new chapters by legal and law enforcement professionals.

Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Drug War and learn about the war on drugs from the second book in The Drug Propaganda series.

Terror in the Flesh is a Nia Riddle quick-listen book that dives into the grim world of serial killers, examining the different types of killers, the most famous serial killers, and even how to protect yourself from these skinwalker-like monsters that blend into society effortlessly in some cases.

During the 1970s, grassroots women activists in and outside of prisons forged a radical politics against gender violence and incarceration. Emily L. Thuma traces the making of this anticarceral feminism at the intersections of struggles for racial and economic justice, prisoners' and psychiatric patients' rights, and gender and sexual liberation. All Our Trials explores the organizing, ideas, and influence of those who placed criminalized and marginalized women at the heart of their antiviolence mobilizations.

Ever wondered how criminal investigators persuade others to reveal their secrets? Or perhaps your personal or professional life could benefit from more open, trusting interactions? Whatever it may be, 'Unlocking Secrets' provides the answers you need to harness your interpersonal and communication skills to get others to open up and talk. Through real-life examples, Dr David Craig shows how these skills can be applied in everyday life, whilst divulging some of the most enhanced psychological methods used in the world of covert operations.

While state and federal prisons like Attica and Alcatraz occupy a central place in the national consciousness, most incarceration in the US occurs within the walls of local jails. In This Is My Jail, Melanie D. Newport situates the late twentieth-century escalation of mass incarceration in a longer history of racialized, politically repressive jailing. Centering the political actions of people until now overlooked, Newport shows how local, grassroots contestation shaped the rise of the carceral state.