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Un homme en combinaison isolante avec un masque et des gants qui photographie une scène de crime Une femme en blouse blanche qui examine des traces de peinture sous le microscope Vous avez reconnu un expert de la police technique et scientifique Mais savez-vous que cette police technique et scientifique est née à la fin du XIXe siècle des travaux de trois pionniers, Alphonse Bertillon, Alexandre Lacassagne et Edmond Locard. C'est grâce à eux que les indices laissés sur la scène de cr...

Date de sortie: 2018-11-19 Genre:Essais et sciences humaines > Sciences sociales 4,49 €

Dubbed “the little French Bill Gates” in his native country, Alexandre Mars quit the startups that made him rich, transforming himself from entrepreneur to philanthropist. Determined to become a responsible and effective giver, Mars traveled around the world, asking two very simple questions. “Do you give to charity?” “Do you give enough?” While all answered yes to the first question, their second answer—“no” surprised him. From Hong Kong to Paris to New York, he met numerous p...

Date de sortie: 2018-12-31 Genre:Essais et sciences humaines > Sciences sociales 11,99 €

A frightening look at Mexico's new power elitethe Mexican drug cartels The members of Mexico's drug cartels are among the criminal underworld's most ambitious and ruthless entrepreneurs. Supplanting the once dominant Colombian cartels, the Mexican drug cartels are now the major distributor of heroin and cocaine to the U.S. and Canada. Not only have their drugs crossed north of the border, so have the cartels (in 2009, 230 active Mexican drug cartels have been reported in U.S. cities). In Ganglan...

Date de sortie: 2013-06-11 Genre:Essais et sciences humaines > Sciences sociales 7,99 €

That was the simple yet groundbreaking question William T. Vollmann asked in cities and villages around the globe. The result of Vollmann's fearless inquiry is a view of poverty unlike any previously offered. Poor People struggles to confront poverty in all its hopelessness and brutality, its pride and abject fear, its fierce misery and quiet resignation, allowing the poor to explain the causes and consequences of their impoverishment in their own cultural, social, and religious terms. With inte...

Date de sortie: 2010-10-05 Genre:Essais et sciences humaines > Sciences sociales 8,99 €

Restorative practice is an innovative approach to thinking about, and addressing, conflict and bullying, as well as disruptive, challenging and criminal behaviour. The approach is increasingly used to transform the culture of organisations, institutions and services and the way people communicate with one another. In this book, ten practitioners describe a restorative encounter as seen through the lens of their own theoretical model. The book's unique structure is modelled on a restorative pract...

Date de sortie: 2015-10-21 Genre:Essais et sciences humaines > Sciences sociales 34,99 €

Den Flüchtling kennzeichnet die gezwungene Migration aus seiner Heimat in ein meistens fremdes Land. Die Flucht ist die Ausführung einer räumlichen Bewegung, die einen vorübergehenden oder permanenten Wechsel des Wohnsitzes bedingt, also eine Veränderung der Position eines Menschen im physischen und sozialen Raum. Es werden Flüchtlinge durch Kriege; Folter; ethnische, politische und rassische Verfolgung; Armut; Katastrophen; sowie politische und gesellschaftliche Umwälzungen gezwungen ihr...

Date de sortie: 2019-07-29 Genre:Essais et sciences humaines > Sciences sociales 9,49 €

Quiet and polite, obsessively neat, clean and tidy, eight-year-old Tom is unlike any child Maggie has ever fostered before. Tom has been taken into care following concerns that his dad is struggling to cope after the death of Tom's mum. At first, Maggie doesn't know what to make of this shy, nervous little boy who never cries and is terrified of getting dirty. But as Tom's cleaning rituals start to get more extreme, Maggie fears that there's something more sinister going on beneath the surface. ...

Date de sortie: 2019-04-04 Genre:Essais et sciences humaines > Sciences sociales 3,49 €

The Analysis of Burned Human Remains, Second Edition, provides a primary source for osteologists and the medical/legal community for the understanding of burned bone remains in forensic or archaeological contexts. It describes in detail the changes in human bone and soft tissues as a body burns at both the chemical and gross levels and provides an overview of the current procedures in burned bone study. Case studies in forensic and archaeological settings aid those interested in the analysis of ...

Date de sortie: 2015-06-01 Genre:Essais et sciences humaines > Sciences sociales 74,99 €

Un panorama complet de l'accompagnement social aujourd'hui, de son histoire aux pratiques contemporaines, en passant par ses concepts et ses valeurs.

Date de sortie: 2010-01-01 17,99 €

There is the guard who delivers blows with no visible traces. The fraudster stitched up by the police for murder. The man who refuses to lie for a packet of cigarettes. The abandoned teenager, the down-and-out, the grass... He describes a hidden world of brutality and corruption, yet one where moments of humanity still manage to shine through. One in ten Russian men pass through prison at some point in their lives. This book is a denunciation of an entire system of bureaucratic criminality, and ...

Date de sortie: 2014-04-10 Genre:Essais et sciences humaines > Sciences sociales 4,99 €

Michael Plante, a low-level Hells Angels dog's body in Vancouver, is arrested for extortion in 2003. Coincidentally, police intercept a boat carrying cocaine from Colombia to Vancouver, a shipment arranged by the East End chapter of Vancouver's Hells Angels. The cops need to send someone inside to gather evidence that can be used to arrest and convict the gang. Plante does not want to go to jail. He cuts a deal, and so begins a descent into the nightmare of going undercover in the Hells Angels. ...

Date de sortie: 2013-09-10 Genre:Essais et sciences humaines > Sciences sociales 7,99 €

This is a true story of survival in what was arguably the most sinister prison in Europe: the Carabanchel. Christopher Chance was the last Brit to be shackled and hauled out of that infamous Spanish hellhole before it closed its gates on decades of disgraceful cruelty. Along with the rest of the remaining inmates, he was transferred to another prison when the authorities slid back the bolts for the last time. Chance's story begins on the day he entered the jail and encountered the innate racism ...

Date de sortie: 2012-04-13 Genre:Essais et sciences humaines > Sciences sociales 12,99 €

Die Gesetzlosen – Rocker gegen den Rechtsstaat Hells Angels, Bandidos, Outlaws oder Gremium – die Motorradclubs, die sich hinter diesen Namen verbergen, haben in den vergangenen Jahren immer wieder für Schlagzeilen gesorgt. Die Rocker morden, erpressen, dealen, gehen mit Messern und Schusswaffen aufeinander und auf die Polizei los. Diese tut sich schwer damit, die Banden in Schach zu halten, auch wenn es in den letzten Monaten zu Verhaftungen, Razzien und Vereinsverboten gekommen ist. Doch ...

Date de sortie: 2013-03-04 Genre:Essais et sciences humaines > Sciences sociales 10,99 €

Introduction to Criminalistics covers the basics of Criminalistics in a textbook for a one or two semester course, with the intention of preparing the student for a future in forensic science. The role of the Criminalist is to analyze, compare, identify, and interpret physical evidence in the crime lab. These crime labs, or forensic labs, have two primary functions: identifying evidence and linking the suspect, victim, and crime scene through physical evidence. This new primer introduces the lea...

Date de sortie: 2009-02-06 Genre:Essais et sciences humaines > Sciences sociales 82,99 €

Veteran urban activist Robert Lupton reveals the shockingly toxic effects that modern charity has upon the very people meant to benefit from it. Toxic Charity provides proven new models for charitable groups who want to help—not sabotage—those whom they desire to serve. Lupton, the founder of FCS Urban Ministries (Focused Community Strategies) in Atlanta, the voice of the Urban Perspectives newsletter, and the author of Compassion, Justice and the Christian Life, has been at the forefront of...

Date de sortie: 2011-10-11 Genre:Essais et sciences humaines > Sciences sociales 8,99 €

Controversy rages about capital punishment as innocent men and women are being released from death rows all over the country. Are innocent people being executed? Is capital punishment justice or is it revenge? Into the debate steps Mark Fuhrman, America's most famous detective, and no stranger to controversy himself. Fuhrman seeks to answer these questions by investigating the death penalty in Oklahoma, where a "hang 'em high" attitude of cowboy justice resulted in twenty–one executions in 200...

Date de sortie: 2010-11-30 Genre:Essais et sciences humaines > Sciences sociales 10,99 €