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Murder on the Inside tells the harrowing story of a prison in crisis against the backdrop of a pivotal moment in the history of human rights. Occurring just months before the uprising at Attica Prison, the Kingston riot has remained largely undocumented, and few have known the details—yet the tense drama chronicled here is more relevant today than ever. A gripping account of the standoff and the efforts for justice and reform it inspired, Murder on the Inside is essential listening for our times.

Der Rechtsstaat bricht sein zentrales Versprechen. Das Versprechen lautet, dass alle Menschen vor dem Gesetz gleich sind. Aber sie sind nicht gleich. Das Recht hierzulande begünstigt jene, die begütert sind; es benachteiligt die, die nichts haben. Wirtschaftsdelikte in Millionenhöhe werden mit minimalen Strafen belegt oder eingestellt. Prozesse gegen Menschen, die einen Wodka stehlen, enden hart und immer härter. Wirtschaftsdelikte in Millionenhöhe enden mit minimalen Strafen oder werden eingestellt. Prozesse gegen Menschen, die ein Brot stehlen oder wiederholt schwarzfahren, enden hart und immer härter.

A brutal vida das mulheres tratadas como homens nas prisões brasileiras. Grande reportagem sobre o cotidiano das prisões femininas no Brasil, um tabu neste país, Nana Queiroz alcança o que é esperado do futuro do jornalismo: ao ouvir e dar voz às presas (e às famílias delas), desde os episódios que as levaram à cadeia até o cotidiano no cárcere, a autora costura e ilumina o mais completo e ambicioso panorama da vida de uma presidiária brasileira.

«Cuando yo mataba no sentía nada. sabía que alguien tenía que hacerlo. Para mí era un trabajo común, como el de un militar o un policía. Yo sabía que, si alguien tenía que matar a alguien, se tenía que hacer y ya, para mí era normal». Lalo

Liam Thomas was an officer in the Met for over a decade, many of those years spent deep at the heart of Britain's most dangerous criminal enterprises in the murky world of undercover surveillance. Before him, his father had also been a police officer, a pillar of their small community. Fighting corruption was Liam's life. But the murky world of undercover work teaches him that justice is far from black and white - and a family secret reveals that corruption is closer to home than he had ever expected.

Kranke Psyche, schwere Schuld. Herr Matzke vergewaltigt fünf Frauen, sitzt seit 30 Jahren in Haft, fühlt sich aber unschuldig. Herr Knieriemen missbraucht seine 10-jährige Nichte. Er genoss ihn, diesen Moment, in dem er endlich selbst ohne Angst sein konnte. Frau Krüger, die ihr Baby, den kleinen "Murkel", totgeschlagen hat, will nie wieder Opfer sein – während des Therapiegesprächs zückt sie ein Messer und sticht zu. Die Psychotherapeutin Karoline Klemke erzählt erschütternde Fälle aus Therapiesitzungen im Maßregelvollzug.

Justin Brooks has spent his career freeing innocent people from prison. With You Might Go to Prison, Even Though You're Innocent, he offers up-close accounts of the cases he has fought, embedding them within a larger landscape of innocence claims and robust research on what we know about the causes of wrongful convictions.

Eine Reise in die Vergangenheit mit Berichten von spannenden historischen Kriminalfällen. Wie in ihrem Podcast Früher war mehr Verbrechen skizzieren die beiden Prähistorikerinnen Nina Batram und Katharina Kolvenbach mögliche Lösungen weit zurückliegender Fälle und Cold Cases und deren Relevanz für die heutige Zeit - dabei stets respektvoll, mit viel Empathie und Sachverstand. Sie beleuchten z. B. eine mordende Familie, eine Giftmörderin, eine falsche Ehefrau, einen intriganten Adelsmörder und den vielleicht bekanntesten Serienmörder der Geschichte: Jack the Ripper.

Lige før daggry, nær bakkerne ved den skotske grænse, bliver en ung kvinde slået ihjel på brutal vis. Samtidigt styrter en luftballon ned. Der er kun én overlevende. Hun har set morderens ansigt – og han har set hendes. Nu vil han ikke helme, før han har udryddet det eneste vidne til sin forbrydelse. Alene, bange, og ude af stand til at stole på nogen, flygter hun. Men den største fare er måske at finde der, hvor hun mindst venter det.

In the tradition of Just Mercy, an inspirational memoir by WNBA star Maya Moore Irons and her husband, Jonathan Irons, who she helped free from a wrongful conviction.

Transformative justice seeks to solve the problem of violence at the grassroots level, without relying on punishment, incarceration, or policing. Community-based approaches to preventing crime and repairing its damage have existed for centuries. However, in the putative atmosphere of contemporary criminal justice systems, they are often marginalized and operate under the radar. Beyond Survival puts these strategies front and center as real alternatives to today's failed models of confinement and "correction."

Drug transporters. Money launderers. Killers. Street drug vendors. Weapons traffickers. Kidnappers. Extortionists. VICE journalist Deborah Bonello reports from the trenches in this first-ever in-depth exploration of the hidden power women wield in Latin American drug cartels You’ve heard of...

From his hardscrabble NYC upbringing, through the NYPD ranks, to command of America's first ever joint task force on terrorism alongside the FBI, Kevin M. Hallinan lived a lot of history. From beat cop to detective, Hallinan maneuvered through some of America's most volatile decades and saw from the inside the tenuous gray line between law and order.

Riveting, honest, and raw, I Can Take It From Here recounts Lisa Forbes's harrowing journey into darkness—including a fourteen-year-long stint in a maximum-security prison—and her fierce resolve to understand the effects of the trauma she endured, to take personal responsibility for her actions, and to ensure that her history does not dictate her destiny.

Quanti sono gli errori giudiziari in Italia? Quante persone ogni anno subiscono la custodia cautelare, salvo poi rivelarsi innocenti? E qual è la spesa che lo Stato affronta per risarcirle? Quante di loro ottengono un indennizzo? Le ingiuste detenzioni macchiano come una brutta malattia la quotidianità della giustizia, gli errori sono la vergogna della vergogna e assumono proporzioni inimmaginabili. Dal 1991 al 31 dicembre 2020 i casi sono stati 29.659: in media, poco più di 988 l'anno.

Despite its omnipresence and long history, imprisonment is a deeply troubling practice. In the United States and elsewhere, prison conditions are inhumane, prisoners are treated without dignity, and sentences are extremely harsh. Mass incarceration and its devastating impact on black communities have been widely condemned as neoslavery or “the new Jim Crow.” Can the practice of imprisonment be reformed, or does justice require it to be ended altogether?

Perhaps no other television show captures our innate fascination with crime and criminals better than the original Forensic Files. Examining true crime cases from murders to insurance fraud, hit-and-runs to kidnappings, every case featured on the show is solved in large part with the help of forensic science like DNA evidence. In Forensic Files Now, author Rebecca Reisner shares her own gripping retellings of 40 favorite cases profiled on the show along with fascinating updates adapted from her popular blog, ForensicFilesNow.com.

For nearly three decades, Dr Colin Manock was in charge of South Australia's forensic pathology services. In cases of unexpected or unexplained death, it was his job to determine when a person took their final breath, and whether they had died naturally - or not. But Manock did not have the necessary training for such a specialist role, and made serious errors in several major cases. The full extent of his wrongdoing, and the exact number of cases impacted by it, remain a mystery more than twenty-five years after he retired.

In 2013, South African businessman Daniel Janse van Rensburg set off to the West African country to finalise a legitimate airline contract with a local politician. Within days, Daniel was arrested by the local Rapid Intervention Force and detained without trial in the island’s infamous ‘Guantanamo’ cells, and was later taken to Black Beach. This is his remarkable story of survival over nearly two years, made possible by his unwavering faith and the humanity of a few fellow inmates. In this thrilling first-person narrative, Daniel relives his ordeal.

Legal scholar Daniel S. Medwed argues that our justice system’s stringent procedural rules are largely to blame for the ongoing punishment of the innocent. Even when there is strong evidence of a miscarriage of justice, rigid guidelines, bias, and deference toward lower courts all too often prevent exoneration. Offering clear explanations of legal procedures alongside heart-wrenching stories of their devastating impact, Barred exposes how the system is stacked against the innocent—and makes a powerful call for change.