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The daughters of Juárez
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Teresa Rodríguez |
For more than twelve years the Mexican border city of Juárez has been the center of an epidemic of horrific crimes against women and girls: kidnappings, rape, mutilation, and murder, with most of th… |
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Gender and violence in the Middle East
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David Ghanim |
Gender and Violence in the Middle East argues that violence is fundamental to the functioning of the patriarchal gender structure that governs daily life in Middle Eastern societies. Ghanim contends … |
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Women and crime
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Stacy L. Mallicoat |
This text provides a comprehensive and unique view into the world of women interacting with the criminal justice system. |
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Cyber crime and the victimization of women
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Debarati Halder |
"This book investigates cyber crime, exploring gendered dimensions of cyber crimes like adult bullying, cyber stalking, hacking, defamation, morphed pornographic images, and electronic blackmailing"-… |
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People Who Eat Darkness
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Richard Lloyd Parry |
An incisive and compelling account of the case of 21-year-old Lucie Blackman, who stepped out into the vastness of Tokyo in the summer of 2000 and disappeared forever. The following winter, her disme… |
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Blood in the snow
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Tom Henderson |
Describes how stay-at-home father Stephen Grant murdered his wife, Tara, dismembered her, and buried her in the woods, then reported her missing and participated in a frantic, emotional search for he… |
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Women, crime and social harm
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Maureen E. Cain,Adrian Howe |
"A series published for the Oñati Institute for the Sociology of Law."--T.p. |
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Son of a gun
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Justin St. Germain |
"In Tombstone, Arizona, September 2001, Debbie St Germain is found dead in her trailer, apparently murdered by her fifth husband. For her twenty-year-old son, Justin, the tragedy marks the line that … |
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In her prime
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Glenn Puit |
Discusses the life and murder of Nevada politician Kathy Augustine. |
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Women, violence, and the media
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Drew Humphries |
Through the lens of feminist criminology, this volume examines the complex interrelationship of women, violence, and media presentations. The book is divided into three sections: the first section la… |
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Tainted witness
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Leigh Gilmore |
in 1991, Anita Hill's testimony during Clarence Thomas's Senate confirmation hearing brought the problem of sexual harassment to a public audience. Although widely believed by women, Hill was defamed… |
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The real Lolita
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Sarah Weinman |
"In 1948, Sally Horner was just eleven years old when she was kidnapped by a man claiming to be an FBI agent. Seven years later, Vladimir Nabokov published Lolita, perhaps the most seminal novel of t… |
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The Johns
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Victor Malarek |
Presents a critical indictment of the men who solicit sex services from unwilling prostitutes, in an exposé that identifies the customers and organizations that foster and drive the sex trade through… |
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Unwanted advances
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Laura Kipnis |
From a highly regarded feminist, cultural critic, and professor comes a polemic arguing that the stifling sense of sexual danger sweeping American campuses doesn't empower women, it impedes the fight… |
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Violence against women and children
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Marie M. Fortune |
Violence against women and children has reached epidemic proportions, harming thousands of individuals each year. Victims as well as perpetrators turn to their pastors for help; pastors turn to their… |
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Saving Grace
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Sarah Brady,Patrick Crowley,Eric Deters |
True story of a woman's elaborate plot to have her own child by kidnapping an infant and killing the biological mother. Written by the victim. |
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The Michigan murders
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Edward Keyes |
Edgar Award Finalist: The terrifying true story of savage murders, a terrorized midwestern town, and the serial killer who could have lived next door
In 1967, during the time of peace, free love… |
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Conquest
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Andrea Smith |
"In this revolutionary text, prominent Native American studies scholar and activist Andrea Smith reveals the connections between different forms of violence -- perpetrated by the state and by society… |
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Shattered
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Debra Puglisi Sharp |
In April 1998, Debra Puglisi Sharp -- wife, nurse, and mother of teenage twins -- was tending the roses in her garden when a factory worker with a cocaine habit slipped in through an open door and wa… |
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The Queen of Peace room
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Magie Dominic |
What is memory, and where is it stored in the body? Can a room be symbolic of a lifetime?
Memories are like layers of your skin or layers of paint on a canvas. In The Queen of Peace Room, Magie Do… |
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