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Victor Ernest Hoffman: the Shell Lake Murderer

by MARK KELLY, Fiona Plunkett ...

Victor Ernest Hoffman: the Shell Lake MurdererIn the early morning of August 15, 1967, the peaceful silence of rural Saskatchewan was shattered by an unthinkable act of violence. Victor Ernest Hoffman, driven by psychotic command hallucinations and a belief that he was battling demonic forces, entered the Peterson family farmhouse and murdered nine people, including six children. The only survivor ... Read more

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Victor Ernest Hoffman: the Shell Lake MurdererIn the early morning of August 15, 1967, the peaceful silence of rural Saskatchewan was shattered by an unthinkable act of violence. Victor Ernest Hoffman, driven by psychotic command hallucinations and a belief that he was battling demonic forces, entered the Peterson family farmhouse and murdered nine people, including six children. The only survivor
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The Lady of Silence: The Mataviejitas Murders

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The Lady of Silence: The Mataviejitas MurdersBetween 1998 and 2006, elderly women living alone in Mexico City were systematically murdered by someone who gained their trust by posing as a government social worker. The killer was Juana Barraza Samperio, a professional wrestler known as La Dama del Silencio—The Lady of Silence. Her traumatic childhood, sold by her alcoholic mother for three beers ... Read more

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The Lady of Silence: The Mataviejitas MurdersBetween 1998 and 2006, elderly women living alone in Mexico City were systematically murdered by someone who gained their trust by posing as a government social worker. The killer was Juana Barraza Samperio, a professional wrestler known as La Dama del Silencio—The Lady of Silence. Her traumatic childhood, sold by her alcoholic mother for three beers
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Roger Dale Stafford: Serial Spree Killer

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Roger Dale Stafford: Serial Spree KillerRoger Dale Stafford was convicted of nine murders in Oklahoma in 1978 and executed in 1995, but his case raises enduring questions about accomplice testimony, wrongful convictions, and the death penalty. This comprehensive examination explores the horrific crimes—the roadside ambush of the Lorenz family and the massacre of six Sirloin Stockade employees ... Read more

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Roger Dale Stafford: Serial Spree KillerRoger Dale Stafford was convicted of nine murders in Oklahoma in 1978 and executed in 1995, but his case raises enduring questions about accomplice testimony, wrongful convictions, and the death penalty. This comprehensive examination explores the horrific crimes—the roadside ambush of the Lorenz family and the massacre of six Sirloin Stockade employees
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Ethics and the Practice of Forensic Science

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Series series International Forensic Science and Investigation
Integrity and honesty are the hallmarks of science - and especially so in the case of forensic science - making the study and practice of ethics essential to the field. Ethics and the Practice of Forensic Science, Third Edition directly addresses common stressors that can induce, or lead professionals - working in forensic laboratories, law enforcement, the judicial system, and at crime scenes - ... Read more

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Integrity and honesty are the hallmarks of science - and especially so in the case of forensic science - making the study and practice of ethics essential to the field. Ethics and the Practice of Forensic Science, Third Edition directly addresses common stressors that can induce, or lead professionals - working in forensic laboratories, law enforcement, the judicial system, and at crime scenes -
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Ethics in Forensic Science

Edited by J.C. Upshaw Downs, Anjali Ranadive Swienton ...

This work will draw upon the expertise of the editors as authors and various contributors in order to present several different perspectives with the goal of approaching and understanding when ethical lines are crossed. In order to achieve this goal, comparisons of various canons of ethics from related fields such as medicine, law, the military, science and politics will be examined and applied. ... Read more

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This work will draw upon the expertise of the editors as authors and various contributors in order to present several different perspectives with the goal of approaching and understanding when ethical lines are crossed. In order to achieve this goal, comparisons of various canons of ethics from related fields such as medicine, law, the military, science and politics will be examined and applied.
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Criminal Testimonial Injustice

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Through a detailed analysis that draws on work across philosophy, the law, and social psychology, Criminal Testimonial Injustice shows that, from the very beginning of the American criminal legal process in interrogation rooms to its final stages in front of parole boards, testimony is extracted from individuals through processes that are coercive, manipulative, or deceptive. This testimony is ... Read more

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Through a detailed analysis that draws on work across philosophy, the law, and social psychology, Criminal Testimonial Injustice shows that, from the very beginning of the American criminal legal process in interrogation rooms to its final stages in front of parole boards, testimony is extracted from individuals through processes that are coercive, manipulative, or deceptive. This testimony is
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Perceptual Coherence

Hearing and Seeing

by Stephen Handel ...

The job of any sensory system is to create objects in the world out of the incoming proximal stimulus energy. The energy is neutral; it does not specify the objects itself. Thus, sensory systems must abstract the energy that does specify objects and differentiate it from the noise energy. The perceptual variables that specify objects for both listening and looking become those of contrast and ... Read more

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The job of any sensory system is to create objects in the world out of the incoming proximal stimulus energy. The energy is neutral; it does not specify the objects itself. Thus, sensory systems must abstract the energy that does specify objects and differentiate it from the noise energy. The perceptual variables that specify objects for both listening and looking become those of contrast and
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Introduction to Conducting Private Investigations

Private Investigator Entry Level (02E) (2022 Edition)

by Philip A. Becnel IV ...

Introduction to Conducting Private Investigations provides the essential tools you need to become a successful private investigator. From conducting straightforward background investigations to more complicated cases involving accidents and fraud, you will learn the critical skills needed to conduct all types of investigations and build a thriving business. Specifically tailored to meet the ... Read more

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Introduction to Conducting Private Investigations provides the essential tools you need to become a successful private investigator. From conducting straightforward background investigations to more complicated cases involving accidents and fraud, you will learn the critical skills needed to conduct all types of investigations and build a thriving business. Specifically tailored to meet the
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Human Targets

Schools, Police, and the Criminalization of Latino Youth

by Victor M. Rios ...

At fifteen, Victor Rios found himself a human target—flat on his ass amid a hail of shotgun fire, desperate for money and a place on the street. Faced with the choice of escalating a drug turf war or eking out a living elsewhere, he turned to a teacher, who mentored him and helped him find a job at an auto shop. That job would alter the course of his whole life—putting him on the road to college ... Read more

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At fifteen, Victor Rios found himself a human target—flat on his ass amid a hail of shotgun fire, desperate for money and a place on the street. Faced with the choice of escalating a drug turf war or eking out a living elsewhere, he turned to a teacher, who mentored him and helped him find a job at an auto shop. That job would alter the course of his whole life—putting him on the road to college
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Mass Incarceration on Trial

A Remarkable Court Decision and the Future of Prisons in America

by Jonathan Simon ...

For nearly forty years the United States has been gripped by policies that have placed more than 2.5 million Americans in jails and prisons designed to hold a fraction of that number of inmates. Our prisons are not only vast and overcrowded, they are degrading—relying on racist gangs, lockdowns, and Supermax-style segregation units to maintain a tenuous order.Mass Incarceration on Trial examines a ... Read more

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For nearly forty years the United States has been gripped by policies that have placed more than 2.5 million Americans in jails and prisons designed to hold a fraction of that number of inmates. Our prisons are not only vast and overcrowded, they are degrading—relying on racist gangs, lockdowns, and Supermax-style segregation units to maintain a tenuous order.Mass Incarceration on Trial examines a
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Failed Evidence

Why Law Enforcement Resists Science

by David A Harris ...

With the popularity of crime dramas like CSI focusing on forensic science, and increasing numbers of police and prosecutors making wide-spread use of DNA, high-tech science seems to have become the handmaiden of law enforcement. But this is a myth,asserts law professor and nationally known expert on police profiling David A. Harris. In fact, most of law enforcement does not embrace science—it ... Read more

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With the popularity of crime dramas like CSI focusing on forensic science, and increasing numbers of police and prosecutors making wide-spread use of DNA, high-tech science seems to have become the handmaiden of law enforcement. But this is a myth,asserts law professor and nationally known expert on police profiling David A. Harris. In fact, most of law enforcement does not embrace science—it
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Children of Coercive Control

by Evan Stark ...

Series series Interpersonal Violence
Children of Coercive Control extends Evan Stark's path-breaking analysis of interpersonal violence to children, showing that coercive control is the most important cause and context of child abuse and child homicide outside a war zone, as well as of the sexual abuse, denigration, exploitation, isolation and subordination of children. The book provides a working model of the coercive control of ... Read more

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Children of Coercive Control extends Evan Stark's path-breaking analysis of interpersonal violence to children, showing that coercive control is the most important cause and context of child abuse and child homicide outside a war zone, as well as of the sexual abuse, denigration, exploitation, isolation and subordination of children. The book provides a working model of the coercive control of
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