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Book Face of a Victim

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  • Author : Elizabeth Lermolo
  • Publisher : Hassell Street Press
  • Release : 2021-09-10
  • ISBN : 9781015112797
  • Pages : 332 pages

Download or read book Face of a Victim written by Elizabeth Lermolo and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-10 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book The Victim s Face

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  • Author : Kenneth R. Dodds
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2015-11-10
  • ISBN : 1514464276
  • Pages : 449 pages

Download or read book The Victim s Face written by Kenneth R. Dodds and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: December 1956. The IRA begins its Border Campaign in Northern Ireland. It trains raw recruits with veterans like Dan Keohane and explosives expert Francie Shaw. A sleeper inside the Northern Security Services provides intelligence, and agents abroad buy heavy weapons to tip the balance. Can the IRA be held back? Rory Vance, a young Donegal man in the Fermanagh RUC, finds his relationship with ine, from across the border, severely tested by the conflict. Can it survive? The victims were not only soldiers and policemen. This novel closely follows the main facts of a neglected period of Irish Border history.

Book Victim Without a Face

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  • Author : Stefan Ahnhem
  • Publisher : House of Anansi
  • Release : 2015-11-01
  • ISBN : 1770899146
  • Pages : 360 pages

Download or read book Victim Without a Face written by Stefan Ahnhem and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book in the Fabian Risk series, Victim Without a Face is a chilling novel about the ultimate revenge. Criminal investigator Fabian Risk has left Stockholm with his wife, Sonja, and their two children to start fresh in his hometown of Helsingborg. He has planned a six-week vacation before he starts a new job at the Homicide Department. But after only a few hours in their new home, he is asked to investigate a brutal murder. The body of Jörgen Pålsson, one of Risk’s former classmates, has been found with both hands missing. Soon the bodies of more old classmates are found, and Risk finds himself in a race against time: Can they find the murderer before the entire class is killed?

Book The New Faces of Victimhood

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  • Author : Rianne Letschert
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2011-01-21
  • ISBN : 9048190207
  • Pages : 350 pages

Download or read book The New Faces of Victimhood written by Rianne Letschert and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-01-21 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Besides generating wealth, globalization makes victims, including victims of new forms of crime. In this edited book of scholarly essays, international lawyers and criminologists reflect on the legal challenges posed by these dark sides of globalization. Examples include transnational organised crime, human trafficking and corruption, cyber crimes, international terrorism, global corporate crime and cross-border environmental crimes. The authors reflect on the limits of domestic systems of justice in providing protection, empowerment and redress to the victims of these emerging forms of global insecurity. They argue for the need of better international or supra-national institutional arrangements such as legal instruments and actions of the United Nations or regional organizations such as the European Union. In part I Jan Van Dijk and Rianne Letschert present an overview of trends in criminal victimization against the backdrop of globalization using a unique set of statistical indicators. By placing this issue in the framework of the human security concept, the authors draw out its broader political and normative implications. Theologist Ralf Bodelier explains how modern communication technologies have heightened sensitivities among the general public for human insecurities anywhere in the world. In his view, a new global conscience is in the making that may become the cornerstone of international solidarity and action. Marc Groenhuijsen and Rianne Letschert describe the emergence of national and international legal and institutional arrangements to offer remedies to victims of crime in an era of globalization. In part II a selection of experts analyse the specific issues surrounding the protection and empowerment of victims of different types of international crimes such as human trafficking, organised crime/corruption, terrorism, global corporate crime and cross border environmental crimes. In part III focused attention is given to the special challenges and opportunities of protecting and assisting crime victims in cyberspace. Part IV deals with emerging victim issues in humanitarian law such as the accountability of private military companies and the implementation of the ambitious victim provisions in the statute of the International Criminal Court including the establishment of a global fund for reparations. In the final part of the book some of its core authors formulate their ideas about the international institutional arrangements that should be put in place to offer justice to the victims of globalization. A concrete proposal is made for the transformation of the United Nations 1985 Declaration on the Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power into a full-fledged UN convention. In the final chapter further proposals are made for the increased involvement of regional organisations such as the European Union in the protection of victims of global crime.

Book The Crime Victim s Book

Download or read book The Crime Victim s Book written by Morton Bard and published by Bruner Meisel U. This book was released on 1986 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dead Wind

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  • Author : Tessa Wegert
  • Publisher : Severn House Publishers Ltd
  • Release : 2022-03-01
  • ISBN : 1448308429
  • Pages : 254 pages

Download or read book Dead Wind written by Tessa Wegert and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Senior Investigator Shana Merchant must dredge up dark secrets and old grudges if she's to solve the murder of a prominent local citizen in the Thousand Islands community she now calls home. "Wegert nicely balances plot and characterization. Fans of Denise Mina’s Alex Morrow will be pleased" - Publishers Weekly Starred Review The body is discovered on Wolfe Island, under the shadow of an enormous wind turbine. Senior Investigator Shana Merchant, arriving on the scene with fellow investigator Tim Wellington, can't shake the feeling that she knows the victim - and the subsequent identification sends shockwaves through their community in the Thousand Islands of Upstate New York. Politics, power, passion . . . there are dark undercurrents in Shana's new home, and finding the killer means dredging up her new friends and neighbors' old grudges and long-kept secrets. That is, if the killer is from the community at all. For Shana's keeping a terrible secret of her own: eighteen months ago she escaped from serial killer Blake Bram's clutches. But has he followed her, to kill again? The Shana Merchant novels are a brilliant blend of chilling psychological thriller and gripping police procedural, set in an atmospheric island community with a small-town vibe.

Book Victim

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  • Author : Thirteen O'Clock Press
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2017-04-16
  • ISBN : 0244900086
  • Pages : 172 pages

Download or read book Victim written by Thirteen O'Clock Press and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-04-16 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We're all victims at some time in our lives, personal, emotional, financial, physical... Thirteen writers have explored many and various aspects of the​ word Victim and come up with a startling, sometimes moving set of stories. You're sure to empathise with some of the characters as they come to terms/lose out to their victimisation. It's a very personal theme in many ways. The tales are dark, the writing is vivid, lose yourself in the world of Victims.

Book The Handbook of Victim Offender Mediation

Download or read book The Handbook of Victim Offender Mediation written by Mark S. Umbreit and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2002-02-28 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by Mark Umbreit, internationally known for his work in restorative justice, this indispensable resource offers an empirically grounded, state-of-the-art analysis of the application and impact of victim offender mediation, a movement that has spread throughout North America and abroad. The Handbook of Victim Offender Mediation provides practical guidance and resources for offering victim meditation in property crimes, in minor assaults, and, more recently, with crimes of severe violence, including with family members of murder victims who request to meet the offender.

Book Face On

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  • Author : Sharrona Pearl
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2017-04-12
  • ISBN : 022646153X
  • Pages : 253 pages

Download or read book Face On written by Sharrona Pearl and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-04-12 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are our identities attached to our faces? If so, what happens when the face connected to the self is gone forever—or replaced? In Face/On, Sharrona Pearl investigates the stakes for changing the face–and the changing stakes for the face—in both contemporary society and the sciences. The first comprehensive cultural study of face transplant surgery, Face/On reveals our true relationships to faces and facelessness, explains the significance we place on facial manipulation, and decodes how we understand loss, reconstruction, and transplantation of the face. To achieve this, Pearl draws on a vast array of sources: bioethical and medical reports, newspaper and television coverage, performances by pop culture icons, hospital records, personal interviews, films, and military files. She argues that we are on the cusp of a new ethics, in an opportune moment for reframing essentialist ideas about appearance in favor of a more expansive form of interpersonal interaction. Accessibly written and respectfully illustrated, Face/On offers a new perspective on face transplant surgery as a way to consider the self and its representation as constantly present and evolving. Highly interdisciplinary, this study will appeal to anyone wishing to know more about critical interventions into recent medicine, makeover culture, and the beauty industry.

Book I Am Not Your Victim

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  • Author : Bethel Sipe
  • Publisher : SAGE Publications
  • Release : 1996-05-20
  • ISBN : 1452263337
  • Pages : 327 pages

Download or read book I Am Not Your Victim written by Bethel Sipe and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 1996-05-20 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detailing the domestic violence suffered by the first author during her 16 year marriage, this moving volume details the background and events leading up to and immediately following Beth Sipe's tragic act of desperation: ending the life of the perpetrator. Encouraged to publish her story by her therapist and co-author, Evelyn Hall, Sipe relates how her case was mishandled by the police, the military, a mental health professional and the welfare system, illustrating how women like herself are further victimized and neglected by the very systems that are expected to provide assistance. Her story is followed by seven commentaries by experts in the field. They discuss the causes and process of spousal abuse, reasons why battered women stay, and the dynamic consequences of domestic violence.

Book Things We Do in the Dark

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  • Author : Jennifer Hillier
  • Publisher : Minotaur Books
  • Release : 2022-07-19
  • ISBN : 1250763177
  • Pages : 346 pages

Download or read book Things We Do in the Dark written by Jennifer Hillier and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Propulsive and chilling." --People Magazine "An intoxicating thrill ride. Hillier jams her foot on the accelerator and never lets up." --New York Times Book Review Things We Do in the Dark is a brilliant new thriller from Jennifer Hillier, the award-winning author of the breakout novels Little Secrets and Jar of Hearts. Paris Peralta is suspected of killing her celebrity husband, and her long-hidden past now threatens to destroy her future. When Paris Peralta is arrested in her own bathroom—covered in blood, holding a straight razor, her celebrity husband dead in the bathtub behind her—she knows she'll be charged with murder. But as bad as this looks, it's not what worries her the most. With the unwanted media attention now surrounding her, it's only a matter of time before someone from her long hidden past recognizes her and destroys the new life she's worked so hard to build, along with any chance of a future. Twenty-five years earlier, Ruby Reyes, known as the Ice Queen, was convicted of a similar murder in a trial that riveted Canada in the early nineties. Reyes knows who Paris really is, and when she's unexpectedly released from prison, she threatens to expose all of Paris's secrets. Left with no other choice, Paris must finally confront the dark past she escaped, once and for all. Because the only thing worse than a murder charge are two murder charges.

Book Child Abuse  Victim as witness

Download or read book Child Abuse Victim as witness written by Byrgen Finkelman and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1995 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reading  CSI

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Allen
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2007-08-20
  • ISBN : 0857716107
  • Pages : 289 pages

Download or read book Reading CSI written by Michael Allen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2007-08-20 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is what we know, this is the truth: CSI is a global television phenomenon. It began in 2000 with "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation", a dark procedural drama about forensic science set within the neon escapism of Las Vegas, in which Grissom and his team search within the very vitals of the murder victims they investigate. Nearly 17 million viewers tuned in each week and "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" fast became America's number one show. The success of the series moved it into franchise territory, continuing in 2002 with the body beautifuls and dismembereds of "CSI: Miami" (now the world's biggest television show) and again in 2004 extending the francise to the melancholic noir of post-9/11 New York with "CSI: NY". "Reading 'CSI'" pieces together the evidence in order to understand what the CSI shows mean to contemporary television culture, both in America and beyond. The varied, intellectually curious and often polemic responses to CSI from critics, journalists and industry professionals focus on a range of issues from the pornographic quality of the CGI effects, the relationship of characters to their narratives, and the reaction of the fans, to the semiotics of Horatio Caine's sunglasses. This in depth, compulsive read also includes a full episode guide.

Book A new technique in photographing the face for facial identification  anticipating victim s head position from missing person s photographs

Download or read book A new technique in photographing the face for facial identification anticipating victim s head position from missing person s photographs written by and published by Dag Aasdam. This book was released on with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Guiding Principles for Life Beyond Victim Consciousness

Download or read book Guiding Principles for Life Beyond Victim Consciousness written by Lynne Forrest and published by . This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn 14 guiding principles to help liberater the mind from victim consciousness, by doing so let go of any resistance to life and stop fighting the future and agonizing over the past.

Book Don t Be a Victim

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  • Author : Nancy Grace
  • Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
  • Release : 2020-09-22
  • ISBN : 1538732270
  • Pages : 384 pages

Download or read book Don t Be a Victim written by Nancy Grace and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover gripping true crime stories and the surprising tools you need to keep you and your family safe -- from iconic legal commentator, TV journalist, and New York Times bestselling author Nancy Grace. Nancy Grace wasn't always the iconic legal commentator we know today. One moment changed her entire future forever: her fiancé Keith was murdered just before their wedding. Driven to deliver justice for other crime victims, Nancy became a felony prosecutor and for a decade, put the "bad guys" behind bars in inner-city Atlanta. Now, with a new and potentially life-saving book, Nancy puts her crime-fighting expertise to work to empower you stay safe in the face of daily dangers. Packed with practical advice and invaluable prevention tips, Don't Be a Victim shows you how to: Fend off threats of assaults, car-jack and home invasion Defend yourself against online stalking, computer hackers and financial fraudsters Stay safe in your own home, at school and other public settings like parking garages, elevators and campsites Protect yourself while shopping, driving and even on vacation With insights on so many potential threats, you'll be empowered to protect yourself and your children at home and in the world at large by being proactive! Nancy's crime-fighting expertise helps keep you, your family, and those you love out of harm's way.

Book Victims and Victimhood

Download or read book Victims and Victimhood written by Trudy Govier and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who is a victim? Considerations of innocence typically figure in our notions of victimhood, as do judgments about causation, responsibility, and harm. Those identified as victims are sometimes silenced or blamed for their misfortune—responses that are typically mistaken and often damaging. However, other problems arise when we defer too much to victims, being reluctant to criticize their judgments or testimony. Reaching a sensitive and yet critical stand on victims’ credibility is a difficult matter. In this book, Trudy Govier carefully examines the concept of victimhood and considers the practical implications of the various attitudes with which we may respond to victims. These issues are explored with reference to a range of complex examples, including child victims of institutional abuse and the famed Rigoberta Menchú controversy. Further topics include the authority of personal experience, restorative justice, restitution, forgiveness, and closure.