A Simple Act of Violence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Simple Act of Violence write by R.J. Ellory. This book was released on 2012-06-26. A Simple Act of Violence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A D.C. detective’s search for a killer leads to Cold War political intrigue in this “must-read for noir fans” by the author of A Quiet Beliefin Angels (Publishers Weekly, starred review). When Washington, D.C., homicide detective Robert Miller is called to yet another homicide, the crime scene resembles that of three other murders in the same upscale neighborhood over the past eight months. The female victim, badly beaten and strangled, has been left with a luggage tag hanging from a ribbon around her neck. With no leads to go on, the so-called Ribbon Killer is causing panic among residents. Then Miller discovers an unsettling connection between the victims: none of their identities stand up to scrutiny. Could they all have been under witness protection? Facing one federal roadblock after another, the investigation leads Miller into covert activities in Latin America, and a suspect who happens to be an expert CIA assassin. “An awesome achievement—a thriller of such power, scope and accomplishment that fanfares should herald its arrivals.” —The Guardian, UK
A Simple Act of Violence
A Simple Act of Violence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Simple Act of Violence write by R.J. Ellory. This book was released on 2009-07-23. A Simple Act of Violence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Washington has a new menace... a serial killer whose victims don't exist... Washington, embroiled in the mid-term elections, did not want to hear about serial killings. But when the newspapers reported a fourth murder, when they gave the killer a name and details of his horrendous crimes, there were few people that could ignore it. Detective Robert Miller is assigned to the case, and rapidly uncover a complication. The victims do not officially exist. Their personal details do not register on any known systems. And as Miller unearths ever more disturbing facts, he starts to face truths so far-removed from his own reality that he begins to fear for his life.
A Pattern of Violence
A Pattern of Violence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Pattern of Violence write by David Alan Sklansky. This book was released on 2021-03-23. A Pattern of Violence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A law professor and former prosecutor reveals how inconsistent ideas about violence, enshrined in law, are at the root of the problems that plague our entire criminal justice system—from mass incarceration to police brutality. We take for granted that some crimes are violent and others aren’t. But how do we decide what counts as a violent act? David Alan Sklansky argues that legal notions about violence—its definition, causes, and moral significance—are functions of political choices, not eternal truths. And these choices are central to failures of our criminal justice system. The common distinction between violent and nonviolent acts, for example, played virtually no role in criminal law before the latter half of the twentieth century. Yet to this day, with more crimes than ever called “violent,” this distinction determines how we judge the seriousness of an offense, as well as the perpetrator’s debt and danger to society. Similarly, criminal law today treats violence as a pathology of individual character. But in other areas of law, including the procedural law that covers police conduct, the situational context of violence carries more weight. The result of these inconsistencies, and of society’s unique fear of violence since the 1960s, has been an application of law that reinforces inequities of race and class, undermining law’s legitimacy. A Pattern of Violence shows that novel legal philosophies of violence have motivated mass incarceration, blunted efforts to hold police accountable, constrained responses to sexual assault and domestic abuse, pushed juvenile offenders into adult prisons, encouraged toleration of prison violence, and limited responses to mass shootings. Reforming legal notions of violence is therefore an essential step toward justice.
Violence
Violence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Violence write by Slavoj Zizek. This book was released on 2008-07-22. Violence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Philosopher, cultural critic, and agent provocateur Zizek constructs a fascinating new framework to look at the forces of violence in the world.
The Chinese Must Go
The Chinese Must Go - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Chinese Must Go write by Beth Lew-Williams. This book was released on 2018-02-26. The Chinese Must Go available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Beth Lew-Williams shows how American immigration policies incited violence against Chinese workers, and how that violence provoked new exclusionary policies. Locating the origins of the modern American "alien" in this violent era, she makes clear that the present resurgence of xenophobia builds mightily upon past fears of the "heathen Chinaman."
