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Terrorism

An Investigator's Handbook

by William E. Dyson ...

This handbook introduces the reader to the field of terrorism investigation. Describing how terrorists operate and how they differ from other criminals, it provides an outline of how terrorism investigations should be conducted. By helping investigators to develop skills and knowledge, this guide helps them to prepare prosecutable cases against terrorists. ... Read more

$87.99 USD

This handbook introduces the reader to the field of terrorism investigation. Describing how terrorists operate and how they differ from other criminals, it provides an outline of how terrorism investigations should be conducted. By helping investigators to develop skills and knowledge, this guide helps them to prepare prosecutable cases against terrorists.
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In Doubt

by Dan Simon ...

Criminal justice is unavoidably human. Detectives, witnesses, suspects, and victims shape investigations; prosecutors, defense attorneys, jurors, and judges affect the outcome of adjudication. Simon shows how flawed investigations produce erroneous evidence and why well-meaning juries send innocent people to prison and set the guilty free. ... Read more

$40.49 USD

Criminal justice is unavoidably human. Detectives, witnesses, suspects, and victims shape investigations; prosecutors, defense attorneys, jurors, and judges affect the outcome of adjudication. Simon shows how flawed investigations produce erroneous evidence and why well-meaning juries send innocent people to prison and set the guilty free.
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The Proof

Uses of Evidence in Law, Politics, and Everything Else

by Frederick Schauer ...

Winner of the Scribes Book Award“Displays a level of intellectual honesty one rarely encounters these days…This is delightful stuff.”—Barton Swaim, Wall Street Journal“At a time when the concept of truth itself is in trouble, this lively and accessible account provides vivid and deep analysis of the practices addressing what is reliably true in law, science, history, and ordinary life. The Proof ... Read more

$17.99 USD

Winner of the Scribes Book Award“Displays a level of intellectual honesty one rarely encounters these days…This is delightful stuff.”—Barton Swaim, Wall Street Journal“At a time when the concept of truth itself is in trouble, this lively and accessible account provides vivid and deep analysis of the practices addressing what is reliably true in law, science, history, and ordinary life. The Proof
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Broken Plea

The Explosive Search for Truth Behind the Idaho Murders

by Christopher Whitcomb ...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWas there more than one killer? Had the crime scene been cleaned and sanitized before the police arrived? Was furniture staged to throw off detectives? In one of the most extraordinary true crime stories ever published, Broken Plea questions what really happened in the house on King Road—and the results of that investigation will astound you.In the early morning ... Read more

$14.99 USD

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWas there more than one killer? Had the crime scene been cleaned and sanitized before the police arrived? Was furniture staged to throw off detectives? In one of the most extraordinary true crime stories ever published, Broken Plea questions what really happened in the house on King Road—and the results of that investigation will astound you.In the early morning
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Guilt by Accusation

The Challenge of Proving Innocence in the Age of #MeToo

by Alan Dershowitz ...

A Wall Street Journal bestseller! Alan Dershowitz, one of America’s most respected legal scholars and a New York Times bestselling author proves—with incontrovertible evidence—that he is entirely innocent of the sexual misconduct accusations against him, while suggesting a roadmap for how such allegations should be handled in a just society.“Maybe the question isn’t what happened to Alan ... Read more

$5.99 USD

A Wall Street Journal bestseller! Alan Dershowitz, one of America’s most respected legal scholars and a New York Times bestselling author proves—with incontrovertible evidence—that he is entirely innocent of the sexual misconduct accusations against him, while suggesting a roadmap for how such allegations should be handled in a just society.“Maybe the question isn’t what happened to Alan
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Beyond the Body Farm

A Legendary Bone Detective Explores Murders, Mysteries, and the Revolution in Forensic Science

by Bill Bass, Jon Jefferson ...

An "excellent" collection of case studies and stories from the forensic anthropologist who founded Tennessee's "Body Farm" ( Charleston Post & Courier).A pioneer in forensic anthropology, Bill Bass created the world's first laboratory dedicated to the study of human decomposition—three acres on a Tennessee hillside where human bodies are left to the elements. His research at the Body Farm has ... Read more

$17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

An "excellent" collection of case studies and stories from the forensic anthropologist who founded Tennessee's "Body Farm" ( Charleston Post & Courier).A pioneer in forensic anthropology, Bill Bass created the world's first laboratory dedicated to the study of human decomposition—three acres on a Tennessee hillside where human bodies are left to the elements. His research at the Body Farm has
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Busted!

Drug War Survival Skills and True Dope D

by M. Chris Fabricant ...

$6.99 USD
Howdunit Forensics

A Guide for Writers

by D.P. Lyle ...

Just because you don't have all the tools and training of a full-time medical examiner, doesn't mean you can't learn your way around a crime scene.In Forensics, award-winning author and TV show consultant D.P. Lyle, M.D., takes each area of forensicsfrom fingerprint analysis to crime scene reconstructionand discusses its development, how the science works, how it helps in crime solving, and how ... Read more

$6.99 USD

Just because you don't have all the tools and training of a full-time medical examiner, doesn't mean you can't learn your way around a crime scene.In Forensics, award-winning author and TV show consultant D.P. Lyle, M.D., takes each area of forensicsfrom fingerprint analysis to crime scene reconstructionand discusses its development, how the science works, how it helps in crime solving, and how
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THE LINDBERGH KIDNAPPING SUSPECT NO. 1

The Man Who Got Away

by Lise Pearlman ...

Astonishingly more key evidence is accessible today than was presented at the death penalty trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann for the kidnap/murder of Charles Lindbergh, Jr. Viewing documents and photos that the jury never saw and forensic analysis never before published, you get to judge for yourself who committed the "crime of the century." Experts and enthusiasts alike are calling award-winning ... Read more

$14.99 USD

Astonishingly more key evidence is accessible today than was presented at the death penalty trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann for the kidnap/murder of Charles Lindbergh, Jr. Viewing documents and photos that the jury never saw and forensic analysis never before published, you get to judge for yourself who committed the "crime of the century." Experts and enthusiasts alike are calling award-winning
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Modern Policing Using ArcGIS Pro

by Eric L. Piza, Jonas H. Baughman ...

An essential tool for crime analysts looking to enhance the quality and efficiency of their crime mapping using ArcGIS Pro.Modern Policing Using ArcGIS Pro is an easy-to-use hands-on guide for crime analysts of any skill level. Crime mapping and spatial analysis play a key role in a variety of day-to-day police functions, and with ArcGIS Pro, crime analysts can enhance the efficiency of their ... Read more

$43.99 USD

An essential tool for crime analysts looking to enhance the quality and efficiency of their crime mapping using ArcGIS Pro.Modern Policing Using ArcGIS Pro is an easy-to-use hands-on guide for crime analysts of any skill level. Crime mapping and spatial analysis play a key role in a variety of day-to-day police functions, and with ArcGIS Pro, crime analysts can enhance the efficiency of their
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Autopsy of a Crime Lab

Exposing the Flaws in Forensics

by Brandon L. Garrett ...

This book exposes the dangerously imperfect forensic evidence that we rely on for criminal convictions."That's not my fingerprint, your honor," said the defendant, after FBI experts reported a "100-percent identification." The FBI was wrong. It is shocking how often they are. Autopsy of a Crime Lab is the first book to catalog the sources of error and the faulty science behind a range of well ... Read more

$23.79 USD

This book exposes the dangerously imperfect forensic evidence that we rely on for criminal convictions."That's not my fingerprint, your honor," said the defendant, after FBI experts reported a "100-percent identification." The FBI was wrong. It is shocking how often they are. Autopsy of a Crime Lab is the first book to catalog the sources of error and the faulty science behind a range of well
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Witness for the Defense

The Accused, the Eyewitness, and the Expert Who Puts Memory on Trial

by Elizabeth Loftus, Katherine Ketcham ...

"The study of memory had become my specialty, my passion. In the next few years I wrote dozens of papers about how memory works and how it fails, but unlike most researchers studying memory, my work kept reaching out into the real world. To what extent, I wondered, could a person's memory be shaped by suggestion? When people witness a serious automobile accident, how accurate is their recollection ... Read more

$12.99 USD

"The study of memory had become my specialty, my passion. In the next few years I wrote dozens of papers about how memory works and how it fails, but unlike most researchers studying memory, my work kept reaching out into the real world. To what extent, I wondered, could a person's memory be shaped by suggestion? When people witness a serious automobile accident, how accurate is their recollection
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Best Practices for E-Discovery

A Practical Handbook

by Nicole Marie Gill ...

In today’s digital age, the landscape of legal discovery has evolved dramatically. The proliferation of electronic data has transformed the way legal professionals approach the discovery process, making it both a challenge and an opportunity. Best Practices for E-Discovery: A Practical Handbook is designed to be an essential guide for practitioners navigating the complexities of e-discovery.The ... Read more

$39.59 USD

In today’s digital age, the landscape of legal discovery has evolved dramatically. The proliferation of electronic data has transformed the way legal professionals approach the discovery process, making it both a challenge and an opportunity. Best Practices for E-Discovery: A Practical Handbook is designed to be an essential guide for practitioners navigating the complexities of e-discovery.The
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The Education of a Lawyer

Essential Skills and Practical Advice for Building a Successful Career

by Gary Muldoon ...

The Education of a Lawyer is a delightful read that provides invaluable advice about the practice of law. Written for aspiring and young attorneys, the book is a font of wisdom on a range of topics: legal writing, speaking, handling clients, staying current on the law, and managing all the relationships typically encountered by lawyers.Derived from the author’s decades of experience as a lawyer ... Read more

$35.99 USD

The Education of a Lawyer is a delightful read that provides invaluable advice about the practice of law. Written for aspiring and young attorneys, the book is a font of wisdom on a range of topics: legal writing, speaking, handling clients, staying current on the law, and managing all the relationships typically encountered by lawyers.Derived from the author’s decades of experience as a lawyer
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The Rule-Out Method of Criminal Defense

by David Ball ...

The Rule-Out method of criminal defense, easily learned, gets most jurors to want to decide verdicts based solely on reasonable doubts -- which, perhaps unexpectedly, few jurors normally do on their own no matter how you explain it. Instead, most convictions result from burden shifting, the usual demand by jurors that the defense attorney prove innocence. Rule Out prevents this, teaches how to ... Read more

$57.59 USD

The Rule-Out method of criminal defense, easily learned, gets most jurors to want to decide verdicts based solely on reasonable doubts -- which, perhaps unexpectedly, few jurors normally do on their own no matter how you explain it. Instead, most convictions result from burden shifting, the usual demand by jurors that the defense attorney prove innocence. Rule Out prevents this, teaches how to
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Fraud Investigation

Case Studies of Crime Signal Detection

by Petter Gottschalk ...

Investigating white-collar crime is like any other investigation concerned with past events. However, a number of characteristics require a contingent approach to these investigations. This book describes the process of conducting private internal investigations by fraud examiners and presents a number of reports from the United States, Sweden and Norway.It evaluates a number of internal ... Read more

$57.99 USD

Investigating white-collar crime is like any other investigation concerned with past events. However, a number of characteristics require a contingent approach to these investigations. This book describes the process of conducting private internal investigations by fraud examiners and presents a number of reports from the United States, Sweden and Norway.It evaluates a number of internal
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Jimmy Hoffa Is Missing-The Gap

by David W. Tubman ...

"Jimmy Hoffa Is Missing"This was the main headline that appeared on the front page of The Detroit Free Press-Metro Edition on August 1, 1975. It was the first news story announcing the disappearance of James Riddle Hoffa from 2 days earlier on July 30, 1975. The news account said Jimmy Hoffa was simply a missing person and that he vanished from The Machus Red Fox Restaurant parking lot located on ... Read more

$9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

"Jimmy Hoffa Is Missing"This was the main headline that appeared on the front page of The Detroit Free Press-Metro Edition on August 1, 1975. It was the first news story announcing the disappearance of James Riddle Hoffa from 2 days earlier on July 30, 1975. The news account said Jimmy Hoffa was simply a missing person and that he vanished from The Machus Red Fox Restaurant parking lot located on
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California Bar Exam Answers Hyperlinked

Hyperlinked, #4

by Craig Manfredi ...

Series Book 4 - Hyperlinked
California Bar Answers Hyperlinked is a reformatted version of questions and answers derived from actual old exam questions and answers prepared by the State Bar of California. Reprinted with permission of The State Bar of California. No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any medium without prior written permission of The State Bar of California ... Read more

$29.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

California Bar Answers Hyperlinked is a reformatted version of questions and answers derived from actual old exam questions and answers prepared by the State Bar of California. Reprinted with permission of The State Bar of California. No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any medium without prior written permission of The State Bar of California
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Practical Crime Scene Processing and Investigation, Third Edition

by Ross M. Gardner, Donna Krouskup ...

Series series Practical Aspects of Criminal and Forensic Investigations
Every action performed by a crime scene investigator has an underlying purpose: to both recover evidence and capture scene context. It is imperative that crime scene investigators must understand their mandate—not only as an essential function of their job but because they have the immense responsibility and duty to do so.Practice Crime Scene Processing and Investigation, Third Edition provides ... Read more

$102.99 USD

Every action performed by a crime scene investigator has an underlying purpose: to both recover evidence and capture scene context. It is imperative that crime scene investigators must understand their mandate—not only as an essential function of their job but because they have the immense responsibility and duty to do so.Practice Crime Scene Processing and Investigation, Third Edition provides
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Army Regulation AR 195-5 Criminal Investigation Evidence Procedures 22 February 2013

by United States Government US Army ...

This regulation provides standards for receiving, processing, safeguarding, and disposing of physical evidence acquired by special agents, investigative assistants, and evidence custodians of the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command (USACIDC); Military Police (MP); and Department of the Army (DA) employees and contractor personnel who are assigned to civilian police or security guard positions ... Read more

$2.99 USD

This regulation provides standards for receiving, processing, safeguarding, and disposing of physical evidence acquired by special agents, investigative assistants, and evidence custodians of the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command (USACIDC); Military Police (MP); and Department of the Army (DA) employees and contractor personnel who are assigned to civilian police or security guard positions
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Tecniche e Metodologia della scrittura giuridica

by Maria Giovanna Coffaro ...

Questa guida vuole costituire un valido strumento didattico di facile consultazione per chi si accinge ad affrontare le prove scritte del concorso per Uditore Giudiziario, per Commissario di Polizia di Stato, Carriera Prefettizia o per altro concorso pubblico. Attraverso indicazioni ed utili suggerimenti il candidato potrà acquisire una corretta metodologia nella redazione di un tema, in modo da ... Read more

$8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Questa guida vuole costituire un valido strumento didattico di facile consultazione per chi si accinge ad affrontare le prove scritte del concorso per Uditore Giudiziario, per Commissario di Polizia di Stato, Carriera Prefettizia o per altro concorso pubblico. Attraverso indicazioni ed utili suggerimenti il candidato potrà acquisire una corretta metodologia nella redazione di un tema, in modo da
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Super-revisão OAB - Doutrina completa - Vol. 02

by Camilo Onoda Caldas, Eduardo Dompieri, Henrique Subi, Olney Queiroz Assis, Renan Flumian, Robinson S. Barreirinhas, Sávio Chalita, Wander Garcia ...

Series Book 2 - Super-revisão OAB - Doutrina completa
A experiência diz que aquele que quer ser aprovado deve fazer três coisas: a) entender a teoria, b) ler a letra da lei, e c) treinar. As obras da coleção "Como Passar" cumprem muito bem os dois últimos papéis, pois trazem número expressivo de questões comentadas alternativa por alternativa, inclusive com a indicação de dispositivos legais a serem lidos. Porém, só o treinamento e a leitura de lei ... Read more

$24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

A experiência diz que aquele que quer ser aprovado deve fazer três coisas: a) entender a teoria, b) ler a letra da lei, e c) treinar. As obras da coleção "Como Passar" cumprem muito bem os dois últimos papéis, pois trazem número expressivo de questões comentadas alternativa por alternativa, inclusive com a indicação de dispositivos legais a serem lidos. Porém, só o treinamento e a leitura de lei
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How the Police Generate False Confessions

An Inside Look at the Interrogation Room

by James L. Trainum ...

Despite the rising number of confirmed false confession cases, most people have a hard time grasping why someone would confess to a crime they did not commit, or even why a guilty person would admit to something that could put them in jail for life. How the Police Generate False Confessions takes you inside the interrogation room, exposing the tactics that law enforcement uses to make confessions ... Read more

$23.99 USD

Despite the rising number of confirmed false confession cases, most people have a hard time grasping why someone would confess to a crime they did not commit, or even why a guilty person would admit to something that could put them in jail for life. How the Police Generate False Confessions takes you inside the interrogation room, exposing the tactics that law enforcement uses to make confessions
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Innovations in Evidence and Proof

Integrating Theory, Research and Teaching

Edited by Professor Paul Roberts, Professor Mike Redmayne ...

Innovations in Evidence and Proof brings together fifteen leading scholars and experienced law teachers based in Australia, Canada, Northern Ireland, Scotland, South Africa, the USA and England and Wales to explore and debate the latest developments in Evidence and Proof scholarship. The essays comprising this volume range expansively over questions of disciplinary taxonomy, pedagogical method and ... Read more

$48.99 USD

Innovations in Evidence and Proof brings together fifteen leading scholars and experienced law teachers based in Australia, Canada, Northern Ireland, Scotland, South Africa, the USA and England and Wales to explore and debate the latest developments in Evidence and Proof scholarship. The essays comprising this volume range expansively over questions of disciplinary taxonomy, pedagogical method and
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