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Killing Strangers
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Author : Ram Gopal
language : en
Publisher: Blue Rose Publishers
Release Date : 2021-10-04
Killing Strangers written by Ram Gopal and has been published by Blue Rose Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-04 with Fiction categories.
The story weaves the lives of three men: Dave Pruitt, a high functioning Asperger’s who is obsessed with guns; Alim Mubarak, an Iraqi immigrant who worked to be the example to which Southern Republicans could point as one of the good ones; Mark McCarthy, a young CEO who started Maverick Investments to fulfill his father’s prophecy. The recurrent mass shootings in America, the spread of radical Islam and the attempts within the community to transcend hate and violence, discriminations in the society and the reactions they can evoke form the backdrop. The story alternates between the mass shooting incident and the lives of the three potential suspects on the journey towards the climax.
Killing Strangers
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Author : T. K. Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2020-09-02
Killing Strangers written by T. K. Wilson and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-02 with History categories.
A bewildering feature of so much contemporary political violence is its stunning impersonality. Every major city centre becomes a potential shooting gallery; and every metro system a potential bomb alley. Victims just happen, as the saying goes, to 'be in the wrong place at the wrong time'. We accept this contemporary reality - at least to some degree. But we rarely ask: where has it come from historically? Killing Strangers tackles this question head on. It examines how such violence became 'unchained' from inter-personal relationships. It traces the rise of such impersonal violence by examining violence in conjunction with changing social and political realities. In particular, it traces both 'push' and 'pull' - the ability of modern states to force the violence of their challengers into niche forms: and the disturbing new opportunities that technological changes offer to cause mayhem in fresh and original ways. Killing Strangers therefore aims to highlight the very strangeness of contemporary experience when it is viewed against a long-term perspective. Atrocities regularly capture media attention - and just as quickly fade from public view. That is both tragic - and utterly predictable. Deep down we expect no different. And that is why such atrocities must be repeated if our attention is to be re-engaged. Deep down we expect that, too. So Killing Strangers deliberately asks the very simplest of questions. How on earth did we get here?
Killing Strangers
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Author : T. K. Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2020-09-02
Killing Strangers written by T. K. Wilson and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-02 with History categories.
A bewildering feature of so much contemporary political violence is its stunning impersonality. Every major city centre becomes a potential shooting gallery; and every metro system a potential bomb alley. Victims just happen, as the saying goes, to 'be in the wrong place at the wrong time'. We accept this contemporary reality - at least to some degree. But we rarely ask: where has it come from historically? Killing Strangers tackles this question head on. It examines how such violence became 'unchained' from inter-personal relationships. It traces the rise of such impersonal violence by examining violence in conjunction with changing social and political realities. In particular, it traces both 'push' and 'pull' - the ability of modern states to force the violence of their challengers into niche forms: and the disturbing new opportunities that technological changes offer to cause mayhem in fresh and original ways. Killing Strangers therefore aims to highlight the very strangeness of contemporary experience when it is viewed against a long-term perspective. Atrocities regularly capture media attention - and just as quickly fade from public view. That is both tragic - and utterly predictable. Deep down we expect no different. And that is why such atrocities must be repeated if our attention is to be re-engaged. Deep down we expect that, too. So Killing Strangers deliberately asks the very simplest of questions. How on earth did we get here?
Killing Strangers
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Author : Rob Kiser
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007-12-01
Killing Strangers written by Rob Kiser and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-01 with categories.
Killing Strangers is a collection of short stories I wrote on the road. These tales are a first-person adrenaline ride from the Hawaiian Islands to the Bahamas. From the Rockies to the Andes. From the desert to the jungle. On The Road meets Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.The stories include: * Motorcycles, ATV's, 4x4's, trains, ambulances, planes, cruise ships, a SeaDoo, a DUKW, and a helicopter. * Women and witches and beggars and whores. * Drugs and alcohol and frantic calls to 911. * Pistols and shotguns and blood and Her Majesty's Prison. * Passports and oceans and envelopes full of cash. * Gambling and hurricanes and missing millionaires. * Guinea pigs and lobsters and wild pigs and sharks. * Confrontations with the law at home and abroad.
Why Women Kill
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Author : Vickie Jensen
language : en
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Release Date : 2001
Why Women Kill written by Vickie Jensen and has been published by Lynne Rienner Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Family violence categories.
Traditional homicide indicators are based on male violence - and do little to predict when, or whom, women will kill. Vickie Jensen shows that gender equality plays an important role in predicting female homicide patterns. Jensen's analysis of the occurrence of women's homicide reveals that lethal violence is most likely when severe gender inequalities exist in the family group. Her conclusions establish the clear relationship between political, economic, legal, and social equality for women and the reduction of all forms of domestic violence.
Deadly Justice
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Author : Frank Baumgartner
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017-11-01
Deadly Justice written by Frank Baumgartner and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-01 with Political Science categories.
In 1976, the US Supreme Court ruled in Gregg v. Georgia that the death penalty was constitutional if it complied with certain specific provisions designed to ensure that it was reserved for the 'worst of the worst.' The same court had rejected the death penalty just four years before in the Furman decision because it found that the penalty had been applied in a capricious and arbitrary manner. The 1976 decision ushered in the 'modern' period of the US death penalty, setting the country on a course to execute over 1,400 inmates in the ensuing years, with over 8,000 individuals currently sentenced to die. Now, forty years after the decision, the eminent political scientist Frank Baumgartner along with a team of younger scholars (Marty Davidson, Kaneesha Johnson, Arvind Krishnamurthy, and Colin Wilson) have collaborated to assess the empirical record and provide a definitive account of how the death penalty has been implemented. Each chapter addresses a precise empirical question and provides evidence, not opinion, about whether how the modern death penalty has functioned. They decided to write the book after Justice Breyer issued a dissent in a 2015 death penalty case in which he asked for a full briefing on the constitutionality of the death penalty. In particular, they assess the extent to which the modern death penalty has met the aspirations of Gregg or continues to suffer from the flaws that caused its rejection in Furman. To answer this question, they provide the most comprehensive statistical account yet of the workings of the capital punishment system. Authoritative and pithy, the book is intended for both students in a wide variety of fields, researchers studying the topic, and--not least--the Supreme Court itself.
The Killing Of Strangers
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Author : Jerry Holt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005-10-01
The Killing Of Strangers written by Jerry Holt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-10-01 with categories.
Violence
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Author : Alex Alvarez
language : en
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Release Date : 2023-12-06
Violence written by Alex Alvarez and has been published by SAGE Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-06 with Social Science categories.
Violence: The Enduring Problem offers an interdisciplinary and reader-friendly exploration of the patterns and correlations of individual and collective violent acts using the most contemporary research, theories, and cases. The latest Fifth Edition offers students a broader perspective, covering more collective violence activities such as terrorism, mob violence, and genocide.
Killing Time With Strangers
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Author : W. S. Penn
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 2000
Killing Time With Strangers written by W. S. Penn and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Fiction categories.
"Palimony Blue Larue, a mixblood growing up in a small California town, suffers from a painful shyness and wants more than anything to be liked. That's why Mary Blue, his Nez Perce mother, has dreamed the weyekin, the spirit guide, to help her bring into the world the one lasting love her son needs to overcome the diffidence that runs so deep in his blood."--Jacket.
When Killing Is A Crime
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Author : Tony Waters
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
When Killing Is A Crime written by Tony Waters and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Homicide categories.
?Lively and readable.... Waters brings together a wealth of fascinating material on violence and, by putting criminal homicide in its larger context, fills a hole in the literature. The book will be valuable to scholars and students alike.? ?Mark Cooney, University of Georgia?Waters deftly explores the social construction of killing across time and place, offering vivid examples to illustrate the importance of this neglected topic. Entertaining enough to hold the attention of undergraduates, yet analytical enough to be used by graduate students and scholars, When Killing Is a Crime should appeal to anyone who studies crime.? ?Matthew T. Lee, University of AkronTaking another person?s life is the crime for which every society reserves the strongest of punishments. But why (and when) is the act of killing sometimes defined as murder?as inexcusable?and sometimes considered a justifiable, or even righteous, act? Grappling with this ambiguity, Tony Waters sheds light on the sociology of murder.This innovative text draws on wide-ranging case studies of killing?from urban gangs in Washington D.C. to the Salem witchcraft trials, from the ?Wild West? to blood feuds in modern Albania, from dueling gentlemen to government-orchestrated mass executions?to illustrate the process of criminalization. Along the way, it looks at both the micro-sociological level of the violent act itself and the macro-level of society?s reaction. When Killing Is a Crime will leave students with a clear understanding of how differences in culture, status, power, technology, and legal systems pattern violence and murder.Tony Waters is associate professor of sociology at California State University, Chico. He is author of Crime and Immigrant Youth and Bureaucratizing the Good Samaritan.Contents: The Criminalization of Killing. The Invention of Murder: Killing and the Law. The Ecology of Violence: From Hurt Feelings to Fatal Blows. Societies Respond to Killers: The Need for Catharsis and Outrage. When the State Kills: Execution, War, and Genocide. Understanding the Sociology of Killing.