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Crime`s Power Description: The essays that make up Crime`s Power draw upon the best tools of anthropology to attack, undermine, and encircle the issue of `crime.` They provide fresh insights into the social category `crime` and a fascinating window into major issues of power, law, development, neoliberalism, and globalization generally. Fun to read and at the same time theoretically rich...Bryant Garth, Director, American Bar FoundationWhat does it mean to take an anthropological perspective on crime? This important volume revisits the critically important insight that crime is a socially constructed category and shows its implications for governance and power around the world. Challenging the current preoccupation with crime control, this radical perspective examines how actions come to be defined as crimes and explores whose interests are served by these definitions in case studies from Latin America, Africa, Europe, Asia, and the U.S.Sally Engle Merry, professor of Anthropology at Wellesley College... Read More about the "Crime`s Power" on the The Nile Book Store Website

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Hallucinogens Description: Hallucinogens: A Forensic Drug Handbook is a comprehensive reference for everyone involved in the identification, investigation, and forensic analysis of hallucinogenic drugs. The text begins with a review of the history of these drugs and their abuse, and then takes an in-depth look at the many different types of hallucinogens, their chemical make-up, how they affect users, how they are manufactured and distributed, and how they can be detected and analyzed.Hallucinogens covers the most commonly abused drugs such as LSD, MDMA (Ecstasy), and PCP (Angel Dust), as well as many lesser-known chemical substances that cause similar effects. Chapters have been contributed by leading analysts and investigators around the world, and are highlighted with numerous illustrations. This unique handbook will serve is a cross-disciplinary source of information for forensic toxicologists, law enforcement officers, and others involved in the fight against drugs. Brings together comprehensive information on hallucinogenic drugs in one convenient source Covers everything from abuse of these drugs to pharmacology, effects, forms, manufacturing methods, distribution, and forensic analysis Contains numerous illustrations, chemical structures, and analytic spectra for each drug Includes contributions from many of the world`s leading investigators and analysts... Read More about the "Hallucinogens" on the The Nile Book Store Website

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Henry Lees Crime Scene Handbook Description: Henry Lee`s Crime Scene Handbook outlines proven methods to help you collect and process physical evidence correctly, analyze it thoroughly, and understand its relevance to the case involved. It evaluates the newest chemical and instrumental techniques, and covers new areas such as forensic analysis of computers and advanced shooting scene reconstruction methods. This must-have guide is enhanced with dozens of color photographs, logic trees, check lists, worksheets, case studies, lists of suppliers, and more. Henry Lee has consulted on thousands of criminal cases around the world and is highly sought after to help solve difficult cases. Now he and his co-authors share more than 50 years of combined experience in this systematic approach to crime scene processing. It provides the information you need for initial training, to take with you in the field, and to refer to again and again during the course of each investigation. KEY FEATURES: Presents a unique, systematic approach to crime scene processing Covers in detail how to manage a crime scene, collect information, search for, collect, and preserve physical evidence, conduct field tests, and reconstruct a sequence of events Describes how to use the latest chemical and instrumental techniques for each kind of crime scene Outlines common problems and provides clear recommendations for overcoming them Includes logic trees, checklists, and worksheets that help investigators evaluate the evidence in specific types of crimes Presents a unique, systematic approach to crime scene processing Covers in detail how to manage a crime scene, collect information, search for, collect, and preserve physical evidence, conduct field tests, and reconstruct a sequence of events Describes how to use the latest chemical and instrumental techniques for each kind of crime scene Outlines common problems and provides clear recommendations for overcoming them<br... Read More about the "Henry Lees Crime Scene Handbook" on the The Nile Book Store Website

Monacelli Press
The Nutshell Studies Of Unexplained Death Description: This fascinating and macabre volume offers readers an extraordinary glimpse into the mind of a master criminal investigator. Frances Glessner Lee, a wealthy grandmother, founded the Department of Legal Medicine at Harvard in 1936 and was later appointed captain in the New Hampshire police. In the 1940s she built dollhouse crime scenes based on real cases in order to train detectives to assess visual evidence. Still used in forensic training today, the eighteen Nutshell dioramas, on a scale of 1:12, display an astounding level of detail: tiny pencils write, window shades move, whistles blow, and clues to the crime scene are revealed to those who study them carefully. Corrine Botz`s lush color photographs lure viewers into every crevice of Frances Lee`s models and breathe life into these deadly miniatures, which represent the dark side of domestic life, unveiling tales of prostitution, alcoholism and adultery. Botz`s introductory essay, which draws on archival research and interviews with Lee`s family and police colleagues, present a captivating portrait of the creator of these amazing miniatures.... Read More about the "The Nutshell Studies Of Unexplained Death" on the The Nile Book Store Website

University of Minnesota Press
The Politics Of Everyday Fear Description: Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-325) and index.... Read More about the "The Politics Of Everyday Fear" on the The Nile Book Store Website

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