A DCI deals with a homicide on a boat in the Thames—and hostility from his own colleagues—in the debut of this police thriller series. A shady London nightclub owner is found dead on his boat on the River Thames—and newly promoted DCI Alex Fleming, a man with a troubled past, is keen to prove his worth with his first murder case after joining the Major Crime Unit of Thames Valley Police. But Bill Watson, a belligerent fellow DCI, gives Fleming a hostile reception and, as internal politics come into play, Fleming finds himself up against both a difficult case and his own colleagues. During the course of the investigation, Fleming and his sergeant identify five suspects. Now they need to eliminate them one by one—or figure out whether they should be looking somewhere else entirely—in this first book in an electrifying new crime series.

In an Algerian convent, four nuns and an unidentified fifth woman are found with their throats slit. In Sweden, a birdwatcher is skewered to death in a pit of carefully sharpened bamboo poles. How are the deaths connected? It's up to Inspector Kurt Wallander to find out.

Adjudication in Action describes the moral dimension of judicial activities and the judicial approach to questions of morality, observing the contextualized deployment of various practices and the activities of diverse people who, in different capacities, find themselves involved with institutional judicial space. Exploring the manner in which the enactment of the law is morally accomplished, and how practical, legal cognition mediates and modulates the treatment of cases dealing with sexual morality, this book offers a rich, praxeological study that engages with 'living' law as it unfolds in action. Inspired by Wittgenstein's later thought and engaging with recent developments in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, Adjudication in Action challenges approaches that reduce the law to mere provisions of a legal code, presenting instead an understanding of law as a resource that stands in need of contextualization. Through the close description of people's orientation to and reification of legal categories within the framework of institutional settings, this book constitutes the first comprehensive study of law in context and in action.

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It's 1953, and the United States has just executed an American couple convicted of spying for the Soviet Union. Everyone is on edge as the Cold War standoff between communism and democracy leads to the rise of Senator Joe McCarthy and his zealous hunt for people he calls subversives or communist sympathizers. Suspicion, loyalty oaths, blacklists, political profiling, hostility to foreigners, and the assumption of guilt by association divide the nation. Richard and his family believe deeply in American values and love of country, especially since Richard's father works for the FBI. Yet when a family from Czechoslovakia moves in down the street with a son Richard's age named Vlad, their bold ideas about art and politics bring everything into question. Richard is quickly drawn to Vlad's confidence, musical sensibilities, and passion for literature, which Richard shares. But as the nation's paranoia spirals out of control, Richard longs to prove himself a patriot, and blurred lines between friend and foe could lead to a betrayal that destroys lives. Punctuated with photos, news headlines, ads, and quotes from the era, this suspenseful and relatable novel by award-winning New York Times best-selling author L.M. Elliott breathes new life into a troubling chapter of our history.

When I started to write the novel NOTTINGHAM HARBOR it was to just be a fictional crime novel set in northern New England. After working on the story and reading about the DNA analysis stories I realized the novel had a very significant purpose. It was and is the story of how to catch serial rapist after law enforcement has the results from the DNA analysis. The story is about a task force attempting to identify a number of rapist. DNA does not identify the criminal. The FBI maintains a database called CODIS. This is a database of DNA of persons convicted of crimes. Unless a person has been convicted of a crime their DNA is NOT in CODIS. The Author, Jack Lorenz, of NOTTINGHAM HARBOR fully agrees with this legal restriction. When the DNA from the rape kits is determined very few of the results match the DNA in CODIS. Rape is a unique type of crime. Most criminals do NOT rape in addition to other crimes. So very few rapist are in the CODIS database. So in a number of jurisdictions where several hundred to a thousand rape kits have been analyzed only two or three rapist are identified. The secondary problem is that the serial rapists move from jurisdiction to jurisdiction and only rape once in each jurisdiction. It is very difficult to identify the rapist with the information from only one case. Use of the physical characteristics of the criminal and the DNA must be used to tie cases together. This is what the team of Mattie Greene, the mathematics teacher, and Sergeant Bill Simpson do in NOTTINGHAM HARBOR. They find a common denominator between the cases with regard to the identity of the rapist. Since rapists like other people must reside, work, eat and drink at physical places, these types of information can be used to identify the specific person. The techniques in the fictional story are the methods required in the real world to catch these dangerous criminals. DNA will not catch but a few rapists. There may be as many as 2000 rapists running around North America. They rape randomly on the streets of this country and Canada. The police and district attorneys in United States must work across jurisdictional lines as in NOTTINGHAM HARBOR. Beside a good story the novel has a higher purpose. It explains how to identify and catch these violent criminals. The other fact about these criminals is some of them are murders in addition to being rapists. If you are victim of a rape, then you need to urge the local police to work with other jurisdictions and using technique similar those in NOTTINGHAM HARBOR identify and catch the rapist. This is the purpose of the novel in addition to being a good story. Enjoy the novel.

National security is becoming a global preoccupation. It drives some of the most important political discussions of today, and is increasingly present in public concerns. From a legal perspective, national security is becoming increasingly relevant in the fields of immigration and asylum law and media law in that can affect newspapers' ability to publish stories which concern national security issues. National Security Law in Ireland is the first book of its kind to provide an in-depth examination of the Irish laws concerning national security, in the context of the criminal trial. It covers a wide range of topics such as entrapment, surveillance and interception, the handling of informers, and the constitutional aspects of national security. Distinguishing features of the book include a detailed analysis of the Witness Protection Programme, an examination of recent judgments of the Superior Courts on deportation and naturalisation in relation to national security, as well as the most comprehensive examination of the origins of informer privilege and its development in Irish law to date. This book will be ideal for barristers and solicitors working in the areas of criminal law, asylum/refugee law and judicial review, as well as for those working in the Chief State Solicitor's Office, the Attorney General's Office, the Department of Justice, An Garda Síochána, and the Defence Forces. Eoin O'Connor is a practising barrister. He was called to the Bar in 2008 and began practising in 2009. In 2015 he was awarded his PhD which examined how informer privilege affected the right to a fair trial. In addition, he is an adjunct assistant professor in the Law School of Trinity College Dublin.

A Companion to Forensic Anthropology presents the most comprehensive assessment of the philosophy, goals, and practice of forensic anthropology currently available, with chapters by renowned international scholars and experts. Highlights the latest advances in forensic anthropology research, as well as the most effective practices and techniques used by professional forensic anthropologists in the field Illustrates the development of skeletal biological profiles and offers important new evidence on statistical validation of these analytical methods. Evaluates the goals and methods of forensic archaeology, including the preservation of context at surface-scattered remains, buried bodies and fatal fire scenes, and recovery and identification issues related to large-scale mass disaster scenes and mass grave excavation.

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A cold case heats up as a British police detective investigates the murder of a union activist—while MI5 puts the pressure on . . . DCI Alex Fleming has returned to work after convalescent leave to find that the Assistant Chief Constable wants him to review an old cold case. William Stroud, a union activist, was shot dead five years ago after a strike at the Atomic Weapons Establishment organised by union leader Bill Kauffman. No one had ever been arrested for the crime. When Fleming later finds out that MI5 have an interest in the case and in what’s going on at the AWE, he realises how deep he’s going to have to dig. After speaking to the officer who originally investigated the case, he learns that another activist was the main suspect. But as the body count rises and Fleming uncovers an extramarital affair, he suspects the answers may lie in a very different place . . .