Tag: Felons

Free Download Richard O. Smith, "As Thick as Thieves: Foolish Felons & Loopy Laws"
English | ISBN: 0752487205 | 2013 | 192 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
This tongue-in-cheek miscellany of the most bizarre offenses committed in Britain, the peculiar punishments that have been meted out here through the ages, and a variety of badly bungled crimes, is shocking, absurd, and amusing in equal measure. Also featuring a plethora of acts that are still considered arrestable offences today, due to local laws that have never been repealed, this quirky volume takes a witty look at comical criminality through history up until the present day. An ideal gift book that will make you laugh out loud.

Free Download Timon de Groot, "Citizens into Dishonored Felons: Felony Disenfranchisement, Honor, and Rehabilitation in Germany, 1806-1933 "
English | ISBN: 1800739583 | 2023 | 248 pages | PDF | 47 MB
Over the course of its history, the German Empire increasingly withheld basic rights―such as joining the army, holding public office, and even voting―as a form of legal punishment. Dishonored offenders were often stigmatized in both formal and informal ways, as their convictions shaped how they were treated in prisons, their position in the labour market, and their access to rehabilitative resources. With a focus on Imperial Germany’s criminal policies and their afterlives in the Weimar era, Citizens into Dishonored Felons demonstrates how criminal punishment was never solely a disciplinary measure, but that it reflected a national moral compass that authorities used to dictate the rights to citizenship, honour and trust.