Tag: Violent

Free Download Dr. Grant T. Harris PhD, "Violent Offenders: Appraising and Managing Risk "
English | ISBN: 1433819015 | 2015 | 470 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Predicting future violence among criminal offenders is notoriously difficult. In the previous editions of this popular book, the authors argued that community risk management is best done with actuarial assessment. Combining what is known about violence prediction, clinical decision making, and the literature on treatment outcome and program evaluation, they introduced and chronicled the development of their landmark assessment instruments, the Violence Risk Appraisal Guide (VRAG) and Sex Offender Risk Appraisal Guide. These have become go-to resources for forensic psychologists in the trenches today.

Free Download Carla Cevasco, "Violent Appetites: Hunger in the Early Northeast"
English | ISBN: 0300251343 | 2022 | 256 pages | PDF | 2 MB
How hunger shaped both colonialism and Native resistance in Early America

Free Download John Carey, "The Violent Effigy: A Study of Dickens’ Imagination"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0571247792 | EPUB | pages: 184 | 0.3 mb
An exploration of the strange poetry of Dickens’s imagination by leading academic and critic John Carey. Setting aside the usual interpretations of Dickens’s work, A Violent Effigy delves into the wonderful, terrible fantasy world it inhabited. It shows Dickens torn between the appeal of violence and a fanatical orderliness: he was attracted by characters who commit murder or burst into flame or want to eat one another, but also required people soaped and regimented. The children he created were either the pious gnomes beloved of Victorian readers or callous, sharp-nosed children who pick out adults by the odd personal atmospheres they carry around. Among his females are mythic women whose insidious miniature weapons – needles, scissors – threaten the dominant male. He created a shadow-land between life and death, peopled by effigies, walking coffins, waxworks, stuffed creatures and disturbingly animated corpses. John Carey skilfully shows how Dickens demolished Victorian shams, while keeping at bay the terrors of his fantasy. He celebrates, above all, Dickens’ peculiar genius for renewing the world by the curious lights he saw in it.

Free Download John Pring, "The Department: How a Violent Government Bureaucracy Killed Hundreds and Hid the Evidence"
English | ISBN: 0745349897 | 2024 | 312 pages | PDF | 2 MB
‘A must-read exposé of one of Britain’s biggest hidden scandals’ Frances Ryan, Guardian journalist and author of Crippled: Austerity and the Demonisation of Disabled People

Free Download Emily Katz Anhalt, "Enraged: Why Violent Times Need Ancient Greek Myths"
English | ISBN: 0300217374 | 2017 | 288 pages | AZW3 | 417 KB
An examination of remedies for violent rage rediscovered in ancient Greek myths

Free Download and Medicine National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, "Countering Violent Extremism Through Public Health Practice: Proceedings of a Workshop"
English | ISBN: 0309453658 | 2017 | 146 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Countering violent extremism consists of various prevention and intervention approaches to increase the resilience of communities and individuals to radicalization toward violent extremism, to provide nonviolent avenues for expressing grievances, and to educate communities about the threat of recruitment and radicalization to violence. To explore the application of health approaches in community-level strategies to countering violent extremism and radicalization, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a public workshop in September 2016. Participants explored the evolving threat of violent extremism and radicalization within communities across America, traditional versus health-centered approaches to countering violent extremism and radicalization, and opportunities for cross-sector and interdisciplinary collaboration and learning among domestic and international stakeholders and organizations. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.

Free Download Amy Absher, Christina Delaine (Narrator), "Fritzie: The Invented Life and Violent Murder of a Flapper"
English | ASIN: B0CRM7KR96 | 2024 | M4B@64 kbps | ~08:31:00 | 241 MB
Frieda "Fritizie" Mann had several identities during her brief life, and the mysterious circumstances of her death raise as many questions as they do answers. She was born in 1903 near the present border between Poland and Ukraine. She and her family were Jewish immigrants who traveled to San Diego to find security and prosperity. In the last year of her life, Mann became locally famous. She had reinvented herself as a flapper and "Oriental" dancer. She claimed to have friends in Hollywood and a movie contract. On the night of her murder, she said she was going to a party to meet her Hollywood friends; instead she traveled to an isolated roadside hotel where she met her death. An autopsy revealed that she was four and a half months pregnant.
Historian Amy Absher guides the listener through the intricacies of this true crime story as it unfolded, from the initial flawed investigation to the sensationalized press coverage and the ultimate failure of the legal system to ensure justice on Mann’s behalf. Like other "new women" of her era, Fritzie Mann adopted roles that promised liberation from the control of men. In the end, her life and early death suggest the opposite: she became the victim of a culture that consumed women even as it purported to celebrate them.
Contains mature themes.

Free Download Killing Reagan: The Violent Assault That Changed a Presidency by Bill O’Reilly, Martin Dugard
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1627792414 | 320 Pages | EPUB | 4.8 MB
From the bestselling team of Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard comes Killing Reagan, a page-turning epic account of the career of President Ronald Reagan that tells the vivid story of his rise to power-and the forces of evil that conspired to bring him down.

Free Download Asli Zengin, "Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World"
English | ISBN: 1478020881 | 2024 | 296 pages | PDF | 6 MB

Free Download Rafael Acosta Morales, "Drug Lords, Cowboys, and Desperadoes: Violent Myths of the U.S.-Mexico Frontier "
English | ISBN: 0268200769 | 2021 | 260 pages | EPUB | 691 KB