Author: Felipe Pereda Publisher: Harvey Miller ISBN: 9781912554096 Category : Art and religion Languages : en Pages : 334
Book Description
According to an old historiographic tradition, the Spanish Golden Age placed the imitation of nature at the service of religion: its radical naturalism responded to the deep faith of that culture and moment. Crime & Illusion argues the opposite. It defends the thesis that the fundamental problem artists of the Golden Age confronted was not imitation but Truth. Moreover a large part, maybe the best part, of Spanish Baroque religious imagery is better understood as a complex exercise in addressing the spectators' doubts. Hovering on the horizon of an emerging empiricism, artists created their images as pieces of evidence, arguments for belief. Crime & Illusion reconstructs and interprets this judicial or forensic aspect of early modern visual culture at the center of a political, religious, and scientific triangle. Finally, the book explores the artists' skeptical reflection on the problematic relationship of painting and sculpture to the art of truth.
Author: Bernard E. Harcourt Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 9780674038318 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 310
Book Description
This is the first book to challenge the broken-windows theory of crime, which argues that permitting minor misdemeanors, such as loitering and vagrancy, to go unpunished only encourages more serious crime. The theory has revolutionized policing in the United States and abroad, with its emphasis on policies that crack down on disorderly conduct and aggressively enforce misdemeanor laws. The problem, argues Bernard Harcourt, is that although the broken-windows theory has been around for nearly thirty years, it has never been empirically verified. Indeed, existing data suggest that it is false. Conceptually, it rests on unexamined categories of law abiders and disorderly people and of order and disorder, which have no intrinsic reality, independent of the techniques of punishment that we implement in our society. How did the new order-maintenance approach to criminal justice--a theory without solid empirical support, a theory that is conceptually flawed and results in aggressive detentions of tens of thousands of our fellow citizens--come to be one of the leading criminal justice theories embraced by progressive reformers, policymakers, and academics throughout the world? This book explores the reasons why. It also presents a new, more thoughtful vision of criminal justice.
Author: Carol McCleary Publisher: St. Martin's Press ISBN: 9780765361769 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 500
Book Description
The intrepid Nellie Bly, the world's most famous reporter, sets sail around the world on a dazzling adventure and becomes embroiled in international intrigue with the fate of nations at stake.
Author: R.A. York Publisher: Springer ISBN: 0230590780 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 175
Book Description
This study shows how she sought to reconcile her attachment to the Victorian past with her recognition of a new society that undermined established order and in doing so gave more opportunities to women, confused class-boundaries, extended tolerance, allowed the cult of pleasure and self-assertion and revealed the ambiguities of respectability.
Author: Betty J. Turk Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781544267784 Category : Capital punishment Languages : en Pages : 308
Book Description
For 72 years Louise Devereaux has carried the grim story of an unfortunate woman who was erroneously hanged for a murder she didn't commit. Who was the real murderer? Will Allen Kingsley be able to find witnesses to verify Louise's story? Will he be able to piece together enough evidence to bring justice for the long overdue crime? Why do the people of Madrid (pronounced Mad-rid) treat him with such disdain? Why do they look at his wife with such compassion?
Author: Leigh Hershkovich Publisher: ISBN: 9780984953691 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 270
Book Description
One murder. Four eyewitnesses. An unknown assailant. A victim with a mysterious secret. Bystanders beleaguered by life's losses. A killer at large. . . . When Sam, the proprietor of a local cafe, is shot dead on the street, four strangers become unwitting witnesses to the crime. As the investigation progresses, this quartet of onlookers find themselves, not only haunted by the homicide, but pursued by their own pasts. As they plunge deeper into the reality of his death, all are forced to realize that the loss of Sam is far from their most devastating. Inner anguish reaches a climax point for Ella, Marco, Sarah, and Danny as the answers they are hunting for continue to elude them-and the evidence they hope will vanish refuses to disappear.
Author: Eddie Zacapa Publisher: ISBN: 9781420807820 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 100
Book Description
A Force for Evil is the true story of the Fry Murder Case, which occurred in Lincoln, Illinois the summer of 1976. It is a reflection on the crime of murder: how the crime affected the community, the families of the victims and how the crime was solved. The story takes you from the time the killer was a child up to and including his commission of the crime, his arrest, trial, conviction and sentencing. It involves the process of the investigation as seen through the eyes of the author, who was one of the investigating detectives. It relates how, like the work of a jigsaw puzzler, the detectives gathered, analyzed and put the pieces of the puzzle together to bring the investigation to it's ultimate conclusion. Russell Smrekar, a college student, commits a theft of a few dollars worth of meat from a super market. In order to save himself from punishment he determines to eliminate all witnesses against him. In his resolve to carry out his plan not only are people murdered, but also others are made to disappear never to be seen again. Read how a small town police department working in cooperation with other agencies solved a heinous crime and the methods used to bring a killer to justice. The book details not only how investigations were carried out by routine police work, but also by use of the para-normal bordering on the occult.
Author: Felipe Pereda
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Author: Carol McCleary
Author: R.A. York
Author: Samuel Marx
Author: Betty J. Turk
Author: Frances Keinzley
Author: Augustin Frédéric Hamon
Author: Leigh Hershkovich
Author: Eddie Zacapa