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Author: Alfredo Mirandé Publisher: University of Arizona Press ISBN: 0816551804 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 259
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Ordinary Injustice is the unique and riveting story of a young Latino student, Juan Rulfo, with no previous criminal record involved in a domestic violence dispute that quickly morphs into a complex case with ten felonies, multiple enhancements, a “No Bail” order, and a potential life sentence without the possibility of parole. Building from author Alfredo Mirandé’s earlier work Rascuache Lawyer, the account is told by “The Professor,” who led a pro bono rascuache legal defense team comprising the professor, a retired prosecutor, and student interns, working without a budget, office, paralegals, investigators, or support staff. The book is a must-read for anyone interested in race, gender, and criminal injustice and will appeal not only to law scholars and social scientists but to lay readers interested in ethnographic field research, Latinx communities, and racial disparities in the legal system. The case is presented as a series of letters to the author’s fictional alter-ego, Fermina Gabriel, an accomplished lawyer and singer. This narrative device allows the author to present the case as it happens, relaying the challenges and complexities as they occur and drawing the reader in. While Ordinary Injustice deals with important, complicated legal issues and questions that arise in criminal defense work and looks at the case from the time of Juan’s arrest to the preliminary hearing, indictment, pretrial motions, and attempts to obtain a negotiated plea, it is written in nontechnical and engaging language that makes law accessible to the lay reader.
Author: Alfredo Mirandé Publisher: University of Arizona Press ISBN: 0816551804 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 259
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Ordinary Injustice is the unique and riveting story of a young Latino student, Juan Rulfo, with no previous criminal record involved in a domestic violence dispute that quickly morphs into a complex case with ten felonies, multiple enhancements, a “No Bail” order, and a potential life sentence without the possibility of parole. Building from author Alfredo Mirandé’s earlier work Rascuache Lawyer, the account is told by “The Professor,” who led a pro bono rascuache legal defense team comprising the professor, a retired prosecutor, and student interns, working without a budget, office, paralegals, investigators, or support staff. The book is a must-read for anyone interested in race, gender, and criminal injustice and will appeal not only to law scholars and social scientists but to lay readers interested in ethnographic field research, Latinx communities, and racial disparities in the legal system. The case is presented as a series of letters to the author’s fictional alter-ego, Fermina Gabriel, an accomplished lawyer and singer. This narrative device allows the author to present the case as it happens, relaying the challenges and complexities as they occur and drawing the reader in. While Ordinary Injustice deals with important, complicated legal issues and questions that arise in criminal defense work and looks at the case from the time of Juan’s arrest to the preliminary hearing, indictment, pretrial motions, and attempts to obtain a negotiated plea, it is written in nontechnical and engaging language that makes law accessible to the lay reader.
Author: Guido Pagliarino Publisher: Tektime ISBN: 8835443091 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 147
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In previous works based on the characters Vittorio D'Aiazzo and Ranieri Velli, ”L'ira dei vilipesi”, ”Il mostro a tre braccia”, ”I satanassi di Torino”, the pair were both police officers (or Public Security, as it was called in the past), commissioner the first, his adjutant the second. In this subsequent work, while Vittorio has remained in service and risen to the rank of deputy chief commissioner, Ranieri has courageously left the uniform with its fixed salary to devote himself exclusively to his passion, writing; and lives with difficulty on the pen, working occasionally as a journalist at a newspaper and underpaid editor in a publishing house; and this time, both in the novel ”The Poetry of Toxic Love” and in the short story that follows it, he is above all the main character, not Vittorio, even though his friend certainly does not remain in the background. In previous works based on the characters Vittorio D'Aiazzo and Ranieri Velli, ”L'ira dei vilipesi” (“The Wrath of the Reviled”), ”Il mostro a tre braccia”, ”I satanassi di Torino”, the pair were both police officers (or officers of Public Security, as it was called in the past), commissioner the first, his adjutant the latter. In this subsequent work, while Vittorio had remained in the service and had risen to the rank of deputy police commissioner, Ranieri had courageously left the uniform with its fixed salary to devote himself exclusively to his passion, writing. He barely scrapes along relying on his pen, as part-time journalist at a newspaper and underpaid editor in a publishing house; and this time, in both the novel ”The poetry of toxic love” and the short story that follows it, he is the main character, not Vittorio, even if his friend certainly does not rest in the background. Returning home on a July day in 1969, Ranieri finds a letter from New York in the mail informing him that he has won a rich literary prize for his poetic work, translated in the United States. Shortly after, there are attacks on his life cloaked as accidents, which are unsuccessful thanks to his athleticism and martial arts ability. Were these attempts at revenge by one of the many criminals that Ranieri had brought to justice before leaving the police force? Or, as he comes to suspect, does the motive lie precisely in that literary prize? Or even more surprisingly, can a sylloge of his poems which were recently printed completely without his knowledge be the motive? Valli flies to New York for the award ceremony and is greeted at Kennedy Airport by a young Italian American, Norma Costante, a sexy beauty who has been engaged by the Valente Foundation, organizer of the award, to assist him as an interpreter and escort. She, close to divorce from her husband, a bisexual painter who betrayed her by participating in orgies with his male and female models, seems to fall passionately in love with him while Ranieri, certainly, warms to her; but a bitter fact will emerge from the sensual lady’s past. Meanwhile, in America too, on several occasions someone tries to kill the poet, always masking their criminal attempts as fortuitous accidents; and although Ranieri still manages to escape death, other people however are affected, first John Crispy, a prominent American broker who administers the assets of Donald Montgomery, a young man with a cold character, director of the FBI in New York and candidate for the United States Senate: he perhaps hates his administrator because he is close to marrying his mother, the richest woman in America. At a certain point one fact seems certain, that despite himself the poet has become a pawn in an international criminal chess game that concerns Italy in particular, a country which in that year of 1969, was prey to social violence and civil unrest. There are numerous twists and turns; among other things people believed to be dead reappear on the scene alive, while figures conside Translator: Barbara Maher PUBLISHER: TEKTIME
Author: Guido Pagliarino Publisher: Tektime ISBN: 8835430534 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 387
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September 26, 1943. Naples is on the verge of rebelling against the occupying Germans. Rosa, a prostitute and black marketer, a confidant of the Fascist political police, is killed violently. Her alleged murderer, Gennaro, is detained and questioned in vain by a still inexperienced deputy commissioner, Vittorio. Shortly after, the insurrection that will go down in history as The Four Days of Naples erupts. The deputy commissioner and Rosa’s alleged murderer, strangely set free by the commissioner himself, join in. Young Mariapia who has been gang raped by the German side, also takes part in the fight, yearning for revenge. Gennaro soon turns out to be related to her. Another murder takes place, and this time the target is a tobacconist who is also related to Mariapia. Historical social fresco with crime elements set in Naples mainly in 1943, during those Four Days in which the city, by itself, got rid of the Nazi occupier. There is an abstract actor, indeed the protagonist, alongside the real-life characters, fury, both the collective wrath that erupts on the field of battle and has as its corollary, on the victorious side, rapes and other bestiality, and the anger that is expressed in the rebellion against personal abuses that go unpunished by the authority and are now unbearable. If an oppressed people can rebel in its own right and rise up and if, as even St Thomas Aquinas admitted, murder of the tyrant is permitted when there is no other way to regain the freedom that God himself has granted the human being, is it lawful or not to kill a criminal that justice cannot reach and strike, who continues to vex, exploit and kill others inside his own neighborhood? Is someone with no other possible defense, and who resorts to extreme defense guilty? And, if so, to what extent? This is the private dilemma that runs through the novel as it traverses the public story of Naples’ rebellion against the Germans. The scene opens on the violent death of Rosa, a wealthy prostitute and black marketer, a former confidant of the Fascist political police. Gennaro, her alleged murderer, is detained and questioned in vain by a still inexperienced deputy commissioner, Vittorio D'Aiazzo. Very soon after, on September 26, 1943, the insurrection that will go down in history as The Four Days of Naples flares up. The deputy commissioner himself and, strangely, having been freed by the chief commissioner himself, Rosa’s alleged murderer, also join it. Another participant in the battle is the young Mariapia who, having been gang raped by the Germans, yearns for revenge. At some point during the story, Gennaro turns out to be related to her. During the clashes another murder takes place which, at least apparently, like the death of the prostitute, is not related to the revolt. The victim is a tobacconist, Mariapia's cousin, slaughtered by someone while he was defecating, and who then cut off his testicles. At a certain point the two deaths seem to be connected, because the deceased were not only both linked to the Camorra, but also to the office of American military secret services, the O.S.S. Several characters enter the scene between the various battles, such as young Mariapia’s parents, her paratrooper brother already reported missing in El Alamein but who reappears alive and very active, the willing anatomopathologist Palombella, the fat and phlegmatic warrant officer Branduardi, the valiant deputy commissioner Bollati and, a secondary but fundamental character, the elderly bike repairman Gennarino Appalle, who discovers the tobacconist’s corpse and, at the end of a clash between insurgents and German SS in the street in front of his shop, goes out onto the road and, breathless, alerts deputy commissioner D'Aiazzo who took part in the clash together with his adjutant, the impetuous Brigadier Bordin. The tobacconist had been a foul person, once a batterer for the Camorra Translator: Barbara Maher PUBLISHER: TEKTIME
Author: Guido Pagliarino Publisher: Tektime ISBN: 8835440793 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 81
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New York, late evening of March 30, 1972: During a political banquet organized by the challenging candidate Senator Donald Montgomery in the run-up to the US presidential elections, a wealthy young woman, his well-known elector married to the very rich Peter White and a systematically adulterous woman who in the 50s had been the lover of the Italian Vittorio D'Aiazzo, deputy police commissioner of Turin, and in 1969 his friend Ranieri Velli’s lover, is killed with a firearm. After killing a security guard who got in the way, a mysterious individual suddenly appeared at the door of the dining room, killed the woman, fled, and disappeared without trace. The only elements that the guests, Velli among them, recall of the murderer is the masked upper part of the face, the massive size, the modest height and the large grayish beard, characteristic features of Vittorio D'Aiazzo who in those same hours was not in Italy but in New York ... Already published for the first time in 2010 with GDS Edizioni and now out of print, this novel has been revised and greatly modified by the author and is published and in the new version with Tektime. It is based on the figures of the deputy police commissioner Vittorio D'Aiazzo and his friend Ranieri Velli, characters who are also present in other works by the author. The story unfolds in the year 1972, after the novel ”Il metro dell’amore tossico” (distributed by Tektime, not yet translated into English), set in 1969, and takes place partly in New York and partly in Turin as did the narrative of the aforementioned novel. We also find, together with the two main characters, several supporting figures including the interested publisher Mark Lines and the icy billionaire Donald Montgomery, former director of the FBI in New York and now a member of the Senate and candidate for the Presidency of the United States against the outgoing president M. N. Richard. On the evening of March 30 1972, during an electoral banquet organized by Montgomery, a wealthy young woman is shot dead. She is his great elector, wife of the very rich Peter White, and a systematically adulterous woman who in the 50s had been Vittorio’s lover and in 1969 Ranieri’s lover. A mysterious individual suddenly appears at the door of the dining room, and after killing a security guard who was in the way, kills the woman and flees managing to lose all trace of himself. Of the murderer, masked in the upper part of the face, only the massive size, the modest height and the large grayish beard, characteristic features of the deputy police commissioner Vittorio D'Aiazzo, appear evident to the guests, among whom sits Ranieri Velli; moreover, in those same hours Vittorio was not in Italy but in New York with his girlfriend Marina Ferdi, widow of the late commissioner Verdoni, once Vittorio’s deputy. No less, D'Aiazzo’s name is included in the list of guests at the private banquet. Apart from Ranieri Velli, clouded by his friendship, the witnesses recognize and point to the deputy police commissioner as the killer. He is accused of murder, together with his partner, by the New York prosecutor Maxwell, friend and supporter of Montgomery. The latter wants to show that it was not, as the outgoing president Richard insistently insinuates, a fake attack on his person which he organized himself for electoral publicity, that unfortunately ended badly because the shooter missed the target. The district attorney is fully intent on having Vittorio convicted based on an alleged motive of passion: his hatred for the woman who had abandoned him at the time. The deputy police commissioner and his girlfriend are extradited to New York for the preliminary trial which, as we know, in the United States takes place in the courtroom, in the presence of jury and judge. At this point we are still only at the beginning of the novel. Several pages among those that follow present phases of th Translator: Barbara Maher PUBLISHER: TEKTIME
Author: Pamela Cox Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1000631591 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 200
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Why have many victim-centred policy initiatives met with so little success? How have those initiatives unfolded differently in different global jurisdictions over different periods of time? This book aims to address these questions. Building on a major research project exploring victims’ access to justice over time and place, Victims' Access to Justice considers the potentialities for victims’ participation in criminal justice systems and in victim programmes both in historical and comparative context. It considers a range of topics: ways of identifying and accommodating victims’ needs and senses of justice; the impacts for criminal justice systems of seeking to accommodate these; and the ways in which adversarial criminal justice systems, in particular, may enable or inhibit victim participation. This is essential reading for all those engaged in understanding and working with victims of crime.
Author: Stephan Labossiere Publisher: Highly Favored Ent ISBN: 0998018996 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 128
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¡Encontrar la felicidad después de un corazón roto comienza aquí! A veces parece que el dolor nunca desaparecerá... Tal vez tus padres te abandonaron. Tal vez tu mejor amiga te traicionó. O tal vez tu pareja de toda la vida decidió hacer las maletas y se marchó de repente. Cuando alguien que "se supone" que te ama decide alejarse de ti, puede ser extremadamente devastador. Pero sea cual sea el escenario, debes saber que el dolor del rechazo y del corazón roto es un dolor que todo el mundo experimenta, a menudo más de una vez, sólo que de diferentes maneras. Y debes saber que está bien llorar la pérdida. Sin embargo, lo que NO está bien es dejar que el dolor te paralice hasta el punto de que no puedas funcionar, concentrarte o lograr algo. Cada día, mes o año que pasas enojada es un tiempo precioso que no vas a recuperar. No te sirve de nada. Así que si has estado luchando para seguir adelante después de haber sido herido de cualquier manera, ¡entonces NECESITAS esta guía! Es como la terapia, pero en un libro. Aprende a: Identificar las capas de ruptura que necesitan ser reparadas Comienza tu viaje único de autosanación Encontrar la paz interna y la verdadera felicidad Amarte plenamente a ti misma y todo lo que eres Ponte en el camino hacia un nuevo futuro satisfactorio, gratificante y reparador. Tienes una opción. Puedes seguir sufriendo y revolcándote en la miseria. O puedes ser proactiva en tomar una inmersión profunda en una solución que está específicamente diseñada para sanar tu corazón. Es hora de expulsar el dolor, la miseria y el resentimiento con el que has estado luchando. Pide este libro hoy y empieza a sentirte mejor de inmediato. ¡Ahora es tu oportunidad de recuperar tu vida! 🙌
Author: Jill P. Weber, Ph.d. Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781542529273 Category : Languages : en Pages : 70
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Toxic love describes a set of negative relationship dynamics including insecurity, anxiety, and denial. An individual in a toxic romance longs for the brief exhilarating highs, but mostly endures sharply painful lows. You don't have to live like this anymore. In Toxic Love: 5 Steps-How to Identify Toxic-Love Patterns and Find Fulfilling Attachments, clinical psychologist Jill Weber, PhD, teaches you how to identify the root causes of toxic love, break the pattern of emotional self-destruction, and move on to trusting, mutually rewarding relationships. Break free from the cycle of toxic love, and discover the joy of emotional stability, mutual intimacy, and your inherent self-worth.
Author: Nilda-Conchita Acosta Publisher: Palibrio ISBN: 1463327285 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 87
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La Mujer Que Enloqueció Por Un Pata De Camello, es la emotiva historia de Najya, una mujer como tú y como yo que se caso con un hombre que le destruyo la vida. Esta experiencia la convirtió en una maquina programada para cuidar a sus hijos y se olvido de ser mujer. Pero, un día descubre que es una mujer, un ser humano que tiene derecho amar. Este libro está escrito de una manera sencilla pero llena de pasión. Te transportara al Lejano Oriente y te enseñara a vivir a plenitud y ver lo hermosa que es la vida aun cuando estés pasando por momentos difíciles. ¿Que hiere a una mujer? ¿Que deseamos las mujeres? ¿Que necesitamos para ser felices? ¿Cómo piensan los hombres? ¿Que sienten?¿ Vale la pena todo por amor? Un libro ideal para mujeres y hombres que van en búsqueda del amor.
Author: Ovid Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 9780199277216 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 642
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The Epistulae ex Ponto are epistolary poems written by the banished Latin poet Ovid. They are a key text of exile literature. The present edition of the first book of these poems gives a revised Latin text, a new translation, an extended introduction, and the first full-scale commentary of the work in English.
Author: Alfredo Mirandé
Author: Alfredo Mirandé
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