Crime Minister

Crime Minister
Author: Ian Barclay
Publisher:
Total Pages: 310
Release: 1986
Genre: Assassins
ISBN: 9781609413316

It's a mission-dollar job for Richard Dartley, the world's most select assassin-for-hire, the man with many aliases and a thousand ways to kill. For him, the fatal hit should be a simple matter of clear planning and clean execution. But amid the shifting loyalties and tangled intrigue on American's newest and hottest battleground, he knows damn well things are a lot more dangerous than they seem ...

Serial Vigilantes of Paperback Fiction

Serial Vigilantes of Paperback Fiction
Author: Bradley Mengel
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2009-10-21
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 078645475X

Rough justice has often been served in the pages of serial novels, notably beginning with Don Pendleton's The Executioner in 1969. This is the first overview of the serial vigilante genre, which featured such hard-boiled protagonists as Nick Carter, Mark Stone, Jake Brand and Able Team among the 130 series that followed Pendleton's novel. Serial vigilantes repeatedly take the law into their own hands, establishing and imposing their own moral standards, usually by force. The book examines the connections between the serial vigilante and the pulp hero that preceded him and how the serial vigilante has influenced a variety of tough guys, private eyes, spies and cops in different media. A complete bibliography for each series is featured.

Baxter's Explore the Book

Baxter's Explore the Book
Author: J. Sidlow Baxter
Publisher: Zondervan
Total Pages: 1846
Release: 2010-09-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0310871395

Explore the Book is not a commentary with verse-by-verse annotations. Neither is it just a series of analyses and outlines. Rather, it is a complete Bible survey course. No one can finish this series of studies and remain unchanged. The reader will receive lifelong benefit and be enriched by these practical and understandable studies. Exposition, commentary, and practical application of the meaning and message of the Bible will be found throughout this giant volume. Bible students without any background in Bible study will find this book of immense help as will those who have spent much time studying the Scriptures, including pastors and teachers. Explore the Book is the result and culmination of a lifetime of dedicated Bible study and exposition on the part of Dr. Baxter. It shows throughout a deep awareness and appreciation of the grand themes of the gospel, as found from the opening book of the Bible through Revelation.

Fixing Broken Windows

Fixing Broken Windows
Author: George L. Kelling
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 340
Release: 1997
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0684837382

Cites successful examples of community-based policing.

Payback

Payback
Author: Gert Ledig
Publisher: Granta Books (Uk)
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2003
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

A horrifying account of the effects of an Allied air raid on a German city during World War Two - a classic of anti-war literature

Pastoral Rule

Pastoral Rule
Author: St Gregory the Great
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9781088157862

Recognized as the most thorough pastoral treatise of the late Latin patristic era, this sixth-century work by Pope St. Gregory the Great carefully details the duties and obligations of the clergy concerning the spiritual formation of their flock.

Restorative Justice & Responsive Regulation

Restorative Justice & Responsive Regulation
Author: John Braithwaite
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2002
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0195158393

Braithwaite's argument against punitive justice systems and for restorative justice systems establishes that there are good theoretical and empirical grounds for anticipating that well designed restorative justice processes will restore victims, offenders, and communities better than existing criminal justice practices. Counterintuitively, he also shows that a restorative justice system may deter, incapacitate, and rehabilitate more effectively than a punitive system. This is particularly true when the restorative justice system is embedded in a responsive regulatory framework that opts for deterrence only after restoration repeatedly fails, and incapacitation only after escalated deterrence fails. Braithwaite's empirical research demonstrates that active deterrence under the dynamic regulatory pyramid that is a hallmark of the restorative justice system he supports, is far more effective than the passive deterrence that is notable in the stricter "sentencing grid" of current criminal justice systems.