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Singapore’s tough stance on human rights, however, does not negate the long and persistent existence of a human rights society that exists almost unknown to the world. The focus of this book is on independent activists and writers, documenting this tradition in Singapore society that has a legacy of defending universal values of individual human rights. It uncovers their discourses, main contentions, campaigns, survival strategies, prominent activists and their untold stories during Singapore’s first 50 years of independence.
V přísně střeženém ústavu pro ty nejhorší zločince dojde k vraždě zdravotní sestry. A pohřešuje se i její novorozeně. Únosce žádá výkupné, čas neúprosně běží. Forenzní psycholožka Connie Woolwineová dokáže proniknout do mysli pachatele jako nikdo jiný, a tak se v utajení vydává mezi vyšinuté sériové vrahy. K nalezení dítěte má pět dní, déle kojenec nemůže přežít. Connie v ústavu narazí nejen na zlo v čiré podobě, ale také na hranice vlastní příčetnosti. Splní svůj úkol dřív, než se jí zmocní šílenství?
‘Deliciously dark and utterly compelling – I couldn’t put it down.’ – CLARE MACKINTOSH They’re locked up for your safety.Now, you’re locked in with them.
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This book gathers the proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Computational Science and Technology 2019 (ICCST2019), held in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, on 29–30 August 2019. The respective contributions offer practitioners and researchers a range of new computational techniques and solutions, identify emerging issues, and outline future research directions, while also showing them how to apply the latest large-scale, high-performance computational methods.
A thorough and timely investigation of both well-established and emerging crime and punishment issues, this book provides readers with compelling examples of how different countries around the world confront these problems. This book offers a detailed look at 10 "hot topics" in crime and punishment that are shared by many countries. Some of these topics are well-established within the field of criminology, such as patterns of criminal behavior, juvenile delinquency, drug trafficking, policing, and punishment; others are emerging topics that have not been well studied across a variety of countries, such as violence against women, hate crimes, and gun control. Within each topic, the book explo...
Sono stati rinchiusi qui dentro per la tua sicurezza. Ora sei bloccata con loro... Nel carcere psichiatrico di massima sicurezza Charles Horatio Parry, un urlo squarcia la notte. Il mattino dopo viene ritrovato il corpo dell’infermiera Tara Cameron, orribilmente mutilata e uccisa. E quel che è peggio, la bambina che portava in grembo è stata rapita e per liberarla è stato chiesto un riscatto. La profiler forense Connie Woolwine è conosciuta per la straordinaria capacità di entrare nella mente degli assassini. Ora dovrà introdursi sotto copertura tra gli uomini più squilibrati e pericolosi al mondo e usare le proprie abilità per trovare la bambina, però il tempo stringe: ha pochi g...