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International Law and Legalisation and Decriminalisation of Illicit Drugs
The three UN drug conventions comprehensively and almost universally regulate the dealing with illicit drugs worldwide. Although the treaties are prohibitive, more and more member states seek to liberalise their national drug policies and implement depenalisation, decriminalisation or even legalisation schemes. The article explores member states’ possibilities and limitations under the current treaty framework by giving an overview of their obligations, contractual exceptions and means under general public international law.
The Bishop and the Butterfly
“The 1931 murder of 'Broadway Butterfly' Vivian Gordon exposed an explosive story of graft, corruption and entrapment that went all the way to the top of the state. Wolraich brings a journalist’s eye and a novelist’s elegance to this story of Jazz Age New York.”—New York Times Vivian Gordon went out before midnight in a velvet dress and mink coat. Her body turned up the next morning in a desolate Bronx park, a dirty clothesline wrapped around her neck. At her stylish Manhattan apartment, detectives discovered notebooks full of names—businessmen, socialites, gangsters. And something else: a letter from an anti-corruption commission established by Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Led by the imperious Judge Samuel Seabury, the commission had uncovered a police conspiracy to frame women as prostitutes. Had Vivian Gordon been executed to bury her secrets? As FDR pressed the police to solve her murder, Judge Seabury pursued the trail of corruption to the top of Gotham’s powerful political machine—the infamous Tammany Hall.
Bernard Malamud
Philip Davis tells the story of Bernard Malamud (1914-1986), the self-made son of poor Jewish immigrants who went on to become one of the foremost novelists and short-story writers of the post-war period. The time is ripe for a revival of interest in a man who at the peak of his success stood alongside Saul Bellow and Philip Roth in the ranks of Jewish American writers. Nothing came easily to Malamud: his family was poor, his mother probably committed suicide when Malamud was 14, and his younger brother inherited her schizophrenia. Malamud did everything the second time round - re-using his life in his writing, even as he revised draft after draft. Davis's meticulous biography shows all that...
El crimen en Nueva York
A lo largo de los últimos doscientos años, Nueva York ha sido escenario de miles de delitos y crímenes de todo tipo: asesinatos fríamente calculados, robos espectaculares, matanzas mafiosas, atentados devastadores, casos memorables que contribuyeron a mejorar la metodología policial, psicópatas desatados... Sin su faceta más oscura, no podría entenderse el espíritu de una ciudad que ha contribuido más que ninguna otra al imaginario colectivo sobre el mundo criminal. Este libro reúne una impresionante colección de casos extraídos directamente de los archivos del Departamento de Policía de Nueva York que, por una u otra razón, han pasado a la historia. Escritos por expertos en el tema, todos estos relatos van acompañados de imágenes pocas veces vistas: fotografías de escenas del crimen, retratos de fichas policiales, dibujos realizados durante juicios mediáticos y pruebas incriminatorias.
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Undisclosed Files of the Police
More than 175 years of true crimes culled from the city's police blotter, told through startling, rarely seen images and insightful text by two NYPD officers and a NYC crime reporter. From atrocities that occurred before the establishment of New York's police force in 1845 through the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in 2001 to the present day, this visual history is an insider's look at more than 80 real-life crimes that shocked the nation, from arson to gangland murders, robberies, serial killers, bombings, and kidnappings, including: Architect Stanford White's fatal shooting at Madison Square Garden over his deflowering of a teenage chorus girl. The anarchist bombing of Wall Str...
A Little Ray of Sunshine
A kid walks into your bookstore and… Guess what? He’s your son. The one you put up for adoption eighteen years ago. The one you never told anyone about. Surprise! And a huge surprise it is. It’s a huge surprise to his adoptive mother, Monica, who thought she had a close relationship with Matthew, her nearly adult son. But apparently, he felt the need to secretly arrange a vacation to Cape Cod for the summer so he could meet his birth mother…without a word to either her or his dad. It’s also a surprise— to say the least—to Harlow, the woman who secretly placed her baby for adoption so many years ago. She’s spent the years since then building a quiet life. She runs a bookstore ...
Risiko & Recht 01/2024
Risiko & Recht macht es sich zur Aufgabe, Rechtsfragen der modernen Risikogesellschaft zu analysieren. Berücksichtigung finden Entwicklungen in verschiedensten Gebieten, von denen Sicherheitsrisiken für Private, die öffentliche Ordnung, staatliche Einrichtungen und kritische Infrastrukturen ausgehen. Zu neuartigen Risiken führt zuvorderst der digitale Transformationsprozess und der damit verbundene Einsatz künstlicher Intelligenz; des Weiteren hat die Covid-Pandemie Risikopotentiale im Gesundheitssektor verdeutlicht und auch der Klimawandel zwingt zu umfassenderen Risikoüberlegungen; schliesslich geben gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen, u.a. Subkulturenbildung mit Gewaltpotential, Anlass zu rechtlichen Überlegungen. Risiko und Recht greift das breite und stets im Wandel befindliche Spektrum neuartiger Risikosituationen auf und beleuchtet mit Expertenbeiträgen die rechtlichen Herausforderungen unserer Zeit.
