William Heffernan Libri

Detective Rolk's discovery that an ancient instrument was used to decapitate a murdered woman, leads him to the Metropolitan Museum's Toltec collection and on to Mexico

This book seeks to explain why the concept of justice is critical to the study of criminal justice. Heffernan makes such a case by treating state-sponsored punishment as the defining feature of criminal justice. In particular, this work accounts for the state’s role as a surrogate for victims of wrongdoing, and so makes it possible to integrate victimology scholarship into its justice-based framework. In arguing that punishment may be imposed only for wrongdoing, the book proposes a criterion for repudiating the legal paternalism that informs drug-possession laws. Rethinking the Foundations of Criminal Justice outlines steps for taming the state’s power to punish offenders; in particular, it draws on restorative justice research to outline possibilities for a penology that emphasizes offenders’ humanity. Through its examination of equality issues, the book integrates recent work on the social justice/criminal justice connection into the scholarly literature on punishment, and so will particularly appeal to those interested in criminal justice theory.

Streetwise, young "New York Globe" reporter Jennifer Brady determines to uncover the past of the young and handsome, rising union president, Tony Marco, who is about to be appointed by the governor to a special commission

L'inspecteur Paul Devlin, de la brigade criminelle de New York, est confronté à une enquête qui va requérir toute sa diplomatie. Le corps d'une jeune femme est découvert, sauvagement tailladé, et abritant... une quantité considérable d'héroïne. Détail dérangeant : la victime était une religieuse, et venait juste de rentrer de Colombie... Mais elle était aussi membre d'un ordre extrêmement controversé au sein de l'Église catholique, l'Opus Christi, auquel appartiennent également d'éminentes personnalités de la politique, de l'Église et de la Finance. Le maire de New York, affolé par le scandale imminent, réclame la plus grande discrétion. Il ne reste plus qu'à infiltrer l'Ordre...