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Le ripou des Hells
By Éric Thibault. 2023
"J'ai plusieurs enregistrements entre moi et un policier très haut placé. C'est le pire, pire, pire policier qui a travaillé…
contre nous autres, les Hells Angels." À l'automne 2013, le Hells Angels René Charlebois, évadé du pénitencier où il purgeait une peine pour meurtre, se cache dans un chalet. Durant sa cavale, il fera un testament vidéo dans lequel il dénonce un ex-enquêteur du SPVM qui lui a vendu des renseignements confidentiels. L'affaire Benoit Roberge demeure le pire scandale de corruption policière de l'histoire contemporaine au Québec. Ce livre aux révélations inédites raconte toute l'histoire entourant le pacte d'un flic du crime organisé avec un Hells Angels notoirePrison Life Writing is the first full-length study of one of the most controversial genres in American literature. By exploring…
the complicated relationship between life writing and institutional power, this book reveals the overlooked aesthetic innovations of incarcerated people and the surprising literary roots of the U.S. prison system.I Can't Do What?: Strange Laws and Rules from Around the World
By Heather Camlot. 2022
Did you know that You can't keep a goldfish in a round goldfish bowl in Rome? That you can't take…
a selfie while running with the bulls in Pamplona? That you can't climb a tree in a Toronto city park? This book is a look at some of the more curious rules and laws that have been created around the world over many years. Some of these rules and laws may make us laugh. Some may make us angry or frightened for the people they influence. All of these rules and laws will make us think. How did they come to be? How can they be changed? With numerous sidebars presenting historical information, quizzes after each of the four sections, and ideas throughout for discussion and response activities, this is an active, well-researched illustrated book that shines a bright light on our world and its human workings. The book unfolds in four sections, outlining "People Problems" (everyday life; family; animals; food; fashion), "Sports Zone" (soccer; baseball; hockey; basketball; more sports), "Entertainment" (books and media; television and film; music and dance; technology), and "Kid Concerns" (school; toys; outdoor fun). This new book from acclaimed author Heather Camlot might just be the start of a young reader's passion for governance and social justice.Les pègriots (Best-sellers)
By Auguste Le Breton. 1973
Les seigneurs du crime: les nouvelles mafias contre la démocratie
By Jean Ziegler. 1998
La mondialisation économique et financière et la dislocation du tissu social ont favorisé l'émergence des mafias locales, du crime organisé,…
des trafics à l'échelle planétaire. J. Ziegler analyse en sociologue les logiques souterraines qui sont à l'oeuvre dans ce redoutable processus de privatisation, voire d'appropriation du monde.Les grands crimes de l'histoire (Le Livre de poche #6245)
By Pierre Bellemare. 1984
Une série de crimes commis dans l'enceinte d'un zoo appartenant à un monarque arabe épris de culture oxfordienne ont pour…
seul témoin un chimpanzé nommé Dinah. C'est là qu'intervient Wesley Morris, éminent zoologue anglais qui tente des tests d'aquisition du langage par les chimpanzés en essayant de leur inculquer des rudiments grammaticaux.Les évadés de Santiago
By Anne Proenza. 2010
49 prisonniers politiques du régime de Pinochet qui s'étaient échappés de la prison de Santiago au Chili le 30 janvier…
1990, apportent leurs témoignages sur leur évasion. Recueillis par leur ami proche T. Saavedra et par la journaliste A. Proenza, ces souvenirs ont été transcrits sous la forme de deux récits croisés.Born to lose: Stanley B. Hoss and the crime spree that gripped a nation (True crime history series)
By James G Hollock. 2011
Stanley Barton Hoss was a burglar, thief, and local thug from the Pittsburgh area who began his career of crime…
at the age of fourteen. In 1969, he became a rapist, prison escapee, murderer, and kidnapper. Placed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List, Hoss was the subject of an intense nationwide manhunt. His final homicide occurred in prison and got him transferred to an isolation facility where in 1978 he committed suicide. 2011. Adult. Some strong language. Some violenceThis book introduces Coming to the Table's approach to a continuously evolving set of purposeful theories, ideas, experiments, guidelines, and…
intentions, all dedicated to facilitating racial healing and transformation. People of color, relative to white people, fall on the negative side of virtually all measurable social indicators. The "living wound" is seen in the significant disparities in average household wealth, unemployment and poverty rates, infant mortality rates, access to healthcare and life expectancy, education, housing, and treatment within, and by, the criminal justice system. AdultCherokee Bill: Black cowboy--Indian outlaw
By Art Burton. 2020
"Once upon a time in the late nineteenth century, there was an outlaw that captured the imagination of the American…
public like no other. He can be compared to John Dillinger or Pretty Boy Floyd of the 1930s. Like both of these men, he garnered national press for his exploits; the well-known New York Times had a running commentary on his actions and deeds. This outlaw's name was Crawford Goldsby, better known as Cherokee Bill. Cherokee Bill was every bit as colorful and outrageous as any criminal of the western frontier, perhaps even more so. There were a few things about him that made him truly unique for a famous desperado of the purple sage. First and foremost, he was an African American living in the Indian Territory. He was also Native American, Bill was a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, as a freedman, from his mother's lineage. Compare Cherokee Bill to Billy the Kid, (Billy Antrim), of New Mexico Territory fame. Although both outlaws received national media attention for their crimes while they were living, Billy the Kid was remembered and immortalized in books and films in the twentieth century; this did not occur for Cherokee Bill. Art Burton's newest book will help change that." -- Provided by publisherFormidable: American women and the fight for equality: 1920-2020
By Elisabeth Griffith. 2022
"The Nineteenth Amendment was an incomplete victory. Black and white women fought hard for voting rights and doubled the number…
of eligible voters, but the amendment did not enfranchise all women, or even protect the rights of those women who could vote. A century later, women are still grappling with how to use the vote and their political power to expand civil rights, confront racial violence, improve maternal health, advance educational and employment opportunities, and secure reproductive rights. Formidable chronicles the efforts of white and Black women to advance sometimes competing causes. Black women wanted the rights enjoyed by whites. They wanted to protect their communities from racial violence and discrimination. Theirs was not only a women's movement. White women wanted to be equal to white men. They sought equal legal rights, political power, safeguards for working women and immigrants, and an end to confining social structures. There were also many white women who opposed any advance for any women. In this riveting narrative, Dr. Elisabeth Griffith integrates the fight by white and Black women to achieve equality. Previously their parallel struggles for social justice have been presented separately-as white or Black topics-or covered narrowly, through only certain individuals, decades, or incidents. Formidable provides a sweeping, century-long perspective, and an expansive cast of change agents. From feminists and civil rights activists to politicians and social justice advocates, from working class women to mothers and homemakers, from radicals and conservatives to those who were offended by feminism, threatened by social change, or convinced of white supremacy, the diversity of the women's movement mirrors America. After that landmark victory in 1920, suffragists had a sense of optimism, declaring, "Now we can begin!" By 2020, a new generation knew how hard the fight for incremental change was; they would have to begin again. Both engaging and outraging, Formidable will propel readers to continue their foremothers' fights to achieve equality for all." -- Provided by publisher"First published in 1995, |Bus Ride to Justice|, the best-selling autobiography by acclaimed civil rights attorney Fred D. Gray, appears…
now in a newly revised edition that updates Gray's remarkable career of "destroying everything segregated that I could find." Of particular interest will be the details Gray reveals for the first time about Rosa Parks's 1955 arrest. Gray was the young lawyer for Parks and also Martin Luther King Jr. and the Montgomery Improvement Association, which organized the 382-day Montgomery Bus Boycott after Parks's arrest. As the last survivor of that inner circle, Gray speaks about the strategic reasons Parks was presented as a demure, random victim of Jim Crow policies when in reality she was a committed, strong-willed activist who was willing to be arrested so there could be a test case to challenge segregation laws. Gray's remarkable career also includes landmark civil rights cases in voting rights, education, housing, employment, law enforcement, jury selection, and more. He is widely considered one of the most successful civil rights attorneys of the twentieth century and his cases are studied in law schools around the world. In addition he was an ordained Church of Christ minister and was one of the first blacks elected to the Alabama legislature in the modern era. Initially denied entrance to Alabama's segregated law school, he eventually became the first black president of the Alabama bar association." -- Provided by publisherThurgood
By Jonah Winter. 2019
"Fact: Thurgood Marshall was a born lawyer, always arguing. Fact: Thurgood Marshall grew up to become the first Black justice…
on the Supreme Court. Fact: Thurgood Marshall revolutionized America. Before Rosa Parks, before Martin Luther King Jr., before the civil rights movement there was Thurgood, fighting for African Americans--and winning. Here is the powerful story of the trailblazer who proved that separate is not equal." -- Dust jacketJuger et punir en Nouvelle-France
By André Lachance. 2000
Voici un étonnant voyage, en deux parties, qui nous permet de mieux connaître les gens qui ont façonné ce pays,…
au fil des jours. Notre guide : l’historien André Lachance, avec qui nous explorons le quotidien des habitants de la Nouvelle-France aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Dans Vivre, aimer et mourir en Nouvelle-France, nous découvrons comment se déroulait l’existence des habitants de la campagne et de la ville, et nous découvrons les coutumes, les usages et les approches qui guidaient leurs gestes.Puis, dans Juger et punir en Nouvelle-France, l’auteur met en vedette criminels, justiciers et victimes, à travers huit récits qui nous révèlent un autre volet de la vie quotidienne en Nouvelle-France.The Hanford plaintiffs: voices from the fight for atomic justice
By Trisha T Pritikin. 2020
During the Cold War there were several releases of radioactive gases from the Hanford nuclear site in Southeastern Washington. These…
releases left a pattern of cancers and birth defects among the people who were downwind of Hanford, a pattern long covered up by the government until revealed in legal cases. Adult. UnratedA death at Crooked Creek: the case of the cowboy, the cigarmaker, and the love letter
By Marianne Wesson. 2013
One winter night in 1879, at a lonely Kansas campsite near Crooked Creek, a man was shot to death. The…
dead man's traveling companion identified him as John Hillmon, a cowboy from Lawrence who had been attempting to carve out a life on the blustery prairie. The case might have been soon forgotten and the apparent widow, Sallie Hillmon, left to mourn except for the $25,000 life insurance policies Hillmon had taken out shortly before his departure. The insurance companies refused to pay on the policies, claiming that the dead man was not John Hillmon, and Sallie was forced to take them to court in a case that would reach the Supreme Court twice. The companies' case rested on a crucial piece of evidence: a faded love letter written by a disappeared cigarmaker, declaring his intent to travel westward with a "man named Hillmon." Adult. Some violenceBound to die: The True Story Of Florida Serial Killer Bobby Joe Long
By Anna Flowers. 1995
"Tortured and bound with ropes, these young victims did not stand a chance. Then one girl got away... "Bound to…
Die" is the true crime story of Florida serial killer Bobby Joe Long, who was convicted of the heinous murders of nine women in 1984 in Florida's Tampa Bay area. The first body of 19-year-old disco dancer Lana Long was found in a field on Mother's Day. Six months later, the bloody rampage ended when the ninth victim was discovered. All had been tortured with ropes and savagely beaten and raped. The killer's confession of his crimes is haunting. The vividly rendered results of his historical trials and appeals are equally shocking. This well written book is an accurate chronicling of an infamous part of Florida history, brought up to date in this Revised Edition. A best seller when first published by Kensington, NY, it was a national book club selection. Three recent television documentaries with the author's participation have been produced on this case and can be seen on Investigation Discovery and other television channels." -- Dust jacketFly, Colton, fly: the true story of the Barefoot Bandit
By Jackson Holtz. 2011
Colton Harris-Moore was arrested for the first time when he was ten years old. By the time he was 19,…
he had committed countless burglaries in the San Juan Islands, gone cross country in stolen cars, and crashed the third plane he stole in the Bahamas. Adult. UnratedCurious cases: hijinks, heists, mysteries, and more
By Rebecca Valley. 2022
"Introduce middle-grade readers to the intriguing and exciting history of true crime, including capers, stories, unsolved crimes, daring escapes, famous…
art heists, and much more, in this first-ever true crime book specifically for kids. True crime is a genre that captures readers of all ages, but oftentimes the stories are too intense-even for kids who love spooky books and movies. |Curious Cases: True Crime for Kids| presents a slew of fascinating stories that are all age-appropriate, including: the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum theft, the cold case of D. B. Cooper, the disappearance of Masterpiece the poodle, two brothers' cunning escape from Alcatraz, Sherlock Holmes and the fairy photographs, real-life Ghostbusters, and much more! Plus, kids will love the breakdowns of some of the most iconic pop culture detectives and mystery writers like Agatha Christie. The book even includes some fun forensic science activities that kids can do at home to help them better understand how evidence is found and how mysteries can be solved." -- Provided by publisherSupreme power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. the Supreme Court
By Jeff Shesol. 2010
Beginning in 1935, a series of devastating decisions by a conservative majority Supreme Court left much of FDR's agenda in…
ruins. The pillars of the New Deal fell in short succession and democracy itself stood on trial. In February 1937, Roosevelt struck back with an audacious plan to expand the Court to fifteen justices and to "pack" the new seats with people who shared his belief in a "living" Constitution. Adult