Crimes category: 7162 books
by Marvin J. Wolf, Katherine Mader
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
No such thing as PERFECT CRIMES? Witness this whirlwind tour of dirty deeds, sinister scandals, and cold-blooded murder--done in the name of love, money, madness, and more--from around the world or right next door. All of these notoriously wicked characters overlooked a fatal flaw that brought their...
Serial Crime
Theoretical and Practical Issues in Behavioral Profiling
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2009
Serial Crime, Second Edition, examines serial predatory behavior and is divided into two main parts.
Part one deals with behavioral profiling, and covers a variety of critical issues from the history of profiling and the theoretical schools of thought to its treatment in the mainstream media....
by Dr. Karabi Konch
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Crime and Society presents the subject matter of criminologyCriminology, its field and scope, its historical development and of law, law enforcement agencies and the criminal justice system. Concentrated on different relevant aspects of criminology such as crime, deviance and delinquency, it attempts...
The Geography of Environmental Crime
Conservation, Wildlife Crime and Environmental Activism
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
This book critically examines both theory and practice around conservation crimes. It engages with the full complexity of environmental crimes and different responses to them, including: poaching, conservation as a response to wildlife crime, forest degradation, environmental activism, and the application...
Technocrime
Technology, Crime and Social Control
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
This book is concerned with the concept of 'technocrime'. The term encompasses crimes committed on or with computers - the standard definition of cybercrime - but it goes well beyond this to convey the idea that technology enables an entirely new way of committing, combating and thinking about criminality,...
Environmental Crime in Transnational Context
Global Issues in Green Enforcement and Criminology
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Environmental crime is one of the most profitable and fastest growing areas of international criminal activity. The increasing cross-border scope of environmental crimes and harms is one of the reasons why governments and the enforcement community have trouble in finding the proper responses. Law...
by Christi Siver
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
War crimes have devastating effects on victims and perpetrators and endanger broader political and military goals. The protection of civilians, one of the most fundamental norms in the laws of war, appears to have weakened despite almost universal international agreement. Using insights from organizational...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2014
Toxicological Aspects of Drug-Facilitated Crimes provides readers with an overview of the field of DFC: its history, toxicological effects, analysis, interpretation of results, the roles that age, gender and race may play, and clinical presentations of these drugs. The most commonly used drugs in...
The Prosecution of International Crimes
A Critical Study of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
The post-World War Two period has witnessed numerous armed conflicts characterized by extensive violations of relevant obligatory international norms. Responding to these events, the United Nations General Assembly created a permanent international court in 2003, with jurisdiction over selected...
Dark Dreams
A Legendary FBI Profiler Examines Homicide and the Criminal Mind
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
The Evil That Men Do introduced readers to the lifework and the techniques of FBI profiler Roy Hazelwood.
Now, in Dark Dreams, Hazelwood-- writing with bestselling author Stephen G. Michaud-- will take then deep into the minds of his prey, the world's most dangerous sexual criminals, and reveal...
Murderers, Robbers, & Highwaymen
True Tales of Crime and Punishment in Eighteenth-Century England
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
A compendium of horrific crimes and bloody punishments in Georgian England from the editor of the New York Times bestseller, Outlaws and Peace Officers.
Despite the frequency with which criminals were sentenced to death, crime was still on the rise in England in the mid-1700s. Men were thrown...
Historic Columbus Crimes
Mama's in the Furnace, the Thing & More
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
A collection of true crime stories from the Ohio city, with photos included.
In Historic Columbus Crimes, a father-daughter research team looks back at sixteen tales of murder, mystery, and mayhem culled from city history, both the distant and the more recent past.
There’s the rock star slain...
Popular Crime
Reflections on the Celebration of Violence
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
The man who revolutionized the way we think about baseball now examines our cultural obsession with murder—delivering a unique, engrossing, brilliant history of tabloid crime in America.
Celebrated writer and contrarian Bill James has voraciously read true crime throughout his life and has...
Did They Really Do It?
From Lizzie Borden to the 20th Hijacker
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Nine of the most controversial violent crimes in America’s history are reexamined in these compelling stories of true crime
Dr. Samuel Mudd set John Wilkes Booth’s broken ankle, but was he actually part of the larger conspiracy to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln? Did Lizzie Borden...