Crimes category: 7162 books
The Man in the Monster
Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
An astonishing portrait of a murderer and his complex relationship with a crusading journalist
Michael Ross was a serial killer who raped and murdered eight young women between 1981 and 1984, and several years ago the state of Connecticut put him to death. His crimes were horrific, and he paid...
Still Standing
Finding Light Inside a Guatemalan Prison, The Battle of an Innocent Woman
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
A shocking firsthand account of a young mom’s fight for justice while being wrongly imprisoned, and the incredible stories of the women she meets inside.
Anaité Alvarado was at home caring for her children when she noticed Guatemalan police on her street. She sent her children to school...
Sexual Offending
A Criminological Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
There is growing recognition that sexual offending is a multi-determined phenomenon requiring a multi-disciplinary perspective. The significant contribution of psychology and psychiatry, but also sociology, gender studies and anthropology to the study of sex offending and perpetrators of sex offenses...
Get a Job
Labor Markets, Economic Opportunity, and Crime
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
Are the unemployed more likely to commit crimes? Does having a job make one less likely to commit a crime? Criminologists have found that individuals who are marginalized from the labor market are more likely to commit crimes, and communities with more members who are marginal to the labor market...
Introduction to Criminology
Why Do They Do It?
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
Introduction to Criminology, Why Do They Do It?, Second Edition, by Pamela J. Schram Stephen G. Tibbetts, offers a contemporary and integrated discussion of the key theories that help us understand crime in the 21st century. With a focus on why offenders commit crimes, this bestseller skillfully...
Green Harms and Crimes
Critical Criminology in a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
The book presents discussions of the application of Stan Cohen's theories alongside empirical contributions in the fields of critical and green criminology. Taken together, the authors critically address harms and crimes against the environment, as well as against human and nonhuman victims.
by R. Barri Flowers
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
From R. Barri Flowers, award-winning criminologist and bestselling author of Murder During the Chicago World’s Fair, Murder at the Pencil Factory, and Murder of the Banker’s Daughter, comes the riveting historical true crime short, Murder of the Doctor’s Wife: The 1867 Crimes of Bridget Durgan.On...
Transnational Environmental Crime
Toward an Eco-global Criminology
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2018
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to and overview of eco-global criminology. Eco-global criminology refers to a criminological approach that is informed by ecological considerations and by a critical analysis that is global in scale and perspective. Based upon eco-justice conceptions...
Overkill
(Arizona, Colorado, Utah, Notorious USA)
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
New York Times bestselling authors Gregg Olsen and Rebecca Morris take a new look at some of the country’s most notorious crimes. Overkill is a compilation of Notorious Colorado, Notorious Arizona and Notorious Utah.
Colorado’s edition includes three of the country’s most infamous...
by Richard Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2011
The crimes attributed to Jack the Ripper have gone unsolved for over 120 years. No one who has attempted to solve them has succeeded, either due to the passage of time, lack of evidence, inconsistent facts, or faulty analysis. One of the weaknesses of those many works has been the inability to identify...
Worse Than Death
The Dallas Nightclub Murders and the Texas Multiple Murder Law
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2003
In 1984, a Moroccan national named Abdelkrim Belachheb walked into Iannis Restaurant, a trendy Dallas nightclub, and gunned down seven people. Six died. Despite the fact that the crimes occurred in a state that prides itself on being tough on criminals, the death penalty was not an option for the Belachheb...
Killer Catchers - Fourteen True Stories of How Britain's Wickedest Murderers Were Brought to Justice
Killer Catchers - Fourteen True Stories of How Britain's Wickedest Murderers Were Brought to Justice
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2008
Murderers, Psychopaths, and Paedophiles - Their mention strikes dread and disgust into the heart of a nation, and the crimes committed by such individuals are of a nature more horrendous than any other. Their hideous acts of violence and abuse are unimaginably cruel, and the more disturbed and desperate...
In the Name of the Children
An FBI Agent's Relentless Pursuit of the Nation's Worst Predators
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
"The voice that narrates In the Name of the Children: An F.B.I. Agent’s Relentless Pursuit of the Nation’s Worst Predators, which Rinek wrote with the journalist Marilee Strong, sounds warm and humane, qualities missing from much crime writing. Their book is a professional job, filled with illuminating...
by Georg Koopmann
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Beccarria's influential Treatise On Crimes and Punishments is considered a foundation work in the modern field of criminology. As Newman and Marongiu note in their introduction to the work, three master themes of the Enlightenment run through the Treatise: the idea of the social contract, the idea...