Criminology category: 4273 books
Legacies of Crime
A Follow-Up of the Children of Highly Delinquent Girls and Boys
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2010
Legacies of Crime explores the lives of seriously delinquent girls and boys in the United States who were followed over a twenty-year period as they grew to adulthood. In-depth interviews with these women and men and their children - a majority now adolescents themselves - depict the adults' economic...
by Olga Appiani de Linares
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Lo raro, lo extraño, lo espantoso y lo malvado viene con la noche y se posa frente a tus ojos. Lo normal es solo una apariencia. Lo siniestro está al acecho y los monstruos a veces están más cerca de lo que uno imagina. Relatos espeluznantes, donde los vampiros, fantasmas y otras criaturas misteriosas...
The Skeleton Crew
How Amateur Sleuths Are Solving America's Coldest Cases
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Solving cold cases from the comfort of your living room…
The Skeleton Crew provides an entree into the gritty and tumultuous world of Sherlock Holmes–wannabes who race to beat out law enforcement—and one another—at matching missing persons with unidentified remains.
In America...
On My Life
the gripping fast-paced thriller with a killer twist
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2019
'Compelling, intense**, and breathtakingly** brilliant.' Angela Marsons, author of Dead Memories
Jenna knows she didn't do it. But she is running out of time to prove it...
A heartbreaking, compulsive thriller with a killer twist!
Framed. Imprisoned. Pregnant.
Jenna thought she...
by Lynn Daugherty
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011
Why would anyone sexually abuse a child? How does it happen!Dr. Lynn Daugherty, clinical psychologist and award-winning author of the classic bestseller "Why Me? Help for Victims of Child Sexual Abuse (Even if they are adults now)" addresses these difficult questions in this book, "Child Molesters,...
Can't Catch a Break
Gender, Jail, Drugs, and the Limits of Personal Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
Based on five years of fieldwork in Boston, Can’t Catch a Break documents the day-to-day lives of forty women as they struggle to survive sexual abuse, violent communities, ineffective social and therapeutic programs, discriminatory local and federal policies, criminalization, incarceration, and...
The Murder Room
The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes Gather to Solve the World's Most Perplexing Cold Ca ses
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
Thrilling, true tales from the Vidocq Society, a team of the world's finest forensic investigators whose monthly gourmet lunches lead to justice in ice-cold murders
Three of the greatest detectives in the world--a renowned FBI agent turned private eye, a sculptor and lothario who speaks to...
Zodiac Unmasked
The Identity of America's Most Elusive Serial Killers Revealed
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2007
Robert Graysmith reveals the true identity of Zodiac—America's most elusive serial killer.
Between December 1968 and October 1969 a hooded serial killer called Zodiac terrorized San Francisco. Claiming responsibility for thirty-seven murders, he manipulated the media with warnings, dares,...
Pilgrim's Wilderness
A True Story of Faith and Madness on the Alaska Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Into the Wild meets Helter Skelter in this riveting true story of a modern-day homesteading family in the deepest reaches of the Alaskan wilderness—and of the chilling secrets of its maniacal, spellbinding patriarch.
When Papa Pilgrim, his wife, and their fifteen children appeared in the...
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher
A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2010
The New York Times bestselling account of the real-life murder that inspired the birth of modern detective fiction.
In June of 1860 three-year-old Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his throat slit. The crime horrified all England and led to a national obsession with...
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much
The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2009
In the tradition of The Orchid Thief, a compelling narrative set within the strange and genteel world of rare-book collecting: the true story of an infamous book thief, his victims, and the man determined to catch him.
Rare-book theft is even more widespread than fine-art theft. Most thieves,...
by Michelle Alexander
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
Once in a great while a book comes along that changes the way we see the world and helps to fuel a nationwide social movement. The New Jim Crow is such a book. Praised by Harvard Law professor Lani Guinier as "brave and bold," this book directly challenges the notion that the election of Barack Obama...
Murder in Italy
Amanda Knox, Meredith Kercher, and the Murder Trial that Shocked the World
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
The true story behind the notorious international murder--updated to cover Amanda Knox's acquittal.
In Perugia, Italy, on November 2, 2007, police discovered the body of a British college student stabbed to death in her bedroom. The prosecutor alleged that the brutal murder had occurred during...
Dissecting Death
Secrets of a Medical Examiner
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2005
From TV’s CSI to bestsellers by Patricia Cornwell and Kathy Reichs, interest in forensics is at an all-time high. Now one of our most respected forensic pathologists gives a behind-the-scenes look at eleven of his most notorious cases, cracked by scientific analysis and Sherlock Holmesian deduction.
As...