Criminology category: 4273 books
You Can’t Win
Complete and Unabridged
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
My background is crowded with robberies, burglaries, and thefts too numerous to recall. All manner of crimes against property. Arrests, trials, acquittals, convictions, escapes. Penitentiaries! I see in the background four of them. County jails, workhouses, city prisons, Mounted Police barracks, dungeons,...
A Day in Prison
An Insider's Guide to Life Behind Bars
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
A rare glimpse at twenty-four hours in the life of an inmate—from doing laundry in “the hole” to surviving a fight—by an ex-con and professional prison coach.
No one is prepared for the reality of incarceration. In this fascinating and utterly candid guide, prison coach John “Doc”...
by Alejandra Ibarra
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 21, 2019
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 21, 2019
El Chapo Guzmán: el juicio del siglo es un valioso documento periodístico que señala aspectos vitales para comprender la violencia, impunidad y corrupción de nuestros políticos, así como el turbulento y manipulador ejercicio de la justicia norteamericana.
Alejandra Ibarra Chaoul fue de...
Los demonios del Edén
El poder que protege a la pornografía infantil
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 15, 2015
En 2005 Lydia Cacho cimbró a la opinión pública con la aparición de Los demonios del Edén, una detallada investigación sobre la red de corrupción que protegía el abuso sexual de menores en Cancún por parte de famosos empresarios y funcionarios públicos.
Los demonios del Edén cumple...
Dreamland
The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Winner of the NBCC Award for General Nonfiction
Named on Amazon's Best Books of the Year 2015--Michael Botticelli, U.S. Drug Czar (Politico) Favorite Book of the Year--Angus Deaton, Nobel Prize Economics (Bloomberg/WSJ) Best Books of 2015--Matt Bevin, Governor of Kentucky (WSJ) Books of the...
First Available Cell
Desegregation of the Texas Prison System
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Decades after the U.S. Supreme Court and certain governmental actions struck down racial segregation in the larger society, American prison administrators still boldly adhered to discriminatory practices. Not until 1975 did legislation prohibit racial segregation and discrimination in Texas prisons....
by Vincent Bugliosi, Curt Gentry
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2001
"[A] social document of rare importance."—The New Republic
Prosecuting attorney in the Manson trial, Vincent Bugliosi held a unique insider's position in one of the most baffling and horrifying cases of the twentieth century: the cold-blooded Tate-LaBianca murders carried out by Charles Manson...
Starvation Heights
A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2005
In this true story—a haunting saga of medical murder set in an era of steamships and gaslights—Gregg Olsen reveals one of the most unusual and disturbing criminal cases in American history.
In 1911 two wealthy British heiresses, Claire and Dora Williamson, arrived at a sanitorium in the...
by Daniel P. Mears, Joshua C. Cochran
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
***Understanding and Improving Prisoner Reentry Outcomes ** *
Prisoner Reentry is an engaging and comprehensive examination of prisoner reentry and how to improve public safety, well-being, and justice in the “era of mass incarceration.” Renowned authors Daniel P. Mears and Joshua C....
The Black Hand
The Story of Rene "Boxer" Enriquez and His Life in the Mexican Mafia
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
THE BLACK HAND is the true story of Rene Enriquez, aka "Boxer," and his rise in a secret criminal organization, a new Mafia, that already has a grip on all organized crime in California and soon all of the United States. This Mafia is using a base army of an estimated 60,000 heavily armed,...
Confessions of an Undercover Agent
Adventures, Close Calls, and the Toll of a Double Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
This true story of an ex-Marine who fought crime as an undercover cop, a narcotics agent, and finally a federal prosecutor spans a decade of crime fighting and narrow escapes. Charlie Spillers dealt with a remarkable variety of career criminals, including heroin traffickers, safecrackers, burglars,...
Savage Spawn
Reflections on Violent Children
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003
This thought-provoking and timely book from a #1 New York Times bestselling novelist and noted child psychologist reveals the factors that often lead to explosive and shocking juvenile violence.
“Ethically and morally, kids are works in progress. Throw in psychopathy and you’ve got a soul...
by Anabel Hernández
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 28, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 28, 2014
Los señores del narco es una descarnada crónica sobre las alarmantes complicidades de los altos círculos políticos, policiacos, militares y empresariales con el crimen organizado.
Premio Freedom of Speech 2019 por Deutsche Welle.
Esta segunda edición de Los señores del narco, revisada...
by RJ Parker
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
At any given time in the United States alone, there are thirty to fifty unidentified active serial killers at work constantly changing their targets and methods; however, some authorities think that number is even much higher.
"Unsolved Serial Killings by RJ Parker is a fascinating glimpse...