Criminology category: 4273 books
by J. Anne Funderburg
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
This work is an accurate, wide-ranging, and entertaining account of the illegal liquor traffic during the Prohibition Era (1920 to 1933). Based on FBI files, legal documents, old newspapers and other sources, it offers a coast-to-coast survey of Volstead crime—outrageous stories of America’s most...
Hostages
Dramatic Accounts of Real-Life Events
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2011
On 1 September 2004, a group of terrorists disguised as repairmen infiltrated a school in Beslan, Russia. Using concealed weapons they took 1100 children and adults hostage. The world looked on aghast as the siege played out on live TV. Hostages tells the incredible and often harrowing stories surrounding...
Snipers and Shooters
The Kill Shot Out of Nowhere
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2011
The art of murder knows many forms, but few more harrowing than murder for reasons of ritual or the supernatural. Supposedly serving a higher cause, they are often little more than acts of self-gratifying blood-lust. Voodoo Killers chronicles the disturbing history of ritualistic killing around the...
Devil Incarnate
A Depraved Mercenary's Lifelong Swathe of Destruction
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
Athol Visser, or 'Ivan the Terrible', is a ruthless torture technician who has maimed and murdered his way around the globe. He killed his first victim at 16, his last at 60, and, in between, has been a mercenary, drug smuggler, gun runner and spy.
In his own words, Visser takes us on a chilling...
by Henry Joly
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
“ Qu’est-ce que l’assistance ? C’est l’ensemble des secours divers par lesquels une société essaie de seconder la bonne volonté des gens en suppléant à l’insuffisance de leurs moyens, là où ils ont à se procurer le nécessaire. Qu’est-ce que la répression ? C’est l’ensemble...
by Henry Joly
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
“ La vie de M. Bérenger a été longue, « si toutefois, comme dit le poète, il y a quelque chose de long dans ce qui est mortel. » En tout cas, il représente une époque dont les malheurs, les aspirations, les efforts et les regrets, dont les beaux exemples aussi donnés au monde tout entier,...
by Tom Hofmann
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
At the conclusion of World War II, war crimes tribunals were carried out at Nuremberg, Germany. Justice was meted out for major war criminals, and Benjamin Ferencz was chief prosecutor for what the Associated Press said was the largest murder trial in history. This biography of the last living Nuremberg...
Summary of Orange Is the New Black
by Piper Kerman | Includes Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Summary of Orange Is the New Black by Piper Kerman | Includes Analysis Preview: Preview of the earlier Chapters: Chapter 1 In 1993, twenty-four year old Piper Kerman was at the Brussels airport, waiting for her suitcase after arriving from Chicago...
by Linda Fairstein
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Crime expert Linda Fairstein reveals the surprising locations where women are most vulnerable to attacks, and what they can do to stay safe
Leaving work, riding in a taxi, even sitting in the comfort of one’s own home, these places are linked by one harrowing feature: They are where women...
Fifty Years After Kitty Genovese
Inside the Case That Rocked Our Faith in Each Other
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
An investigator in the infamous New York murder looks back on the Kitty Genovese case and examines its enduring legacy.
Fifty years after she was viciously attacked in Kew Gardens, Queens, the name of murder victim Kitty Genovese still conjures the ugly specter of American apathy. “37 Saw...
by Linda Fairstein
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Legal expert Linda Fairstein’s guide to protecting your home—and yourself—from violent crime
Though we often consider them to be safe havens, at least a quarter of all violent crimes occur in our homes. Regardless of the neighborhood, an open window or unlocked door can be all the invitation...
Wasting More Police Time
Further Adventures in La-La Land
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2013
The long-awaited follow-up to the bestselling Wasting Police Time.
Wasting More Police Time takes readers back to the front line of British policing for more fascinating stories and insights.
PC David Copperfield was widely praised for the first book, which lifted the lid on bureaucracy,...
Deadly Beat
Inside the Royal Ulster Constabulary
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
'You go to work and you might be shot dead. You imagine being horribly maimed in a bomb blast. You come home and wonder if you'll be shot at the door. You go to bed with a revolver on the bedside cabinet. At times you wonder if this is really part of the UK'
This was the world inhabited by...
Chasing Killers
Three Decades of Cracking Crime in the UK's Murder Capital
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
Glasgow is known as the murder capital of Britain and no one understands why better than Joe Jackson. For over 30 years, Jackson worked the crime beat, first as a uniformed cop then as a seasoned murder squad detective. In this hard-hitting memoir of his most memorable cases, he reveals the reality...