Criminology category: 4273 books
Stalkers
Disturbing True-Life Stories of Harassment, Jealousy and Obsession
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
From shadowy online stalkers to jealous ex-lovers, from obsessed fans to crazed and dangerous criminals, this book probes the innermost instincts of the perpetrators involved in each of these terrifying crimes. Based on revealing interviews with policemen, psychiatrists, and doctors, as well as the...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2008
A chilling catalog of the men and women who have paid the ultimate price for their crimes
The death penalty is one of the most hotly contested and longest-standing issues in American politics, and no place is more symbolic of that debate than Texas. Since the reinstatement of the death penalty...
Murder on a Lonely Road
A Beauty Queen, a Privileged Killer, and a Twenty-Five Year Search for Justice
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
A brutal murder that shocked residents of Missouri—and a killer it took 25 years to bring to justice...
On June 17, 1985, twenty-year-old beauty pageant winner Jackie Johns's car was found abandoned, the interior drenched in blood. Four days later, her bludgeoned, nude body was found floating...
Somebody's Daughter
The Hidden Story of America's Prostituted Children and the Battle to Save Them
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
They are America’s forgotten children, the hundreds of thousands of child prostitutes who walk the Las Vegas Strip, the casinos of Atlantic City, the truck stops on interstates, and the street corners of our cities. Many people wrongly believe sex trafficking involves young women from foreign lands....
Changing Lenses
A New Focus for Crime and Justice
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
Crime victims have many needs, most of which our criminal justice system ignores. In fact, the justice system often increases the injury. Offenders are less ignored by this system, but their real needsfor accountability, for closure, for healingare also left unaddressed.Such failures are not...
A Punitive Society
Falling Crime and Rising Imprisonment in New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
New Zealand has one of the highest levels of imprisonment in the Western world. Yet the growth of imprisonment in New Zealand has occurred when the crime rate here, as in most other Western societies, has been in significant decline. Why, then, the disjuncture?
In this penetrating BWB Text,...
by Kate Kray
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2003
When Kate married gangster Ronnie Kray he introduced her to some of the most feared criminals Britain has ever known. She persuaded them to open their hearts to her and talk about their crimes, fears and dreams.Featured in this book are such killers as John Straffen, Britain's longest-serving lifer....
Nineteenth-Century Female Poisoners
Three English Women Who Used Arsenic to Kill
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
Nineteenth-Century Female Poisoners investigates the Essex poisoning trials of 1846 to 1851 where three women were charged with using arsenic to kill children, their husbands and brothers. Using newspapers, archival sources (including petitions and witness depositions), and records from parliamentary...
The Politics of Police Detention in Japan
Consensus of Convenience
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Filling a huge vacuum of scholarship on the Japanese criminal justice system, The Politics of Police Detention in Japan: Consensus of Convenience shines a spotlight on the remand procedure for criminal suspects in Japan, where the 23-day duration for which individuals can be held in police custody...
Crime and the Rise of Modern America
A History from 1865–1941
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011
In Crime and the Rise of Modern America, Kristofer Allerfeldt studies the crimes, criminals, and law enforcement that contributed to a uniquely American system of crime and punishment from the end of the Civil War to the eve of World War II to understand how the rapidly-changing technology of transportation,...
True Stories of Law & Order
The Real Crimes Behind the Best Episodes of the Hit TV Show
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2006
True Stories of Law & Order reveals the fascinating and shocking facts behind 25 of the hit show's most popular episodes - from the incredible account of how a woman's repressed memory leads to the solving of a 30-year-old cold case to the high-profile investigation of tranvestite millionaire...
Law & Disorder:
Inside the Dark Heart of Murder
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
"Fascinating." --Douglas Preston
John Douglas is. . .
"The FBI's pioneer and master of investigative profiling." –Patricia Cornwell
"At his best describing terrible crimes." –Houston Chronicle
"A real genius." –Entertainment...
Between Good and Evil
A Master Profiler's Hunt for Society's Most Violent Predators
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
He was a pioneer in modern law enforcement, a trailblazing leader in the hunt for serial killers. But after decades of staring deep into the darkness, he entered a seminary to search for the good... BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL No one gets closer to evil than a criminal profiler, trained to penetrate the...
by Wensley Clarkson
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2006
Half-a-million Brits reside full-time in the Costa Del Sol, drawn by the good weather and easy lifestyle. Among them are the drug barons, hookers, gigolos, pimps, con-men, fraudsters, killers, gangsters, drag queens and swingers who underpin the economy of the continent's most outrageous hotspot.'You...