Crimes Criminals category: 7162 books
by Lonnie H Athens
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Lonnie H. Athens’ path-breaking work examines a problem that has baffled experts and the general public alike: How does a person become a predatory violent criminal?
In the original edition, the process that Athens labeled “violentization” encompassed four stages: brutalization, defiance,...
by Cesare Lombroso, Cesare Lombroso
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2006
Cesare Lombroso is widely considered the founder of criminology. His theory of the “born” criminal dominated European and American thinking about the causes of criminal behavior during the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth. This volume offers English-language readers the first critical,...
Explaining White-Collar Crime
The Concept of Convenience in Financial Crime Investigations
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
This book introduces 'convenience' as the key concept to explain financial crime by white-collar criminals. Based on a number of fraud examination- reports from the United States and Norway, the book documents empirical evidence of convenience among white-collar criminals. It advances our understanding...
Criminals in the Making
Criminality Across the Life Course
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
Why do individuals exposed to the same environment turn out so differently, with some engaging in crime and others abiding by societal rules and norms? Why are males involved in violent crime more often than females? And why do the precursors of serious pathological behavior typically emerge in childhood?...
Historic Columbus Crimes
Mama's in the Furnace, the Thing & More
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
A collection of true crime stories from the Ohio city, with photos included.
In Historic Columbus Crimes, a father-daughter research team looks back at sixteen tales of murder, mystery, and mayhem culled from city history, both the distant and the more recent past.
There’s the rock star slain...
Popular Crime
Reflections on the Celebration of Violence
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
The man who revolutionized the way we think about baseball now examines our cultural obsession with murder—delivering a unique, engrossing, brilliant history of tabloid crime in America.
Celebrated writer and contrarian Bill James has voraciously read true crime throughout his life and has...
Did They Really Do It?
From Lizzie Borden to the 20th Hijacker
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Nine of the most controversial violent crimes in America’s history are reexamined in these compelling stories of true crime
Dr. Samuel Mudd set John Wilkes Booth’s broken ankle, but was he actually part of the larger conspiracy to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln? Did Lizzie Borden...
by Edward Jay Epstein
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
One of America’s most acclaimed investigative journalists re-investigates some of the most notorious and mysterious crimes of the last 200 years
The beloved head of the UN dies in a tragic plane crash . . . witnesses unearthed years later suggest it wasn’t an accident. Theories behind the...
Case Files of the NYPD
More than 175 Years of Solved and Unsolved Crimes
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
"Characters galore, both good guys and gangsters, leap from the pages***" (The New York Times)*** in this irresistible, authentic look at 175 years of true crime cases from the NYPD archives, packed with photos, artifacts and expert revelations.
From atrocities that occurred before...
The Man from the Train
The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
An Edgar Award finalist for Best Fact Crime, this “impressive…open-eyed investigative inquiry wrapped within a cultural history of rural America” (The Wall Street Journal) shows legendary statistician and baseball writer Bill James applying his analytical acumen to crack an unsolved century-old...
LIFE Crimes of Passion
15 Stories of Love Gone Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
LIFE magazine presents stories of crimes of passion.
Murders of the Black Museum
The Dark Secrets Behind a Hundred Years of the Most Notorious Crimes in Britain
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
New Scotland Yard, the headquarters of London's Metropolitan Police, houses the notorious Black Museum, a unique collection of exhibits, photographs, and other items connected with some of the most famous crimes of the last century. Fifty of those crimes were murders and they are explored in detail...
by Marvin J. Wolf, Katherine Mader
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Los Angeles. The entertainment capital of the world. The city that movie director John Waters called “rich, hilarious, of questionable taste and throbbing with fake glamour.” In Fallen Angels, award-winning journalist Marvin Wolf and noted criminal justice attorney Katherine Mader take you beyond...
Truly Criminal
A Crime Writers' Association Anthology of True Crime
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
Real life crimes, famous and forgotten, re-examined by leading crime writersA superb collection of brand new and original essays about famous and obscure real life crimes, Truly Criminal showcases a group of highly regarded, award-winning writers who all share a special passion for crime. Among these...