Crimes Criminals category: 7162 books
Unsolved
True Canadian Cold Cases
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2010
Despite advances in DNA testing, forensics, and the investigative skills used by police, hundreds of crimes remain unsolved across Canada. With every passing day trails grow colder and decades can pass before a new lead or witness comes forward if one comes forward.
In Unsolved, Robert J. Hoshowsky...
The Casebook of Forensic Detection
How Science Solved 100 of the World's Most Baffling Crimes
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
“Brilliant and persistent scientific work that brought murderers like John List, Ted Bundy, and Jeffrey MacDonald to justice.”—Publishers Weekly
“Landmarks of forensic science [that] are representative of the evolution of the discipline and its increasingly prominent role in crime solving.”—Library...
Black Dahlia Avenger II
Presenting the Follow-Up Investigation and Further Evidence Linking Dr. George Hill Hodel to Los Angeles' Black Dahlia and Other 1940s Lone Woman Murders
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
SEQUEL TO NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER BLACK DAHLIA AVENGER
Five New Investigative Chapters added to this 2014 edition: Chapter 23-LAPD Historical Society—The New Evidence Chapter 24-Odor Mortis—The Smell of Death Chapter 25-The KMEX-Univision Interviews Chapter 26-Murder as a Fine...
by Gordon Honeycombe
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
'EXCELLENT WRITING AND RESEARCH' - RUTH RENDELLThe Crime Museum of New Scotland Yard - invariably known as 'the Black Museum' - houses a remarkable collection of exhibits, photographs and documents connected with some of the most notorious crimes in this country's history. Although the museum is closed...
by Kate Kray
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2007
In this, the first book of its kind, Kate Kray, who married gangster Ronnie Kray, peers into the minds of the top twenty worst killers in criminal history and, sparing no detail, reveals the awful truth of their abominable acts. The extreme nature of their violence and their shocking lack of remorse...
The Man in the Monster
Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
An astonishing portrait of a murderer and his complex relationship with a crusading journalist
Michael Ross was a serial killer who raped and murdered eight young women between 1981 and 1984, and several years ago the state of Connecticut put him to death. His crimes were horrific, and he paid...
Sexual Offending
A Criminological Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
There is growing recognition that sexual offending is a multi-determined phenomenon requiring a multi-disciplinary perspective. The significant contribution of psychology and psychiatry, but also sociology, gender studies and anthropology to the study of sex offending and perpetrators of sex offenses...
Get a Job
Labor Markets, Economic Opportunity, and Crime
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
Are the unemployed more likely to commit crimes? Does having a job make one less likely to commit a crime? Criminologists have found that individuals who are marginalized from the labor market are more likely to commit crimes, and communities with more members who are marginal to the labor market...
Introduction to Criminology
Why Do They Do It?
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
Introduction to Criminology, Why Do They Do It?, Second Edition, by Pamela J. Schram Stephen G. Tibbetts, offers a contemporary and integrated discussion of the key theories that help us understand crime in the 21st century. With a focus on why offenders commit crimes, this bestseller skillfully...
Green Harms and Crimes
Critical Criminology in a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
The book presents discussions of the application of Stan Cohen's theories alongside empirical contributions in the fields of critical and green criminology. Taken together, the authors critically address harms and crimes against the environment, as well as against human and nonhuman victims.
by R. Barri Flowers
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
From R. Barri Flowers, award-winning criminologist and bestselling author of Murder During the Chicago World’s Fair, Murder at the Pencil Factory, and Murder of the Banker’s Daughter, comes the riveting historical true crime short, Murder of the Doctor’s Wife: The 1867 Crimes of Bridget Durgan.On...
Transnational Environmental Crime
Toward an Eco-global Criminology
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2018
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to and overview of eco-global criminology. Eco-global criminology refers to a criminological approach that is informed by ecological considerations and by a critical analysis that is global in scale and perspective. Based upon eco-justice conceptions...
Overkill
(Arizona, Colorado, Utah, Notorious USA)
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
New York Times bestselling authors Gregg Olsen and Rebecca Morris take a new look at some of the country’s most notorious crimes. Overkill is a compilation of Notorious Colorado, Notorious Arizona and Notorious Utah.
Colorado’s edition includes three of the country’s most infamous...
by Richard Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2011
The crimes attributed to Jack the Ripper have gone unsolved for over 120 years. No one who has attempted to solve them has succeeded, either due to the passage of time, lack of evidence, inconsistent facts, or faulty analysis. One of the weaknesses of those many works has been the inability to identify...