Crimes Criminals category: 7162 books
Crime & Punishment
Offenders and Victims in a Broken Justice System
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015
If the goal of our justice system is to reduce crime and create a safer society, then we must do better.
According to conventional wisdom, severely punishing offenders reduces the likelihood that they’ll offend again. Why, then, do so many who go to prison continue to commit crimes after...
Unruly Women
The Politics of Confinement & Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
Winner of the VanCity Book Prize, Unruly Women: The Politics of Confinement & Resistance is the seminal book about women’s imprisonment that helped spark examinations around the world into the special circumstances women face in prison, as well as the sex and gender crimes that get them there....
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Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Although the issue of offender decision-making pervades almost every discussion of crime and law enforcement, only a few comprehensive texts cover and integrate information about the role of decision-making in crime. The Oxford Handbook of Offender Decision Making provide high-quality reviews of the...
True Storey
My Life and Crimes as a Football Hatchet Man
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
True Storey is the compelling autobiography of notorious 1970s football legend Peter Storey, dubbed 'the bastard's bastard', who gained a reputation for ultra-violence on the pitch and had a capacity to find even greater trouble off it - a fact borne out by a string of criminal convictions and several...
The Black Widower
The Life and Crimes of a Sociopathic Killer
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
He drugged his first wife and staged a fireball car crash, collecting a �200,000 insurance payout.
He cheated his second wife of her life savings and attempted to kill her in a copycat crash.
He faked cancer to dupe his third victim into a bigamous marriage, plotting her murder to...
Unsolved London Murders
The 1920s & 1930s
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2009
The real-life murder mysteries that rocked London between two world wars—from the author of Unsolved Murders of Victorian and Edwardian London.
Unsolved crimes have a special fascination, none more so than unsolved murders. The shock of the crime itself and the mystery surrounding it, the...
True Crime Serial Killers: Cannibal Killers: The Brutal Butchers That Killed And Ate With No Remorse
True Crime Serial Killers: Cannibal Killers: The Brutal Butchers That Killed And Ate With No Remorse
True Crime, #2
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
If you're honest, we see CCTV footage of worse crimes like harassment, theft, abuse, or murder. We know all those things; what we do not concern ourselves with is the fact that there are heinous crimes in our history which were almost impossible to believe. There are serial killers at large who not...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Workplace crimes are never far from the news. From major scandals like Enron to violent crimes committed by co-workers to petty theft of office supplies, deviant and criminal behavior is common in the workplace. Psychological factors are almost always involved when an employee engages in such behavior.
Deviant...
White-Collar Crime
An Opportunity Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
White-Collar Crime: An Opportunity Perspective analyzes white-collar crime within a coherent theoretical framework. Using the opportunity perspective, which assumes that all crimes depend on offenders recognizing an opportunity to commit an offense, the authors uncover the processes and situational...
by Sarah Burns
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
**A must-read after watching Ava DuVernay's When They See Us
In this spellbinding account of the real facts of the Central Park jogger case, Sarah Burns powerfully reexamines one of New York City's most notorious crimes and its aftermath.**
On April 20th, 1989, two passersby discovered...
School Massacres
True horror on a Kobo
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
There seems to be at least one high school shooting every year in America, where a lone gunman enters a school they attend and randomly opens fire on innocent students and teachers. One of the most prominent school shootings was that at Columbine High School, near Littleton, Colorado. On Tuesday,...
Murder in Boston
A Woman Murdered. A City Torn Apart. A Crime That Gripped a Nation. And That's Just the Beginning . . .
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
A shocking true story of crime, punishment, and injustice in a major American city.
Charles Stuart claimed it was a black man who carjacked him, shooting both himself and his wife, ending both her life and the life of their unborn child. The accusation and subsequent manhunt enflamed the long-simmering...
Bodies of Evidence
From the Case Files of Notorious USA Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Box Set - Notorious Washington, Oregon, and Idaho
WITH PHOTOS A New York Times bestseller by authors Gregg Olsen (“If Loving You Is Wrong,” “Starvation Heights”) and Rebecca Morris (“Ted and Ann – The Mystery of a Missing Child and Her Neighbor Ted Bundy”), authors of the upcoming...
Carolina Crimes
Case Files of a Forensic Photographer
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
A former forensic photographer leads readers through the twists and turns of twelve homicide cases that gripped South Carolina during her career.
Rita Y. Shuler’s fascination with the criminal mind began with her exposure as a young girl to a 1953 double-homicide that shocked South Carolina....