Crimes Criminals category: 7162 books
Through the Eyes of Serial Killers
Interviews with Seven Murderers
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2015
Journalist Nadia Fezzani spent years probing the minds of serial killers in search of answers to unsettling questions: What went on in their heads as they prepared for their next crime? What drove them to murder not once, but habitually? Were they born killers, or had they begun as normal individuals...
by Carol Anne Davis
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
All of these men and women were in good professions… and all of them were hiding dark secrets.
Why do outwardly normal people commit horrendous crimes? In this collection of incisive profiles, veteran crime writer Carol Anne Davis turns the spotlight on men and women from respectable backgrounds...
Killing on Command
The Defence of Superior Orders in Modern Combat
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
This book explores the unique social and environmental factors which influence soldiers to commit war crimes. With a focus on decision-making processes, this monograph provides a significant interdisciplinary analysis of how soldiers decide to follow the commands of their superior officers, even if...
Security, Democracy and War Crimes
Security Sector Transformation in Serbia
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
This book examines how the war crime legacy resulting from the Yugoslav war of the 1990s on political and military transformation in Serbia was an impediment to security reform, democratization and the achievement of Western standards in the Belgrade armed forces.
Hate Crimes
The Rising Tide of Bigotry and Bloodshed
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2013
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Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
This two-volume work offers a comprehensive examination of the distressing topics of transnational crime and the implications for global security.
• Represents global collaboration among contributors including scholars from respected universities in Europe, North America, and Australia; professionals...
Death on the Fourth of July
The Story of a Killing, a Trial, and Hate Crime in America
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
On July 4, 2000, three young Asian American men visiting the small town of Ocean Shores, Washington, were attacked by a group of skinheads in the parking lot of a Texaco station. Threats and slurs gave way to violence and, ultimately, a fatal stabbing. But this tragedy culminated with a twist. A young...
by Loren Abbey, Pamela Zibura
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
In 1952 on a highway in the small Northern California mountain village of Chester, a local businessman and four small children are carjacked, robbed and savagely bludgeoned. Three of the children are killed.
A year earlier, a Folsom gold mine operator had been murdered in a home break-in robbery...
by Jolene Dean
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
He appeared to be a normal individual who didn’t harbor any murderous tendencies, but the mother of one of his hockey buddies soon learned this was untrue. William’s murderous ways began in 1979 with Hazel Scattolon, but it wouldn’t be until the late nineties that he was finally arrested and...
The Violence of Hate
Understanding Harmful Forms of Bias and Bigotry
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
The Violence of Hate, Fourth Edition presents a systematic introduction to issues related to the sociology and social psychology of hate and violence as they target people who are different in socially significant ways. It offers an integrated perspective on the causes and consequences of hate-motivated...
UN Peacekeeping in Africa
A Critical Examination and Recommendations for Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
This timely volume explores the “dark side” of United Nations (UN) Peacekeeping in Africa: when rather than help establish a rule of law in the host country, they become perpetrators of crime. The work of the UN peacekeepers is generally comprised of police and military personnel, from countries...
Exploring Green Criminology
Toward a Green Criminological Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Few criminologists have drawn attention to the fact that widespread and significant forms of harm such as green or environmental crimes are neglected by criminology. Others have suggested that green crimes present the most important challenge to criminology as a discipline. This book argues that criminology...
by Eric Carlton
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2011
How is crime to be defined? Can crime be medicalized? Can crime be explained or even excused in terms of biological or environmental conditions? Can punishment ever fit the crime? And should punishment be primarily reformative or retributive? This book is not an attempt at a kind of literary CSI and...
by Karen Terry
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of criminology find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data...