Crimes Criminals category: 7162 books
The World of Crime
Breaking the Silence on Problems of Security, Justice and Development Across the World
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2007
*"This book is important for students who want to put domestic crime and justice issues and criminological theories in an international perspective....It is more than likely that this book will also interest all those who are professionally or privately interested in issues of crime, corruption,...
by Ronald Clarke, John E. Eck
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Crime analysis has become an increasingly important part of policing and crime prevention, and thousands of specialist crime analysts are now employed by police forces worldwide. This is the first book to set out the principles and practice of crime analysis, and is designed to be used both by crime...
by Joanna Jamel
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2017
This book uniquely combines a critical examination of the extent and diversity of transphobic hate crime together with a consideration of the victims and offenders. Trans people are marginalised in society and already negotiate complex physical and emotional challenges in order to live authentically...
by John Walliss
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
This book is a comparative quantitative analysis of the administration of justice across four English and three Welsh counties between 1760 and 1830. Drawing on a dataset of over 22,000 indictments, the book explores the similarities and differences between how the so-called Bloody Code was administered...
When Women Kill
Questions of Agency and Subjectivity
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2003
Why are we so reluctant to believe that women can mean to kill? Based on case-studies from the US, UK and Australia, this book looks at the ways in which female killers are constructed in the media, in law and in feminist discourse almost invariably as victims rather than actors in the crimes they...
Silent Rage
Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2014
—Inside the mind of one of the nation’s most feared thrill killers—
“Silent Rage” is the shocking true history of serial killer Carroll Edward “Eddie” Cole. Raised by an abusive mother and weak father, Cole accomplished his first murder before he was ten years old. He went on...
by Gary Paul Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2017
The “Mudman of Sheridan” is based on a true series of over 50 crimes against women occurring in Shaker Heights, Ohio, between 1974 and 1981, which the author investigated while a police officer there. With an underlying theme of child abuse, the story is filled with suspense, violence, love, humor,...
Supporting victims of hate crime
A practitioner guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
This practical guide provides user-friendly, concise, expert and up-to-date guidance for both new and experienced hate crime caseworkers and advocates (whether professional or volunteers). Filling a gap in the growing debates and research literature on hate crime, it takes as its starting point a...
Ailanthus
Nightmares and Crimes
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
After the De Sena case, Stacie Scott has to solve an intricate murder case with her loyal Frank Berrimow. Stacie will have to deal with her herself and recover soon from her love affair with Sam.
A brutal killer upsets the streets of New York with a series of crimes that bring turmoil to the police...
by David A. Jenks, John Randolph Fuller
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Global Crime and Justice offers a truly transnational examination of both deviance and social controls around the world. Unlike comparative textbooks detailing the criminal justice systems of a few select nations, or cataloging types of international crimes that span multiple legal jurisdictions,...
Dealing with Crime by Illegal Immigrants and the Opioid Crisis
What to Do about the Two Big Social and Criminal Justice Issues of Today
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2018
Dealing with Crime by Illegal Immigrants and the Opioid Crisis is based on a blog series I wrote for the website of my company American Leadership Books (www.americanleadershipbooks.com). The book features chapters on these topics:
- how illegal immigrants really do commit...
High-Technology Crime Investigator's Handbook
Establishing and Managing a High-Technology Crime Prevention Program
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
The high-technology crime investigator's profession is one of the fastest growing professions in the world today, as information security issues and crimes related to them are growing in number and magnitude at an ever-increasing pace. High-Technology Crime Investigator's Handbook, Second Edition,...
by William Roughead
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
Within lie twelve vintage tales of true crime by master essayist William Roughead. Henry James himself once urged Roughead: “Keep on with them all please, and continue to beckon me along the gallery that I can’t tread alone and where, by your leave, I link my arm fraternally in yours: the gallery...
Sexual Victimization
Then and Now
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Sexual Victimization: Then and Now provides scholars easy access to information that specifically examines the continuum of sex crimes and the perception of victims by our criminal justice system and society as a whole. This text features contributions from well-known researchers in the field and...