Crimes Criminals category: 7162 books
Digital Criminology
Crime and Justice in Digital Society
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
The infusion of digital technology into contemporary society has had significant effects for everyday life and for everyday crimes. Digital Criminology: Crime and Justice in Digital Society is the first interdisciplinary scholarly investigation extending beyond traditional topics of cybercrime, policing...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
First published in 1981. In the last few decades, interest in the study of crimes by women has increased. This interest has coincided with the accelerated momentum of the feminist movement and has led to claims that a rising female crime rate is somehow linked with the changing status of women. But...
Historical Pollution
Comparative Legal Responses to Environmental Crimes
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2017
This volume examines legal matters regarding the prevention and fighting of historical pollution caused by industrial emissions. "Historical pollution" refers to the long-term or delayed onset effects of environmental crimes such as groundwater or soil pollution.
Historical Pollution...
Darkest Hour
Not All That Is Buried Stays Buried Forever
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2017
I could say that some crimes see the light of day after years of their being committed. This is one of those crimes. The Murder of Police Officer Christopher Todd Horner, and the Mysterious and Vexing events that lead to the arrest and apprehension of four men. Officer Horner was on duty, alone...
Crime in the Art and Antiquities World
Illegal Trafficking in Cultural Property
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2011
The theft, trafficking, and falsification of cultural property and cultural heritage objects are crimes of a particularly complex nature, which often have international ramifications and significant economic consequences. Organized criminal groups of various types and origins are involved in these...
by R. Michael Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2015
The Thames Torso Murders have been overshadowed by Jack the Ripper and his crimes, but were just as brutal and gruesome. They began in 1887 in London’s East End, just north of the Thames River in Rainham, England. The killer took one victim that year, another in 1888, and two more in 1889. He resumed...
A Visual Approach for Green Criminology
Exploring the Social Perception of Environmental Harm
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
This book brings the visual dimension of environmental crimes and harms into the field of green criminology. It shows how photographic images can provide a means for eliciting narratives from people who live in polluted areas – describing in detail and from their point of view what they know, think...
by Fiona Brookman, Mike Maguire, Harriet Pierpoint
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
The Handbook on Crime is a comprehensive edited volume that contains analysis and explanation of the nature, extent, patterns and causes of over 40 different forms of crime, in each case drawing attention to key contemporary debates and social and criminal justice responses to them. It also challenges...
True Crime Stories: The Worlds Most Dangerous Killers: Serial Killers Evil True Crime Stories
True Crime Stories, #2
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
As a society, we are fascinated by crime. It is something that dominates our interest, given the high viewership and ratings for shows such as Law & Order and Criminal Minds. We remain highly interested not only in the way the crime is committed, and then solved, but also in the psyche of the...
Cherche meurtrier chaussant du 45
... et autres crimes oubliés
Language: French
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Cette série de six articles publiée dans les pages du journal "Sud Ouest Dimanche" au cours de l'été 2015 offre le récit d'autant de crimes oubliés... et qui ne le sont plus tout à fait pour certains. Ainsi de la révélation, quelques semaines après la publication de notre enquête,...
by Buzzy Martin
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
This is the story of lifelong musician Buzzy Martin, music teacher to the hardened criminals inside the walls of San Quentin Prison-and what he learned, note by incredible note.
A Little Piece of Light
A Memoir of Hope, Prison, and a Life Unbound
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Random Family meets Orange Is the New Black in A Little Piece of Light, a memoir of survival, redemption, hope, and sisterhood from a bold new voice on the front lines of the criminal justice reform movement.
Like so many women before her and so many women yet to come, Donna Hylton's early...
Industry of Anonymity
Inside the Business of Cybercrime
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
Jonathan Lusthaus lifts the veil on cybercriminals in the most extensive account yet of the lives they lead and the vast international industry they have created. Having traveled to hotspots around the world to meet with hundreds of law enforcement agents, security gurus, hackers, and criminals, he charts how this industry based on anonymity works.
Newgate
London's Prototype of Hell
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2007
There have been more prisons in London than in any other European city. Of these, Newgate was the largest, most notorious, and worst. Built during the 12th century, it became a legendary place—the inspiration of more poems, plays, and novels than any other building in London. It was a place of cruelty...