Crimes Criminals category: 7162 books
破案神探二部曲：犯罪是天生邪惡還是後天塑造？ FBI 探員側寫連續殺人魔
JOURNEY INTO DARKNESS : Follow The Fbi's Premier Investigative Profiler As He Penetrates The Minds And Motives Of The Most Terrifying Serial Criminals
Language: Chinese
Release Date: September 22, 2017
犯罪是天生邪惡還是後天塑造？
在心靈被黑暗覆蓋之前，他曾是我們之中的一份子……
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「我不知道她會是誰， 但我已準備好要殺人。...
Ontario Murders
Mysteries, Scandals, and Dangerous Criminals
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
"From an early age, lying came easily to her. Everything she did was a performance, a role she played to create an illusion." - From the story of Evelyn Dick. Six chilling stories of notorious Ontario murders are recounted in this spine-tingling collection. From the pretty but dangerous...
by Philip Gourevitch
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2002
A tale of crime and punishment from a prizewinning writer.
A few years ago, Andy Rosenzweig, an inspector for the Manhattan District Attorney's office, was abruptly reminded of an old, unsolved double homicide. It bothered him that Frankie Koehler, the notoriously dangerous suspect, had eluded...
Monkey House Blues
A Shanghai Prison Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
In 1993, Dominic Stevenson left a comfortable life with his girlfriend in Kyoto, Japan, to travel to China. His journey took him to some of the most inhospitable and dangerous places in the world, from the poppy fields of the Afghan-Pakistan border to the ancient trade routes of the Silk Road, before...
by Stephen G. Michaud & Hugh Aynesworth
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
Of all the infamous serial killers of the past two decades, Ted Bundy stands out as unique. Before he burst into the public consciousness, most people assumed that anyone capable of homicides heinous as the ones he committed had to be easily identifiable. As Bob Dekle, one of Bundys prosecutors, put...
The Crime Fighter
Putting the Bad Guys Out of Business
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
Former NYPD Deputy Commissioner Jack Maple was a man in a bow tie and homburg--he was also on a mission to revolutionize the way crime is fought: how cops go after crooks, and how they prevent crime in the first place. And he succeeded.
But Maple is not satisfied. In The Crime Fighter, he shows...
Crime and Racial Constructions
Cultural Misinformation about African Americans in Media and Academia
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
Crime and Racial Constructions: Cultural Misinformation about African Americans in Media and Academia focuses on how film images of dangerous, hedonistic blacks have assumed greater significance since blacks protested racial injustice during the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Power Movement of...
Deconstructing Organized Crime
An Historical and Theoretical Study
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
What is organized crime? There have been many answers over the decades from scholars, governments, the media, pop culture and criminals themselves. These answers cumulatively created a “Mafia Mystique” that dominated discourse until after the Cold War, when transnational organized crime emerged...
by David Meyers, Elise Meyers Walker, James Dailey II
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
As "animal factories" go, the Ohio Penitentiary was one of the worst. For 150 years, it housed some of the most dangerous criminals in the United States, including murderers, madmen and mobsters. Peer in on America's first vampire, accused of sucking his victims' blood five years before Bram Stoker's...
by Misha Glenny
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2008
Misha Glenny's groundbreaking study of global organized crime is now the inspiration for an 8-part AMC crime drama starring James Norton (War and Peace), Juliet Rylance, and David Strathairn.
With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the deregulation of international...
Mr. Smith Goes to Prison
What My Year Behind Bars Taught Me About America's Prison Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
The fall from politico to prisoner isn't necessarily long, but the landing, as Missouri State Senator Jeff Smith learned, is a hard one.
In 2009, Smith pleaded guilty to a seemingly minor charge of campaign malfeasance and earned himself a year and one day in Kentucky's FCI Manchester. Mr....
Murder in Minnesota
A Collection of True Cases
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
"My investigation of Minnesota murders over the years revealed no new motives for killing anyone. The old ones are perfectly satisfactory. . . . I hope you will find these murders interesting. I regret that I could not report the most ingenious and remarkable ones. They looked like accidents...
by Randall Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
In this powerfully reasoned, lucidly written work, Harvard Law Professor Randall Kennedy takes on the highly complex issues of race, crime, and the legal system, uncovering the long-standing failure of the justice system to protect blacks from criminals and revealing difficult truths about these factors in the United States.
The Criminal Brain, Second Edition
Understanding Biological Theories of Crime
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
A lively, up-to-date overview of the newest research in biosocial criminology
What is the relationship between criminality and biology? Nineteenth-century phrenologists insisted that criminality was innate, inherent in the offender’s brain matter. While they were eventually repudiated as...