Crimes Criminals category: 7162 books
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Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
The Italian criminologist Cesare Lombroso (1835 – 1909) is the single-most important figure in the founding of criminology and the study of aberrant conduct in the human sciences.
The Cesare Lombroso Handbook brings together essays by leading Lombroso scholars and is divided into four main...
Prosecution Complex
America's Race to Convict and Its Impact on the Innocent
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
American prosecutors are asked to play two roles within the criminal justice system: they are supposed to be ministers of justice whose only goals are to ensure fair trials, whatever the outcomes of those trials might be—and they are also advocates of the government whose success rates are measured...
by Wayne Ryan
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
There’s no question that law enforcement officers are under intense scrutiny. In high-profile Canadian cases like Robert Dziekanski and Willie Pickton, police are blamed by a critical public and the media for everything from excessive use of force to allowing criminals to get away with murder. In Souls...
Police
Streetcorner Politicians
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
"This book . . . examines the problem of police corruption . . . in such a way that the stereotype of the crude, greedy cop who is basically a grown-up delinquent, if not an out-and-out robber, yields to portraits of particular men, often of earnest good will and even more than ordinary compassion,...
The Criminal's Handbook
A Practical Guide to Surviving Arrest and Incarceration in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
The Criminals Handbook is an unflinching and practical documentthat delivers important survival techniques for anyone unfortunateenough to be arrested, tried, and incarcerated in Canada.Each year almost a quarter of a million adult Canadians areadmitted into some form of custody. If you or someone you...
The House of the Dead
Siberian Exile Under the Tsars
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Winner of the Cundill History Prize
The House of the Dead tells the incredible hundred-year-long story of “the vast prison without a roof” that was Russia’s Siberian penal colony. From the beginning of the nineteenth century until the Russian Revolution, the tsars exiled more than a million...
Criminal Capital
How the Finance Industry Facilitates Crime
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
Criminal Capital is an engaging but authoritative account of how financial structures and products can and are being used to evade proper scrutiny and enable criminal activity and what can be done about it. Based on the analysis of the financial methods that are frequently used by criminals, it deals with the widespread abuse of financial systems.
Killing Goldfinger
The Secret, Bullet-Riddled Life and Death of Britain's Gangster Number One
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
KILLING GOLDFINGER charts the extraordinary rise and spectacular bullet-riddled fall of John Palmer, the richest, most powerful criminal ever to have emerged from the modern British underworld. During the late 1990s, Palmer was rated as rich as The Queen by the Sunday Times Rich List.
Palmer...
by Reg Kray
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
Reg Kray is one of Britain's most notorious criminals. Together with his brother Ron, he rose through the ranks of London's East End gangland to run an evil empire of vice and villainy. But, after half a lifetime behind bars, Reg wants to set the record straight. Here, in his own words, is the true...
Dock Boss
Eddie McGrath and the West Side Waterfront
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2017
At a time when New York City’s booming waterfront industry was ruled by lawless criminals, one gangster towered above the rest and secretly controlled the docks for over thirty years. Dock Boss: The Story of Eddie McGrath and the West Side Waterfront explores the rise of Eddie McGrath from a Depression...
The Hoods
Crime and Punishment in Belfast
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010
A distinctive feature of the conflict in Northern Ireland over the past forty years has been the way Catholic and Protestant paramilitaries have policed their own communities. This has mainly involved the violent punishment of petty criminals involved in joyriding and other types of antisocial behavior....
by Jennie-Leigh McLamb, MS in security management
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Keeping Religious Institutions Secure explores the unique vulnerabilities that churches, synagogues, and mosques face in regards to security, making them attractive to criminals who see them as easy targets.
The text illustrates why all places of worship should think about security and the...
Murder on the Rails
The True Story of the Detective Who Unlocked the Shocking Secrets of the Boxcar Serial Killer
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
When a down-on-his-luck Vietnam veteran is bludgeoned and stabbed to death in his campsite close to a railroad crossing, Detective Sergeant Bill Palmini has a gut feeling that this is just the tip of the iceberg. Taking command, he swiftly embeds a trusted informant into the shadowy subculture of rail...
Hard Cases – True Stories of Irish Crime
Profiling Ireland’s Murderers, Kidnappers and Thugs
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2005
From crime to verdict, award-winning journalist Gene Kerrigan tells the brutal stories of some of Ireland’s most notorious murders, kidnappings and violent attacks
Hard Cases is a collection of startling stories about the reality of crime and court cases in Ireland. In these stories, there...