Crimes Criminals category: 7162 books
Hustlers and Con Men
An Anecdotal History of the Confidence Man and His Games
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 1976
Jay Robert Nash takes you into the real and fascinating world of the criminal elite—the con man. Hustlers and Con Men is an entertaining look at the boldest, most sophisticated, most wildly imaginative criminals of the past 200 years, including the Gondorf brothers, Lou Blonger, Charles Ponzi,...
by Ty Treadwell
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2016
Brooke Rottiers used her bras and underwear to strangle two men to death, and even shoved a pair of panties down one man’s throat. Brittany Holberg couldn’t decide on the perfect murder weapon, so she used a butcher knife, a grapefruit knife, two forks, a hammer, a skillet, a steam iron, a space...
A Plague of Murder
The Rise and Rise of Serial Killing in the Modern Age
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
From the bestselling author of THE OUTSIDER Serial killers are the headline-grabbing criminals of the modern world. But despite extensive police investigations, court trials, and news stories, a complete map of the serial-killer mindset has proven elusive. This fascinating study by one of the world's...
Nasty, Brutish, and Short
The lives of gang members in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
An expert takes us inside the dark world of gangs in Canada.
Dr. Mark Totten has spent fifteen years learning all about these gangs and the young men and women who belong to them. He has interviewed over 500 gang members across the country, traced their lives from infancy to adulthood, and...
The Origins of Criminology
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
The Origins of Criminology: A Reader is a collection of nineteenth-century texts from the key originators of the practice of criminology – selected, introduced, and with commentaries by the leading scholar in this area, Nicole Rafter.
This book presents criminology as a unique field of study...
by Wharncliffe
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2007
Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in and Around Wigan is a detailed guide to the town's darker side, exploring, often in gory detail, Wigan's more sinister heritage, by examining accounts of murder and suspicious deaths from the middle ages through to the twentieth century. Victorian Wigan was a town...
by George F. Walker
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
New York City, 1928. Master thief Mac must join an FBI sting operation against a cadre of corrupt bankers. Music, murder, and mayhem ensue, both at the speakeasy where criminals scheme and on Wall Street where financiers conspire. This satirical play with songs exposes the world of corporate crime...
by Christopher Berry-Dee, Steven Morris
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2008
The internet has become an integral part of everyone's life - and that also goes for the worst criminals. Sex, drugs and terrorism have found new outlets. Organised gangs and sinister individuals are even now working their evil in the privacy of their own bedrooms.Come on a terrifying journey into...
Without a Body
Forensic Investigations When There's Not a Lot Left
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
Criminals have known for a long time that it’s not enough to move a victim’s body; the evidence is still there and can still be used in court against them. Only the absolute erasure of the victim from the face of the earth helps a killer escape justice, and so for as long as there have been killers,...
The Numbers Behind NUMB3RS
Solving Crime with Mathematics
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2007
The companion to the hit CBS crime series Numb3rs presents the fascinating way mathematics is used to fight real-life crime
Using the popular CBS prime-time TV crime series Numb3rs as a springboard, Keith Devlin (known to millions of NPR listeners as the Math Guy on NPR's Weekend Edition with...
Sweet Hell on Fire
A Memoir of the Prison I Worked In and the Prison I Lived In
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
"A gritty, raw, and engrossing voice."—Publishers Weekly
I was a bad mother,
a bad daughter,
a bad wife, a bad friend.
Boozed out and tired,
with no dreams
and no future.
But I was a good officer.
Sara Lunsford helped cage the worst of the worst, from serial killers...
Executioner's Current
Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and the Invention of the Electric Chair
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In this amazing story of high stakes competition between two titans, Richard Moran shows how the electric chair developed not out of the desire to be more humane but through an effort by one nineteenth-century electric company to discredit the other.
In 1882, Thomas Edison ushered in the “age...
Beating the Devil's Game
A History of Forensic Science and Criminal
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Today, the basic precepts of criminal investigation—fingerprints, DNA, blood evidence—are known among professionals and lay people alike. But behind each of these familiar concepts is a fascinating story of the evolution of science and law, spearheaded by innovative thinkers, many of whom risked...
Cybercrime and Digital Forensics
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
This book offers a comprehensive and integrative introduction to cybercrime. It provides an authoritative synthesis of the disparate literature on the various types of cybercrime, the global investigation and detection of cybercrime and the role of digital information, and the wider role of technology...