Crimes Criminals category: 7162 books
by Richard Lighthouse
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Rev 2A - This short ebook describes how the Clowns, Idiots, and Assholes (CIA) gained control of a website, Goodreads.com, which provides reviews and ratings for books and ebooks, for their own criminal purposes. The CIA has become everything that was horrific about the Nazis. The corruption is usually...
The Murderer Next Door
Why the Mind Is Designed to Kill
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2006
As acclaimed psychological researcher and author David Buss writes, "People are mesmerized by murder. It commands our attention like no other human phenomenon, and those touched by its ugly tendrils never forget." Though we may like to believe that murderers are pathological misfits and hardened criminals,...
Homeward
Life in the Year After Prison
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
In the era of mass incarceration, over 600,000 people are released from federal or state prison each year, with many returning to chaotic living environments rife with violence. In these circumstances, how do former prisoners navigate reentering society? In Homeward, sociologist Bruce Western examines...
Camouflaged Killer
The Shocking Double Life Colonel Russell Williams
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
He was a perfect man living a perfect life...which made him a perfect killer.
Canadian Air Force Colonel Russell Williams commanded the largest Canadian Forces base in the country. He had personally piloted prime ministers, dignitaries, and members of the British royal family, and was one of...
Why They Kill
The Discoveries of a Maverick Criminologist
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Why do some men, women and even children assault, batter, rape, mutilate and murder? In his stunning new book, the Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Rhodes provides a startling and persuasive answer.
Why They Killexplores the discoveries of a maverick American criminologist, Dr. Lonnie Athens --...
One Marshal's Badge: A Memoir of Fugitive Hunting, Witness Protection, and the U.S. Marshals Service
One Marshal's Badge: A Memoir of Fugitive Hunting, Witness Protection, and the U.S. Marshals Service
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2009
While many people are familiar with the U.S. Marshals Service's reputation from frontier days, when legendary lawmen such as Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson enforced the Wild West, the agency's modern exploits are less well known. One Marshal's Badge sheds light on the service's valuable role in current...
Applied Crime Analysis
A Social Science Approach to Understanding Crime, Criminals, and Victims
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
Most approaches to crime analysis focus on geographical crime mapping, which is helpful in identifying crime clusters and allocating police resources, but does not explain why a particular crime took place. Applied Crime Analysis presents a model that brings statistical anchoring, behavioral psychopathology,...
Criminology
Explaining Crime and Its Context
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
How do societies define crime, and how should it be punished or prevented? Which is a more criminal act, causing a death by dumping toxic material or by shooting a victim with a gun? Are criminals born or made? Criminology: Explaining Crime and Its Context, Tenth Edition, offers a broad perspective...
by Khalil Gibran Muhammad
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
Chronicling the emergence of deeply embedded notions of black people as a dangerous race of criminals by explicit contrast to working-class whites and European immigrants, this fascinating book reveals the influence such ideas have had on urban development and social policies.
Stateville
The Penitentiary in Mass Society
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Stateville penitentiary in Illinois has housed some of Chicago's most infamous criminals and was proclaimed to be "the world's toughest prison" by Joseph Ragen, Stateville's powerful warden from 1936 to 1961. It shares with Attica, San Quentin, and Jackson the notoriety of being one of the...
Jammed Up
Bad Cops, Police Misconduct, and the New York City Police Department
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
Drugs, bribes, falsifying evidence, unjustified force and kickbacks: there are many opportunities for cops to act like criminals. Jammed Up is the definitive study of the nature and causes of police misconduct. While police departments are notoriously protective of their own—especially personnel...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
In response to recognition in the late 1960s and early 1970s that traditional incarceration was not working, alternatives to standard prison settings were sought and developed. One of those alternatives—community-based corrections—had been conceived in the 1950s as a system that might prove more...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Crime is one of the most significant political issues in contemporary American society. Crime control statistics and punishment policies are subjects of constant partisan debate, while the media presents sensationalized stories of criminal activity and over-crowded prisons. In the highly politicized...
Terrorism
An Investigator's Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
This handbook introduces the reader to the field of terrorism investigation. Describing how terrorists operate and how they differ from other criminals, it provides an outline of how terrorism investigations should be conducted. By helping investigators to develop skills and knowledge, this guide helps them to prepare prosecutable cases against terrorists.