Crimes Criminals category: 7162 books
by Havelock Ellis
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
Of criminals, actual or nominal, there are many kinds. It is necessary, first of all, to enumerate the chief varieties. There is the political criminal. By this term is meant the victim of an attempt by a more or less despotic Government to preserve its own stability. The word "criminal"...
Delinquency and Drift Revisited, Volume 21
The Criminology of David Matza and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Fifty years ago, David Matza wrote Delinquency and Drift, challenging the ways people thought about the development of criminals. Today, Delinquency and Drift Revisited reminds criminologists that they ignore Matza’s writings at their own intellectual peril.
Matza’s work shows his insights...
Evil Summer
Babe Leopold, Dickie Loeb, and the Kidnap-Murder of Bobby Franks
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2007
In 1924, fourteen-year-old Bobby Franks was abducted while walking home from school, killed by a chisel blow to his head, and later found stuffed in a culvert in a marshy wasteland at the Illinois-Indiana state line. Acid had been poured over his naked body. Evil Summer examines the shocking kidnapping...
Conservative Criminology
A Call to Restore Balance to the Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Conservative Criminology serves as an important counterpoint to virtually every other academic text on crime. Hundreds of books have been written about crime and criminal justice policy from a variety of perspectives, including Marxist, liberal, progressive, feminist, radical, and post-modernist....
When the Guillotine Fell
The Bloody Beginning and Horrifying End to France's River of Blood, 1791--1977
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2008
How long did the guillotine's blade hang over the heads of French criminals? Was it abandoned in the late 1800s? Did French citizens of the early days of the twentieth century decry its brutality? No. The blade was allowed to do its work well into our own time. In 1974, Hamida Djandoubi brutally tortured...
The Hate Factory
Thirty Years Inside with the UK's Most Notorious Villains
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Convicted murderer Billy Ferris has endured more than three decades behind bars in many of Britain's prisons. In The Hate Factory, he candidly documents his experiences in jail with some of the UK's most notorious criminals.
Jailed for life in 1977 for a crime of passion, Ferris experienced...
by Jimmy Holland, Stephen Richards
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2007
Meet the hardest men from a country where the streets are the most dangerous and the gangsters and criminals are the scariest in Britain. These faces have seen it all: the guns, the knives, the fights and the toughest prisons. This book will take you deep inside the rough, mad, bad, drug-infested,...
by Ronald Hudkins
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2017
This is a murder mystery novel that involves love, multiple homicides, blackmail, extortion, suicide, deception and amazing investigations. Inquests by police and a private investigator go from bums up to the wealthiest of men. There are more plot turns, twists and slithering than one would...
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2015
Alcatraz was opened as Federal penitentiary to confine the most hardened criminals in 1934. Men like Doc Barker and Al Capone were a couple of the names of its inmates. Most were incorrigibles sent from other prisons where they had been malcontents and generally a problem for guards and prison administration....
Lush Life
Constructing Organized Crime in the UK
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
Lush Life: Constructing Organized Crime in the UK opens 'the box marked do not open, too difficult to deal with', in the words of one Assistant Chief Constable, to explore the contested notion of British organized crime. The first book to trace the history and policing of British organized crime,...
Alternatives to Imprisonment
Intentions and Reality
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
The detrimental effects of imprisonment have been documented and accepted in most western countries. As a result, alternatives to incarceration have been sought in the effort to reform the penal system. Although during the last thirty years several Nordic official committees have recommended a reduction...
Conduct Unbecoming
Fifteen Military Criminals, Rogues and Victims of Justice from the Revolutionary War to Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
Men and women who serve in the armed forces are subject to a different legal code than those they protect. Throughout American history, some have—through action or failure to act or by circumstances—found themselves facing prosecution by the United States military. One measure of a nation’s...
Money Laundering in Canada
Chasing Dirty and Dangerous Dollars
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2007
Money laundering is the process of converting or transferring cash or other assets, generated from illegal activity, in order to conceal or disguise their origins. In recent years, the international community has decided that focusing on money laundering is an efficient strategy in policing organized...
Cyberbullying and the Wild, Wild Web
What You Need to Know
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
The world has changed drastically over the past decade. The Internet has had a huge part in that, as it has made the world more accessible to anyone of any age, race, or gender. Used for entertainment, education, shopping, dating and more, the internet has provided a whole new virtual world for everyone...