Crimes Criminals category: 7162 books
by Matthew Condon
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2019
‘He takes you in the middle of the night, like an angel, and you're gone for good.' - Witness at Vincent O'Dempsey's committal hearing. In 2017, Vincent O'Dempsey was sentenced to life in prison for the brutal murders of Barbara McCulkin and her two young daughters. It took over 40 years to bring...
Dead Man Walking
The murky world of Michael McGurk and Ron Medich
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2019
We all know Sydney is full of corruption and crime, but none of us expected to read about a Sydney businessman being shot in the back of his head, in his driveway, in front of his nine-year-old son, in Cremorne. Nor that the order would come from a Point Piper millionaire.
Kate McClymont is...
Faces of Evil
Kidnappers, Murderers, Rapists and the Forensic Artist Who Puts Them Behind Bars
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
Every day, Lois Gibson is able to put power, control and a sense of justice back into the hands of violent crime victims of heinous rapes, kidnappings and murders. Gibson, herself the subject of a violent rape, uses her skills to coax from the memories of victims the most intimate details possible and,...
by Sonny Shiu-Hing Lo
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
This book examines the politics of policing in Greater China, including mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macao. As the author shows, police ideological indoctrination is strongest in mainland China, followed by Hong Kong, and Taiwan, where the police is under increasing political stress, in...
Police Corruption
Exploring Police Deviance and Crime
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Policing and corruption are inseparable. This book argues that corruption is not one thing but covers many deviant and criminal practices in policing which also shift over time. It rejects the 'bad apple' metaphor and focuses on 'bad orchards', meaning not individual but institutional failure. For...
Policing at the top
The roles, values and attitudes of chief police officers
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2011
Chief police officers are often shadowy enigmas, even to members of their own forces, yet they make far-reaching strategic command decisions about policing, armed responses, operations against criminals and allocation of resources. What is their background? Where do they come from? How are chief officers...
by Barry Godfrey, Paul Lawrence
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
This book provides a comprehensive, introductory text for students taking courses in crime and criminal justice history. It covers all of the key historical topics central to an understanding of the current criminal justice system, including the development of the police, the courts and the mechanisms...
Surveillance and Threat Detection
Prevention versus Mitigation
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2013
Surveillance and Threat Detection offers readers a complete understanding of the terrorist/criminal cycle, and how to interrupt that cycle to prevent an attack.
Terrorists and criminals often rely on pre-attack and pre-operational planning and surveillance activities that can last a period...
Fishermen, Randies and Fraudsters
Crime in the 19th Century Aberdeen and the North East
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Ravaged by riots, vice and violence, nineteenth-century Aberdeen was very different from the city we know now. Danger lurked around many corners. Truculent fishermen rioted on the coast. 'Resurrection men' snatched dead bodies for anatomists' experiments. Children became career criminals. Railway...
by Wensley Clarkson
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
Gang Wars of London charts the development of organised crime in the capital since 1945, from the post-war street gangs to the drug barons, cyber criminals and terrorists that threaten our safety today.The underworld has thrived for more than half a century but it appears the capital has now entered...
Jack the Ripper (Jane the Ripper)
Killer Shorts: Murderers Among Us
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
What if Jack the Ripper was a woman?
During Jack the Ripper’s siege on Whitechapel, London in the summer of 1888, Inspector Fredderick Abberline wondered whether the killer might be a woman. He later dismissed the idea, but history has refused to let the theory die.
Could the most...
by H.R. Friman, C.G. Garcia, P. Hobart
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2016
Criminals, police, military forces, and civilians practice martial arts which often utilize weapons. One major difference is weather or not the weapons are handled according to legal guidelines. This special anthology includes insightful writings that focus on aspects of martial...
Media and Crime in Argentina
Punitive Discourse During the 1990s
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
This book analyses the punitive crime discourse in the Argentinean press during the 1990s. Fernandez Roich focusses on several features of media discourse during this time, such as: the notion that petty criminals ‘deserve to die' in reference to police brutality and killings, the phenomenon of...
by Diane L. Goeres-Gardner, John Ritter
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
As the only maximum-security prison in the state, the Oregon State Penitentiary (OSP) has housed some of the most violent criminals on the West Coast, including brutal serial killers Charley Panzram in 1915 and Jerry Brudos in 1969. Sixty men have been executed inside OSP. The prison was originally built...