Crimes Criminals category: 7162 books
International Money Laundering Through Real Estate and Agribusiness
A Criminal Justice Perspective from the “Panama Papers”
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
This book examines two types of transnational money laundering: the use of offshores and wire transfers to “invest” in real estate; and agribusiness, a nebulous activity that is difficult to regulate. The author also examines current international mechanisms to combat money-laundering; whether...
by Victor Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
Spanning almost a century of penal policy and practice in England and Wales, this book is a study of the long arc of the rehabilitative ideal, beginning in 1895, the year of the Gladstone Committee on Prisons, and ending in 1970, when the policy of treating and training criminals was very much on...
Trust and Legitimacy in Criminal Justice
European Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
The book explores police legitimacy and crime control, with a focus on the European region. Using comparative case studies, the contributions to this timely volume examine the effects of a transition to democracy on policing, public attitudes towards police legitimacy, and the ways in which perceptions...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Despite illustrious origins dating to the 1920s, qualitative crime research has long been overshadowed by quantitative inquiry. After decades of limited use, there has been a notable resurgence in crime ethnography, naturalistic inquiry, and related forms of fieldwork addressing crime and related...
Beyond the Real Mind
Why We Kill
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Beyond the Real Mind focuses more than that outside the box, considering why a person would take a life if we cherish it so much. Moreover, it probes into the behavior that makes a person a criminal and understanding why a person kills. But it does not accept anyones excuse when there is more to explore...
Crime, Culture and Violence
Understanding How Masculinity and Identity Shapes Offending
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
From prison interviews with violent offenders and a wealth of experience and research, psychologist Dr Katie Seidler explores the complex interaction between crime and culture. Featuring the voices of the offenders themselves, 15 convicted adult male violent offenders from various ethnic cultural...
by Dirk C. Gibson
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
The majority of serial murder studies support the consensus that serial murder is essentially an American crime—a flawed assumption, as the United States has existed for less than 250 years. What is far more likely is that the perverse urge to repeatedly and intentionally kill has existed throughout...
Heavy Business
Commercial Burglary and Robbery
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2019
Originally published in 1986. Based on interviews with men in prison, this study takes two groups of convicted criminals: men convicted of robbery, and, for comparison, a sample of men convicted for breaking into commercial premises. It focuses on how victims are chosen, the decision-making processes...
God'll Cut You Down
The Tangled Tale of a White Supremacist, a Black Hustler, a Murder, and How I Lost a Year in Mississippi
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
An unlikely journalist, a murder case in Mississippi, and a fascinating literary true crime story in the style of Jon Ronson, for fans of "Serial."
A notorious white supremacist named Richard Barrett was brutally murdered in Mississippi in 2010 by a young black man named Vincent McGee....
by Edna Buchanan
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
True stories of crime in Miami by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Corpse Had a Familiar Face.
Set against the neon backdrop of the South Florida city where Miami Herald reporter Edna Buchanan covered the police beat for nearly two decades, this memoir collects true tales of both...
Born to Lose: Stanley B. Hoss and the Crime Spree That Gripped a Nation
Stanley B. Hoss and the Crime Spree That Gripped a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
A small-time hoodlum who became the most hunted man in America. Stanley Barton Hoss was a burglar, thief, and local thug from the Pittsburgh area. In eight short months in 1969, however, he became a rapist, prison escapee, murderer, and kidnapper; the subject of an intense nationwide manhunt; and...
by Don Lasseter
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
The Hanging Judge of California (formerly titled Perfect Justice) probes outrageous decisions by the US Federal 9th Circuit Court in overturning death penalties. California Judge Donald A. McCartin, who sent nine men to death row, speaks out in fury when convicted child-killer Rodney Alcala’s verdict...
All that Remains
A Renowned Forensic Scientist on Death, Mortality, and Solving Crimes
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
**Book of the Year, 2018 Saltire Literary Awards
A CrimeReads Best True Crime Book of the Month
For fans of Caitlin Doughty, Mary Roach, and CSI shows, a renowned forensic scientist on death and mortality.**
Dame Sue Black is an internationally renowned forensic anthropologist and human...
The Court of Last Resort
The True Story of a Team of Crime Experts Who Fought to Save the Wrongfully Convicted
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Edgar Award Winner: True stories of miscarriages of justice, legal battles, and landmark reversals, by the creator of Perry Mason.
In 1945, Erle Stanley Gardner, noted attorney and author of the popular Perry Mason mysteries, was contacted by an overwhelmed California public defender who believed...