Crimes Criminals category: 7162 books
by Laureen Snider
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
When corporations misbehave the consequences are devastating. The monetary costs of the 2008 financial crisis, a direct result of financial mismanagement, were in the trillions, and yet none of those responsible were held to account. The monetary costs of Criminal Code theft pale in comparison, and...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
Since the first edition of the Encyclopedia of White Collar and Corporate Crime was produced in 2004, the number and severity of these crimes have risen to the level of calamity, so much so that many experts attribute the near-Depression of 2008 to white-collar malfeasance, namely crimes of greed...
Lifers
Ireland’s evil killers and how they were caught
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2004
There have never been so many killers in Irish prisons.
Nearly 1 in 10 Irish prisoners are serving life sentences for murder — and many more are on temporary release.
Hardened crime reporter Barry Cummins tells the shocking true stories of some of Ireland’s most notorious murderers...
by David Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2018
When it comes to America's most famous and notorious criminals, no legend has been larger than real life than that of the robber duo Bonnie and Clyde.
The murderous lovers found each other in the slums of Depression-era Dallas and embarked on a wild crime and killing spree - so why is it their...
The Problem of Pleasure
Leisure, Tourism and Crime
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
The tourism and leisure industries are big business. Opportunities for leisure and tourism have escalated as disposable income, technology, travel and education have become increasingly available in recent times. However, this trend has been juxtaposed with an increase in crime, particularly since...
Liverpool
Gangs, Vices and Packet Rats: 19th Century Crime and Punishment
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
Now world famous for football and music, in the nineteenth century Liverpool had a very different reputation. One of the greatest ports in the world, and Europe's western gateway to the Atlantic, Liverpool's emerging wreath and prosperity brought with it a huge influx of crime to the streets, and...
Violent Crime
Clinical and Social Implications
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
Offering a unique and interdisciplinary focus on the roots of violence, Violent Crime: Clinical and Social Implications explores cutting-edge research on the etiology, nature, assessment, and treatment of individuals who commit violent crimes. This edited volume covers the foundations of criminal...
Unchecked Corporate Power
Why the Crimes of Multinational Corporations Are Routinized Away and What We Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Why are crimes of the suite punished more leniently than crimes of the street? When police killings of citizens go unpunished, political torture is sanctioned by the state, and the financial frauds of Wall Street traders remain unprosecuted, nothing succeeds with such regularity as the active failures...
Would You Convict?
Seventeen Cases That Challenged the Law
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2001
A police trooper inspects a car during a routine traffic stop and finds a vast cache of weapons, complete with automatic rifles, thousands of rounds of ammunition, and black ski masks-a veritable bank robber's kit. Should the men in the car be charged? If so, with what?
A son neglects to care for...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Across the world, most people are well aware of ordinary criminal harms to person and property. Often committed by the powerless and poor, these individualized crimes are catalogued in the statistics collected annually by the FBI and by similar agencies in other developed nations. In contrast, the...
Revisiting Crimes of the Powerful
Marxism, Crime and Deviance
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
Frank Pearce was the first scholar to use the term 'crimes of the powerful.' His ground-breaking book of the same name provided insightful critiques of liberal orthodox criminology, particularly in relation to labelling theory and symbolic interactionism, while making important contributions to Marxist...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
The question of national responsibility for crimes against humanity became an urgent topic due to the charge of ethnic cleansing against the previous Yugoslav government. But that was not the first such urging of legal and moral responsibility for war crimes. While the Nazi German regime has been...
Sex Crimes
Transnational Problems and Global Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
Sex crimes, such as rape, child sexual abuse, and intimate partner violence, are increasingly transnational in nature, introducing unique cross-border and cross-cultural challenges for police, the courts, and the law. Policy makers and practitioners are in need of a resource that explores the incidence,...
Hate Crime Statutes
A Public Policy and Law Enforcement Dilemma
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
This Brief provides a clearly outlined and accessible overview of the challenges in creating and enforcing hate crime legislation in the United States. As the author explains, while it is generally not controversial that hate crime behavior should be stopped, the question of how...