Crimes Criminals category: 7162 books
A Tragedy Waiting to Happen – The Chaotic Life of Brendan O’Donnell
The true story of an abandoned orphan who became a psychotic killer
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2004
For years, Tony Muggivan urged the Irish social system to offer appropriate treatment to the desperately sick Brendan O’Donnell. A Tragedy Waiting to Happen is the harrowing story of his doomed attempts and the awful consequences of that failure: a triple murder.
Tony Muggivan is a farmer....
Murder on the Bluff
The Carew Poisoning Case
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2012
In a small white house by a remote Welsh cove, a 90-year-old woman died, full of secrets, on June 27, 1968. What no-one ever guessed was that the dignified and distant old lady, who kept a liveried chauffeur and bred Bedlington terriers, was a convicted murderess. More than half a century before,...
by Katherine Ramsland, Mark Nesbitt
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Katherine Ramsland, a forensics expert, and Mark Nesbitt, a paranormal investigator, examine tales of ghosts and murder, police psychics, and scientific experiments. What if forensic and paranormal investigation deliberately crossed paths? Can forensics aid ghost hunters, and might ghost hunters who...
Louisville Murder & Mayhem
Historic Crimes of Derby City
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2012
“Lovers of true crime will be thrilled to find a book devoted to Louisville’s more iniquitous side . . . and McQueen captures it all with obvious glee” (The Courier-Journal).
Life in Louisville in the years following the Civil War, and through the turn of the century, was as exciting...
by Nicola Sly
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Wiltshire Murders brings together numerous murderous tales, some which were little known outside the county, and others which made national headlines. Contained within the pages of this book are the stories behind some of the most heinous crimes ever committed in Wiltshire. They include the murder...
by John J Eddleston
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
This century has seen the execution of 33 men and one woman at Winson Green prison in Birmingham. In addition, others who had a strong connection with Englands second city were executed elsewhere and by the time we include those who perished on the gallows at Warwick, Stafford and Worcester, our totals...
by Martin Baggoley
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Derbyshire Murders brings together ten of the county’s most extraordinary and shocking cases. The crimes covered made not just local but in some cases national headlines. For this fascinating, illustrated collection, Martin Baggoley has returned to original sources—including police interviews,...
Rethinking Prison Reentry
Transforming Humiliation into Humility
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Rethinking Prison Reentry: Transforming Humiliation into Humility describes a prison-based education pedagogy designed to address a prevalent racial politics of shaming, self-segregation, and transgenerational learned helplessness. So many incarcerated black men face insurmountable psychosocial obstacles...
Fiend
The Shocking True Story Of Americas Youngest Seria
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
A MONSTER PREYED UPON THE CHILDREN OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY BOSTON. HIS CRIMES WERE APPALLING -- AND YET HE WAS LITTLE MORE THAN A CHILD HIMSELF.
When fourteen-year-old Jesse Pomeroy was arrested in 1874, a nightmarish reign of terror over an unsuspecting city came to an end. "The Boston Boy Fiend"...
Radicalization
The Life Writings of Political Prisoners
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
Expanding the influence of auto/biography studies into cultural criminology, Radicalization: The Life Writings of Political Prisoners addresses the origins, processes and cultures of terrorist criminality and political resistance in a globalized world.
Criminologists and penologists have long...
School Shootings - No Killings In The Hallways
Serial Killers True Crime
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
Case files include: Columbine and Virginia Tech
When kids suffer abuse at home from parents and siblings, they often then go to school and suffer bullying from peers and an endless series of dictates from teachers. They begin to feel trapped as they can't avoid abuse no matter where they are....
Unabomber
The Secret Life of Ted Kaczynski
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Author Chris Waits was Ted Kaczynski's friend and neighbor in the Montana mountains for 25 years. ABC News called Waits the "Man who knew him best." That unique knowledge cast Waits as a key figure in the FBI's relentless investigation, a role that provided the author with volumes of Kaczynski's personal...
The Ore Knob Mine Murders
The Crimes, the Investigation and the Trials
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2013
How could the peace and quiet of Ashe County, North Carolina (in the mountains, at the Virginia-Tennessee corner), turn into a nightmare of crime and drugs, and the old copper mine itself become a dumping ground for the dead? In 1982, two bodies had been chipped from an icy grave and brought up from...
La plus grande serial-killer de tous les temps
Veuve Becker
Language: French
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Marie-Alexandrine Petitjean, Veuve Becker (Belgique, 1879-1942), onze victimes : dix femmes et un homme.Henry-Désiré Landru (France, 1869-1922), onze victimes : dix femmes et un homme.À quelques années près, ils sont contemporains. Leur parcours criminel est identique.Ils sont sociables, s’y entendent...