Crimes Criminals category: 7162 books
by Katherine Ramsland, Gregg Olsen
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2014
When you think of Wisconsin crimes, Ed Gein and Jeffrey Dahmer automatically come to mind. But in this richly wooded state with its long, cold winters and isolated towns, murder can happen anywhere. From the "Sweetheart Murders" to sexual predators to cannibalistic serial killers, Wisconsin's criminal history is full of surprises.
by Aaron Elliott, Burl Barer, Katherine Ramsland
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2014
Serial Killer Quarterly's "Cruel Britannia" finishes off 2014 with a four-feature British bloodlust frenzy!
Dr. Katherine Ramsland wades through the heavy fog surrounding the "Moors Murders": a series of high-profile child killings committed in the Swinging Sixties by Scottish...
by Sheila Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
Murder By Medicine
In the small southern town of Ider, Alabama, everyone knew Karri Willoughby as a devoted nurse, loving wife, and mother of two small children. When she was accused of killing her stepfather Billy Junior Shaw with a fatal injection of the anesthetic Propofol, outraged friends and...
The Dennis McDougal True Crime Collection
Mother's Day and Blood Cold
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
From a murderous mother to a famous actor accused of killing his wife in cold blood, gripping true crime exposés from an award-winning journalist.
Mother’s Day: The true story of Theresa Cross Knorr, the twisted child abuser who murdered two of her own daughters—with the help of her sons....
A Plague of Prisons
The Epidemiology of Mass Incarceration in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
The public health expert and prison reform activist offers “meticulous analysis” on our criminal justice system and the plague of American incarceration (The Washington Post).
An internationally recognized public health scholar, Ernest Drucker uses the tools of epidemiology to demonstrate...
Molecular Photofitting
Predicting Ancestry and Phenotype Using DNA
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
In the field of forensics, there is a critical need for genetic tests that can function in a predictive or inferential sense, before suspects have been identified, and/or for crimes for which DNA evidence exists but eye-witnesses do not. Molecular Photofitting fills this need by describing the process...
Clues From Beyond
True Crime Stories from Australia's #1 Psychic Detective
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2017
Clues From Beyond explores the truth about some intense real-life Australian crimes, through the eyes of a psychic medium as she investigates criminal cases and unsolved murders.Debbie Malone is an acclaimed spirit medium who has assisted police departments across Australia in missing persons and...
Forensics
A Guide for Writers
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2008
“What you will discover is that the real world of forensics is, perhaps, even more compelling than what we are seeing on television every week.” —Lee Goldberg, TV writer-producer
In Forensics, award-winning author and TV show consultant D.P. Lyle, M.D., takes each area of forensics—from...
Exonerated
A History of the Innocence Movement
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
The fascinating story behind the innocence movement's quest for justice.
Documentaries like Making a Murderer, the first season of Serial, and the cause célèbre that was the West Memphis Three captured the attention of millions and focused the national discussion on wrongful convictions....
Trapped in a Vice
The Consequences of Confinement for Young People
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Trapped in a Vice explores the consequences of a juvenile justice system that is aimed at promoting change in the lives of young people, yet ultimately relies upon tools and strategies that enmesh them in a system that they struggle to move beyond. The system, rather than the crimes themselves, is...
Sin No More
From Abortion to Stem Cells, Understanding Crime, Law, and Morality in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Read the Authors' Op-Ed on the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sin No More offers a vivid examination of some of the most morally and politically disputed issues of our time: abortion, gay rights, assisted suicide, stem cell research, and legalized gambling. These are moral values issues, all of which...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
This collection focuses attention on an important but academically neglected area of contemporary operational policing: the regulation of consensual sexual practices. Despite the high-level public visibility of, and debate about, policing in relation to violent and abusive sexual crimes (from child...
The International Criminal Court at the Mercy of Powerful States
An Assessment of the Neo-Colonialism Claim Made by African Stakeholders
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
This book aims to investigate whether, and if so, how, an institution designed to bring to justice perpetrators of the most heinous crimes can be regarded a tool of oppression in a (neo-)colonial sense. To do so, it re-invents the concept of neo-colonialism, which is traditionally associated more...
Prisoner in the Kitchen
The Car Thief, the Murderer, and the Man Hired to Feed Them
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Winner of Simon & Schuster’s memoir contest in conjunction with AARP and the Huffington Post, the memoir of a man’s coming-of-age as a civilian cook in a maximum-security prison.
In 1973, recent Montana transplant William Bonham desperately needs a job. Hoping to take advantage of his background...