Crimes Criminals category: 7162 books
Primary Theories of Crime and Victimization
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
This text focuses on the history of criminology, which includes the criminological time periods, persons most associated with each era, and their contentions and contributions. The earlier crime research epochs that are the concentration of the beginning of the text are the classical school of criminology,...
Criminology
Connecting Theory, Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Connections among theory, research, and practice are the heart and soul of criminology. This book offers a comprehensive and balanced introduction to criminology, demonstrating the value of understanding the relationships between criminological theory, research, and practice in the study of crime...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
In 2013, the president signed into law the Investigative Assistance for Violent Crimes Act of 2012, which granted the attorney general the authority to assist in the investigation of "violent acts and shootings occurring in a place of public use" and in the investigation of "mass killings...
Forensic Science
A Beginner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
In the wake of the phenomenal success of such shows as CSI, forensic science has never been so popular. The obsessive attention to detail that Grissom and his crew afford seemingly insignificant details like particles of dirt in a bullet wound have had audiences eager to know more. Siegel’s study investigates...
They Were Graveyard Dead: Cases That Stay With You Forever
Texas True Crime, #2
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Book two in a true crime series, written by a twenty-three-year veteran of the Houston Police Department Homicide Division. These are the cases that have stuck with the investigators who worked them for years, if not for decades. Some are a matter of pride, others are just maddening and frustrating...
Routine Activity and Rational Choice
Volume 5
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Two new criminological approaches are defined and applied to categories of crime in Routine Activity and Rational Choice, now available in paperback. Routine activity analyzes the criminal event, and avoids motivations and psychology as topics for discussion, whereas rational choice approaches crime...
Lost Causes
Blended Sentencing, Second Chances, and the Texas Youth Commission
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
What should be done with minors who kill, maim, defile, and destroy the lives of others? The state of Texas deals with some of its most serious and violent youthful offenders through "determinate sentencing," a unique sentencing structure that blends parts of the juvenile and adult justice...
by Tobin T. Buhk
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
While the River City is known for its history of furniture making, it also has a sinister side. Jennie Flood was a widow with a get-rich scheme that involved a shotgun and an insurance application. Reverend Ferris went undercover in his war against the city's purveyors of vice. The police rounded...
by Glenn Puit
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
Everybody in Las Vegas knew Bill Rundle. A story by his son Richie earned the former casino guard the title “Las Vegas’s Father of the Year”—a bittersweet honor in light of Richie’s tragic death at age eleven. He was killed by a drunk driver while waiting for the school bus, but not before...
Crime Prevention
Approaches, Practices, and Evaluations
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2019
Crime Prevention: Approaches, Practices, and Evaluations, Tenth Edition, meets the needs of students and instructors for engaging, evidence-based, impartial coverage of interventions that can reduce or prevent deviance. This edition examines the entire gamut of prevention, from physical design to...
by Mark Hamm, Ramón Spaaij
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
The lethality of lone-wolf terrorism has reached an all-time high in the United States. Isolated individuals using firearms with high-capacity magazines are committing brutally efficient killings with the aim of terrorizing others, yet there is little consensus on what connects these crimes and the...
Impact Statement
A Family's Fight for Justice against Whitey Bulger, Stephen Flemmi, and the FBI
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
As the biggest criminal trial since the Boston Strangler draws nearer, the public’s fascination with the life and crimes of mob boss Whitey Bulger continues to heat up. Many stories have been told about the murders Whitey and Stephen “The Rifleman” Flemmi committed, and the tacit permission...
Black Widow in a Pure White Dress
Mississippi, Notorious USA
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2015
WITH PHOTOS
Another in the New York Times bestselling series, Notorious USA. True crime author Stephanie Cook takes a fresh look at some of Mississippi’s most infamous crimes. In the title case, an affluent Southern heart surgeon strikes up a doomed affair with his much younger...
Children Who Kill
Profiles of Pre-Teen and Teenage Killers
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Why would two young boys abduct, torture and kill a toddler? What makes a teenage girl plot with her classmates to kill her own father? Society regards children as harmless – but for some the age of innocence is shortlived, messy and ultimately murderous.
Mary Bell, Robert Thompson and Jon...