Crimes Criminals category: 7162 books
The Subject of Murder
Gender, Exceptionality, and the Modern Killer
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
The subject of murder has always held a particular fascination for us. But, since at least the nineteenth century, we have seen the murderer as different from the ordinary citizen—a special individual, like an artist or a genius, who exists apart from the moral majority, a sovereign self who obeys...
Witness (later issued as Evil Relations)
The Story of David Smith, Chief Prosecution Witness in the Moors Murders Case
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2011
Despite standing as chief prosecution witness in the Moors Murders trial, David Smith was vilified by the public due to the accusations thrown at him by Myra Hindley and Ian Brady about his involvement in their crimes. Hindley's later confession that she and Brady had lied in an attempt to reduce...
They Fought Alone
The True Story of the Starr Brothers, British Secret Agents in Nazi-Occupied France
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
**“Highly detailed and fast-paced, Charles Glass’s They Fought Alone is a must-read for those whose passion is the Resistance literature of World War II.” —Alan Furst, author of A Hero of France
From the bestselling author of Americans in Paris and The Deserters, the astounding story...
by David K. Dodd
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2017
A young man knocks on his neighbor’s door, hoping to celebrate Christmas Eve with a friend. He is welcomed in, and the two spend five festive hours playing video games, strumming guitars, and drinking fine brandy. A silly dispute turns into a brawl, and a weapon is drawn. One friend dies, the other...
Adolescent Reputations and Risk
Developmental Trajectories to Delinquency
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2009
The news of teenagers and even younger children committing ever more serious and violent crimes continues to shock and baffle. The escalating psychological and social toll of youth crime is being paid by all – from victims to offenders to parents and siblings to teachers and to the community as...
by Morrison Bonpasse
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
This is Volume 3 of the book, “EYE CONTACT - The Mysterious Death in 2000 in Maine of Kassidy Bortner and the Wrongful Conviction of Chad Evans and Amanda Bortner." Volume 1 tells the story of the wrongful convictions of Chad and Amanda and the campaign for exoneration. Volumes 2 and 3 contain the...
by Morrison Bonpasse
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
This is Volume 2 of the book, “EYE CONTACT - The Mysterious Death in 2000 in Maine of Kassidy Bortner and the Wrongful Conviction of Chad Evans and Amanda Bortner." Volume 1 tells the story of the wrongful convictions of Chad and Amanda and the campaign for exoneration. This volume 2 contains the...
The Dominici Affair
Murder and Mystery in Provence
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
The spectacular murders of a distinguished British scientist, his wife, and their young daughter in the depths of rural France in 1952 prompted one of the most notorious criminal investigations in postwar Europe. It is still a matter of passionate debate in France.
Sir Jack Drummond, with his...
Understanding the Age of Transitional Justice
Crimes, Courts, Commissions, and Chronicling
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2018
Since the 1980s, an array of legal and non-legal practices—labeled Transitional Justice—has been developed to support post-repressive, post-authoritarian, and post-conflict societies in dealing with their traumatic past. In Understanding the Age of Transitional Justice, the contributors analyze...
by L. Kay Gillespie
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
Executed Women of the 20th and 21st Centuries provides a look into the lives, crimes, and executions of women during the 20th and 21st centuries. Rather than dealing with these women as numbers and statistics, this book presents them as human beings. Each of these women had lives, histories, and families....
Murder on Easey Street
Melbourne’s Most Notorious Cold Case
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
1977, Collingwood. Two young women are brutally murdered. The killer has never been found. What happened in the house on Easey Street?
On a warm night in January, Suzanne Armstrong and Susan Bartlett were savagely murdered in their house on Easey Street, Collingwood – stabbed multiple times...
Exposing Jack the Stripper
A Biography of the Worst Serial Killer You've Probably Never Heard of
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2019
Jack the Ripper may get all the fame, but his 1960s counterpart, Jack the Stripper, will really send shivers down your spine. At least six women, all prostitutes, were murdered at his hand--possibly more. Most intriguing of all...he was never caught.
The crimes, though often forgotten today,...
Secret Witness
The Untold Story of the 1967 Bombing in Marshall, Michigan
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012
Every small town has a moment when the real world abruptly intrudes, shattering the town's notions of itself and its people. For citizens of Marshall, Michigan, that moment came August 18, 1967. Nola Puyear was working downtown at the Tasty Cafe that morning when she received a package. She opened...
Policing Cybercrime
Networked and Social Media Technologies and the Challenges for Policing
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Cybercrime has recently experienced an ascending position in national security agendas world-wide. It has become part of the National Security Strategies of a growing number of countries, becoming a Tier One threat, above organised crime and fraud generally. Furthermore, new techno-social developments...