Crimes Criminals category: 7162 books

Richmond in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was home to a lively underworld of tricksters, swindlers, confidence men and thieves. The former Confederate capital’s under-staffed police force and dense population—large numbers of immigrants and the very poor—accommodated the enterprising...

A society’s response to youth crime reveals much about its broader cultural values, social circumstances, and political affairs. This book examines reactions and policy responses to youth delinquency and crime in Hong Kong during its colonial and post-colonial periods, and in doing so, underscores...

South Africans care a lot about crime. We think and worry about it, plan and insure against it, develop and share theories about it, read about it, and talk about it… a lot. But how much do we really know? Crime statistics do not belong to the government, academics, specialists, or the press....

Murder, crime, weapons….Simply thinking about such things is enough to send shivers of terror into our hearts. Even the words are dark and scary.We all like to imagine that we are safe, that the world is a rational and reasonable place. But who knows what the person standing next to you is really capable...

Winner of the 2008 Outstanding Book Award by the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Michelle Oberman and Cheryl L. Meyer don’t write for news magazines or prime-time investigative television shows, but the stories they tell hold the same fascination. When Mothers Kill is compelling. In a clear,...

This book studies how religion influences the way people in Colombia remember a massacre of 79 civilians that occurred in a Catholic church in 2002. It analyses how strategies of memorialisation are part of religious peacebuilding initiatives that aim to resist and denounce crimes against human, ethnic, cultural and economic rights.

Four young women were brutally murdered in the Washington D.C. area between 1929 and 1935. Two of the women were strangled, one was strangled and beaten and another was shot with a .25 caliber pistol. None of the murders was successfully solved. My e-book focuses on the details of each crime, including...

This book provides an overview of historical and contemporary cases of homicidal poisoning.  While homicidal poisoning is sometimes thought of as a thing of the past, it continues to be a contemporary problem, and in fact the unknown offender rate for poisoning cases is 20-30 times that of other...

Crime Statistics suggest that Americans are not a notably law-abiding people. With some 13 million felonies reported every year, it is not surprising that few topics engage public attention and imagination more compellingly than the dynamics of criminal behavior. Volume and ubiquity alone might suggest...

Citation (extrait) : « Il y a sans doute des crimes d'espèces différentes ; entre toutes ces espèces, il y a non moins sûrement quelque chose de commun. » (E. Durkheim) Une approche éclairée du sociologue Durkheim sur le crime et la fonction de régulation sociale qu’il implique...

In this authoritative volume, race and ethnicity are themselves considered as central organizing principles in why, how, where and by whom crimes are committed and enforced. The contributors argue that dimensions of race and ethnicity condition the very laws that make certain behaviors criminal, the...

Howdy; I'm Nellie Cake and these are "Memoirs From My Outhouse." I write adult only true stories of violence, murders, beatings, crimes, 36 rapes, drugs, incest, alcoholism, inmates, stolen children, homelessness, narcissistic abuse, and nasty words. I have forty years of experience in these...

Injustice in America (formerly The Cheesecake Theory of Crime) is an offbeat guide for laypersons about crime and justice in America. The reader will acquire practical insights about how justice is administered, why most people commit crimes, and where does it all end. It is a very different look...

In Bloodstain Pattern Evidence, the concepts introduced in the author's first book, Blood Dynamics, are updated and applied to provide essential answers in the resolution of actual crimes. The book is accessible to all levels of investigators, regardless of academic background, and allows readers...