Crimes Criminals category: 7162 books
by Rafe McGregor
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2018
This book introduces narrative justice, a new theory of aesthetic education – the thesis that the cultivation of aesthetic or artistic sensibility can both improve moral character and achieve political justice. The author argues that there is a subcategory of narrative representations that provide...
Evil Relations (formerly published as Witness)
The Man Who Bore Witness Against the Moors Murderers
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
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...
Social Control of Sex Offenders
A Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2016
This book surveys the history, current status, and critical issues regarding the various mechanisms designed to control sex offenders. It shows that the social problem of sex offending is not apparently resolvable by any of the means currently employed.
A large array of procedures are used...
by Kerry Carrington, Russell Hogg, John Scott
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Criminology has focused mainly on problems of crime and violence in the large population centres of the Global North to the exclusion of the global countryside, peripheries and antipodes. Southern criminology is an innovative new approach that seeks to correct this bias.
This book turns the...
Dangerous Ground
The World of Hazardous Waste Crime
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
For many years, if businesses were caught dumping waste, it was treated more as a nuisance than as a crime; the common images of the criminal and the dumper were worlds apart. In Dangerous Ground, originally published in 1992, Donald J. Rebovich closes this perceptual gap, providing essential information...
The Chosen Ones
Black Men and the Politics of Redemption
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
In The Chosen Ones, sociologist and feminist scholar Nikki Jones shares the compelling story of a group of Black men living in San Francisco’s historically Black neighborhood, the Fillmore. Against all odds, these men work to atone for past crimes by reaching out to other Black men, young and old,...
Lost Childhoods
Poverty, Trauma, and Violent Crime in the Post-Welfare Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
Lost Childhoods focuses on the life-course histories of thirty young men serving time in the Pennsylvania adult prison system for crimes they committed when they were minors. The narratives of these young men, their friends, and relatives reveal the invisible yet deep-seated connection between the...
Revisiting the 'Ideal Victim'
Developments in Critical Victimology
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
Nils Christie’s (1986) seminal work on the ‘Ideal Victim’ is reproduced in full in this edited collection of vibrant and provocative essays that respond to and update the concept from a range of thematic positions. Each chapter celebrates and commemorates his work by analysing, evaluating and...
L'empoisonneuse à la digitaline
L'épouse dévouée de Bordeaux
Language: French
Release Date: February 1, 2007
À Bordeaux, la diabolique Gabrielle Benzac empoisonnait à sa guise… Il faudra une lettre anonyme pour orienter la police et mettre un terme à sa carrière criminelle. Le poison qu’elle utilisait, la digitaline, est facile à administrer et laisse peu de traces. Des crimes presque parfaits…...
A Doctor on the Inside
From the County Jail to the Supermax
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Get both of Dr. William Wright’s best-selling, award-winning books in a single
volume!
Maximum Insecurity chronicles Wright’s true-life metamorphosis from suburban
ear surgeon to life as the sole physician at Colorado’s maximum-security prison.
Jailhouse Doc follows Wright’s...
Who Killed Tom Thomson?
The Truth about the Murder of One of the 20th Century's Most Famous Artists
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
Tom Thomson was Canada's Vincent van Gogh. He painted for a period of five years before meeting his untimely death in a remote wilderness lake in July 1917. He was buried in an unofficial grave close to the lake where his body was found. About eight hours after he was buried, the coroner arrived but...
by Gordon Bowers
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
On 8 December 2014, the body of bankrupt property tycoon Scot Young was found impaled on the railings below his ?3-million penthouse apartment. The police felt his death was not suspicious, but a Russian radio station asked: 'Did he jump or was he pushed?' Soon everyone was wondering.For six years,...
Love & Death
The Murder of Kurt Cobain
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2004
A stunning and groundbreaking investigation into the death of one of the great rock icons of our times -- revealing new evidence that points to a terrible conclusion.
On Friday, April 8, 1994, a body was discovered in a room above a garage in Seattle. For the attending authorities, it was an open-and-shut...
Tinseltown
Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
New York Times Bestseller • Edgar Award winner for Best Fact Crime
The Day of the Locust meets The Devil in the White City and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil in this juicy, untold Hollywood story: an addictive true tale of ambition, scandal, intrigue, murder, and the creation of...