Criminology category: 4273 books
by Stephen Richards
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
With a frightening capacity for extreme violence, Tyneside protection hardman Viv Graham struck fear into the hearts of his enemies, yet his benevolence to local charities and schemes to keep kids away from drugs and crime was well known. A legend in his own lifetime, he was the ultimate maverick...
Cocaina
A Book on Those Who Make It
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
When Pablo Escobar, Colombia's King of Cocaine,” was killed, the world thought-or hoped-the cocaine industry would crumble. But ten years later the country's production had almost quadrupled, and since 2001, Colombia has produced more than 60% of all the cocaine consumed in the world.
Cocaine...
Violette Nozière
A Story of Murder in 1930s Paris
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
On an August evening in 1933, in a quiet, working-class neighborhood in Paris, eighteen-year-old Violette Nozière gave her mother and father glasses of barbiturate-laced "medication," which she told them had been prescribed by the family doctor; one of her parents died, the other barely...
Introduction to Homeland Security
Principles of All-Hazards Risk Management
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
Bullock, Haddow, and Coppola have set the standard for homeland security textbooks, and they follow up their #1-selling third edition with this substantially improved version. Students will value the decades of experience that the authors bring to their analysis, and the new edition offers still...
Glasgow: The Real Mean City
True Crime and Punishment in the Second City of the Empire
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
There cannot be many cities where crime could mean anything from singing a seditious song to stealing a ship, but nineteenth-century Glasgow was a unique place with an amazing dynamism. Immigrants poured in from Ireland and the Highlands, while the factories, shipyards and mills buzzed with innovation....
La cosa nostra en México (1938-1950)
Los negocios de Lucky Luciano y la mujer que corrompió al gobierno mexicano
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 1, 2011
El mejor libro jamás escrito sobre la mafia siciliana desde sus orígenes hasta nuestros días que desvela las tramas ocultas y el funcionamiento de esta organización criminal.
Una reveladora investigación histórica que documenta cómo se infiltró la mafia italiana en el gobierno mexicano,...
L.A. Noir
The Struggle for the Soul of America's Most Seductive City
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Other cities have histories. Los Angeles has legends.
Midcentury Los Angeles. A city sold to the world as "the white spot of America," a land of sunshine and orange groves, wholesome Midwestern values and Hollywood stars, protected by the world’s most famous police force, the Dragnet-era...
Talking to Terrorists
Understanding the Psycho-Social Motivations of Militant Jihadi Terrorists, Mass Hostage Takers, Suicide Bombers & "Martyrs"
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
This is an account of traveling through the West Bank and Gaza, into the prisons of Iraq, down the alleyways of the Casablanca slums, to Chechnya, into the radicalized neighborhoods of Belgium, the UK, France and the Netherlands, of sitting with the hostages of Beslan and Nord Ost, and of talking...
Draw
The Greatest Gunfights of the American West
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2003
**Known for his ability to make history come vividly to life, Reasoner strips away the dime novel legends and Hollywood myths to show us how the gunfighters of the Old West really lived, killed, and were killed.
Praised for his “well-researched” (Booklist) and “lively, suspenseful”...
The Historic Murder Trial of George Crawford
Charles H. Houston, the NAACP and the Case That Put All-White Southern Juries on Trial
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
The Depression–era murder trial of George Crawford in Northern Virginia helped end the exclusion of African Americans from juries. Nearly forgotten today, the murders, ensuing manhunt, extradition battle and sensational trial enthralled the nation. Before it was over, the U.S. House of Representatives...
by Daniel Hunter
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Expanding on the call to action in Michelle Alexander's acclaimed best-seller, The New Jim Crow, this accessible organizing guide puts tools in your hands to help you and your group understand how to make meaningful, effective change. Learn about your role in movement-building and how to pick and build...
The Laughing Gorilla
The True Story of the Hunt for One of America's First Serial Killers
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
During the 1920s, in more than a dozen cities, over four years, and across two continents, women were being butchered. Eyewitneses claim the perpetrator was a hulking Bible-carrying brute who lumbered on all fours, and laughed maniacally with each new slaughter.
The crimes haunted San Francisco...
by Roberto Curti
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2013
In 1970s Italy, after the decline of the Spaghetti Western, crime films became the most popular, profitable and controversial genre. In a country plagued with violence, political tensions and armed struggle, these films managed to capture the anxiety and anger of the times in their tales of tough...
by Mike Sager
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2018
"In Stoned Again, Mike Sager refers to himself as a "drugs correspondent," but that's legitimately humble smoke that belies what's really going on here. While there's plenty of weed, heroin, ‘shrooms, and crack (not to mention plenty of Ricky James, bitch) in these pages, what is...