Criminology category: 4273 books
by Robert Scott
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
It Took One Week To Kill Her. . .
Restaurant manager Lisa Kimmell had been driving for hours to visit her family in Montana. She never arrived. Eight days later, her body was found floating in the North Platte River.
. . .And Fifteen Years To Catch Him.
The police knew Lisa had...
Death in a Texas Desert
And Other True Crime Stories from The Dallas Observer
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2003
Death in a Texas Desert is a fast-paced collection of 17 compelling true crime stories from the pages of the award-winning The Dallas Observer. From the "Phantom Killer" that haunted Texarkana in teh mid-1940s to the day of terror in 1991 when a crazed man began spraying bullets into Luby's Cafeteria...
The Black Hand
The Epic War Between a Brilliant Detective and the Deadliest Secret Society in American History
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
“Gripping . . . A valuable recounting of a lurid and little-known episode in American history.” — Washington Post
Beginning in the summer of 1903, an insidious crime wave stirred New York City, then the entire country, into panic. The children of Italian immigrants were being kidnapped...
The Origin of Organized Crime in America
The New York City Mafia, 1891–1931
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2008
While the later history of the New York Mafia has received extensive attention, what has been conspicuously absent until now is an accurate and conversant review of the formative years of Mafia organizational growth. David Critchley examines the Mafia recruitment process, relations with Mafias in...
Made Men
Mafia Culture and the Power of Symbols, Rituals, and Myth
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
The novel The Godfather (1969) and the movie of the same name (1972) entrenched the myth of the Mafiosi as valiant knights, men of honor, and defenders of the traditional concept of family. As a result of this movie and other popular portrayals, the image of mobsters as “men of honor and tradition”...
The Mafia
A Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
What is it about Tony Soprano that makes him so amiable? For that matter, how is it that many of us secretly want Scarface to succeed or see Michael Corleone as, ultimately, a hero? What draws us into the otherwise horrifically violent world of the mafia? In The Mafia, Roberto M. Dainotto explores...
East Side-West Side
Organizing Crime in New York, 1930-50
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Based on primary source documents, this historical study establishes the interconnections between private violence and political, social, and economic life in New York from 1930-1950. By describing and analyzing both the social world and social system of organized crime, Block provides a new perspective,...
America Is the Prison
Arts and Politics in Prison in the 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
In the 1970s, while politicians and activists outside prisons debated the proper response to crime, incarcerated people helped shape those debates though a broad range of remarkable political and literary writings.
Lee Bernstein explores the forces that sparked a dramatic "prison art renaissance,"...
Crimes of Passion
An Unblinking Look at Murderous Love
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Thirty real-life accounts of passion gone lethally wrong
Celebrated mystery writer Howard Engel traces the history of the crime of passion through France, England, Canada, and the United States in his first nonfiction book. The story of Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in England, is explored...
I'm No Monster
The Horrifying True Story of Josef Fritzl
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
The true crime story that made international headlines: Josef Fritzl held his daughter captive as a sex slave, and fathered seven children with her, creating a hidden family no one knew about-not even Fritzl's own wife.
My Brother Moochie
Regaining Dignity in the Midst of Crime, Poverty, and Racism in the American South
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
A rare first-person account that combines a journalist’s skilled reporting with the raw emotion of a younger brother’s heartfelt testimony of what his family endured after his eldest brother killed a man and was sentenced to life in prison.
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At the age of nine, Issac J. Bailey saw his hero,...
The Oscar Slater Murder Story
New Light on a Classic Miscarriage of Justice
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
Oscar Slater, a disreptuable German immigrant, living on the fringe of the Glaswegian underworld and off the proceeds of gambling and prostitution, was sentenced to death in 1909 for the brutal murder of Marion Gilchrist, a rich spinster who lived with a secret hoard of precious jewels hidden in her...
Doing Time
25 Years of Prison Writing
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
A PEN American Center Prize Anthology featuring a quarter century of prison inmates’ prose and verse—with a foreword by Sister Helen Prejean.
For more than three decades, the prestigious writers’ organization PEN has sponsored a contest for writers behind bars to help prisoners face these...
The Texarkana Moonlight Murders
The Unsolved Case of the 1946 Phantom Killer
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
In 1946, years before the phrase “serial murder” was coined, a masked killer terrorized the town of Texarkana on the Texas-Arkansas border. Striking five times within a ten-week period, always at night, the prowler claimed six lives and left three other victims wounded. Survivors told police that...