Criminology category: 4273 books
Code of the Suburb
Inside the World of Young Middle-Class Drug Dealers
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
When we think about young people dealing drugs, we tend to picture it happening on urban streets, in disadvantaged, crime-ridden neighborhoods. But drugs are used everywhere—even in upscale suburbs and top-tier high schools—and teenage users in the suburbs tend to buy drugs from their peers, dealers...
Corruption and American Cities
Essays and Case Studies in Ethical Accountability
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
Corruption is a chronic public concern affecting America’s cities. Greed, ethical lapses and lack of accountability have drained untold millions in tax dollars. Corrupt practices range from embezzlement, graft, bribery, kickbacks, extortion, nepotism and patronage to the misuse of funds, vehicles,...
Murderers' Row
An International Murderers' Who's Who
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2011
Criminologist Robin Odell has complied this gruesome gallery of cases from all over the world, revealing the growth in serial slayings, contract killings and middle-class murders and investigating what motivates people to commit the ultimate crime. As well as gangsters and ordinary felons, "Murder:...
by Tim D. White, Pieter A. Folkens
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2005
Building on the success of their previous book, White and Folkens' The Human Bone Manual is intended for use outside the laboratory and classroom, by professional forensic scientists, anthropologists and researchers. The compact volume includes all the key information needed for identification purposes,...
by Nathan J. Gordon, William L. Fleisher
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Effective Interviewing and Interrogation Techniques believably answers the question, How do you know when someone is lying? It also provides a guide for interviewing probable suspects and interrogating likely perpetrators on techniques and tradecraft.
This book covers topics about searching...
Intimate Partner Violence
Effective Procedure, Response and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Written by experts with a combined 50 years of experience teaching and researching in the field of domestic abuse, Intimate Partner Violence: Effective Procedure, Response, and Policy provides practical instruction for practitioners and lay people responding to domestic violence, as well as ideas...
Criminalistics Laboratory Manual
The Basics of Forensic Investigation
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
The Criminalistics Laboratory Manual: The Basics of Forensic Investigation provides students with little to no prior knowledge of forensic science with a practical crime scene processing experience. The manual starts with an original crime scene narrative setting up the crime students are to solve....
Forensic DNA Biology
A Laboratory Manual
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2012
DNA typing has revolutionized criminal investigations and has become a powerful tool in the identification of individuals in criminal and paternity cases. Forensic DNA Biology: A Laboratory Manual is comprised of up-to-date and practical experiments and step-by-step instructions on how to perform...
Alice Diamond and the Forty Elephants
The Female Gang That Terrorised London
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
The Forty Elephants were unique in the annals of British crime. Known also as the Forty Thieves, they were the country's only all-female crime syndicate, a gang of tough but glamorous young women who plundered the fashion stores and jewel shops of the West End, took their lovers from the among London's...
by James A Sharpe
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Still the only general survey of the topic available, this widely-used exploration of the incidence, causes and control of crime in Early Modern England throws a vivid light on the times. It uses court archives to capture vividly the everyday lives of people who would otherwise have left little mark...
"Real Men Don't Buy Girls" - I.
Human trafficking
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
6 weeks Bestseller by Literatur Portal Deutschland
Human trafficking Contemporary slavery Unfree Labor
Debt bondage
Peon
Penal Labor Sexual slavery Wage slavery
Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially
Women and Children
Convention against Transnational Organized...
Genesis of modern genocide
Norbert Elias' civilizing process theory
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2009
Essay from the year 2008 in the subject Sociology - Law, Delinquency, Abnormal Behavior, grade: 1,0, University of Leicester, 10 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The phrase that the 'civilized Western World' has to defence its values even by using physical violence is often...
by Richard J. Blackwell
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 1991
Considered the paradigm case of the troubled interaction between science and religion, the conflict between Galileo and the Church continues to generate new research and lively debate. Richard J. Blackwell offers a fresh approach to the Galileo case, using as his primary focus the biblical and ecclesiastical...
Killer Nurse
The Harrowing True Story of One Woman's Murder Spree in an East Texas Town
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
She was hired to nurse them back to health...instead, she took their lives.
For months, the DaVita Dialysis Center in Lufkin, Texas had been baffled by the rising number of deaths and injuries occurring in their clinic. In April alone, they’d rushed thirty-four patients to the hospital. But...