Criminology category: 4273 books
The Cartels: The Story of Mexico's Most Dangerous Criminal Organizations and their Impact on U.S. Security
The Story of Mexico's Most Dangerous Criminal Organizations and Their Impact on U.S. Security
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
What can President Enrique Peña Nieto do to curb the narcotics-induced mayhem in Mexico, and what would be the consequences to the United States if he fails? This book analyzes Mexico's transition from a relatively peaceful kleptocracy controlled by the Tammany-Hall style Institutional Revolutionary...
破案神探：FBI首位犯罪剖繪專家緝兇檔案（首部曲）
Mindhunter: Inside The FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit
Language: Chinese
Release Date: August 11, 2017
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A Confederate in Congress
The Civil War Treason Trial of Benjamin Gwinn Harris
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
In May 1865, the final month of the Civil War, the U.S. Army arrested and prosecuted a sitting congressman in a military trial in the border state of Maryland, though the federal criminal courts in the state were functioning. Convicted of aiding and abetting paroled Confederate soldiers, Benjamin...
Warfare in the American Homeland
Policing and Prison in a Penal Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2007
The United States has more than two million people locked away in federal, state, and local prisons. Although most of the U.S. population is non-Hispanic and white, the vast majority of the incarcerated—and policed—is not. In this compelling collection, scholars, activists, and current and former...
A World of Gangs
Armed Young Men and Gangsta Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008
“Street gangs mirror the inhuman ambitions and greed of society’s trendsetters and deities even as they fight to the death over scraps from the table of the international drug trade. But John Hagedorn, characteristically, also finds hope in the contradictory values of outlaw youth—selflessness,...
Hate Crimes Revisited
America's War On Those Who Are Different
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
Hate crimes-violence aimed at individuals because they are members of a particular group-were once considered the rare illegal actions of a small but vocal assortment of extremists who thrived on hating minorities. No more. In this new book by two of the country's leading experts on hate crimes, published...
by Jerome H. Skolnick
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2011
New Fourth Edition of the acclaimed and foundational study of police culture and practice, political accountability, application of and obedience to the rule of law in stops and arrests, and the dilemma of law versus order in free societies--by a renowned sociologist using innovative and influential...
Crime and Racial Constructions
Cultural Misinformation about African Americans in Media and Academia
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
Crime and Racial Constructions: Cultural Misinformation about African Americans in Media and Academia focuses on how film images of dangerous, hedonistic blacks have assumed greater significance since blacks protested racial injustice during the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Power Movement of...
Mass Imprisonment
Social Causes and Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2001
`The quite extraordinary phenomenon of mass imprisonment in the USA needs, above all, to be identified.
David Garland and his excellent range of criminological contributors go well beyond this by showing how to start thinking (and arguing) about what these unprecedented statistics might mean...
Policing the Globe
Criminalization and Crime Control in International Relations
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2006
In this illuminating history that spans past campaigns against piracy and slavery to contemporary campaigns against drug trafficking and transnational terrorism, Peter Andreas and Ethan Nadelmann explain how and why prohibitions and policing practices increasingly extend across borders. The internationalization...
Policing Black Bodies
How Black Lives Are Surveilled and How to Work for Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
From Trayvon Martin to Freddie Gray, the stories of police violence against Black people are too often in the news. In Policing Black Bodies Angela J. Hattery and Earl Smith make a compelling case that the policing of Black bodies goes far beyond these individual stories of brutality. They connect...
by Ross, Jeffrey Ian
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
In An introduction to political crime, Jeffrey Ian Ross provides the most comprehensive and contemporary analysis of political crime addressing both violent and nonviolent crimes committed by and against the state (e.g. political corruption, illegal domestic surveillance, and human rights violations)...
Forbidden Bookshelf Presents Dan E. Moldea
Interference, The Hoffa Wars, and Dark Victory
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
Three exposés of corruption—behind the NFL, the Teamsters and Jimmy Hoffa, and Ronald Reagan—from an investigative reporter who “never relents” (The Washington Post).
Interference: A shocking exposé of widespread corruption and mob influence throughout the National Football League—on...
A Safeway in Arizona
What the Gabrielle Giffords Shooting Tells Us About the Grand Canyon State and L ife in America
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2011
A riveting account of the state of Arizona, seen through the lens of the Tucson shootings
On January 8, 2011, twenty-two-year-old Jared Lee Loughner opened fire at a Tucson meet-and-greet held by U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords. The incident left six people dead and eighteen injured,...