Crimes category: 7162 books
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Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
This two-volume work offers a comprehensive examination of the distressing topics of transnational crime and the implications for global security.
• Represents global collaboration among contributors including scholars from respected universities in Europe, North America, and Australia; professionals...
Behavioural Analysis of Crime
Studies in David Canter's Investigative Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
The intense interest in 'offender profiling' generated by FBI special agents, gave rise to an explosion of studies in a new area called ’investigative psychology’ by its originator David Canter. This develops understanding of offenders' behaviour that can be harnessed to improve investigations....
Death on the Fourth of July
The Story of a Killing, a Trial, and Hate Crime in America
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
On July 4, 2000, three young Asian American men visiting the small town of Ocean Shores, Washington, were attacked by a group of skinheads in the parking lot of a Texaco station. Threats and slurs gave way to violence and, ultimately, a fatal stabbing. But this tragedy culminated with a twist. A young...
by Loren Abbey, Pamela Zibura
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
In 1952 on a highway in the small Northern California mountain village of Chester, a local businessman and four small children are carjacked, robbed and savagely bludgeoned. Three of the children are killed.
A year earlier, a Folsom gold mine operator had been murdered in a home break-in robbery...
by Jolene Dean
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
He appeared to be a normal individual who didn’t harbor any murderous tendencies, but the mother of one of his hockey buddies soon learned this was untrue. William’s murderous ways began in 1979 with Hazel Scattolon, but it wouldn’t be until the late nineties that he was finally arrested and...
The Violence of Hate
Understanding Harmful Forms of Bias and Bigotry
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
The Violence of Hate, Fourth Edition presents a systematic introduction to issues related to the sociology and social psychology of hate and violence as they target people who are different in socially significant ways. It offers an integrated perspective on the causes and consequences of hate-motivated...
UN Peacekeeping in Africa
A Critical Examination and Recommendations for Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
This timely volume explores the “dark side” of United Nations (UN) Peacekeeping in Africa: when rather than help establish a rule of law in the host country, they become perpetrators of crime. The work of the UN peacekeepers is generally comprised of police and military personnel, from countries...
Exploring Green Criminology
Toward a Green Criminological Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Few criminologists have drawn attention to the fact that widespread and significant forms of harm such as green or environmental crimes are neglected by criminology. Others have suggested that green crimes present the most important challenge to criminology as a discipline. This book argues that criminology...
by Eric Carlton
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2011
How is crime to be defined? Can crime be medicalized? Can crime be explained or even excused in terms of biological or environmental conditions? Can punishment ever fit the crime? And should punishment be primarily reformative or retributive? This book is not an attempt at a kind of literary CSI and...
by Karen Terry
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of criminology find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data...
Understanding Violent Criminals: Insights from the Front Lines of Law Enforcement
Insights from the Front Lines of Law Enforcement
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
Violent crime remains a major problem in America: in 2011, there were more than 1.2 million violent crimes committed in the United States. To better grasp the complex reasons behind this disturbing statistic, author David J. Thomas—a police officer and forensic psychologist—conducted an in-depth...
Violent Crime
Clinical and Social Implications
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
Offering a unique and interdisciplinary focus on the roots of violence, Violent Crime: Clinical and Social Implications explores cutting-edge research on the etiology, nature, assessment, and treatment of individuals who commit violent crimes. This edited volume covers the foundations of criminal...
by Martin O'Brien, Majid Yar
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2008
Criminology: The Key Concepts is an authoritative and comprehensive study guide and reference resource that will take you through all the concepts, approaches, issues and institutions central to the study of crime in contemporary society.
Topics covered in this easy to use A-Z guide include:
policing,...
by Paul Brakke
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2018
Dealing with Crime by Illegal Immigrants and the Opioid Crisis is based on a blog series I wrote for the website of my company American Leadership Books (www.americanleadershipbooks.com). The book features chapters on these topics:
- how illegal immigrants really do commit...