Crimes category: 7162 books
Today's White Collar Crime
Legal, Investigative, and Theoretical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
Written as a text for undergraduate courses, this book appeals to instructors interested in teaching the field of white-collar crime, both from a matter-of-fact investigative perspective as well as a decidedly academic endeavor. Accordingly, it goes beyond discussing the basic theories and typologies...
Key Terms and Concepts for Investigation
A Reference for Criminal, Private, and Military Investigators
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
Key Terms and Concepts for Investigation provides students and practitioners with a compilation of concise, accurate articles on major topics pertaining to criminal, private, and military investigations. Each entry in this reference features a definition and then describes its function in investigation,...
Jay Robert Nash's Crime Chronology
A Worldwide Record 1900-1983
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1984
Jay Robert Nash, best-selling author and one of the world's foremost crime historians, has compiled in one volume thousands of the most significant and fascinating crimes of the twentieth century.
This extensive worldwide chronology is a year-by-year, crime-by crime historical record, Organized...
by Dana M. Britton
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
The Gender of Crime introduces students to how gender shapes our understanding of every aspect of crime. Moving beyond criminological theories and research that have often neglected gender, this dynamic and provocative book shows that gender is central to the definition, prosecution, and sentencing...
by Dana M. Britton, Grace E. Howard, Shannon K. Jacobsen
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
The Gender of Crime introduces readers to how gender shapes our understanding of every aspect of crime—from defining what crime is to governing how crime is punished. The second edition of this award-winning book maintains the accessible, reader-friendly narrative of the first edition with key updates...
by Philip Bean
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
A high proportion of crimes committed in Britain are drugs-related, with many offenders having a documented history of drug use. However, the direct link between drugs and crime is often less clear than is supposed and this text attempts to achieve a better understanding of these and surrounding issues...
Security
Policing Your Homeland, Your State, Your City
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2004
From counterterrorism to tracking criminals by satellite, Security gives an expert's tour of twenty-first-century law enforcement. Former NYPD commissioner Howard Safir reveals the tools, methods, and science that police officers use to reduce crime, and track and apprehend criminals, including surveillance,...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2013
Mass murders in the workplace by unstable employees have become media-intensive events. In fact, the apparent rise in such cases may have been an impression created by this increased media attention. Still, the frequency of episodes following the Edmond post office killings was startling. In Southern...
The Treadmill of Crime
Political Economy and Green Criminology
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Drawing on the work of Allan Schnaiberg, this book returns political economy to green criminology and examines how the expansion of capitalism shapes environmental law, crime and justice. The book is organized around crimes of ecological withdrawals and ecological additions.
The Treadmill of...
by David Pietras
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2018
The question often posed when we are confronted with such senseless acts of violence as these, is what causes medical professionals to kill individuals for which they have a fiduciary duty to protect? Are there contributing factors shared among them which predispose them to murder? When the implicit...
The Dating Game Killer
The True Story of a TV Dating Show, a Violent Sociopath, and a Series of Brutal Murders
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
In 1978, Rodney Alcala was a contestant on the "The Dating Game," one of America's most popular television shows at the time. Handsome, successful, and romantic, he was embraced by the audience—and chosen as the winner by the beautiful bachelorette. To viewers across the country, Rodney...
Murder, America
Homicide in the United States from the Revolution to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 1980
Here is a comprehensive collection of the most fascinating homicide cases in our nation's history. Jay Robert Nash brings the dark side of America to life in these briefs. Included are the most ingenious and the most notorious murders, perpetrated by a group of criminals of frightening and fascinating...
by David Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
On August 20th, 1989, privileged brothers 21-year-old Lyle and 18-year-old Erik Menendez gunned down their parents in their Beverly Hills mansion. Entertainment executive Jose Menendez was shot in the head at point-blank range. Their mother, Kitty, was shot multiple times while trying to escape.
They...
The Causes and Consequences of Group Violence
From Bullies to Terrorists
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
This book offers a transnational and transdisciplinary investigation of violence, ranging from bullying and hate crimes to revolutions, genocide, and acts of terrorism. It offers empirical investigations of these specific types of violence as well as theoretical discussions of the underlying similarities and differences among these forms of violence.