Criminology category: 4273 books
The Colonial Problem
An Indigenous Perspective on Crime and Injustice in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Indigenous peoples are vastly overrepresented in the Canadian criminal justice system. The Canadian government has framed this disproportionate victimization and criminalization as being an "Indian problem."
In The Colonial Problem, Lisa Monchalin challenges the myth of the "Indian...
The Man from the Train
The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
An Edgar Award finalist for Best Fact Crime, this “impressive…open-eyed investigative inquiry wrapped within a cultural history of rural America” (The Wall Street Journal) shows legendary statistician and baseball writer Bill James applying his analytical acumen to crack an unsolved century-old...
Black Sox in the Courtroom
The Grand Jury, Criminal Trial and Civil Litigation
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
A comprehensive, non-partisan account of the judicial proceedings spawned by the corruption of the 1919 World Series is badly needed. This book provides it. The narrative of events has been crafted from surviving fragments of the judicial record, contemporaneous newspaper accounts of the proceedings,...
Young Al Capone
The Untold Story of Scarface in New York, 1899-1925
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Many people are familiar with the story of Al Capone, the “untouchable” Chicago gangster best known for orchestrating the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. But few are aware that Capone’s remarkable story began in the Navy Yard section of Brooklyn, New York. Tutored by the likes of infamous mobsters...
The Krays - The Final Countdown
The Ultimate Biography Of Ron, Reg And Charlie Kray
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2011
The Krays were a product of their age, nurtured by a doting mother and created by their community, the East End of London. Their name alone conjures up images of power, violence and greed - and even brother Charlie couldn't steer the twins Ron and Reg clear of murder mayhem as they killed their way...
Born to Kill
The Rise and Fall of America's Bloodiest Asian Gang
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
The “riveting” true story of the Vietnamese gang that terrorized Manhattan’s Chinatown, from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Westies (Newsday).
They are children of the Vietnam War. Born and raised in the wasteland left by American bombs and napalm, these young men know...
by Al Cimino
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
When the news broke in May 2013 that three women had been held captive for over ten years in Cleveland, Ohio, the world was stunned. Not only had the women been imprisoned in an ordinary house a few blocks from where they had disappeared, but their captor, Ariel Castro, had never been a suspect in...
Wyatt Earp's Cow-boy Campaign
The Bloody Restoration of Law and Order Along the Mexican Border, 1882
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
What can be learned from another retelling of the Tombstone saga? Recent revelations challenge the traditional view of Wyatt Earp’s campaign against the Cow-boy confederation as a bloody personal feud à la western fiction. It was a seek and destroy mission sanctioned by the United States attorney...
Rope and Faggot
A Biography of Judge Lynch
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2002
In 1926, Walter White, then assistant secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, broke the story of an especially horrific triple lynching in Aiken, South Carolina. Aiken was White's forty-first lynching investigation in eight years. He returned to New York drained...
by Neil R. Storey
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Prisons and Prisoners In Victorian Britain provides an illustrated insight into the Victorian prison system and the experiences of those within it—on both sides of the bars. Featuring stories of crime and misdeeds, this fascinating book includes chapters on a typical day inside a Victorian prison—food,...
Notes on a Killing
Love, Lies, and Murder in a Small New Hampshire Town
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Their friendship would kill her…
Weaver and fiber artist Edith “Pen” Meyer knew her friend Sandy Merritt’s relationship with a married man was wrong. She had even urged Sandy to take out a restraining order against Kenneth Carpenter. Which was why her call to Sandy on February 23, 2005,...
Engendered Death
Pennsylvania Women Who Kill
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Engendered Death: Pennsylvania Women Who Kill is an historical and interdisciplinary study of women who kill in Pennsylvania from the 18th century to the present. It is not an examination of what motivates women to kill, although the reader may deduce that from the case studies included. Instead,...
The Trials of Laura Fair
Sex, Murder, and Insanity in the Victorian West
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
On November 3, 1870, on a San Francisco ferry, Laura Fair shot a bullet into the heart of her married lover, A. P. Crittenden. Throughout her two murder trials, Fair's lawyers, supported by expert testimony from physicians, claimed that the shooting was the result of temporary insanity caused by a...
by John Kearney
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
4-Sided Love Triangle
Michelle Hetzel, Keary Renner, and Devon Guzman were three high school girls who shared a secret: their lesbian desires. After high school, Michelle married Brandon Bloss, 25, while Keary and Devon lived together. Michelle used her husband's credit card to finance a trip...