Criminology category: 4273 books
The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Mafia, 2nd Edition
A Fascinating Exploration of the Real People Who Inspired The Sopranos
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2005
Here is the most comprehensive introduction to and explanation of the most infamous crime organization in history. Completely updated with more than 70 pages of new material and photographs, it includes information about the shifts in power and tightening of ranks of different families after convictions...
Atrocious Judges
Lives of Judges Infamous as Tools of Tyrants and Instruments of Oppression. Compiled from the Judicial Biographies of John Lord Campbell, Lord Chief Justice of England. With an Appendix, Containing the Case of Passmore Williamson.
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2013
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION.
CHAPTER I. ROGER LE BRABANCON.
CHAPTER II. ROBERT TRESILIAN.
CHAPTER III. THOMAS BILLING.
CHAPTER IV. JOHN FITZJAMES.
CHAPTER V. THOMAS FLEMING.
CHAPTER VI. NICHOLAS HYDE.
CHAPTER VII. JOHN BRAMPSTON.
CHAPTER VIII. ROBERT HEATH.
CHAPTER IX. ROBERT FOSTER.
CHAPTER X. ROBERT HYDE.
CHAPTER...
by John Chipman
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
In this national bestseller, a work of vigorous reporting, deep compassion and unerring integrity, award-winning journalist and documentarian John Chipman investigates the lives left ruined in the wake of Dr. Charles Smith's ignominious career.
In the mid-'90s, the Ontario Coroner's office...
Down Inside
Thirty Years in Canada's Prison Service
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
A compelling personal memoir and a scathing indictment of bureaucratic indifference and agenda-driven government policies.
In his thirty years in the Canadian prison system, Robert Clark rose from student volunteer to deputy warden. He worked with some of Canada’s most dangerous and notorious...
The Human Predator
A Historical Chronicle of Serial Murder and Forensic Investigation
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
When we think of serial killing, we tend to think of it as a perversion of contemporary society. The Human Predator makes an eye-opening case for the existence of serial killers throughout time—the motives and methods, the societies that spawned them, and the historical periods in which they lived...
The Devil's Dozen
12 Notorious Serial Killers Caught by Cutting-Edge Forensics
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2009
What led authorities to the murder castle of H. H. Holmes? What cast a cloud of suspicion over cannibal Albert Fish? What drove Russia’s Killer X to confess?
How many victims were actually buried on that Vancouver pig farm?
In The Devil’s Dozen, Katherine Ramsland explores the true stories...
The Next Frontier
National Development, Political Change, and the Death Penalty in Asia
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2009
Today, two-thirds of the world's nations have abolished the death penalty, either officially or in practice, due mainly to the campaign to end state executions led by Western European nations. Will this success spread to Asia, where over 95 percent of executions now occur? Do Asian values and traditions...
To Alcatraz, Death Row, and Back
Memories of an East LA Outlaw
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
When Ernie López was a boy selling newspapers in Depression-era Los Angeles, his father beat him when he failed to bring home the expected eighty to ninety cents a day. When the beatings became unbearable, he took to petty stealing to make up the difference. As his thefts succeeded, Ernie's sense of...
The Trial of Jack the Ripper
The Case of William Bury (1859-89)
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2011
A shocking and brutal murder had taken place in the city in February that year, and the words 'Jack Ripper is at the back of this door' were found written in chalk on a door at the scene of the crime. When he was arrested, the accused, William Bury, admitted that he was 'afraid he would be arrested...
by Neil R. Storey
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
From infamous serial killers to unusual murder weapons to crime scene investigations, a must for everyone interested in true crimeFilled with every conceivable grim fact or fancy about this most despicable of crimes, this is a chilling compendium of intriguing, obscure, and strange facts and trivia...
by Ann Rule
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1983
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1983
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Stranger Beside Me comes a true crime story of a serial killer who was sentenced to die—yet lived to murder again....and again....
After committing his first grisly crime, Harvey Louis Carignan beat a death sentence and continued to manipulate,...
Dying for the Truth
Undercover Inside the Mexican Drug War by the Fugitive Reporters of Blog del Narco
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
What is the value of telling the truth? For independent blog reporters in the midst of the Mexican Drug War, it's as important as their very lives, which are threatened on a daily basis.Blog del Narco is a heavily visited website, both in Mexico and the rest of North America, and it reveals...
Un aspecto de la violencia
Historiografía y visión sociopolítica de la violencia en Colombia (1953-1963)
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2018
A comienzos de la década de los años sesenta del siglo XX, la vida socio-política de Colombia estaba agitada, porque coincidían en el panorama el reciente acuerdo del Frente Nacional celebrado entre los dos partidos tradicionales para alternarse el poder durante 16 años continuos entre 1958 y...
Drug War Zone
Frontline Dispatches from the Streets of El Paso and Juárez
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Thousands of people die in drug-related violence every year in Mexico. Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, adjacent to El Paso, Texas, has become the most violent city in the Mexican drug war. Much of the cocaine, marijuana, and methamphetamine consumed in the United States is imported across the Mexican border,...