Criminology category: 4273 books
Blind Injustice
A Former Prosecutor Exposes the Psychology and Politics of Wrongful Convictions
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
In this unprecedented view from the trenches, prosecutor turned champion for the innocent Mark Godsey takes us inside the frailties of the human mind as they unfold in real-world wrongful convictions. Drawing upon stories from his own career, Godsey shares how innate psychological flaws in judges,...
by M. William Phelps
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
On a day like any other in Akron, Ohio, in a parking lot like so many across America, a black-clad motorcyclist rode up to an occupied vehicle and fired a gun—and didn’t miss. The shock rippling through the community led to former beauty queen Cynthia George, a respected church member and devoted...
by Robert Scott
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
In May 1998, in the small northern California town of Cottonwood, Norman Daniels, 28, opened a wax-sealed envelope given to him by friend Todd Garton, 27, who claimed to be a paid assassin for an elite organization called the Company. Now the Company was recruiting Daniels. His initiation would be...
by Peyton Budd
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Across the country, DNA testing is revealing the innocence of wrongfully convicted and imprisoned people. Dallas leads the nation in these exonerations. TESTED: How Twelve Wrongly Imprisoned Men Held Onto Hope dramatically reveals how these men kept their hope, their faith, and their sanity. As authors...
Molecules of Murder
Criminal Molecules and Classic Cases
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Molecules of Murder is about infamous murderers and famous victims; about people like Harold Shipman, Alexander Litvinenko, Adelaide Bartlett, and Georgi Markov. Few books on poisons analyse these crimes from the viewpoint of the poison itself, doing so throws a new light on how the murders or attempted...
Cannabis in Medical Practice
A Legal, Historical and Pharmacological Overview of the Therapeutic Use of Marijuana
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2010
Because marijuana is a Schedule I drug under the Controlled Substances Act, the therapeutic benefits of cannabis are no longer mentioned in the formal education of health care professionals. Doctors who do learn of the drug’s therapeutic value are often intimidated by its illegal status. Thus millions...
Criminal Procedure and the Supreme Court
A Guide to the Major Decisions on Search and Seizure, Privacy, and Individual Rights
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2010
In any episode of the popular television show Law and Order, questions of police procedure in collecting evidence often arise. Was a search legal? Was the evidence obtained lawfully? Did the police follow the rules in pursuing their case? While the show depicts fictional cases and scenarios, police...
Homicide
A Year on the Killing Streets
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
From the creator of HBO's The Wire, the classic book about homicide investigation that became the basis for the hit television show
The scene is Baltimore. Twice every three days another citizen is shot, stabbed, or bludgeoned to death. At the center of this hurricane of crime is the city's...
True Stories of Law & Order: SVU
The Real Crimes Behind the Best Episodes of the Hit TV Show
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2007
The incredible real-life cases behind TV's hit crime drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, including photos. The crimes, the suspects, the trials—as they really went down.
True Stories of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit focuses on twenty-five of the scandalous true crimes that...
by Randall Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
In this powerfully reasoned, lucidly written work, Harvard Law Professor Randall Kennedy takes on the highly complex issues of race, crime, and the legal system, uncovering the long-standing failure of the justice system to protect blacks from criminals and revealing difficult truths about these factors in the United States.
by Steven J. Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2010
On June 28, 1972 in a South Bronx subway station, John Skagen, a white off-duty policeman on his way home, suddenly and without apparent provocation, ordered James Richardson, a black man on his way to work, to get against the wall and put his hands up. Richardson had a gun, and the two exchanged...
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A Family's Fight for Justice against Whitey Bulger, Stephen Flemmi, and the FBI
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
No one can deny that mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger and Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi are two of the most brutal killers in American history—not even the two gangsters themselves. But a jury denied the Davis family closure for the slaying of Debbie Davis, Flemmi's beautiful young girlfriend, who...
by M. William Phelps
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
"M. William Phelps dares to tread where few others will: into the mind of a killer." —TV Rage
At the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Northampton, Massachusetts, Kristen Gilbert was known as a hardworking, dedicated nurse. Yet so many emergencies and sudden deaths occurred under...
From Deportation to Prison
The Politics of Immigration Enforcement in Post-Civil Rights America
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Winner, 2017 Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award
A thorough and captivating exploration of how mass incarceration and law and order policies of the past forty years have transformed immigration and border enforcement
Criminal prosecutions for immigration offenses have more than doubled over...