Crimes Criminals category: 7162 books
by Michael Knox Beran
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Bringing to life the ghastly ambiance of a vanished epoch, Murder by Candlelight presents a terrifying glimpse of the horror beneath the seeming civility of the Romantic era.
In the early nineteenth century, a series of murders took place in and around London which shocked the whole of England....
Cold Case Reviews
DNA, Detective Work and Unsolved Major Crimes
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
This book provides the first ethnographic account of a UK major crime review team, providing a comprehensive, conceptual account of cold case reviews not currently available from an academic criminological perspective. . Cold case reviews are a relatively new and innovative form of policing yet, to...
by Marvin J. Wolf, Katherine Mader
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
No such thing as PERFECT CRIMES? Witness this whirlwind tour of dirty deeds, sinister scandals, and cold-blooded murder--done in the name of love, money, madness, and more--from around the world or right next door. All of these notoriously wicked characters overlooked a fatal flaw that brought their...
Serial Crime
Theoretical and Practical Issues in Behavioral Profiling
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2009
Serial Crime, Second Edition, examines serial predatory behavior and is divided into two main parts.
Part one deals with behavioral profiling, and covers a variety of critical issues from the history of profiling and the theoretical schools of thought to its treatment in the mainstream media....
by Dr. Karabi Konch
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Crime and Society presents the subject matter of criminologyCriminology, its field and scope, its historical development and of law, law enforcement agencies and the criminal justice system. Concentrated on different relevant aspects of criminology such as crime, deviance and delinquency, it attempts...
The Geography of Environmental Crime
Conservation, Wildlife Crime and Environmental Activism
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
This book critically examines both theory and practice around conservation crimes. It engages with the full complexity of environmental crimes and different responses to them, including: poaching, conservation as a response to wildlife crime, forest degradation, environmental activism, and the application...
by Christi Siver
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
War crimes have devastating effects on victims and perpetrators and endanger broader political and military goals. The protection of civilians, one of the most fundamental norms in the laws of war, appears to have weakened despite almost universal international agreement. Using insights from organizational...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2014
Toxicological Aspects of Drug-Facilitated Crimes provides readers with an overview of the field of DFC: its history, toxicological effects, analysis, interpretation of results, the roles that age, gender and race may play, and clinical presentations of these drugs. The most commonly used drugs in...
The Prosecution of International Crimes
A Critical Study of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
The post-World War Two period has witnessed numerous armed conflicts characterized by extensive violations of relevant obligatory international norms. Responding to these events, the United Nations General Assembly created a permanent international court in 2003, with jurisdiction over selected...
The Encyclopedia of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List
Over Fifty Years of Convicts, Robbers, Terrorists, and Other Rogues
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
In 1949, a crime reporter looking for a way to fill a column published the nation’s ten worst criminals as classified by the FBI: two accused murderers, four escaped convicts, a bank robber, and three confidence men.” In addition to the stark black and white photos that accompanied the article,...
Dreams from the Monster Factory
A Tale of Prison, Redemption, and One Woman's Fight to Restore Justice to All
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
Dreams from the Monster Factory tells the true story of Sunny Schwartz's extraordinary work in the criminal justice system and how her profound belief in people's ability to change is transforming the San Francisco jails and the criminals incarcerated there. With an immediacy made possible by a twenty-seven-year...
by Peter Moskos
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Prisons impose tremendous costs, yet they're easily ignored. Criminals-- even low-level nonviolent offenders-- enter our dysfunctional criminal justice system and disappear into a morass that's safely hidden from public view. Our "tough on crime" political rhetoric offers us no way out,...
by G. Larry Mays, Rick Ruddell
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
For more than 20 years now, the attitude in some jurisdictions has been "if you're old enough to do the crime, you're old enough to do the time." After two decades of applying this increasingly punitive mindset to juvenile offenders, it is possible to see the actual consequences of transferring more...
Organizing Crime in Chinatown
Race and Racketeering in New York City, 1890-1910
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
More than a century ago, organized criminals were intrinsically involved with the political, social, and economic life of the Chinese American community. In the face of virulent racism and substantial linguistic and cultural differences, they also integrated themselves successfully into the extensive...