Crimes Criminals category: 7162 books
by Steven Briggs
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2011
Your thorough guide to comprehending and combating crime
Are you fascinated by criminology, forensics, and detective work? This you-are-there guide takes you deep into the world of crime, giving you a better understanding of the dark recesses of the criminal mind and how law enforcement officials...
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...
Crimes of Dissent
Civil Disobedience, Criminal Justice, and the Politics of Conscience
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
From animal rights to anti-abortion, from tax resistance to anti-poverty, activists from across the political spectrum often deliberately break the law to further their causes. While not behaviors common to hardened or self-seeking criminals, the staging of civil disobedience, non-violent resistance,...
Creating Criminals
Prisons and People in a Market Society
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Market society is producing more crime around the world. More acts are being defined as crimes. Ever increasing numbers of people are classified as criminals and more are being locked up in prison. With globalization, the crime and punishment problem is no longer insulated from pressures beyond national...
JailBreak 2: Dirty Rotten Criminals, the Branson Years
JailBreak Series, #2
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2018
This is a non-fiction, "true crime" account of a later part of my journey as a refugee from Oklahoma, where corrupt officials deliberately protected their jail snitch by putting a murder that he committed onto me, to save themselves from lawsuits for police brutality and torture.
In...
by Ted Botha
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
In The Girl with the Crooked Nose, Ted Botha tells the absorbing story of Frank Bender, a gifted, self-taught artist who can bring back the dead and the vanished through a unique, macabre sculpting talent. Bender has been the key to solving at least nine murders and tracking down numerous criminals....
Chronicles of a Rochester Major Crimes Detective
Confronting Evil & Pursuing Truth
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
Patrick Crough served more than twenty years as a Monroe County Major Crimes detective, where he investigated some of the region�s most tragic crimes. They include horrifying acts, like that of a Valentine�s Day killing rampage that left four people dead, as well as the case against Ed Laraby, the...
by Alexandre Dumas
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
This text was taken from 'Celebrated Crimes', a series of essays on famous criminals and crimes by the author of 'The Count of Monte Cristo' and 'The Three Musketeers', Alexandre Dumas, and contains the text from three of the books in the series. This volume contains books on• Beatrice Cenci, an Italian...
by Alexandre Dumas
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Three writings taken from 'Celebrated Crimes', a series of essays on famous criminals and crimes by the author of 'The Count of Monte Cristo' and 'The Three Musketeers', Alexandre Dumas.
by Alexandre Dumas
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Three writings taken from 'Celebrated Crimes', a series of essays on famous criminals and crimes by the author of 'The Count of Monte Cristo' and 'The Three Musketeers', Alexandre Dumas.
by W.G. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Violence and crime stain the pages of U.S. history, and sadly, they're all but certain to be part of our future.
Still, the criminal mind fascinates us, and you couldn't name or number all the TV shows, movies and novels that all but glamorize true crime.
This unique book features the...
The Infamous Harry Hayward
A True Account of Murder and Mesmerism in Gilded Age Minneapolis
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
A fascinating tale of seduction, murder, fraud, coercion—and the trial of the “Minneapolis Monster”
On a winter night in 1894, a young woman’s body was found in the middle of a road near Lake Calhoun on the outskirts of Minneapolis. She had been shot through the head. The murder of...
Behavioural Analysis of Crime
Studies in David Canter's Investigative Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
The intense interest in 'offender profiling' generated by FBI special agents, gave rise to an explosion of studies in a new area called ’investigative psychology’ by its originator David Canter. This develops understanding of offenders' behaviour that can be harnessed to improve investigations....
Understanding Violent Criminals: Insights from the Front Lines of Law Enforcement
Insights from the Front Lines of Law Enforcement
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
Violent crime remains a major problem in America: in 2011, there were more than 1.2 million violent crimes committed in the United States. To better grasp the complex reasons behind this disturbing statistic, author David J. Thomas—a police officer and forensic psychologist—conducted an in-depth...