Crimes Criminals category: 7162 books
Ces jeunes devenus criminels
Un livre-vérité sur la délinquance chez les jeunes
Language: French
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Portraits de ces jeunes à la dérive de la sociétéIls utilisent des procédés mafieux, ils entretiennent des relations étroites avec la pègre, ils sont pleins de haine, de vengeance et de rejet de la société, ils torturent, volent, violent, tuent… « Ils » ? Des jeunes. Généralement sans...
by Robert Scott
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
Strangler's Kill
John Annibel, 40, was the bad half of a set of twins. James stayed out of trouble. . .but John, with his hair-trigger temper and paranoia, was different. On Thanksgiving weekend, 1998, Debbie Sloan, 42, sat down next to a stranger in a bar. She wound up gasping her life away,...
Murder Out Yonder
True Crime Stories from America's Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Praised by Kirkus Reviews as "a brisk, colorful, and cleverly recounted selection of ten crimes," this gripping book ventures into rural America to uncover true tales of homicide. From "Death and Times of a Prophet," involving a hypnotic Oregon revivalist known as Joshua the Second,...
The Piano Teacher
The True Story of a Psychotic Killer
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Everybody has a dream. For aspiring actress Suzanne Reynolds, her dream ended in a gruesome encounter with eccentric New York artist Charles Yukl. Fooled by his choirboy looks, Reynolds had no idea the man who taught her the piano was a woman-hating recluse who spent his days lost in fantasies of...
Wannabe in my Gang?
From the Krays to the Essex Boys
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
Kray gang boss Tony Lambrianou, who served a life sentence for the brutal murder of Jack 'the Hat' McVitie, has threatened to kill Bernard O'Mahoney 'by smashing a hammer through his head'. 'Dodgy' Dave Courtney, who claims to have murdered two gangland rivals, tried 'to put him out of his misery'...
by Sebastian Junger
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2006
A fatal collision of three lives in the most intriguing and original crime story since In Cold Blood.
In the spring of 1963, the quiet suburb of Belmont, Massachusetts, is rocked by a shocking sex murder that exactly fits the pattern of the Boston Strangler. Sensing a break in the case that...
Ugly Prey
An Innocent Woman and the Death Sentence That Scandalized Jazz Age Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
An Italian immigrant who spoke little English and struggled to scrape together a living on her primitive family farm outside Chicago, Sabella Nitti was arrested in 1923 for the murder of her missing husband. Within two months, she was found guilty and became the first woman ever sentenced to hang...
Human Security, Transnational Crime and Human Trafficking
Asian and Western Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
In recent years, drug use, illegal migration and human trafficking have all become more common in Asia, North America and Asia: the problems of organized crime and human trafficking are no longer confined to operating at the traditional regional level. This book fills a gap in the current literature...
Murder, New England
A Historical Collection of Killer True-Crime Tales
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Bestselling true-crime author M. William Phelps, star of the new investigative television series “Dark Minds,” takes readers to his own backyard in these eight bloodcurdling murder cases. Think New England is all bucolic landscapes and Robert Frost poems? Think again.
In Murder, New England,...
The Greatest Traitor
The Secret Lives of Agent George Blake
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Sober, accurate and all the more thrilling for it. The best thing on Blake that we are likely to get for a very long time.' JOHN LE CARRÉ On 3 May 1961, after a trial conducted largely in secret, a man named George Blake was sentenced to an unprecedented forty-two years in jail. At the time few details...
What Is Crime?
Controversies over the Nature of Crime and What to Do about It
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2001
For decades, scholars have disagreed about what kinds of behavior count as crime. Is it simply a violation of the criminal law? Is it behavior that causes serious harm? Is the seriousness affected by how many people are harmed and does it make a difference who those people are? Are crimes less criminal...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
State Crime in the Global Age brings together original writings from leading scholars in the field to explore the many ways that the use and abuse of state power results in grave social harms that outweigh, by far, the consequences of ordinary street crime.
The topics covered include the crimes...
by R. Barri Flowers
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
From R. Barri Flowers, award-winning criminologist and bestselling author of Murder at the Pencil Factory and Murder of the Banker's Daughter comes the powerful historical true crime short, Murder During the Chicago World's Fair: The Killing of Little Emma Werner.On Tuesday, May 9,...
by Katherine Ramsland
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2012
He was a handsome and charismatic local minister; she was the church choir’s beautiful soprano soloist. In 1922 they were found together, brutally murdered, along a secluded lane in New Brunswick, New Jersey—a popular spot for lovers’ trysts. Each of the victims was married—to someone else....