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Cold Cases True Crime: 10 True Crime Stories Of Monsters And Serial Killers: Chilling Cold Cases True Crime Accounts
Cold Cases True Crime, #1
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
The world is full of mysteries. Despite the fact that people are living in a high-tech world, with many advances in science and technology, there are still many unsolved and unexplained crimes that occur over the centuries.
It’s quite sad and truly horrible to know that there are people who...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Within criminology ‘the state’ is often ignored as an active participant, or represented as a neutral force. While state crime studies have proliferated, criminologists have not paid attention to the history and impact of resistance to state crime. This book recognises that crimes of the state...
by R. Barri Flowers
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
From R. Barri Flowers, award-winning criminologist and bestselling author, comes the newly updated compelling narrative nonfiction and historical true crime book, Murders in the United States: Crimes, Killers, and Victims of the Twentieth Century.
From the assassination of President William...
Reparation for Victims of Crimes against Humanity
The healing role of reparation
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Each year, countless people fall victim to crimes against humanity. These include widespread occurrences of systematic murder, torture, rape, disappearances, forced deportation and political persecution. Crimes against humanity constitute an attack on human dignity and as such they violate the human...
Hate Crimes
Causes, Controls, and Controversies
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
The Fourth Edition of Hate Crimes: Causes, Controls, and Controversies byPhyllis B. Gerstenfeldtakes a multidisciplinary approach that allows students to explore a broad scope of hate crimes. Drawing on recent developments, topics, and current research, this bookexamines the issues that foster hate...
Hate Crimes
Criminal Law and Identity Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2000
In the early 1980s, a new category of crime appeared in the criminal law lexicon. In response to concerted advocacy-group lobbying, Congress and many state legislatures passed a wave of "hate crime" laws requiring the collection of statistics on, and enhancing the punishment for, crimes motivated...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Situational crime prevention is the art and science of reducing opportunities for crime. Despite accumulating evidence of its value in reducing many different kinds of crime - such as burglary, fraud, robbery, car theft, child sexual abuse and even terrorism - little has previously been published...
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The Psychology of Hate Crimes as Domestic Terrorism: U.S. and Global Issues [3 volumes]
U.S. and Global Issues
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
In this three-volume set, an international team of experts involved in the research, management, and mitigation of hate-motivated violence examines and explains hate crimes in the United States and around the globe, drawing comparisons between countries as well as between hate crimes overall and domestic...
Understanding Hate Crimes
Acts, Motives, Offenders, Victims, and Justice
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Hate crimes and lesser acts of bigotry and intolerance are seen to be constants in today’s world. Since 1990, the federal government has published annual reports on hate crime incidents in the United States. While the reported numbers are disturbing, even more devastating is the impact of these...
Churches, Temples, and Financial Crimes
A Judicial Perspective of the Abuse of Faith
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2015
This eye-opening volume examines ways in which religious institutions can be misused to mask illegal financial dealings, and steps law enforcement can take to combat these criminal activities. The chapters review legal rights and responsibilities of churches and the types of loopholes that can allow...
Crimes That Changed Our World
Tragedy, Outrage, and Reform
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Can crime make our world safer? Crimes are the worst of humanity’s wrongs but, oddly, they sometimes “trigger” improvement in our lives. Crimes That Changed Our World explores some of the most important trigger cases of the past century, revealing much about how change comes to our modern world.
The...
Women Behind Bars
The True Story of Female Criminals in Prison
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
They were once sweet little girls--sugar and spice, and everything nice. Now they're cold blooded criminals, behind the bars of America's most dangerous prisons--hardened women doing their time. how and why did they cross to the dark side? What makes women kill husbands, lovers, family, and innocent...
White-Collar Crime
The Essentials
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
The thoroughly updated Second Edition of White Collar Crime: The Essentials continues to be a comprehensive, yet concise, resource addressing the most important topics students need to know about white-collar crime. Author Brian K. Payne provides a theoretical framework and context for students that...
The World’s Most Mysterious Unsolved Crimes!
True Crime Series, #3
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
Join us in a look at the world’s most notorious unsolved crimes!
Crime has always been of interest to people and when it is unable to be solved, it becomes even more interesting. This book will take a look at some of the more famous crimes that have been committed in recent memory and the...