Criminology category: 4273 books
No Angel
My Harrowing Undercover Journey to the Inner Circle of the Hells Angels
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2009
From the first federal agent to infiltrate the inner circle of the outlaw Hells Angels Motorcycle Club comes the inside story of the 21-month operation that almost cost him his family, his sanity, and his life.
Getting shot in the chest as a rookie agent, bartering for machine guns, throttling...
Writing My Wrongs
Life, Death, and Redemption in an American Prison
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
**New York Times bestseller from a member of Oprah's SuperSoul 100.
An unforgettable memoir of redemption and second chances amidst America's mass incarceration epidemic.**
Shaka Senghor was raised in a middle class neighborhood on Detroit’s east side during the height of the 1980s...
Interference
How Organized Crime Influences Professional Football
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
A shocking exposé of widespread corruption and mob influence throughout the National Football League—on the field, in the owners’ boxes, and in the corporate suites
According to investigative journalist Dan E. Moldea, for decades the National Football League has had a strong and unspoken...
Love Me to Death
A Journalist's Memoir of the Hunt for Her Friend's Killer
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Acclaimed true-crime journalist Linda Wolfe recounts a powerful true-life crime story of her own—her search for the serial killer who murdered her friend
In 1983 Jacqui Bernard was found dead. She was a philanthropist, a writer, an activist, and a friend of Linda Wolfe’s. Two years after...
Hermann Goring and the Nazi Art Collection
The Looting of Europe's Art Treasures and Their Dispersal After World War II
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
During World War II, the Nazis plundered from occupied countries millions of items of incalculable value estimated in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Spearheaded by Hermann Göring the looting program quickly created the largest private art collection in the world, exceeding the collections amassed...
Hookers
Candid Confessions of Real Call Girls
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
Sex, money, drugs and danger: they are all in a night’s work for millions of prostitutes around the world. But who are they? What are their lives like? And how do they really feel about what they do?
Their answers are here, the unvarnished truth of life in the modern sex trade told by those...
by Ernest Raynaud
Language: French
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Dans ce deuxième tome de ses Souvenirs de police - Au temps de Félix Faure, le commissaire-poète Raynaud est affecté à la surveillance des rois en visite, le Tsar Nicolas II en 1896 entre autres. Il nous rapporte les crises d'hystérie de l'impératrice,...
Slipping into the Shadows
Junkies, Prostitutes, Con Artists
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2004
In every large city, there are marginal, criminal types who live on the fringes of the society. They are faceless, ignored or feared. The author had worked and lived in their East Harlem, New York neighborhood. Through a series of in-depth interviews he attempts to give them a human face.
These...
Double Cross
The Explosive Inside Story of the Mobster Who Controlled America
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
One of the most feared Chicago mobsters Sam Giancana clawed his way to the top of the Mafia hierarchy by starting as a hit man for Al Capone. He was known as one of the best vehicle escape artists, a tenacious business man, and a ruthless killer. He partied with major stars such as Frank Sinatra and...
The Tangled Web
The Life and Death of Richard Cain—Chicago Cop and Hitman
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
The notorious life and mysterious death of the man the FBI described as “possibly the most corrupt police official in the history of Chicago.”
Det. Richard Cain is one of the most notorious figures in Gangland history. Leading a double life, Cain was both a chief investigator for the Chicago...
Kingpin
Prisoner of the War on Drugs
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
This fast-paced sequel to Smuggler's Blues is a harrowing and at times comical journey through the criminal justice system at the height of America's War on Plants.
Captured in the lobby of the Sheraton Senator Hotel at LAX following a fifteen-year run smuggling marijuana and hashish as part...
The Blackpool Rock
Guns, Gangs and Door Wars in Britain's Wildest Town
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
To the police he was public enemy number one. To drunken gangs of yobs intent on trouble, he was a nightmare come true. Steve Sinclair was the tougest doorman in the wildest resort in Britain - and if you crossed him, payback was swift and certain. The Blackpool Rock is a candid insight into the dangerous...
Generation Oxy
From High School Wrestlers to Pain Pill Kingpins
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Generation Oxy is the story of a group of friends—clean cut, all-American high school kids—who stumbled into the Sunshine State’s murky underworld of illegal pill mills and corrupt doctors. This teenage criminal enterprise ultimately shipped hundreds of thousands of OxyContins and other prescription...
The Trigger
Narratives of the American Shooter
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Six moving profiles reveal the complex realities behind gun violence in the United States. These are the stories of the shooters.
In South Carolina, a young man embarks on a life of crime that culminates in a drug-related shooting and decades in prison; in Chicago, an off-duty police officer...