Criminology category: 4273 books
by Caitlin Rother
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Praise for Caitlin Rother and her true-life thrillers
"Will keep you on the edge of your seat."--Aphrodite Jones
"An exciting page-turner."--M. William Phelps
Chelsea King was a popular high school senior, an outstanding achiever determined to make a difference....
Sex on the Moon
The Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in Histroy
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
From the bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House, this is the incredible true story of how a college student and two female accomplices stole some of the rarest objects on the planet—moon rocks—from an "impregnable" high-tech vault.
But breaking...
Convict Cowboys
The Untold History of the Texas Prison Rodeo
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Convict Cowboys is the first book on the nation’s first prison rodeo, which ran from 1931 to 1986. At its apogee the Texas Prison Rodeo drew 30,000 spectators on October Sundays. Mitchel P. Roth portrays the Texas Prison Rodeo against a backdrop of Texas history, covering the history of rodeo, the...
by David M. Oshinsky
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 1997
In this sensitively told tale of suffering, brutality, and inhumanity, Worse Than Slavery is an epic history of race and punishment in the deepest South from emancipation to the civil rights era—and beyond.
Immortalized in blues songs and movies like Cool Hand Luke and The Defiant Ones, Mississippi’s...
by Linda Fairstein
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Linda Fairstein unmasks the true face of psychopathy, and reveals the warning signs that every woman should know
The 2009 “Craigslist Killer” murder case shocked America, not just because of the heinous nature of the crimes but because their perpetrator—a handsome young law student with...
Lethal Passage
The Story of a Gun
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
This devastating book illuminates America's gun culture -- its manufacturers, dealers, buffs, and propagandists -- but also offers concrete solutions to our national epidemic of death by firearm. It begins with an account of a crime that is by now almost commonplace: on December 16, 1988, sixteen-year-old...
by Ann Walmsley
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
A daring journalist goes behind bars to explore the redemptive power of books with bikers, bank robbers, and gunmen
An attack in London left Ann Walmsley unable to walk alone down the street, and shook her belief in the fundamental goodness of people. A few years later, when a friend asked...
Midnight Assassin
A Murder in America's Heartland
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2005
In 1900, Margaret Hossack, the wife of a prominent Iowa farmer, was arrested for bludgeoning her husband to death with an ax while their children slept upstairs. The community was outraged: How could a woman commit such an act of violence? Firsthand accounts describe the victim, John Hossack, as a...
Dark Bayou
Infamous Louisiana Homicides
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
This collection chronicles the most mysterious, bizarre and often overlooked homicides in Louisiana history. Drawing on contemporary records and, where available, the recollections of those who provide a coherent version of the facts, these mesmerizing tales detail some of the more gruesome episodes:...
Queen of Thieves
The True Story of "Marm" Mandelbaum and Her Gangs of New York
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Queen of Thieves is the gritty, fast-paced story of Fredericka Marm” Mandelbaum, a poor Jewish woman who rose to the top of her profession in organized crime during the Gilded Age in New York City. During her more than twenty-five-year reign as the country’s top receiver of stolen goods, she...
Inside the Criminal Mind
Revised and Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Long-held myths defining the sources of and cures for crime are shattered in this ground-breaking book--and a chilling profile of today's criminal emerges.
Houston Blue
The Story of the Houston Police Department
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Houston Blue offers the first comprehensive history of one of the nations largest police forces, the Houston Police Department. Through extensive archival research and more than one hundred interviews with prominent Houston police figures, politicians, news reporters, attorneys, and others, authors Mitchel...
So Sue Me, Jackass!
Avoiding Legal Pitfalls That Can Come Back to Bite You at Work, at Home, and at Play
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
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The next best thing to having a lawyer in the family.
Can you win monetary damages for bad sex? Can you get fired for being too fat? Can you sign your mother-in-law into a nursing home against her will?
For...
Every Dark Hour
A History of Kilmainham Jail
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2007
Kilmainham Jail is perhaps the most important building in modern Irish history. A place of incarceration since its construction in the late eighteenth century, it housed a succession of petty criminals, including sheep rustlers and, during the Famine, people who committed crimes with the sole aim...