Criminology category: 4273 books
The Pimping of Prostitution
Abolishing the Sex Work Myth
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2019
This book examines one of the most contested issues facing feminists, human rights activists and governments around the globe – the international sex trade. For decades, the liberal left has been conflicted as to whether pro-prostitution activists or abolitionists hold the correct view, and debates...
The Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi
A History
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2010
Since 1866 the Ku Klux Klan has been a significant force in Mississippi, enduring repeated cycles of expansion and decline. Klansmen have rallied, marched, elected civic leaders, infiltrated law enforcement, and committed crimes ranging from petty vandalism to assassination and mass murder. This is...
Blue
The LAPD and the Battle to Redeem American Policing
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Vividly drawn and character-driven*, Blue* is simultaneously a gripping drama of cops, crime, and politics, and a primer on police policy and reform.
Beginning with the 1992 Los Angeles Riots and ending with the tumultuous police controversies swirling around both Ferguson, MO and New York...
by Frederick Hatch
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
The eight people charged with conspiring to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln were tried by a military commission under military law. The author contends that this was illegal, since the civilian legal system was fully functioning. The many ways in which the defendants’ rights were violated...
Rise of the Warrior Cop
The Militarization of America's Police Forces
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
The last days of colonialism taught America's revolutionaries that soldiers in the streets bring conflict and tyranny. As a result, our country has generally worked to keep the military out of law enforcement. But according to investigative reporter Radley Balko, over the last several decades, America's...
by Robert Scott
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
"An excellent writer." —True Crime Book Reviews
Anything For Love
When nineteen-year-old Steven "Boston" Colver set eyes on beautiful young Tylar Witt, the sparks between them could not be denied. It didn't matter that she was only fourteen. The two saw their love...
by Andrew A. Gentes
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
Despite reports of exile proving disastrous to the region, 300,000 Russian subjects, from political dissidents to the elderly and mentally disabled, were deported to Siberia from 1823-61. Their stories of physical and psychological suffering, heroism and personal resurrection, are recounted in this compelling history of tsarist Siberian exile.
The Crime Fighter
Putting the Bad Guys Out of Business
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
Former NYPD Deputy Commissioner Jack Maple was a man in a bow tie and homburg--he was also on a mission to revolutionize the way crime is fought: how cops go after crooks, and how they prevent crime in the first place. And he succeeded.
But Maple is not satisfied. In The Crime Fighter, he shows...
To Protect and Serve
How to Fix America's Police
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
American policing is in crisis. The last decade witnessed a vast increase in police aggression, misconduct, and militarization, along with a corresponding reduction in transparency and accountability. Nowhere is this more noticeable and painful than in African American and other ethnic minority communities....
by Jen Marlowe, Martina Davis-Correia, Troy Davis
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
The execution of Troy Davis sparked international headlines and outrage
This is the first book on the execution of Troy Davis and his family's struggle for justice.
Jen Marlowe had exclusive and intimate access to Troy, Martina and the Davis family before during and after the execution
Marlowe’s...
Blood Ties
The Calabrian Mafia
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
A massive bestseller in its native Italy, and a book that can justly be compared with Roberto Saviano's Gomorrah, Blood Ties is a terrifying account of the 'ndrangheta's criminal activities over the last four decades. Originally from Calabria, this sinister organization has - like the Mafia in Sicily...
Mafias on the Move
How Organized Crime Conquers New Territories
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
Organized crime is spreading like a global virus as mobs take advantage of open borders to establish local franchises at will. That at least is the fear, inspired by stories of Russian mobsters in New York, Chinese triads in London, and Italian mafias throughout the West.
As Federico Varese...
Women of Honor
Madonnas, Godmothers and Informers in the Italian Mafia
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
The role of women in the Italian mafias has long been overlooked. Reduced to victim status and relegated to domestic life in a male-dominated society, women serve as the mafia's respectable facade: virtuous and docile. It is hard to picture these immaculate figures married to and raising brutal killers....
The Politics of Cocaine
How U.S. Foreign Policy Has Created a Thriving Drug Industry in Central and South America
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Drawing on declassified documents and painstaking research, this exploration of the economic drug trade of Central and South America fills in historical gaps and provides a new and controversial analysis of a complex and seemingly unsolvable problem. Viewing the problem through the lens of United...