Crimes category: 7162 books
by R. Barri Flowers
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
R. Barri Flowers, award-winning criminologist and the bestselling author of Serial Killers & Prostitutes and The Sex Slave Murders, brings together seven of his best previously published true crime stories in a single volume for the first time in this gripping collection.
Murder at the...
by R. Barri Flowers
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2018
From R. Barri Flowers, award-winning criminologist and the bestselling author of Murder at the Pencil Factory, Murder Chronicles, Murder During the Chicago World’s Fair, Serial Killer Couples, and The Sex Slave Murders, comes the gripping historical true crime anthology, Jealous Rage: Stunning True...
The Problem of Pleasure
Leisure, Tourism and Crime
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
The tourism and leisure industries are big business. Opportunities for leisure and tourism have escalated as disposable income, technology, travel and education have become increasingly available in recent times. However, this trend has been juxtaposed with an increase in crime, particularly since...
The Infamous Burke and Hare
Serial Killers and Resurrectionists of Nineteenth Century Edinburgh
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2009
Body snatchers and grave robbers were the stuff of Victorian lore, but two real-life culprits took the crimes out of shadowy cemeteries and into criminal court. William Burke and William Hare aided Scottish surgeons competing for anatomical breakthroughs by experimenting on human corpses. As the duo...
by Robert Lee
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
Violence is a common thread through the fabric of many people living in the lower socio-econimic layers of our society. Murder, assaults and other violent crimes are everyday occurrences. Yet, the people who commit these crimes are everday people, often with colourful, appealing personalities.
This...
by Kimberly Mehlman-Orozco
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
What types of human trafficking crimes are being committed here in the United States? Who are the victims of traffickers? How do we all unknowingly consume the services and products of slavery? And why are human traffickers able to maintain their illicit operations with relative impunity—indeed,...
The Gates of Janus
Serial Killing and its Analysis by the Moors Murderer Ian Brady
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
Ian Brady and Myra Hindley's spree of torture, sexual abuse, and murder of children in the 1960s was one of the most appalling series of crimes ever committed in England, and remains almost daily fixated upon by the tabloid press. In The Gates of Janus, Ian Brady himself allows us a glimpse into the...
by Mike Silverman, Tony Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
As one of the UK’s leading forensic scientists, Mike Silverman has helped to identify and convict dozens of murderers, rapists, armed robbers, burglars and muggers, thanks to the evidence they – or their victims – unwittingly left behind at the scenes of their crimes.
Mike Silverman started...
Through the Eyes of Serial Killers
Interviews with Seven Murderers
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2015
Journalist Nadia Fezzani spent years probing the minds of serial killers in search of answers to unsettling questions: What went on in their heads as they prepared for their next crime? What drove them to murder not once, but habitually? Were they born killers, or had they begun as normal individuals...
by Carol Anne Davis
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
All of these men and women were in good professions… and all of them were hiding dark secrets.
Why do outwardly normal people commit horrendous crimes? In this collection of incisive profiles, veteran crime writer Carol Anne Davis turns the spotlight on men and women from respectable backgrounds...
Killing on Command
The Defence of Superior Orders in Modern Combat
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
This book explores the unique social and environmental factors which influence soldiers to commit war crimes. With a focus on decision-making processes, this monograph provides a significant interdisciplinary analysis of how soldiers decide to follow the commands of their superior officers, even if...
Liverpool
Gangs, Vices and Packet Rats: 19th Century Crime and Punishment
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
Now world famous for football and music, in the nineteenth century Liverpool had a very different reputation. One of the greatest ports in the world, and Europe's western gateway to the Atlantic, Liverpool's emerging wreath and prosperity brought with it a huge influx of crime to the streets, and...
Security, Democracy and War Crimes
Security Sector Transformation in Serbia
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
This book examines how the war crime legacy resulting from the Yugoslav war of the 1990s on political and military transformation in Serbia was an impediment to security reform, democratization and the achievement of Western standards in the Belgrade armed forces.
Hate Crimes
The Rising Tide of Bigotry and Bloodshed
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2013