Crimes category: 7162 books
Pre-crime
Pre-emption, precaution and the future
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
Pre-crime aims to pre-empt ‘would-be-criminals’ and predict future crime. Although the term is borrowed from science fiction, the drive to predict and pre-empt crime is a present-day reality. This book critically explores this major twenty-first century development in crime and justice.
This...
The World of Crime
Breaking the Silence on Problems of Security, Justice and Development Across the World
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2007
*"This book is important for students who want to put domestic crime and justice issues and criminological theories in an international perspective....It is more than likely that this book will also interest all those who are professionally or privately interested in issues of crime, corruption,...
by Ronald Clarke, John E. Eck
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Crime analysis has become an increasingly important part of policing and crime prevention, and thousands of specialist crime analysts are now employed by police forces worldwide. This is the first book to set out the principles and practice of crime analysis, and is designed to be used both by crime...
Different Crimes, Different Criminals
Understanding, Treating and Preventing Criminal Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
This book focuses on the importance of incorporating both sociological and psychological viewpoints in the understanding of criminal behavior. It identifies and explains emerging criminal offenders within the criminal justice system, examining the individual differences that make different types of offenders unique.
by Joanna Jamel
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2017
This book uniquely combines a critical examination of the extent and diversity of transphobic hate crime together with a consideration of the victims and offenders. Trans people are marginalised in society and already negotiate complex physical and emotional challenges in order to live authentically...
by John Walliss
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
This book is a comparative quantitative analysis of the administration of justice across four English and three Welsh counties between 1760 and 1830. Drawing on a dataset of over 22,000 indictments, the book explores the similarities and differences between how the so-called Bloody Code was administered...
When Women Kill
Questions of Agency and Subjectivity
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2003
Why are we so reluctant to believe that women can mean to kill? Based on case-studies from the US, UK and Australia, this book looks at the ways in which female killers are constructed in the media, in law and in feminist discourse almost invariably as victims rather than actors in the crimes they...
Silent Rage
Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2014
—Inside the mind of one of the nation’s most feared thrill killers—
“Silent Rage” is the shocking true history of serial killer Carroll Edward “Eddie” Cole. Raised by an abusive mother and weak father, Cole accomplished his first murder before he was ten years old. He went on...
by Gary Paul Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2017
The “Mudman of Sheridan” is based on a true series of over 50 crimes against women occurring in Shaker Heights, Ohio, between 1974 and 1981, which the author investigated while a police officer there. With an underlying theme of child abuse, the story is filled with suspense, violence, love, humor,...
Supporting victims of hate crime
A practitioner guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
This practical guide provides user-friendly, concise, expert and up-to-date guidance for both new and experienced hate crime caseworkers and advocates (whether professional or volunteers). Filling a gap in the growing debates and research literature on hate crime, it takes as its starting point a...
Ailanthus
Nightmares and Crimes
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
After the De Sena case, Stacie Scott has to solve an intricate murder case with her loyal Frank Berrimow. Stacie will have to deal with her herself and recover soon from her love affair with Sam.
A brutal killer upsets the streets of New York with a series of crimes that bring turmoil to the police...
True Crime Stories: 10 Heinous True Crime Stories of Sickly Serial Killers, Murderers and Sociopaths
True Crime Stories: 10 Heinous True Crime Stories of Sickly Serial Killers, Murderers and Sociopaths
True Crime Stories, #1
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
If there’s anything scarier than ghosts and paranormal phenomenon, it’s the criminals who kill for gut-wrenching reasons. What is happening in these people’s minds to make them commit heinous crimes without any sign of remorse?
This book will feature some of the craziest serial killers,...
by David A. Jenks, John Randolph Fuller
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Global Crime and Justice offers a truly transnational examination of both deviance and social controls around the world. Unlike comparative textbooks detailing the criminal justice systems of a few select nations, or cataloging types of international crimes that span multiple legal jurisdictions,...
Dealing with Crime by Illegal Immigrants and the Opioid Crisis
What to Do about the Two Big Social and Criminal Justice Issues of Today
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2018
Dealing with Crime by Illegal Immigrants and the Opioid Crisis is based on a blog series I wrote for the website of my company American Leadership Books (www.americanleadershipbooks.com). The book features chapters on these topics:
- how illegal immigrants really do commit...