Crimes category: 7162 books
Radicalization
The Life Writings of Political Prisoners
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
Expanding the influence of auto/biography studies into cultural criminology, Radicalization: The Life Writings of Political Prisoners addresses the origins, processes and cultures of terrorist criminality and political resistance in a globalized world.
Criminologists and penologists have long...
by Alistair Hill
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
WARNING - CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT
This eBook looks at four serial rapists whose victims have an average age of eighty. It examines how they carry out their crimes, what they actually do to their victims (with no holds barred) and what happens when they tell someone about their ordeal....
School Shootings - No Killings In The Hallways
Serial Killers True Crime
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
Case files include: Columbine and Virginia Tech
When kids suffer abuse at home from parents and siblings, they often then go to school and suffer bullying from peers and an endless series of dictates from teachers. They begin to feel trapped as they can't avoid abuse no matter where they are....
Unabomber
The Secret Life of Ted Kaczynski
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Author Chris Waits was Ted Kaczynski's friend and neighbor in the Montana mountains for 25 years. ABC News called Waits the "Man who knew him best." That unique knowledge cast Waits as a key figure in the FBI's relentless investigation, a role that provided the author with volumes of Kaczynski's personal...
The Ore Knob Mine Murders
The Crimes, the Investigation and the Trials
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2013
How could the peace and quiet of Ashe County, North Carolina (in the mountains, at the Virginia-Tennessee corner), turn into a nightmare of crime and drugs, and the old copper mine itself become a dumping ground for the dead? In 1982, two bodies had been chipped from an icy grave and brought up from...
La plus grande serial-killer de tous les temps
Veuve Becker
Language: French
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Marie-Alexandrine Petitjean, Veuve Becker (Belgique, 1879-1942), onze victimes : dix femmes et un homme.Henry-Désiré Landru (France, 1869-1922), onze victimes : dix femmes et un homme.À quelques années près, ils sont contemporains. Leur parcours criminel est identique.Ils sont sociables, s’y entendent...
Ces jeunes devenus criminels
Un livre-vérité sur la délinquance chez les jeunes
Language: French
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Portraits de ces jeunes à la dérive de la sociétéIls utilisent des procédés mafieux, ils entretiennent des relations étroites avec la pègre, ils sont pleins de haine, de vengeance et de rejet de la société, ils torturent, volent, violent, tuent… « Ils » ? Des jeunes. Généralement sans...
by Robert Scott
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
Strangler's Kill
John Annibel, 40, was the bad half of a set of twins. James stayed out of trouble. . .but John, with his hair-trigger temper and paranoia, was different. On Thanksgiving weekend, 1998, Debbie Sloan, 42, sat down next to a stranger in a bar. She wound up gasping her life away,...
Murder Out Yonder
True Crime Stories from America's Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Praised by Kirkus Reviews as "a brisk, colorful, and cleverly recounted selection of ten crimes," this gripping book ventures into rural America to uncover true tales of homicide. From "Death and Times of a Prophet," involving a hypnotic Oregon revivalist known as Joshua the Second,...
The Piano Teacher
The True Story of a Psychotic Killer
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Everybody has a dream. For aspiring actress Suzanne Reynolds, her dream ended in a gruesome encounter with eccentric New York artist Charles Yukl. Fooled by his choirboy looks, Reynolds had no idea the man who taught her the piano was a woman-hating recluse who spent his days lost in fantasies of...
Wannabe in my Gang?
From the Krays to the Essex Boys
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
Kray gang boss Tony Lambrianou, who served a life sentence for the brutal murder of Jack 'the Hat' McVitie, has threatened to kill Bernard O'Mahoney 'by smashing a hammer through his head'. 'Dodgy' Dave Courtney, who claims to have murdered two gangland rivals, tried 'to put him out of his misery'...
by Sebastian Junger
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2006
A fatal collision of three lives in the most intriguing and original crime story since In Cold Blood.
In the spring of 1963, the quiet suburb of Belmont, Massachusetts, is rocked by a shocking sex murder that exactly fits the pattern of the Boston Strangler. Sensing a break in the case that...
Ugly Prey
An Innocent Woman and the Death Sentence That Scandalized Jazz Age Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
An Italian immigrant who spoke little English and struggled to scrape together a living on her primitive family farm outside Chicago, Sabella Nitti was arrested in 1923 for the murder of her missing husband. Within two months, she was found guilty and became the first woman ever sentenced to hang...
Human Security, Transnational Crime and Human Trafficking
Asian and Western Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
In recent years, drug use, illegal migration and human trafficking have all become more common in Asia, North America and Asia: the problems of organized crime and human trafficking are no longer confined to operating at the traditional regional level. This book fills a gap in the current literature...