Crimes category: 7162 books
Molecular Photofitting
Predicting Ancestry and Phenotype Using DNA
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
In the field of forensics, there is a critical need for genetic tests that can function in a predictive or inferential sense, before suspects have been identified, and/or for crimes for which DNA evidence exists but eye-witnesses do not. Molecular Photofitting fills this need by describing the process...
Clues From Beyond
True Crime Stories from Australia's #1 Psychic Detective
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2017
Clues From Beyond explores the truth about some intense real-life Australian crimes, through the eyes of a psychic medium as she investigates criminal cases and unsolved murders.Debbie Malone is an acclaimed spirit medium who has assisted police departments across Australia in missing persons and...
Forensics
A Guide for Writers
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2008
“What you will discover is that the real world of forensics is, perhaps, even more compelling than what we are seeing on television every week.” —Lee Goldberg, TV writer-producer
In Forensics, award-winning author and TV show consultant D.P. Lyle, M.D., takes each area of forensics—from...
Exonerated
A History of the Innocence Movement
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
The fascinating story behind the innocence movement's quest for justice.
Documentaries like Making a Murderer, the first season of Serial, and the cause célèbre that was the West Memphis Three captured the attention of millions and focused the national discussion on wrongful convictions....
Trapped in a Vice
The Consequences of Confinement for Young People
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Trapped in a Vice explores the consequences of a juvenile justice system that is aimed at promoting change in the lives of young people, yet ultimately relies upon tools and strategies that enmesh them in a system that they struggle to move beyond. The system, rather than the crimes themselves, is...
Sin No More
From Abortion to Stem Cells, Understanding Crime, Law, and Morality in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Read the Authors' Op-Ed on the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sin No More offers a vivid examination of some of the most morally and politically disputed issues of our time: abortion, gay rights, assisted suicide, stem cell research, and legalized gambling. These are moral values issues, all of which...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
This collection focuses attention on an important but academically neglected area of contemporary operational policing: the regulation of consensual sexual practices. Despite the high-level public visibility of, and debate about, policing in relation to violent and abusive sexual crimes (from child...
The International Criminal Court at the Mercy of Powerful States
An Assessment of the Neo-Colonialism Claim Made by African Stakeholders
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
This book aims to investigate whether, and if so, how, an institution designed to bring to justice perpetrators of the most heinous crimes can be regarded a tool of oppression in a (neo-)colonial sense. To do so, it re-invents the concept of neo-colonialism, which is traditionally associated more...
Prisoner in the Kitchen
The Car Thief, the Murderer, and the Man Hired to Feed Them
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Winner of Simon & Schuster’s memoir contest in conjunction with AARP and the Huffington Post, the memoir of a man’s coming-of-age as a civilian cook in a maximum-security prison.
In 1973, recent Montana transplant William Bonham desperately needs a job. Hoping to take advantage of his background...
Toronto Murders
Mysteries, Crimes and Scandals
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
The history of Toronto is peppered with countless tales of scandals and murder. This fascinating collection of crime stories features six chilling incidents that plagued the city's residents in days gone by. Exploring deadly love affairs, mysterious disappearances, and public hangings, these true accounts will keep you on the edge of your seat.
by Stephen Singular
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
A behind the scenes look at the O.J. Simpson case that explains why the blood evidence fell apart at trial. Veteran true crime writer, Stephen Singular, a two-time New York Times bestselling author, details his involvement with Simpson's defense team and updates his 1996 book about one of America's notorious crimes.
Governing Through Crime
How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2007
Across America today gated communities sprawl out from urban centers, employers enforce mandatory drug testing, and schools screen students with metal detectors. Social problems ranging from welfare dependency to educational inequality have been reconceptualized as crimes, with an attendant focus...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
Wrongful Allegations of Sexual and Child Abuse fills a gap for an authoritative and considered text focused on false accusations of recent or historical abuse, both as a miscarriage of justice and as an ordeal which impairs lives even when it does not result in criminal charges. It brings together...
Introduction to Criminal Justice
Practice and Process
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
A practical and applied introduction to criminal justice
Introduction to Criminal Justice: Practice and Process shows you how to think practically about the criminal justice system by offering you a proven, problem-based approach to learning. Bestselling authors Kenneth J. Peak and Tamara...