Crimes category: 7162 books
Documenting American Violence
A Sourcebook
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2006
Violence forms a constant backdrop to American history, from the revolutionary overthrow of British rule, to the struggle for civil rights, to the present-day debates over the death penalty. It has served to challenge authority, defend privilege, advance causes, and throttle hopes. In the first anthology...
by Hector MacLeod, Malcolm McLeod
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Peter Manuel was an icy-eyed psychopath and sexual predator, a petty thief and a relentless liar given to violent and uncontrollable rages. His unprecedented crimes presented the Scottish police and public with a new sort of criminal: the ruthless serial killer.
Manuel was hanged at the age...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Corporate Criminal Liability is on the rise worldwide: More and more legal systems now include genuinely criminal sanctioning for legal entities. The various regulatory options available to national criminal justice systems, their implications and their constitutional, economic and psychological parameters...
Hard Time Blues
How Politics Built a Prison Nation
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
In September 1996, fifty-three year old heroin addict Billy Ochoa was sentenced to 326 years in prison. His crime: committing $2100 worth of welfare fraud. Ochoa was sent to New Folsom supermax prison, joining thousands of other men who will spend the rest of their lives in California's teeming correctional...
Summary & Analysis of I'll Be Gone in the Dark
One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer | A Guide to the Book by Michelle McNamara
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2018
***UPDATED SINCE THE CAPTURE OF THE GOLDEN STATE KILLER!***
In her chilling and exhaustive true crime memoir, Michelle McNamara traces the trail of the Golden State Killer--a man who viciously raped and murdered dozens of people in California more than 40 years ago--and who evaded police just...
The Kray Files
The True Story of Britain's Most Notorious Murderers
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2011
When Ron and Reg Kray were sentenced to life imprisonment in 1968, most people thought that was the last they'd hear of two of the most notorious and vicious criminals Britain has ever produced. Instead, the twins and their evil doings have since achieved almost iconic status. Simultaneously, they...
Green Cultural Criminology
Constructions of Environmental Harm, Consumerism, and Resistance to Ecocide
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Over the last two decades, "green criminology" has emerged as a unique area of study, bringing together criminologists and sociologists from a wide range of research backgrounds and varying theoretical orientations. It spans the micro to the macro—from individual-level environmental crimes...
Redeemable
A Memoir of Darkness and Hope
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Born in Somerset in 1957 to itinerant Scottish parents, Erwin James lost his mother when he was seven. Shipped from home to home and subject to the whims of various caregivers after his father turned to alcohol and violence, he committed his first crime of breaking and entering when he was ten. His...
Murder Capital
Life and Death on the Streets of Glasgow
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2006
Murder Capital of Europe: that's Glasgow. A city more lethal than London, Paris, Rome, Amsterdam, Dublin or strife-torn Belfast. But what's the truth behind the headlines, the real story on the streets of Glasgow? And who has earned the city its shocking and brutal reputation? Murder Capital leads...
by Alan Doig
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Fraud remains one of the most important crimes and causes billions of pounds of losses each year, many thousands of people are employed to try to prevent it, but it has remained largely neglected in the literature.
This book provides comprehensive coverage of the main issues involved in fraud,...
Informers
Policing, policy, practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
The police rely heavily on paid and unpaid informers: without them clear-up rates would plummet, and many crimes would remain undetected. Yet little is known about the informer system and how it works, for example: who are these informers? how are they recruited? how are they handled? who handles...
by Chris Greer
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Sex crime has become one of the most intense areas of public and political concern in recent decades. This book explores the complex influences that shape its construction in the press. Media representations give important clues as to how we should perceive the nature and extent of sex crime, how...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
The existence of the separate criminal jurisdiction in Scotland is ignored by most criminological texts purporting to consider crime and criminal justice in 'Britain' or the 'UK'. This book offers a critically-informed analysis and understanding of crime and criminal justice in contemporary Scotland....
Legal Executions in Georgia
A Comprehensive Registry, 1866-1964
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
In the state of Georgia, 1025 men and women are known to have been hanged or electrocuted for capital crimes in the century after the Civil War. Based on more than twenty years of investigative research, this chronological record of these legal executions was pieced together from diverse sources in...