Crimes category: 7162 books
Conferencing and Restorative Justice
International Practices and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
Conferencing and Restorative Justice: International Practices and Perspectives offers an analysis of conferencing practices around the world, examining the range of approaches to different types of crimes and offender age groups, and assessing their outcomes. First developed in New Zealand and Australia...
by R. A. Duff
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2003
The question "What can justify criminal punishment ?" becomes especially insistent at times, like our own, of penal crisis, when serious doubts are raised not only about the justice or efficacy of particular modes of punishment, but about the very legitimacy of the whole penal system. Recent theorizing...
School Shootings:
What Every Parent and Educator Needs to Know to Protect Our Children
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
When You Send Your Children To School In The Morning,
Do You Worry That You May Never See Them Again?
In this insightful look at the danger that threatens students and families today, investigative journalist and longtime educator Joseph A. Lieberman takes us inside the minds and hearts of...
The Subject of Murder
Gender, Exceptionality, and the Modern Killer
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
The subject of murder has always held a particular fascination for us. But, since at least the nineteenth century, we have seen the murderer as different from the ordinary citizen—a special individual, like an artist or a genius, who exists apart from the moral majority, a sovereign self who obeys...
Witness (later issued as Evil Relations)
The Story of David Smith, Chief Prosecution Witness in the Moors Murders Case
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2011
Despite standing as chief prosecution witness in the Moors Murders trial, David Smith was vilified by the public due to the accusations thrown at him by Myra Hindley and Ian Brady about his involvement in their crimes. Hindley's later confession that she and Brady had lied in an attempt to reduce...
They Fought Alone
The True Story of the Starr Brothers, British Secret Agents in Nazi-Occupied France
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
**“Highly detailed and fast-paced, Charles Glass’s They Fought Alone is a must-read for those whose passion is the Resistance literature of World War II.” —Alan Furst, author of A Hero of France
From the bestselling author of Americans in Paris and The Deserters, the astounding story...
by David K. Dodd
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2017
A young man knocks on his neighbor’s door, hoping to celebrate Christmas Eve with a friend. He is welcomed in, and the two spend five festive hours playing video games, strumming guitars, and drinking fine brandy. A silly dispute turns into a brawl, and a weapon is drawn. One friend dies, the other...
Living in Infamy
Felon Disfranchisement and the History of American Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Living in Infamy examines the history of disfranchisement for criminal conviction in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In the post-war South, white southern Democrats expanded the usage of laws disfranchising for crimes of infamy in order to deny African Americans the...
Adolescent Reputations and Risk
Developmental Trajectories to Delinquency
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2009
The news of teenagers and even younger children committing ever more serious and violent crimes continues to shock and baffle. The escalating psychological and social toll of youth crime is being paid by all – from victims to offenders to parents and siblings to teachers and to the community as...
by Morrison Bonpasse
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
This is Volume 3 of the book, “EYE CONTACT - The Mysterious Death in 2000 in Maine of Kassidy Bortner and the Wrongful Conviction of Chad Evans and Amanda Bortner." Volume 1 tells the story of the wrongful convictions of Chad and Amanda and the campaign for exoneration. Volumes 2 and 3 contain the...
by Morrison Bonpasse
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
This is Volume 2 of the book, “EYE CONTACT - The Mysterious Death in 2000 in Maine of Kassidy Bortner and the Wrongful Conviction of Chad Evans and Amanda Bortner." Volume 1 tells the story of the wrongful convictions of Chad and Amanda and the campaign for exoneration. This volume 2 contains the...
The Dominici Affair
Murder and Mystery in Provence
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
The spectacular murders of a distinguished British scientist, his wife, and their young daughter in the depths of rural France in 1952 prompted one of the most notorious criminal investigations in postwar Europe. It is still a matter of passionate debate in France.
Sir Jack Drummond, with his...
Understanding the Age of Transitional Justice
Crimes, Courts, Commissions, and Chronicling
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2018
Since the 1980s, an array of legal and non-legal practices—labeled Transitional Justice—has been developed to support post-repressive, post-authoritarian, and post-conflict societies in dealing with their traumatic past. In Understanding the Age of Transitional Justice, the contributors analyze...
by L. Kay Gillespie
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
Executed Women of the 20th and 21st Centuries provides a look into the lives, crimes, and executions of women during the 20th and 21st centuries. Rather than dealing with these women as numbers and statistics, this book presents them as human beings. Each of these women had lives, histories, and families....