Crimes category: 7162 books
Murder on Easey Street
Melbourne’s Most Notorious Cold Case
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
1977, Collingwood. Two young women are brutally murdered. The killer has never been found. What happened in the house on Easey Street?
On a warm night in January, Suzanne Armstrong and Susan Bartlett were savagely murdered in their house on Easey Street, Collingwood – stabbed multiple times...
Exposing Jack the Stripper
A Biography of the Worst Serial Killer You've Probably Never Heard of
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2019
Jack the Ripper may get all the fame, but his 1960s counterpart, Jack the Stripper, will really send shivers down your spine. At least six women, all prostitutes, were murdered at his hand--possibly more. Most intriguing of all...he was never caught.
The crimes, though often forgotten today,...
Secret Witness
The Untold Story of the 1967 Bombing in Marshall, Michigan
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012
Every small town has a moment when the real world abruptly intrudes, shattering the town's notions of itself and its people. For citizens of Marshall, Michigan, that moment came August 18, 1967. Nola Puyear was working downtown at the Tasty Cafe that morning when she received a package. She opened...
Policing Cybercrime
Networked and Social Media Technologies and the Challenges for Policing
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Cybercrime has recently experienced an ascending position in national security agendas world-wide. It has become part of the National Security Strategies of a growing number of countries, becoming a Tier One threat, above organised crime and fraud generally. Furthermore, new techno-social developments...
Bunco Artists in Richmond, 1870-1920
Sharpers, Snatchers, Swindlers, Flimflammers and Other Con Men
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
Richmond in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was home to a lively underworld of tricksters, swindlers, confidence men and thieves. The former Confederate capital’s under-staffed police force and dense population—large numbers of immigrants and the very poor—accommodated the enterprising...
Responding to Youth Crime in Hong Kong
Penal Elitism, Legitimacy and Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
A society’s response to youth crime reveals much about its broader cultural values, social circumstances, and political affairs. This book examines reactions and policy responses to youth delinquency and crime in Hong Kong during its colonial and post-colonial periods, and in doing so, underscores...
by Anine Kreigler, Mark Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2016
South Africans care a lot about crime. We think and worry about it, plan and insure against it, develop and share theories about it, read about it, and talk about it… a lot.
But how much do we really know? Crime statistics do not belong to the government, academics, specialists, or the press....
True Life Crime
Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Murder, crime, weapons….Simply thinking about such things is enough to send shivers of terror into our hearts. Even the words are dark and scary.We all like to imagine that we are safe, that the world is a rational and reasonable place. But who knows what the person standing next to you is really capable...
When Mothers Kill
Interviews from Prison
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
Winner of the 2008 Outstanding Book Award by the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences
Michelle Oberman and Cheryl L. Meyer don’t write for news magazines or prime-time investigative television shows, but the stories they tell hold the same fascination. When Mothers Kill is compelling. In a clear,...
Religion, Social Memory and Conflict
The Massacre of Bojayá in Colombia
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2015
This book studies how religion influences the way people in Colombia remember a massacre of 79 civilians that occurred in a Catholic church in 2002. It analyses how strategies of memorialisation are part of religious peacebuilding initiatives that aim to resist and denounce crimes against human, ethnic, cultural and economic rights.
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
Four young women were brutally murdered in the Washington D.C. area between 1929 and 1935. Two of the women were strangled, one was strangled and beaten and another was shot with a .25 caliber pistol. None of the murders was successfully solved. My e-book focuses on the details of each crime, including...
Criminology of Homicidal Poisoning
Offenders, Victims and Detection
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2017
This book provides an overview of historical and contemporary cases of homicidal poisoning. While homicidal poisoning is sometimes thought of as a thing of the past, it continues to be a contemporary problem, and in fact the unknown offender rate for poisoning cases is 20-30 times that of other...
by James Hennessy
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Crime Statistics suggest that Americans are not a notably law-abiding people. With some 13 million felonies reported every year, it is not surprising that few topics engage public attention and imagination more compellingly than the dynamics of criminal behavior. Volume and ubiquity alone might suggest...
Définitions du crime et fonction du châtiment
édition intégrale
Language: French
Release Date: April 1, 2013
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« Il y a sans doute des crimes d'espèces différentes ; entre toutes ces espèces, il y a non moins sûrement quelque chose de commun. » (E. Durkheim)
Une approche éclairée du sociologue Durkheim sur le crime et la fonction de régulation sociale qu’il implique...