Crimes category: 7162 books
by William G. Doerner, Steven P. Lab
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Victimology, Eighth Edition, shows how to transform the current criminal’s justice system into a victim’s justice system. Doerner and Lab, both well-regarded scholars, write compellingly about the true scope of crime victims’ suffering in the United States. They lay out the sources of evidence...
Defining International Terrorism
Between State Sovereignty and Cosmopolitanism
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
This book is an attempt to approach the issue of defining international terrorism, proposing that the most workable way to do so is to achieve due balance between the two principal driving forces of international law developments: State sovereignty interests and cosmopolitan ideals.
All those...
Criminologies of the Military
Militarism, National Security and Justice
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
This innovative collection offers one of the first analyses of criminologies of the military from an interdisciplinary perspective. While some criminologists have examined the military in relation to the area of war crimes, this collection considers a range of other important but less explored aspects...
Criminality and Criminal Justice in Contemporary Poland
Sociopolitical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Criminality has accompanied social life from the outset. It has appeared at every stage of the development of every community, regardless of organisation, form of government or period in history. This work presents the views of criminologists from Central Europe on the phenomenon of criminality as...
by Eric Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
On the 6th October 1974, a crime of most heinous proportions was committed. It would become one of the most baffling and infamous unsolved crimes in Australian history. Two female trainee nurses, hitchhiking from Brisbane to the inland township of Goondiwindi on the Queensland-New South Wales border,...
by Jacqueline L. Schneider
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2012
The illegal trade in endangered species is a worldwide problem that involves not only animals but also plants, and it contributes to troubling factors such as organized crime as well as the further decline of the earth's natural climate. This book explores the extensive endangered species illegal...
The Evolution of the Juvenile Court
Race, Politics, and the Criminalizing of Juvenile Justice
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
A major statement on the juvenile justice system by one of America’s leading experts
The juvenile court lies at the intersection of youth policy and crime policy. Its institutional practices reflect our changing ideas about children and crime control. The Evolution of the Juvenile Court provides...
by Matthew Lippman
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2019
Essential Criminal Law provides a highly accessible introduction to U.S. criminal law that helps students, including those with no prior exposure to case law, build their legal reasoning skills. Drawing from more than 30 years of teaching experience, best-selling author Matthew Lippman guides readers...
by Philip Bean
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
This book provides an authoritative and highly readable review of the relationship between madness and crime by one of the leading authorities in the field. The book is divided into four parts, each essay focusing on selected features of madness which have relevance to contemporary society.
Part...
Social Network Analysis in Predictive Policing
Concepts, Models and Methods
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
This book focuses on applications of social network analysis in predictive policing. Data science is used to identify potential criminal activity by analyzing the relationships between offenders to fully understand criminal collaboration patterns. Co-offending networks—networks of offenders who...
Deadly Goals
The True Story of an All-American Football Hero Who Stalked and Murdered
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
The gripping true story of a small town football hero and the murder he almost got away with.
A star athlete with a winning smile, Pernell Jefferson had no trouble attracting women.
But beneath his immaculate exterior lurked a beast that left nothing but battered women and broken dreams...
The Unlawful Society
Global Crime and Security in a Complex World
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Exploring the dynamics of law-making in a world where the pace of technological change is outstripping our capacity to capture new forms of transnational crime, this book uses the innovative concept of unlawfulness to examine the crimes of the global overworld, forming a unique analysis of global order in the twenty-first century.
The Costly U. S. Prison System
Too Costly in Dollars, National Prestige, and Lives
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
The prison system in the U.S. is in crisis. We have far too many prisoners and spend far too much on housing them and building more prisons. We have far too harsh penalties for less serious nonviolent crimes, so we are unnecessarily incarcerating people who could be productive...
The Society Murders
The true story of the Wales-King murders
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2003
In April 2002, wealthy socialite Margaret Wales-King and her husband Paul King left their home in a leafy eastern suburb, dined with her son and his family and then disappeared into thin air. Twenty-five days later, after an investigation that swamped the front pages, their bludgeoned bodies were...