Crimes category: 7162 books
The Torture of Children During Armed Conflicts
The ICC's Failure to Prosecute and the Negation of Children's Human Dignity
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
This book examines selected legal complexities of the notion of torture and the issue of the proper foundation for legally characterizing certain acts as torture, especially when children are the targeted victims of torture. ICC case law is used to highlight the International Criminal Court’s reluctance...
The Innocence Commission
Preventing Wrongful Convictions and Restoring the Criminal Justice System
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Beyond Exonerating the Innocent: Author on WAMU Radio
Convicted Yet Innocent: The Legal Times Review
Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2008
DNA testing and advances in forensic science have shaken the foundations of the U.S. criminal justice system. One of the most visible results is the exoneration...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
49% of the world’s population lives in small towns, villages and farms, yet until recent years criminological scholarship has focused almost exclusively on urban crimes. The Routledge International Handbook of Rural Criminology is the first major publication to bring together this growing body of...
The Ardlamont Mystery
The Real-Life Story Behind the Creation of Sherlock Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
The real-life mystery featuring the two men – Joseph Bell and Henry Littlejohn – who inspired the creation of Sherlock Holmes. December 1893. Arthur Conan Doyle shocks his legions of fans by killing off the world’s favourite fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes. Meanwhile, in Scotland, a sensational...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Security challenges pose significant hardship for citizens of Caribbean nations. Public safety is threatened by high rates of crime – especially violent crime – in much of the region, the plague of the illicit drug trade, transnational organized crime, gangs, the current global proliferation...
Water, Crime and Security in the Twenty-First Century
Too Dirty, Too Little, Too Much
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Water, Crime and Security in the Twenty-First Century represents criminology’s first book-length contribution to the study of water and water-related crimes, harms and security. The chapters cover topics such as: water pollution, access to fresh water in the Global North and Global South, water...
Perceptions of Female Offenders
How Stereotypes and Social Norms Affect Criminal Justice Responses
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2012
Female offenders are often perceived as victims who commit crimes as a self-defense mechanism or as criminal deviants whose actions strayed from typical ‘womanly’ behavior. Such cultural norms for violence exist in our gendered society and there has been scholarly debate about how male and...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
In Developmental Theories of Crime and Delinquency, Terence P. Thornberry and his contributors show that criminal behavior is not a static human attribute, but ebbs and flows over the life course of the individual. Criminal behavior tends to follow a distinct psychological pattern. It is relatively...
by David Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2018
The search for Caylee made front-page headlines when news broke of two-year-old Caylee Anthony's disappearance from her home in Orlando Florida in mid-July 2008.
Caylee's own mother, Casey Anthony stepped into the national spotlight after the suspicious disappearance of her daughter. As her...
by Mary N Stamper
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2018
Howdy; I'm Nellie Cake and these are "Memoirs From My Outhouse." I write adult only true stories of violence, murders, beatings, crimes, 36 rapes, drugs, incest, alcoholism, inmates, stolen children, homelessness, narcissistic abuse, and nasty words. I have forty years of experience in these...
by Thomas P O'Connor
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Explore the relationship between faith-based programs, religion, and offender rehabilitation!
This book reports on current research from several disciplines to help the reader understand the nature and impact of the relationship between faith-based programs, religion, and offender rehabilitation....
by Mary N Stamper
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2018
Howdy; I'm Nellie Cake and these are "Memoirs From My Outhouse." I write adult only true stories of violence, murders, beatings, crimes, 36 rapes, drugs, incest, alcoholism, inmates, stolen children, homelessness, narcissistic abuse, and nasty words. I have forty years of experience in these...
Contemporary Perspectives on the Detection, Investigation and Prosecution of Art Crime
Australasian, European and North American Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
In the world of law enforcement art and antiquity crime has in the past usually assumed a place of low interest and priority. That situation has now slowly begun to change on both the local and international level as criminals, encouraged in part by the record sums now being paid for art treasures,...
Charlie Peace
Murder, Mayhem and the Master of Disguise
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
The true crimes of one of nineteenth century England’s most notorious thieves and killers, whose exploits still capture the public’s imagination.
Once immortalized in Madame Tussauds’s Chamber of Horrors, and brought to life in two silent films, his gnarled and prematurely aged features...