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Fifty Years After Kitty Genovese

Inside the Case That Rocked Our Faith in Each Other

by Peter Hellman, Detective Chief Albert A. Seedman
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014

An investigator in the infamous New York murder looks back on the Kitty Genovese case and examines its enduring legacy. Fifty years after she was viciously attacked in Kew Gardens, Queens, the name of murder victim Kitty Genovese still conjures the ugly specter of American apathy. “37 Saw...
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by Francis X. Dolan
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2007

The most significant building project of its time, Eastern State Penitentiary was designed to reshape the mind of an inmate, rather than punish the body of one. It was believed that by keeping prisoners isolated in the chapel-like cells the inner light of their souls would emerge, leading them to discover...
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by Guy Cheli
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2003

A popular backdrop for numerous movies, Sing Sing, or "the Big House," has been a site of both controversy and reform. The history of Sing Sing dates back to 1825, when warden Elam Lynds brought one hundred inmates to begin construction of the prison "up the river" on the banks of the Hudson. The marble...
Cover of EATEN ALIVE: Five Killer Croc Attacks
by Chris Maloney
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012

A near perfect killing machine and one of the most feared animals on earth, the crocodile has honed its hunting techniques for 200 million years. And although its jaws are its weapon, the crocodile’s success depends on patience and its ability to ambush prey. “A crocodile will stalk...
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True Crime

Real-Life Stories of Abduction, Addiction, Obsession, Murder, Grave-robbing, and More

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Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013

The real-life stories collected here reflect not only the myriad ways in which a law can be broken, but also the countless ways in which crime - whether in the news or close to home - can be experienced. In these diverse and compelling narratives, award-winning journalists investigate the attempted assassination...
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We regelen het zelf wel

De Brabantse onderwereld, een kijkje achter de deur van de drugsschuur van Europa

by Bram Endedijk
Language: Dutch
Release Date: May 8, 2017

De onderwereld heeft Brabant in zijn greep Brabant is de drugsschuur van Europa; jaarlijks wordt er voor 1 miljard euro aan wiet geproduceerd. De criminaliteit in het zuiden is een bedrijfstak, die al jaren kan voortbestaan doordat boven- en onderwereld zich hand in hand weinig lijken aan te...
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Wasting More Police Time

Further Adventures in La-La Land

by PC David Copperfield
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2013

The long-awaited follow-up to the bestselling Wasting Police Time. Wasting More Police Time takes readers back to the front line of British policing for more fascinating stories and insights. PC David Copperfield was widely praised for the first book, which lifted the lid on bureaucracy,...
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Deadly Beat

Inside the Royal Ulster Constabulary

by Richard Latham
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012

'You go to work and you might be shot dead. You imagine being horribly maimed in a bomb blast. You come home and wonder if you'll be shot at the door. You go to bed with a revolver on the bedside cabinet. At times you wonder if this is really part of the UK' This was the world inhabited by...
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Chasing Killers

Three Decades of Cracking Crime in the UK's Murder Capital

by Joe Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011

Glasgow is known as the murder capital of Britain and no one understands why better than Joe Jackson. For over 30 years, Jackson worked the crime beat, first as a uniformed cop then as a seasoned murder squad detective. In this hard-hitting memoir of his most memorable cases, he reveals the reality...
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by Dougie Brimson
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011

Football Hooliganism, so long regarded as the English Disease, is rife throughout the European game. Yet, while the English scene has been well documented, no one has ever exposed the extent to which the hooligan problem has come to infect the game on the Continent. Until now.
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Salvation on Death Row

The Pamela Perillo Story

by John T. Thorngren
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018

"Some true stories move us. Pamela's story changes us." - Dale S.Recinella, Chaplain for Florida's Death Row and author of Now I Walk on Death Row Pamela Perillo was set to die on March 24, 1996. Convicted of capital murder in 1980, Pamela sat on Texas’s Death Row awaiting...
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King of Thieves

The adventures of Arthur Delaney and The Kangaroo Gang

by Adam Shand
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010

Vast shoplifting ring operating in Britain 'A highly organised gang of Australian shoplifters is at work in Britain stealing goods worth hundreds of thousands of pounds a year. New members of the gang are flown from Australia whenever the organisers want replacements.' The Guardian,...
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Manhunters

Criminal Profilers and Their Search for the World?s Most Wanted Serial Killers

by Colin Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014

Author Colin Wilson opens this illuminating psychological discussion with the development of the 1977 Behavioral Science Unit, which was set up in order to answer the many questions surrounding serial killers: How does someone become a serial killer? How do they choose their victims, and why do they...
Cover of WORSE THAN EVIL (The murder of baby P)
by Tammy Richards
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012

You only have to mention the name Baby P and it stirs up emotions of anger and sadness. It is a name that will forever be associated with how cruel and evil people can be. Baby P (Peter Connelly) was an innocent angel who suffered the most horrendous torture and abuse at the hands of his stepfather...
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