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Cover of Murder by Candlelight: The Gruesome Crimes Behind Our Romance with the Macabre
by Michael Knox Beran
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015

Bringing to life the ghastly ambiance of a vanished epoch, Murder by Candlelight presents a terrifying glimpse of the horror beneath the seeming civility of the Romantic era. In the early nineteenth century, a series of murders took place in and around London which shocked the whole of England....
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Cold Case Reviews

DNA, Detective Work and Unsolved Major Crimes

by Cheryl Allsop
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018

This book provides the first ethnographic account of a UK major crime review team, providing a comprehensive, conceptual account of cold case reviews not currently available from an academic criminological perspective. . Cold case reviews are a relatively new and innovative form of policing yet, to...
Cover of Perfect Crimes
by Marvin J. Wolf, Katherine Mader
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015

No such thing as PERFECT CRIMES? Witness this whirlwind tour of dirty deeds, sinister scandals, and cold-blooded murder--done in the name of love, money, madness, and more--from around the world or right next door. All of these notoriously wicked characters overlooked a fatal flaw that brought their...
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Serial Crime

Theoretical and Practical Issues in Behavioral Profiling

by Wayne Petherick, BSocSc, MCrim
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2009

Serial Crime, Second Edition, examines serial predatory behavior and is divided into two main parts. Part one deals with behavioral profiling, and covers a variety of critical issues from the history of profiling and the theoretical schools of thought to its treatment in the mainstream media....
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by Dr. Karabi Konch
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017

Crime and Society presents the subject matter of criminologyCriminology, its field and scope, its historical development and of law, law enforcement agencies and the criminal justice system. Concentrated on different relevant aspects of criminology such as crime, deviance and delinquency, it attempts...
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The Geography of Environmental Crime

Conservation, Wildlife Crime and Environmental Activism

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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016

This book critically examines both theory and practice around conservation crimes. It engages with the full complexity of environmental crimes and different responses to them, including: poaching, conservation as a response to wildlife crime, forest degradation, environmental activism, and the application...
Cover of Military Interventions, War Crimes, and Protecting Civilians
by Christi Siver
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018

War crimes have devastating effects on victims and perpetrators and endanger broader political and military goals. The protection of civilians, one of the most fundamental norms in the laws of war, appears to have weakened despite almost universal international agreement. Using insights from organizational...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2014

Toxicological Aspects of Drug-Facilitated Crimes provides readers with an overview of the field of DFC: its history, toxicological effects, analysis, interpretation of results, the roles that age, gender and race may play, and clinical presentations of these drugs. The most commonly used drugs in...
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The Prosecution of International Crimes

A Critical Study of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia

by Madeleine Sann
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018

The post-World War Two period has witnessed numerous armed conflicts characterized by extensive violations of relevant obligatory international norms. Responding to these events, the United Nations General Assembly created a per­manent international court in 2003, with jurisdiction over selected...
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The Encyclopedia of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List

Over Fifty Years of Convicts, Robbers, Terrorists, and Other Rogues

by Duane Swierczynski
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014

In 1949, a crime reporter looking for a way to fill a column published the nation’s ten worst criminals as classified by the FBI: two accused murderers, four escaped convicts, a bank robber, and three “confidence men.” In addition to the stark black and white photos that accompanied the article,...
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Dreams from the Monster Factory

A Tale of Prison, Redemption, and One Woman's Fight to Restore Justice to All

by Sunny Schwartz
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009

Dreams from the Monster Factory tells the true story of Sunny Schwartz's extraordinary work in the criminal justice system and how her profound belief in people's ability to change is transforming the San Francisco jails and the criminals incarcerated there. With an immediacy made possible by a twenty-seven-year...
Cover of In Defense of Flogging
by Peter Moskos
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011

Prisons impose tremendous costs, yet they're easily ignored. Criminals-- even low-level nonviolent offenders-- enter our dysfunctional criminal justice system and disappear into a morass that's safely hidden from public view. Our "tough on crime" political rhetoric offers us no way out,...
Cover of Do the Crime, Do the Time: Juvenile Criminals and Adult Justice in the American Court System
by G. Larry Mays, Rick Ruddell
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012

For more than 20 years now, the attitude in some jurisdictions has been "if you're old enough to do the crime, you're old enough to do the time." After two decades of applying this increasingly punitive mindset to juvenile offenders, it is possible to see the actual consequences of transferring more...
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Organizing Crime in Chinatown

Race and Racketeering in New York City, 1890-1910

by Jeffrey Scott McIllwain
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014

More than a century ago, organized criminals were intrinsically involved with the political, social, and economic life of the Chinese American community. In the face of virulent racism and substantial linguistic and cultural differences, they also integrated themselves successfully into the extensive...
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