Crimes Criminals category: 7162 books
Robbing Drug Dealers
Violence beyond the Law
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
This volume fills a research gap of striking proportions by exploring the contingencies that mediate the crimes perpetrated on those who are themselves perpetrators. The notion that violence is something that happens only to law-abiding citizens is both widely held and inaccurate. The disproportionate...
Environmental Crime in Transnational Context
Global Issues in Green Enforcement and Criminology
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Environmental crime is one of the most profitable and fastest growing areas of international criminal activity. The increasing cross-border scope of environmental crimes and harms is one of the reasons why governments and the enforcement community have trouble in finding the proper responses. Law...
Pre-crime
Pre-emption, precaution and the future
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
Pre-crime aims to pre-empt ‘would-be-criminals’ and predict future crime. Although the term is borrowed from science fiction, the drive to predict and pre-empt crime is a present-day reality. This book critically explores this major twenty-first century development in crime and justice.
This...
Different Crimes, Different Criminals
Understanding, Treating and Preventing Criminal Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
This book focuses on the importance of incorporating both sociological and psychological viewpoints in the understanding of criminal behavior. It identifies and explains emerging criminal offenders within the criminal justice system, examining the individual differences that make different types of offenders unique.
True Crime Stories: 10 Heinous True Crime Stories of Sickly Serial Killers, Murderers and Sociopaths
True Crime Stories: 10 Heinous True Crime Stories of Sickly Serial Killers, Murderers and Sociopaths
True Crime Stories, #1
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
If there’s anything scarier than ghosts and paranormal phenomenon, it’s the criminals who kill for gut-wrenching reasons. What is happening in these people’s minds to make them commit heinous crimes without any sign of remorse?
This book will feature some of the craziest serial killers,...
Anyone You Want Me to Be
A True Story of Sex and Death on the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2003
JOHN DOUGLAS -- THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF MINDHUNTER AND THE UNDISPUTED MASTER PROFILER OF SERIAL CRIMINALS -- TELLS THE CHILLING TRUE STORY OF JOHN ROBINSON, THE INTERNET'S FIRST SERIAL MURDERER.
In Olathe, Kansas, a balding, pudgy father of four sits in prison convicted on three counts of homicide...
The Anatomy Of Motive
The Fbis Legendary Mindhunter Explores The Key To Understanding And Catching Vi
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 1999
Why?
In this eagerly anticipated new book from the international bestselling authors of Mindhunter, Journey into Darkness, and Obsession, legendary crime fighter John Douglas explores the root of all crime -- motive.
Every crime is a mystery story with a motive at its heart. Understand the motive...
American Murder
Criminals, Crimes, and the Media
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
Investigating the way Hollywood scoops up notorious criminals and turns them into legends, this entertaining who's-who guide provides thumbnail sketches of such killers as Ma Barker, Black Beard, Al Capone, John Wesley Hardin, and Charles Starkweather. Noting that some figures are glamorized in popular...
Musical Mysteries
From Mozart to John Lennon
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2010
Crime has formed the basis of countless plots in music theater and opera. Several famous composers were murder victims or believed to be murdered, and one of the greatest Renaissance composers slaughtered his wife and her lover. In Musical Mysteries, renowned true crime historian Albert Borowitz turns...
Still Standing
Finding Light Inside a Guatemalan Prison, The Battle of an Innocent Woman
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
A shocking firsthand account of a young mom’s fight for justice while being wrongly imprisoned, and the incredible stories of the women she meets inside.
Anaité Alvarado was at home caring for her children when she noticed Guatemalan police on her street. She sent her children to school...
Worse Than Death
The Dallas Nightclub Murders and the Texas Multiple Murder Law
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2003
In 1984, a Moroccan national named Abdelkrim Belachheb walked into Iannis Restaurant, a trendy Dallas nightclub, and gunned down seven people. Six died. Despite the fact that the crimes occurred in a state that prides itself on being tough on criminals, the death penalty was not an option for the Belachheb...
Sexual Deviance and Society
A sociological examination
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
In a society where sexualized media has become background noise, we are frequently discouraged from frank and open discussions about sex and offered few tools for understanding sexual behaviors and sexualities that are perceived as being out of the norm. This book encourages readers to establish...
by David O. Friedrichs, Dawn Rothe
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
This book addresses immensely consequential crimes in the world today that, to date, have been almost wholly neglected by students of crime and criminal justice: crimes of globalization. This term refers to the hugely harmful consequences of the policies and practices of international financial institutions...
Crimes of the Powerful
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
As politicians and the media perpetuate the stereotype of the "common criminal," crimes committed by the powerful remain for the most part invisible, or are reframed as a "bad decision" or a "rare mistake." This is a topic that remains marginalized within the field of...