Crime and criminology Books

Unlike much of the existing literature on organised crime, this book is less focused on the problem per se as it is on understanding its implications. The latter, especially in fragile and conflict regions, amount to strategic challenges for the state...

Want to add an autopsy that won’t kill your story? Death swings its scythe in every genre, from family funerals to crime scenes to creatures that won’t stay buried. This user-friendly, illustrated reference digs into all things posthumous and...

Masterful Storytelling! An Action-packed thriller, an electrifying read! Off the coast of Central America, the Sea Diva, a tuna boat, sinks. Members of the crew are missing and what happens remains a mystery. Anthony Darren, a renowned and wealthy lawyer...

This book is designed to meet head on the urgent need for academics, advocates and policymakers to develop universal ethical standards in criminal justice practice. By using quality research and policy analysis focusing on the core components of the...

This book contains Havelock Ellis’s 1890 study, “The Criminal”. In this text, Ellis has endeavoured to present a critical summary of “criminal anthropology”, or the characteristics of criminals. Although much of what is contained within this book now...

This title offers the reader an ambitious overview of the entire problem of the child criminal exploitation and 'County Lines' drug dealing epidemic in the United Kingdom.Organised criminality has evolved to target children and young people at younger...

This novel comes from the famous crimes of Alexandre Dumas (1839-1840), one of the first collections of Dumas. Model of the Prince of Machiavelli (one of the readings of Dumas), Caesar Borgia, son of Pope Alexander VI, extends his power over Rome. All...

Settled originally by Cubans and renowned for its cigar industries; Ybor City, Florida. Now a unique visitor destination with many charming stores and diners and an Old Havana welcome. It is full of visitors on weekends and a quiet, bearable neighborhood...

In It’s Just the Way It Was: Inside the War on the New England Mob and other stories, Joe Broadmeadow and Brendan Doherty take you inside the investigations, covert surveillances, and murky world of informants in the war against Organized Crime...

"Uncle Reid committed suicide!" Shirley read from an article found in Mother's genealogy records. We looked at each other in amazement as I shouted, "Mother, what happened to Uncle Reid?"A compelling true drama of political corruption, voter fraud and...

"COP THE TRUTH BEHIND THE BADGE" True stories from cop-turned-author Ric Robinson about "scum-sucking slopeheads and their lying, thieving lawyers." Racial profiling, snipers, homeland insecurity, illegal immigrants, domestic violence, DNA, guns,...

The history of jurisprudence is the history of civilization. The labors of the lawgiver embody not only the manners and customs of his time, but also its innermost thoughts and beliefs, laid bare for our examination with a frankness that admits of no...

“Narratives of Remarkable Criminal Trials” is a 1846 work by Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach that looks at a variety of interesting German criminal cases from the early nineteenth century. It provides details concerning each crime, its evidence,...

X'ed Out Part II illustrates how tough it is for Americans to survive in the "real world" after being convicted of a felony. The author, an ex parole officer, delivers information that other writers, publishers, and criminal justice officials are afraid...

Das Buch ""Der Gegenwartige Zustand Der Gefangnissfrage"" von Carl Joseph Anton Mittermaier wurde im Jahr 1860 ver������ffentlicht. Es befasst sich mit dem aktuellen Zustand der Gef�����ngnisfrage und untersucht die verschiedenen Aspekte des...

Il libro ""Degli Abruzzesi Primitivi Saggio Mitico-Storico"" scritto da Panfilo Serafini nel 1847, ����� un'opera che si concentra sulla storia e la mitologia degli antichi abruzzesi. L'autore esplora le credenze e le pratiche religiose degli abitanti...

Het boek ""De Regeling Van Het Bouwen Op Of Langs Dijken"" geschreven door Cornelis Wegener Sleeswijk in 1891, gaat over de regels en wetten die gelden voor het bouwen op of langs dijken. Het boek beschrijft de geschiedenis van de regelgeving en geeft...

El libro ""Compendio De La Historia Social Y Politica De Honduras V1 (1882)"" escrito por Antonio R. Vallejo es una obra que ofrece una visi������n detallada de la historia social y pol������tica de Honduras. La primera edici������n fue publicada en 1882...

This book offers a clear, up-to-date, comprehensive, and theoretically informed introduction to criminal psychology, exploring how psychological explanations and approaches can be integrated with other perspectives drawn from evolutionary biology,...

This edited volume presents the work of academics from the Global South and explores, from local and regional settings, how the legal order and people's perceptions of it translates into an understanding of what constitutes "criminal" behaviors or...

This edited volume fills a critical void by providing the most current and authoritative information on what is known about disciplinary disparities. School exclusion-out-of-school suspension and expulsion in particular-remains a substantial component of...

This book offers a distinctive and novel approach to state-sponsored violence, one of the major problems facing humanity in the previous and now the twenty-first century. It addresses the question: how is it possible that large numbers of ordinary men...

This book explores the complexities of drugs policy in Britain, contradicting the over simplified representation found in the public sphere. It focuses on developments in Britain since the Misuse of Drugs Act of 1971, covering debates at national level...

This book applies the psychopathy concept toward the understanding of crime. Drawing on hundreds of studies and his own clinical, research, and practitioner experience working with the most antisocial and violent offenders, the author demonstrates that...

The US-led war on drugs has failed: drugs remain purer, cheaper and more readily available than ever. Extreme levels of violence have also grown as drug traffickers and organized criminals compete for control of territory. This book points towards a...

This book examines justice reinvestment from its origins, its potential as a mechanism for winding back imprisonment rates, and its portability to Australia, the United Kingdom and beyond. It argues for a community-driven approach, originating in...

This ground-breaking collection examines the erosion of the legal boundaries traditionally dividing civil detention from criminal punishment. The contributors empirically demonstrate how the mentally ill, non-citizen immigrants, and enemy...

This book provides a critical engagement with the idea of the 'security society' which has been the focus of so much attention in criminology and the social sciences more broadly. 'Security' has been argued to constitute a new mode of social ordering,...

Why has crime fiction become a global genre? How do writers use crime fiction to reflect upon the changing nature of crime and policing in our contemporary world? This book argues that the globalization of crime fiction should not be celebrated...

""The Law and Practice in Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Part 1"" is a comprehensive guidebook written by Arthur Gwynne Jeffreys Hall in 1905. The book provides an in-depth analysis of divorce and matrimonial laws, practices, and procedures prevalent in...

Suffolk Deeds, Book 12, Part 1 (1902) is a historical document that contains a collection of deeds from the Suffolk County Registry of Deeds in Massachusetts. The book was published by Rockwell And Churchill Publisher and is part of a series of books...

A Treatise On Probate Law And Practice V3, Part 1: Together With Rules Of Practice And Forms (1904) is a comprehensive guide to the legal procedures and practices involved in probate law. The book is authored by Twyman Osmand Abbott, a renowned legal...

This report, written in 1862 by the Madras Police Department, provides an insight into the administration of the police force in India during the British colonial period. It covers topics such as the types of offenses committed, the recruitment and...

Dieses Buch ist eine Festschrift zu Ehren des bekannten und renommierten Kriminalisten Heinrich Pfenninger. Es enthält Beiträge von zahlreichen Experten auf dem Gebiet der criminalistischen Imputationslehre und bietet dem Leser einen umfassenden Einblick...

In diesem Buch beschäftigt sich der Autor mit der Ursachenforschung und Bekämpfung von Verbrechen. Dabei berücksichtigt er auch die psychologischen Aspekte des Phänomens.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part...

This 19th century treatise on Jewish criminals in Germany examines the tactics, customs, and language of the criminal underworld, providing a detailed portrait of this often-misunderstood subculture. Thiele, an expert in criminology, draws on his...

During the 1960s, traditional thinking about crime and its punishment, deviance and its control, came under radical attack. The discipline of criminology split into feuding factions, and various schools of thought emerged, each with quite different ideas...

Ira Lipman Marvin Wolfgang was the greatest criminologist in the United States of America in the last half of the 20th century, if not the entire century. We first met on March 3, 1977, in Philadelphia. I sought him out after...

In Causes of Delinquency, Hirschi attempts to state and test a theory of delinquency, seeing in the delinquent a person relatively free of the intimate attachments, the aspirations, and the moral beliefs that bind most people to a life within the law. In...

Many people consider Canada, particularly in comparison to its southern cousin, as a "peaceable kingdom." However, as the historical record demonstrates, Canadians have never been a thoroughly non-violent people. Violence in Canada highlights from an...

Richard Quinney's The Social Reality of Crime remains an eloquent and important statement on crime, law, and justice

In March 1975, Brook Carey was selected from among three hundred applicants to serve as warden of the California Institution for Women even though she had no background in Corrections. She was handed a ring of keys and a paperback copy of Helter Skelter,...

The foundation that diamond values are based on are the Carat, Colour,Clarity and Cut of a diamond. These are the Four C's of diamond gradingand have been the international qualifiers used to define the value ofdiamonds for centuries. The contemporary...

Females with large muscles evoke strong reactions from men and women, often involving disgust, discomfort, anger and threat. The controversial nature of female bodybuilding has caused a significant rupture on feminist ground. Whilst proponents claim that...