Crime and criminology Books

There's Blood on the Streets of Mayberry...Growing UP Mayberry “Just the Facts” Volume 1 LEVERAGE gives a glimpse into the other side of America’s Hometown of Mount Airy (also known as Mayberry), North Carolina that most never...

100 Questions and Answers About Police Officers is part of the Michigan State University School of Journalism series on cultural competence.This guide has sections on Training and Certification, special assignments, police culture, use of force,...

Fraud and Corruption is at the core of financial crime by white-collar offenders. This book provides an introduction to the shadow economy and presents the theory of convenience for white-collar crime. It explains why so few are willing to blow the...

In an age when computer crime is growing at a exponential rate and on a global scale, industry and government leaders are increasingly reliant upon answers from the academic and IT Security fields in order to keep cyber crime in check, and be ahead of...

Much of the world's advanced data processing applications are now dependant on eXtensible Markup Language (XML), from publishing to medical information storage. Therefore, XML has become a de facto standard for data exchange and representation on the...

Rediscover the Foundations of Justice in a Shifting WorldIn a society where the pillars of truth are increasingly obscured, "Justice Undone: The Vanishing Pillars of Truth" offers a compelling exploration into the heart of legal systems, dissecting their...

Call them anything but closed cases.Who killed attorneys Margaret Coon and Donna Bahm?Why would someone butcher a 26-year-old bank teller?Did the mafia assassinate Senator Huey Long?What happened to the Grinch who stole shotguns?Louisiana's foremost...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...

This book presents to English readers the research on the Sudarium of Oviedo, most of which has been available in Spanish so far. It includes a thorough critical analysis and new unpublished studies.

Southeast Asia is one of the biggest marketplaces for illicit drugs. The international syndicates with their billion-dollar profits are similar to the Hydra of the old Greek mythology which grew two new heads if one was cut off. Hercules eventually...

THE PRISONER MANIFESTO... the declaration and intentions of More Than An Inmate."Within a hell that America has created and abandoned, we have redeemed ourselves...Having redressed ourselves, we then learned how to express ourselves. We will be heard...

Notorious Southtown: The Sordid History of South Coffeyville, Oklahoma, and Surrounding AreaBy Preston HaddanStep back in time to the gritty and often lawless days of South Coffeyville, Oklahoma, a border town with a history as wild as the West itself...

Lifestyle of A Professional Booster. An Instrumental Crime. A Dallas Texas Story. Part One: Slavery to 1900. This book is based on true events relating to instrumental crimes in Dallas, Texas. This book looks at Social Learning Theory and Urie...

About the BookA THRILLING ACCOUNT OF SOME OF THE MOST INTERTESTING CASES FROM MAZHAR FAROOQUI'S LIFE AS AN INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST.'If someone were to bump me off, it would be difficult to determine who it was, which is slightly disturbing...

Organized crime is a category of transnational, national, or local groupings of highly centralized enterprises run by criminals who intend to engage in illegal activity, most commonly for money and profit. Some criminal organizations, such as terrorist...

Die Kriminologie sucht Antworten auf die Frage nach den Ursachen abweichenden Verhaltens meist im Individuum. In dieser Untersuchung wird die Perspektive geweitet, indem sozialstrukturelle Bedingungen in den Fokus des Forschungsinteresses rücken. Das...

Despite the increasing concern over Asian delinquencyin Canada, there is a paucity of research in thisarea. This book reports a qualitative study on theexperiences of Asian youth in thecriminal justice system. Analyses support thatnegative self image is...

Traditionally, police agencies have allocated resources in response to their operational demands or requirements, with the majority of resources being distributed in response to political demands and to public calls for service. This study examines this...

The United States currently provides a health care system that is neither efficient nor equitable. Despite outspending the world on health care, over three-fourths of developed countries produce better health outcomes. In response to these challenges the...

No Hollywood script can compare to the terror of the 37 true tales in OF MOBSTERS AND MOVIE STARS: The Bloody "Golden Age" of Hollywood! In this gripping historical account, expert crime historian Joan Renner explores the shadowy world of fame and...

This book provides the most comprehensive and authoritative book yet published on the subject of criminal investigation, a rapidly developing area within the police and other law enforcement agencies, and an important sub discipline within police studies...

Interest in true crime as a form of popular entertainment has sky-rocketed in recent years. Drawing on this current popularity and its significance in the context of digital culture, Gender, True Crime and Criminology challenges traditional...

This book demonstrates the lengths that some have gone to and the depths that they have plumbed just to make sure that the long arm of the law finally reached the barbaric perpetrators of unspeakable deeds and brought them to justice. You will read...

"A great story and a primer on smart, creative lawyering and deep-dive forensic accounting. John Clark and Paul Regan school Howard Hughes on how to bring down even the wealthiest, most stubborn opponent."-Robert B. Thum, Partner, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw...

The Bloodiest Prison Uprising in US Penal History provides lessons for present-day institutions involved in American corrections.This is the untold story of the man in charge, who was intimately involved in the bloody prison uprising, and how he later...

Until now, the influential agents in rampage killings have been described with unsatisfactory generalizations or chalked up to unconscious impulses. Instead of simply attributing lethal decision-making to distorted thinking, Why Rampage Killers Emerge...

How Rampage Killers Interpret Their Worlds addresses a question that recently has become disturbingly persistent: "What compels a person or a pair without notice and seemingly without any foreseeable benefit to attack numerous individuals, many of whom...

“The Mob” has been alive and well in Youngstown, Ohio since the 1950s. Youngstown was the halfway point for mobsters traveling between New York and Chicago. Often called Mobtown, Crimetown, and Boomtown, Youngstown still has many mobsters and...

As Tennessee grew into a modern state, it found itself increasingly beset by crime. In 1831, the legislature approved the construction of the first penitentiary. The pen world was violent and dark, with several major riots, fires, and escape attempts...

Manhattan's past whispers for attention amongst the bustle of the city's ever-changing landscape. At Fraunces Tavern, George Washington's emotional farewell luncheon in 1783 echoes in the Long Room. Gertrude Tredwell's ghost appears to visitors at the...

Throughout the United States, there is no single major metropolitan area more closely connected to organized crime's rapid ascendancy on a national scale than New York City. In 1920, upon the advent of Prohibition, Gotham's shadowy underworld began...

The discipline of adult education has been vastly discussed and optimized over the years. Despite this, certain niches in this area, such as correctional education, remain under-researched and under-developed. Strategic Learning Ideologies in Prison...

This comprehensive handbook covers fundamental security concepts, methodologies, and relevant information pertaining to supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) and other industrial control systems used in utility and industrial facilities...

Neoslavery, Injustice, Genocide, Racism, and Hate live in the bosom chest of the people behind the prison industry complex here in antediluvian times. Wrong turn, Georgia! Particularly the police, legislators, judges, district attorneys, prosecutors,...

Delve Into the Shadows of History's Greatest MysteriesStep into a world where the past refuses to be forgotten, where mysteries linger unsolved, and the truth waits to be uncovered. Enigma Crimes: Unlocking the Mysteries of the Unsolved takes you on an...

The book looks in depth at the collectable world of Murderabila and delves closely into the cultural impact of murderer and serial killer culture in contemporary society. Through interviews with some of the world's most prolific and notorious murderers...

A searing, personal look at conditions on Texas's Death Row-told in the words of the prisoners themselves.

Mainstream theories assert that democracy cures corruption. In market economies, however, elections are expensive and parties, with ever-thinning memberships, cannot legally acquire the necessary campaign funds. In order to secure electoral funds, a...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...

Restorative justice is increasingly being applied to settings characterized by large-scale violence and human rights abuses. While many embrace this development as an important step in attempts to transform protracted conflict, there are a number of...

Justice for Victims brings together the world's leading scholars in the fields of study surrounding victimization in a pioneering international collection. This book focuses on the current study of victims of crime, combining both legal and...

In Community Punishment: European perspectives, the authors place punishment in the community under the spotlight by exploring the origins, evolution and adaptations of supervision in 11 European jurisdictions. For most people, punishment in the criminal...

Biosocial criminology is an interdisciplinary field that aims to explain crime and antisocial behavior by exploring both biological factors and environmental factors. Since the mapping of the human genome, scientists have been able to study the biosocial...