Crimes Criminals category: 7162 books
by W. David Allen
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2011
Criminals and Victims presents an economic analysis of decisions made by criminals and victims of crime before, during, and after a crime or victimization occurs. Its main purpose is to illustrate how the application of analytical tools from economics can help us to understand the causes and consequences...
by Daniel J. Codd
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Think the world is bad today? Then take a true-crime trip back in time to 1600s England, where violence, robbery, and cold-blooded murder ran amuck.
These days, criminals and evildoers are stopped, caught, and punished every day. But how did people deal with crimes before the police, computer records,...
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Crimes of the Centuries: Notorious Crimes, Criminals, and Criminal Trials in American History [3 volumes]
Notorious Crimes, Criminals, and Criminal Trials in American History
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
This multivolume resource is the most extensive reference of its kind, offering a comprehensive summary of the misdeeds, perpetrators, and victims involved in the most memorable crime events in American history.
• Supports national standards curriculum
• Offers an extensive selection...
Codes of the Underworld
How Criminals Communicate
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2011
How do criminals communicate with each other? Unlike the rest of us, people planning crimes can't freely advertise their goods and services, nor can they rely on formal institutions to settle disputes and certify quality. They face uniquely intense dilemmas as they grapple with the basic problems...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
This textbook focuses on the criminality and victimization of the elderly population. It provides a global perspective on the extent of the elderly crime and victimization, with international comparisons for addressing the problem. It explores the extent and types of crimes committed by the elderly,...
Dark Dreams
A Legendary FBI Profiler Examines Homicide and the Criminal Mind
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
The Evil That Men Do introduced readers to the lifework and the techniques of FBI profiler Roy Hazelwood.
Now, in Dark Dreams, Hazelwood-- writing with bestselling author Stephen G. Michaud-- will take then deep into the minds of his prey, the world's most dangerous sexual criminals, and reveal...
Technocrime
Technology, Crime and Social Control
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
This book is concerned with the concept of 'technocrime'. The term encompasses crimes committed on or with computers - the standard definition of cybercrime - but it goes well beyond this to convey the idea that technology enables an entirely new way of committing, combating and thinking about criminality,...
Sex Crimes
Patterns and Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2008
A comprehensive survey of sex offenders and sexual offenses
This succinct and highly accessible text provides a comprehensive overview of a wide range of sexual behaviors and sex crimes, thoroughly addressing criminal actions from "nuisance" sex crimes, such as voyeurism and exhibitionism,...
TIME-LIFE Mysteries of the Criminal Mind
The Secrets Behind the World's Most Notorious Crimes
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Is it nature or nurture that shapes a serial killer? What drives a person to become a kidnapper or a terrorist? And can such behaviors be predicted--or even stopped before they occur?
As advances in science unlock the secrets of our DNA and reveal the inner workings of the human brain, Time-Life...
by Steve Tombs, Dave Whyte
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Every year in the UK, hundreds of workers are killed just doing their jobs, thousands more die of illnesses caused by their work and tens of thousands suffer major injuries such as amputations, loss of sight, serious burns, and so on. Worldwide, two million people are killed by work each year. Yet...
The Crime of All Crimes
Toward a Criminology of Genocide
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Cambodia. Rwanda. Armenia. Nazi Germany. History remembers these places as the sites of unspeakable crimes against humanity, and indisputably, of genocide. Yet, throughout the twentieth century, the world has seen many instances of violence committed by states against certain groups within their borders—from...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
The growth of technology allows us to imagine entirely new ways of committing, combating and thinking about criminality, criminals, police, courts, victims and citizens. Technology offers not only new tools for committing and fighting crime, but new ways to look for, unveil, label crimes and new ways...
Murderers, Robbers, & Highwaymen
True Tales of Crime and Punishment in Eighteenth-Century England
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
A compendium of horrific crimes and bloody punishments in Georgian England from the editor of the New York Times bestseller, Outlaws and Peace Officers.
Despite the frequency with which criminals were sentenced to death, crime was still on the rise in England in the mid-1700s. Men were thrown...
by Mark Nesbitt, Katherine Ramsland
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
The second book in the "Haunted Crime Scenes" series. The series is based on the premise that by working together, Crime Scene Investigators (CSIs) and Paranormal Forensic Investigators (PFIs) may someday solve crimes and resolve cold cases hitherto thought unsolvable.
This book focuses on...