Crimes Criminals category: 7162 books
Evil
Spine-Tingling True Stories of Murder and Mayhem
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
A collection of the most shocking, horrifying accounts of true crime ever.
Evil knows no boundaries. In 1614, Hungarian countess Elizabeth Báthory died, sealed in a tiny closet in her castle. Her crimes? She was rumored to have bathed in the blood of her victims, which may have numbered in...
Stalkers
Disturbing True-Life Stories of Harassment, Jealousy and Obsession
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
From shadowy online stalkers to jealous ex-lovers, from obsessed fans to crazed and dangerous criminals, this book probes the innermost instincts of the perpetrators involved in each of these terrifying crimes. Based on revealing interviews with policemen, psychiatrists, and doctors, as well as the...
by John McCoist
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2012
Britain has more than its fair share of criminals, some more evil than others. Behind our prison walls are some of the most feared and dangerous criminals on earth. Sick and twisted delves into the world behind bars, sometimes barbaric and a world we would find hard to comprehend. Behind these bars...
Security
Policing Your Homeland, Your State, Your City
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2004
From counterterrorism to tracking criminals by satellite, Security gives an expert's tour of twenty-first-century law enforcement. Former NYPD commissioner Howard Safir reveals the tools, methods, and science that police officers use to reduce crime, and track and apprehend criminals, including surveillance,...
by Jeremy Agnew
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Western movies are full of images of swaggering outlaws brought to justice by valiant lawmen shooting them down in daring gunfights before riding off into the sunset. In reality it would not have happened that way. Real lawmen did not simply walk away from a gunfight—they had to face the legal system...
Introduction to Crime Analysis
Basic Resources for Criminal Justice Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Successfully analyze crime at any level of law enforcement!
This book is a practical resource guide for the development of crime analysis in local law enforcement. The tragedy of September 11, 2001, has raised awareness on how crucial it is to analyze information and intelligence. Smaller agencies...
The Reasoning Criminal
Rational Choice Perspectives on Offending
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
The assumption that rewards and punishments influence our choices between different courses of action underlies economic, sociological, psychological, and legal thinking about human action. Hence, the notion of a reasoning criminal-one who employs the same sorts of cognitive strategies when contemplating...
Serial Killers True Crime: 10 In Depth True Stories Of Some Of The Most Savage Serial Killers And Criminals In History
Serial Killers True Crime, #4
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2018
"Anitha Moolya was supposed to be getting married. She prepared for the big day by making an effort to look her best; she fixed her hair, dressed herself in an off-white sari, accentuated it with fresh flowers, and glass bangles. To complete the look, she wore a pair of gold earrings and a new...
Rough Justice
How he worst criminals paid for their crimes.
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Harold Shipman, the worst know serial killer in British history, was determined to die. He tied a homemade noose around this throat and threw himself against his cell’s window in a desperate attempt to knock himself out. After several attempts Shipman succeeded and slowly asphyxiated while his leg...
The Other Side of Criminology
An Inversion of the Concept of Crime
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Didactically, a textbook of criminology should start at the beginning. The learning process, also an emotional process, begins in criminology with the concepts, views, emotions, attitudes and ideas we have regarding crime and criminals. Exploration of these underlying factors is one of the aims of...
by Tom Hofmann
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
At the conclusion of World War II, war crimes tribunals were carried out at Nuremberg, Germany. Justice was meted out for major war criminals, and Benjamin Ferencz was chief prosecutor for what the Associated Press said was the largest murder trial in history. This biography of the last living Nuremberg...
The World's Most Bizarre Murders
True Stories That Will Shock and Amaze You
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2010
From the stomach-churning to the truly bizarre, the details of some of history’s weirdest and most shocking murder cases are collected in this enthralling volume. The criminals covered here all perpetrated crimes with a peculiar twist, among them Enriqueta Marti, who kidnapped children then boiled...
Sex Crimes and Sex Offenders
Research and Realities
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Sex Crimes and Sex Offenders: Research and Realities provides an overview of social scientific theory and research on sex crimes and sex offenders. Most other books on the market are focused on a single issue—such as treatment, rape, pedophilia, theory, etc. This book is unique in that it covers...
Signal Crimes
Social Reactions to Crime, Disorder, and Control
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
How do individuals, communities, and institutions react to crime, disorder, and social control events? How do such incidents shape the contours of social order and the make-up of society? Why do some crimes and disorders matter more than others in influencing how we think, feel, and act about our...