Criminology category: 4273 books
Murderous Minds on Trial
Terrible Tales from a Forensic Psychiatrist's Casebook
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2001
Each murder trial brings its own tangle of evidence, legal parameters, medical factors, social circumstances, and personalities. The tangle gets trickier when we must keep in mind that: "A person shall not be criminally responsible for an act or omission if they suffer from a mental disorder...
The Last Place You'd Look
True Stories of Missing Persons and the People Who Search for Them
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2011
What happens when a non-custodial parent kidnaps her son? Or a college student vanishes after a night out with friends? Or a middle-aged man seemingly drowns in calm waters? What do family members, friends, and law enforcement do when a beloved goes missing? Here, Moore explores an array of missing...
We Are Not Alone
A Teenage Girl's Personal Account of Incest from Disclosure Through Prosecution and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
This step-by-step guide is designed to help sexually abused teenage girls through the legal and emotional processes of dealing with what has been done to them. We Are Not Alone: A Teenage Girl's Personal Account of Incest from Disclosure Through Prosecution and Treatment tells the first-person story...
by Michael G. Haag, Lucien C. Haag
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
Shooting Incident Reconstruction, Second Edition, offers a thorough explanation of matters from simple to complex to help the reader understand the factors surrounding ballistics, trajectory, and shooting scenes.
Forensic scientists, law enforcement, and crime scene investigators are often...
I re di Roma
Destra e sinistra agli ordini di mafia capitale
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 3, 2015
UNA STORIA VERA ma così incredibile che sembra creata da un’immaginazione diabolica. UN EX TERRORISTA finito in carcere più volte, legato alla Banda della Magliana e addestratosi in Libano durante la guerra civile. Da anni gira per Roma tranquillo con una benda sull’occhio perso durante una...
A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis, Sixth Edition
Containing a detail of the various crimes and misdemeanors by which public and private property and security are, at present, injured and endangered: and suggesting remedies for their prevention.
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
This edition features
• a linked Table of Contents and Footnotes
CONTENTS (abridged list)
CHAP. I. GENERAL VIEW OF EXISTING EVILS.
CHAP. II. ON THE SYSTEM OF PUNISHMENTS: THEORETICALLY CONSIDERED.
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CHAP. XIX. MUNICIPAL POLICE OF THE METROPOLIS.
CHAP. XX. CONCLUSION.
Trail of Bones
More Cases from the Files of a Forensic Anthropologist
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
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by Terry Daniels
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
"Qué es esto? Qué es esto? Es cocaína!"
I couldn't speak a word of Spanish but I understood the word 'cocaína' and knew that I was in a lot of trouble. I should have been paralysed with fear but it didn't seem real. I was only twenty-three.'
In 1997, English holidaymaker...
How Shelter Pets are Brokered for Experimentation
Understanding Pound Seizure
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
Back in the 1940s, the practice referred to as Opound seizureO became a common practice in taxpayer-funded animal shelters across the country. Whether for cosmetic testing, human or animal drug testing, medical technique and tool testing, or biochemical testing, these once-family pets are subjected...
Behind Bars
Surviving Prison
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2002
A judge hands down a stretch in a local, state, or federal prison. It's time for some serious life lessons. With the crime rates soaring in the United States and the prison population growing faster than at any other time in American history, staying alive and well - both mentally and physically - is tougher than ever.
Lifers
Seeking Redemption in Prison
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2010
John Irwin writes about prisons from an unusual academic perspective. Before receiving a Ph.D. in sociology, he served five years in a California state penitentiary for armed robbery. This is his sixth book on imprisonment – an ethnography of prisoners who have served more than twenty years in a...
Insane
America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
An urgent exposé of the mental health crisis in our courts, jails, and prisons
America has made mental illness a crime. Jails in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago each house more people with mental illnesses than any hospital. As many as half of all people in America's jails and prisons have...
The Steal
A Cultural History of Shoplifting
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
A history of shoplifting, revealing the roots of our modern dilemma.
Rachel Shteir's The Steal is the first serious study of shoplifting, tracking the fascinating history of this ancient crime. Dismissed by academia and the mainstream media and largely misunderstood, shoplifting has become...
Extreme Killing
Understanding Serial and Mass Murder
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
Extreme Killing offers you a comprehensive overview of multiple homicide, including both serial and mass murder. Filled with classic and contemporary case studies, this fully updated Fourth Edition reflects a growing concern for specific types of multiple homicides—indiscriminate public massacres,...