Criminology category: 4273 books
Don't Shoot
One Man, a Street Fellowship, and the End of Violence in Inner-City America
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
Gang- and drug-related inner-city violence, with its attendant epidemic of incarceration, is the defining crime problem in our country. In some neighborhoods in America, one out of every two hundred young black men is shot to death every year, and few initiatives of government and law enforcement...
by Gordon Dillow, William J. Rehder
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2004
"With the style and pacing of a good novel...should become a standard in the genre."—Publishers Weekly
FBI Special Agent William J. Rehder, the man CBS News once described as "America's secret weapon in the war against bank robbers," chronicles the lives and crimes of...
Adiós Niño
The Gangs of Guatemala City and the Politics of Death
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
In Adiós Niño: The Gangs of Guatemala City and the Politics of Death, Deborah T. Levenson examines transformations in the Guatemalan gangs called Maras from their emergence in the 1980s to the early 2000s. A historical study, Adiós Niño describes how fragile spaces of friendship and exploration...
La Catturandi
La verità oltre le fiction
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 29, 2014
Il consuntivo dell’attività della sezione Catturandi della Squadra Mobile di Palermo, i profili degli ultimi latitanti finiti in manette, la caccia a Matteo Messina Denaro, l’evoluzione delle strategie dei boss, la trattativa Stato-mafia, i retroscena e i misteri ancora irrisolti. C’è questo...
Courtroom 302
A Year Behind the Scenes in an American Criminal Courthouse
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
Steve Bogira’s riveting book takes us into the heart of America’s criminal justice system. Courtroom 302 is the story of one year in one courtroom in Chicago’s Cook County Criminal Courthouse, the busiest felony courthouse in the country.
We see the system through the eyes of the men...
Getting Away with Murder
The Twentieth-Century Struggle for Civil Rights in the U.S. Senate
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the US Congress engaged in bitter debates on whether to enact a federal law that would prosecute private citizens who lynched black Americans. In Getting Away with Murder, the fundamental question under scrutiny is whether Southern Democrats’...
Welfare Beyond the Welfare State
The Employment Relationship in Britain and Germany
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
This book examines employee welfare in British and German companies from the 19th century through to the present day. Tracing the history of employee welfare, this comparative study reveals new issues beyond the dominant focus on the welfare state, showing that companies are an integral part of welfare...
Cut-Throat
The Vicious World of Rod McLean - Mercenary, Gun-Runner and International Drug Baron
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Fact is often stranger than fiction, and when Rod McLean, an escaped drug baron and alleged MI6 agent, was mysteriously found dead in a London flat after two months on the run, even Hollywood couldn't have scripted it better.
McLean had only served seven years of his twenty-eight-year sentence...
Whitey's Payback
And Other True Stories: Gangsterism, Murder, Corruption, and Revenge
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Sixteen stories of true crime from America’s foremost authority on the underworld
James “Whitey” Bulger is the last of the old-fashioned gangsters. As a polished, sophisticated psychopath—who also happened to be a secret FBI informant—his reign of power in Boston lasted for more than...
The Mafia: A Guide to an American Subculture
A Guide to an American Subculture
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
Based on original sources and research, not legends and myth, this book presents a lively, in-depth analysis of how the American Mafia epitomizes organized crime.
• Includes historical, social, economic, and cultural context that further clarifies the significance of the Mafia's operations...
by Michael Lutwyche, Steven Fowler
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
Since the early 1990s Aston Villa Hardcore has been arguably the most prolific football hooligan gangs in the UK. Described by the police and press as one of the worst two hooligan firms on the England international scene. There are currently 80 Villa Hardcore members subject to football banning orders...
Creating Criminals
Prisons and People in a Market Society
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Market society is producing more crime around the world. More acts are being defined as crimes. Ever increasing numbers of people are classified as criminals and more are being locked up in prison. With globalization, the crime and punishment problem is no longer insulated from pressures beyond national...
Gangbusters
How a Street Tough, Elite Homicide Unit Took Down New York's Most Dangerous Gang
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2010
An elite homicide investigation unit takes on one of the most savage and destructive gangs in New York City history in this gritty true-crime narrative.
The investigation into the late-night murder of a college student on the West Side Highway leads to the Wild Cowboys, a group of young men...
Angel of Death Row
My Life As A Death Penalty Defense Lawyer
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
Nineteen times, death penalty defense lawyer Andrea D. Lyon has represented a client found guilty of capital murder. Nineteen times, she has argued for that individual’s life to be spared. Nineteen times, she has succeeded.
Dubbed the "Angel of Death Row" by the Chicago Tribune,...