Criminology category: 4273 books
The First Civil Right
How Liberals Built Prison America
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
The explosive rise in the U.S. incarceration rate in the second half of the twentieth century, and the racial transformation of the prison population from mostly white at mid-century to sixty-five percent black and Latino in the present day, is a trend that cannot easily be ignored. Many believe that...
Debating the Death Penalty
Should America Have Capital Punishment? The Experts on Both Sides Make Their Best Case
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2005
When news breaks that a convicted murderer, released from prison, has killed again, or that an innocent person has escaped the death chamber in light of new DNA evidence, arguments about capital punishment inevitably heat up. Few controversies continue to stir as much emotion as this one, and public...
DeathQuest
An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Capital Punishment in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
This fifth edition of the first true textbook on the death penalty engages the reader with a full account of the arguments and issues surrounding capital punishment. The book begins with the history of the death penalty from colonial to modern times, and then examines the moral and legal arguments...
Questioning Capital Punishment
Law, Policy, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
The death penalty has inspired controversy for centuries. Raising questions regarding capital punishment rather than answering them, Questioning Capital Punishment offers the footing needed to allow for more informed consideration and analysis of these controversies. Acker edits judicial decisions...
by Charles Bronson, Stephen Richards
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2009
Charles Bronson is the most feared and most notorious convict in the prison system. Renowned for his serial hostage-taking and his rooftop sieges, he is a legend in his own lifetime. The recent film of his life was a critically acclaimed, box-office hit. Yet he is a man of great warmth and humour;...
by Charles Bronson, Stephen Richards
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2004
Charles Bronson is the most feared and the most notorious convict in the prison system. Renowned for serial hostage taking and his rooftop sieges, he is a legend in his own lifetime. Yet behind the crime and the craziness, there is a great deal more to Charlie. He is a man of great warmth and humour;...
by Christopher Berry-Dee, Robin Odell
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2008
'Under that veneer of charm there lies a most evil, violent and horrible side to your character. You should never be at liberty outside of prison walls.' - Mr Justice Drake, Exeter Crown Court, 28 April 1989Before being sentenced to three life terms for the murder of Bristol newlywed Shirley Banks...
Training for Sudden Violence
72 Practical Drills
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
USA Best Books Award WINNER - 2016
The speed and brutality of a predatory attack can shock even an experienced martial artist. The sudden chaos, the cascade of stress hormones—you feel as though time slows down. In reality, the assault is over in an instant. How does anyone prepare for that?
As...
by Rory Miller
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2011
The fourth volume of the ChironTraining blog follows Rory as he leaves his desk job as an investigator to return to working the jail; becomes a real, live, published author; and then bags everything to go to Baghdad. Yep. He went and volunteered for the ICITAP (International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program) mission in Iraq.
Talking with Serial Killers 2
The World's Most Evil Killers Tell Their Stories
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
Christopher Berry-Dee is the man who talks to serial killers. He has penetrated their minds and gained their trust to produce one stomach-churningly compulsive selection of tales already, and his unique collection of audiotape and videotape interviews has been collected into another disturbing book....
The Serial Killers
A Study in the Psychology of Violence
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
As the number of serial killers worldwide has risen steadily - from the emergence of Jack the Ripper in 1888 to Harold Shipman and Ivan Milat, the backpacker killer of the Australian outback - the need to understand mass murder is becoming more urgent.
Using privileged access to the world's...
Prosecution Complex
America's Race to Convict and Its Impact on the Innocent
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
American prosecutors are asked to play two roles within the criminal justice system: they are supposed to be ministers of justice whose only goals are to ensure fair trials, whatever the outcomes of those trials might be—and they are also advocates of the government whose success rates are measured...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
How Can You Represent Those People? is the first-ever collection of essays offering a response to the 'Cocktail Party Question' asked of every criminal lawyer. A must-read for anyone interested in race, poverty, crime, punishment, and what makes lawyers tick.
Colonial Systems of Control
Criminal Justice in Nigeria
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2008
A pioneering book on prisons in West Africa, Colonial Systems of Control: Criminal Justice in Nigeria is the first comprehensive presentation of life inside a West African prison. Chapters by prisoners inside Kirikiri maximum security prison in Lagos, Nigeria are published alongside chapters by scholars...