Criminology category: 4273 books
Coroner's Journal
Forensics and the Art of Stalking Death
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2007
During Hurricane Katrina, Dr. Louis Cataldie remained in New Orleans in dangerous and often unbearable conditions to attend to the sick, the injured-and the dead. As chief coroner of Baton Rouge, tending to the dead is Cataldie's job. A little town with big-city problems, Baton Rouge means "Red...
The Western Codification of Criminal Law
A Revision of the Myth of its Predominant French Influence
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
This volume addresses an important historiographical gap by assessing the respective contributions of tradition and foreign influences to the 19th century codification of criminal law. More specifically, it focuses on the extent of French influence – among others – in European and American civil...
by Wayne Ryan
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
There’s no question that law enforcement officers are under intense scrutiny. In high-profile Canadian cases like Robert Dziekanski and Willie Pickton, police are blamed by a critical public and the media for everything from excessive use of force to allowing criminals to get away with murder. In Souls...
by Ant Hive Media
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2016
This is a Summary of Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of ColorblindnessThe New Jim Crow is a book praised by Harvard Law professor Lani Guinier as "brave and bold," this book directly challenges the notion that the election of Barack Obama signals a new...
Police
Streetcorner Politicians
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
"This book . . . examines the problem of police corruption . . . in such a way that the stereotype of the crude, greedy cop who is basically a grown-up delinquent, if not an out-and-out robber, yields to portraits of particular men, often of earnest good will and even more than ordinary compassion,...
Windows into the Soul
Surveillance and Society in an Age of High Technology
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
We live in an age saturated with surveillance. Our personal and public lives are increasingly on display for governments, merchants, employers, hackers—and the merely curious—to see. In Windows into the Soul, Gary T. Marx, a central figure in the rapidly expanding field of surveillance studies,...
by Mahesh Nalla, Graeme R. Newman
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Way ahead of its time, in this classic text the authors convincingly introduce social science theory and methods to the field of private security. While they deal with the various approaches to private security including management styles and adaptations of regular policing styles, the significant innovation...
Introduction to Conducting Private Investigations
Private Investigator Entry Level (02E) (2018 Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
Introduction to Conducting Private Investigations provides the essential tools you need to become a successful private investigator. From conducting straightforward background investigations to more complicated cases involving accidents and fraud, you will learn the critical skills needed to conduct...
The Guilt Project
Rape, Morality, and Law
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2010
An English court in 1736 described rape as an accusation “easily to be made and hard to be proved, and harder to be defended by the party accused, though never so innocent. ”To prove the crime, the law required a woman to physically resist, to put up a “hue and cry,” as evidence of her unwillingness....
Abusive Endings
Separation and Divorce Violence against Women
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
Abusive Endings offers a thorough analysis of the social-science literature on one of the most significant threats to the health and well-being of women today—abuse at the hands of their male partners. The authors provide a moving description of why and how men abuse women in myriad ways during...
Serial Killers
The Method and Madness of Monsters
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2004
**A comprehensive examination into the frightening true crime history of serial homicide—including information on America’s most prolific serial killers such as:
Ted Bundy • “Co-ed Killer” Ed Kemper • The BTK Killer • “Highway Stalker” Henry Lee Lucas • Monte Ralph Rissell...
Female Serial Killers
How and Why Women Become Monsters
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
In this fascinating book, Peter Vronsky exposes and investigates the phenomenon of women who kill—and the political, economic, social and sexual implications buried with each victim.
How many of us are even remotely prepared to imagine our mothers, daughters, sisters or grandmothers as fiendish...
by Gordon Honeycombe
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
'EXCELLENT WRITING AND RESEARCH' - RUTH RENDELLThe Crime Museum of New Scotland Yard - invariably known as 'the Black Museum' - houses a remarkable collection of exhibits, photographs and documents connected with some of the most notorious crimes in this country's history. Although the museum is closed...
Sexual Violence at Canadian Universities
Activism, Institutional Responses, and Strategies for Change
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2017
At least one in four women attending college or university will be sexually assaulted by the time they graduate. Beyond this staggering statistic, recent media coverage of “rape chants” at Saint Mary’s University, misogynistic Facebook posts from Dalhousie University’s dental school, and high-profile...