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Don't Shoot: One Man, a Street Fellowship, and the End of Violence in Inner-City America by David M. Kennedy Publisher Comments "Part jeremiad, part gripping crime thriller,"* Dont Shoot is David M. Kennedys chronicle of his decades-long crusade to solve one of Americas most pressing and shameful social problems. Kennedy, who engineered the "Boston Miracle" in the 1990s, cutting... (read more) Your price: $28.00 New - Hardcover
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Safe, not sorry :keeping yourself and your family safe in a violent age by Tanya Metaksa Publisher Comments Millions of American Women Live in Fear that they are easy targets for criminal attack. Their fears are legitimate: 73 percent of women over the age of 12 will be victimized at some point -- more than one third of them violently raped, robbed, or... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $1.95 Used - Hardcover
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Identity Theft: Protecting Yourself from an Unprotected World (Financial Alert) by Ethan Pope Publisher Comments The third book in Pope's Financial Alert series, this very real and highly relevant topic is already making headlines and affecting even the most unsuspecting people. The theft of identity through credit card scams, unscrupulous charitable agencies, and... (read more) List Price $12.75 Your price: $2.98 Used - Trade Paper
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Exposed: The Harrowing Story of a Mother's Undercover Work with the FBI to Save Children from Internet Sex Predators by R Stephanie Good Publisher Comments In this chilling expos and personal memoir about her efforts with the FBI to bust child sex predators, Good reveals how she posed as a young girl on Internet sites and helped the federal government catch everyone from common perverts to Fortune 1000... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Schools and Delinquency (Cambridge Studies in Criminology) by Denise Gottfredson Publisher Comments Schools and Delinquency examines the role of the school in preventing delinquency.... (read more) List Price $37.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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There's a Sucker Born Every Minute: A Revelation of Audacious Frauds, Scams, and Cons -- How to Spot Them, How to Stop Them by Jeffrey Robinson Publisher Comments One in nine Americans will lose money as a victim of fraud • Every man and woman in the country (and every child with an email address) will be targeted by professional fraudsters-multiple times. • Seven out of every eight frauds go unreported.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Scamorama: Turning the Tables on Email Scammers by Eve Edelson Publisher Comments This book is about liars telling lies with compound interest to other liars. A struggle is being waged on the Internet between criminals and comedians. On one side are fraudsters who con their victims out of hundreds of millions of dollars each year... (read more) List Price $14.50 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Extreme evil :kids killing kids by Bob Larson Publisher Comments Kids are killing kids in public schools! Kids are killing their parents! What is causing all of this evil in our younger generation? Do we need prayer back in the schools?or do we need God to start in the home? Bob Larson gets us to the root of these... (read more) List Price $13.50 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Identity Theft by David A. May Publisher Comments Although a relatively new crime, identity theft has dramatically increased in occurrence and severity since the early 1990s. By definition, identity theft is the obtainment and fraudulent use of another person's personal information, which can be... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Identity Theft: How to Protect Your Name, Your Credit and Your Vital Information-- and What to Do When Someone Hijacks Any of These by Kristin Loberg Publisher Comments Describes identity theft, covering such topics as the mechanics of ID theft, how law enforcement agencies battle identity theft, and ways to prevent it from happening.... (read more) List Price $9.56 Your price: $8.48 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Safe in the City: a Streetwise Guide To Avoid Being Robbed, Raped, Ripped Off, Or Run Over by Marc Macyoung Publisher Comments This entertaining look at how crimes are really committed in America's cities offers specific information on street crime in New York and Los Angeles, the trendsetters for the U.S. Chris (N.Y.) and Animal (L.A.) are street-savvy observers of criminals in... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Your Secrets Are My Business: A Security Expert Reveals How Your Trash, License Plate, Credit Cards, Computer, and Even Your Mail Make You an Easy T by Kevin Mckeown Publisher Comments Kevin McKeown knows how easy it is to find out anything about anyone-from credit card, bank account, and Social Security numbers to family histories. A top investigator and security advisor, he has spent the last twenty years doing covert sleuthing for... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Outgunned: True Stories of Citizens Who Stood Up to Outlaws - And Won by Robert A Waters Publisher Comments It's a classic story from hundreds of western shoot-'em-ups: a gang of outlaws rides into town, terrorizes local citizens, and finally meets their match when the heroic sheriff appears. In real life, it was different. Some of the most notorious western... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Safe: The Responsible American's Guide to Home and Family Security by Wayne Lapierre Publisher Comments You want to do everything you can to protect your loved ones, your home, your treasured possessions, and your financial future. But have you really taken the right steps? This year, hundreds of thousands of American families will face natural and man... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $18.95 Used - Hardcover
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Identity Theft, Inc.: A Wild Ride with the World's #1 Identity Thief by Glenn Hastings Publisher Comments Identity theft is the crime of this century. Just ask Frank Abagnale of Catch Me If You Can fame. He states so in the Q&A of the latest edition of that book. So here, then, is the true-crime book of this century. This is the first book on the... (read more) List Price $15.25 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Crime and Its Victims: What We Can Do (Impact Books) by Daniel W Van Ness Publisher Comments An Eternity 1987 Book of the Year Winner of a 1987 ECPA Gold Medallion Award Daniel Van Ness takes a long, hard look at the criminal justice system process, showing how it is divorced from the needs of the people involved. He describes how the present... (read more) List Price $16.25 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Crime & Community Policing by M Alper Sozer Book News Annotation Sozer (International Terrorism and Transnational Crime Research Center, Turkey) fills a gap he sees in the academic study of community policing in the US by taking into account factors that other researchers have neglected. Analyzing data from three... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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Exposed by R. Stephanie Good Publisher Comments By posing as a thirteen-year-old girl on the Internet, the author explains how she assists the FBI in arresting sexual predators, in a book that also describes the patterns of online sexual predators.... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $22.18 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Calling All Cars: Radio Dragnets and the Technology of Policing by Kathleen Battles Publisher Comments Calling All Cars shows how radio played a key role in an emerging form of policing during the turbulent years of the Depression. Until this time popular culture had characterized the gangster as hero, but radio crime dramas worked against this attitude... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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To Catch a Predator: Protecting Your Kids from Online Enemies Already in Your Home by Chris Hansen Publisher Comments The creator of the Dateline series counsels parents on how to catch online child predators, in a guide that reveals how even trusted community figures can be predatory and draws on the expertise of psychologists and criminal investigators. 100,000 first... (read more) Your price: $12.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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