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In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences
by Truman Capote  
Publisher Comments On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues....
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The Batterer as Parent: Addressing the Impact of Domestic Violence on Family Dynamics (Sage Series on Violence Against Women)
by Lundy Bancroft Publisher Comments The Batterer as Parent takes the reader inside of homes affected by domestic violence, imparting an understanding of the atmosphere that battering men create for the children who live with them. Bancroft and Silverman show how partner abuse affects each...
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When Mothers Kill: Interviews from Prison
by Michelle Oberman Publisher Comments Michelle Oberman and Cheryl L. Meyer don't write for news magazines or prime-time investigative television shows, but the stories they tell hold the same fascination. When Mothers Kill is compelling. In a clear, direct fashion the authors recount what...
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Oxford History of the Prison : the Practice of Punishment in Western Society (95 Edition)
by Norval (ed.) Morris Publisher Comments The word "prison" immediately evokes stark images: forbidding walls spiked with watchtowers; inmates confined to cramped cells for hours on end; the suspicious eyes of armed guards. They seem to be the inevitable and permanent marks of confinement, as...
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All God's Children: Inside the Dark and Violent World of Street Families
by Rene Denfeld
Publisher Comments James Daniel Nelson first hit the streets as a teenager in 1992. Rejoined a clutch of runaways and misfits who camped out together in a squat under a Portland bridge. Within a few months the group — they called themselves a family — was...
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Discipline & Punish and The Birth of the Prison
by Michel Foucault Publisher Comments In this brilliant work, the most influential philosopher since Sartre suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his...
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Crime
by Alix Lambert Publisher Comments How much do criminal acts and their representation in cinema, literature and music really have in common? Is the execution of crime in everyday life as appealing or as inspired as creative artists have made it seem since, say, Arthur Conan Doyle's...
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Fist Stick Knife Gun
by Geoffrey Canada Publisher Comments A classic coming-of-age memoir that examines urban youth violence and its causes Long before U.S. News and World Report named him one of America's Best Leaders and Oprah Winfrey called him "an angel from God," Geoffrey Canada was a vulnerable, scared...
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Hope Rising (03 Edition)
by Meeder Publisher Comments Kim Meeder has seen horses go where no one else can tread - stepping through the minefield of a broken child's soul in a dance of trust that only God can understand. From a mistreated horse to an emotionally starved child and back again, a torrent of...
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Out in the Storm: Drug-Addicted Women Living as Shoplifters and Sex Workers (Northeastern Series on Gender, Crime, and Law)
by Gail A. (na) Caputo Publisher Comments Based on interview material and life histories that create a vivid narrative, this remarkable volume is the culmination of three years of ethnographic research examining thirty-eight women with drug addictions in the Philadelphia area who took up...
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Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets
by David Simon Publisher Comments Edgar and Anthony Award Winner Selected by the Literary Guild "Remarkable...A true crime classic." ASSOCIATED PRESS Enter the workday of real policemen. Follow fifteen detectives, three sergeants, and a lieutenant, whose job it is to...
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Comparative Criminal Justice
by Francis Pakes Synopsis This work aims to meet the need for an accessible introductory text on comparative criminal justice, examining the ways different countries and jurisdictions deal with the main stages and elements in the criminal justice process, from policing through to...
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The Informant: A True Story
by Kurt Eichenwald
Publisher Comments From an award-winning New York Times investigative reporter comes an outrageous story of greed, corruption, and conspiracy – which left the FBI and Justice Department counting on the cooperation of one man... It was one of the FBI's biggest...
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Prison Profiteers: Who Makes Money from Mass Incarceration
by Tara J Herivel Publisher Comments Each year federal, state, and local governments spend more than $185 billion in tax dollars. The essays in this collection look at the private prison companies, investment banks, and other industries that benefit from this countrys experiment with mass...
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Media Crime & Criminal Justice 3RD Edition
by Ray Surette Publisher Comments Become a critical media consumer with MEDIA, CRIME, AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE! With the rise of media's role in reporting crime and using crime as entertainment, the importance of the interplay between the mass media news and entertainment systems and the...
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Hate and Bias Crime: A Reader
by Barbara Perry Publisher Comments This is the first reader to focus solely on hate and bias crimesContains articles by the biggest names in the field including, Kathleen Blee, Jack McDevitt, James Jacobs, Valerie Jenness, Randy Blazak and Abby FerberBarbara Perry's In the Name of Hate...
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Tough Jews
by Rich Cohen Publisher Comments In an L.A. delicatessen, a group of Brooklyn natives gets together to discuss basketball, boxing, the weather back east, and the Jewish gangsters of yesteryear. Meyer Lansky. Bugsy Siegel. Louis Lepke, the self-effacing mastermind of Murder, Inc. Red...
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Predators: Pedophiles, Rapists, and Other Sex Offenders Who They Are, How They Operate, and How We Can Protect Ourselves and Our
by Anna C. Salter Publisher Comments Drawing on the stories of abusers, Salter shows that sexual predators use sophisticated deception techniques and rely on misconceptions surrounding them to evade discovery. Arguing that even the most knowledgeable can be fooled, Salter dispels the myths...
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Companions in Crime : the Social Aspects of Criminal Conduct (02 Edition)
by Mark Warr Publisher Comments Criminologists often allude to 'peer influence' in explanations of crime and delinquency, but the meaning of that concept rarely receives careful attention. Companions in Crime organizes the extensive literature on peer influence and group delinquency...
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Policing Public Disorder - Theory and Practice
by Book News Annotation Waddington (communications studies, Sheffield Hallam U.) examines the causes and management of public disorder, police tactics and strategies, and ways that these interventions enhance or calm the potential for violence. He discusses the political...
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