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Under the Bridge
Under the Bridge
by Rebecca Godfrey
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Who were the seemingly ordinary teenagers who beat and killed a girl who longed to be their friend? And how could they hide the murder from their parents and teachers and the police for eight days? Drawing on six years of research -- including interviews... (read more)

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The Cases That Haunt Us
The Cases That Haunt Us
by John E Douglas
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America's foremost expert on criminal profiling provides his uniquely gripping analysis of seven of the most notorious murder cases in the history of crime -- from the Whitechapel murders to JonBenet Ramsey -- often contradicting conventional wisdom and... (read more)

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Deviant: The Shocking True Story of Ed Gein
Deviant: The Shocking True Story of Ed Gein
by Harold Schechter
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In chilling detail, Schechter explores the incredible career of Ed Gein, one of the most twisted madmen in the annals of American crime -- and how he tamed a small Wisconsin farmhouse into his own private playground of ghoulishness and blood.... (read more)

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Vanished
Vanished
by Carlton Smith
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BRUCE AND JANA KOKLICH SEEMED TO HAVE IT ALL-On a summer night in August, 2001, Jana Carpenter Koklich, daughter of former California State Senator Paul Carpenter, came home from an Eric Clapton concert, went inside her house, and was never seen again... (read more)

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Crime in Literature: Sociology of Deviance and Fiction
Crime in Literature: Sociology of Deviance and Fiction
by Vincent Ruggiero
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Crime in Literature addresses the issues of crime and crime control through the reading of several classical literary works. It is not a work of literary criticism, but a book written by a sociologist who reads fiction sociologically. Vincent Ruggiero's... (read more)

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Catch Me If You Can: The Amazing True Story of the Most Extraordinary Liar in the History of Fun and Profit
Catch Me If You Can: The Amazing True Story of the Most Extraordinary Liar in the History of Fun and Profit
by Frank Abagnale and Stan Redding
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Frank W. Abagnale, alias Frank Williams, Robert Conrad, Frank Adams, and Robert Monjo, was one of the most daring con men, forgers, imposters, and escape artists in history. In his brief but notorious criminal career, Abagnale donned a pilot's uniform... (read more)

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There But for the Grace of God: Survivors of the 20th Century's Infamous Serial Killers
There But for the Grace of God: Survivors of the 20th Century's Infamous Serial Killers
by Fred Rosen
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They stared into the faces of pure evil . . . and survived! Ted Bundy . . . Jeffrey Dahmer . . . David "Son of Sam" Berkowitz . . .Dennis Rader, the BTK Killer . . . These are some of the names that strike terror into even the bravest of hearts. Human... (read more)

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The Prison and the Gallows: The Politics of Mass Incarceration in America (Cambridge Studies in Criminology)
The Prison and the Gallows: The Politics of Mass Incarceration in America (Cambridge Studies in Criminology)
by Marie Gottschalk
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This book argues that punitive penal policies were forged by particular social movements.... (read more)

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Crash Out: The True Tale of a Hell's Kitchen Kid and the Bloodiest Escape in Sing Sing History
Crash Out: The True Tale of a Hell's Kitchen Kid and the Bloodiest Escape in Sing Sing History
by David Goewey
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The enthralling and evocative story of tough Depression-era bandits who vowed to make something of themselves, even if that meant defying the stone walls of America’s most infamous prison, by a writer who grew up in Sing Sing’s shadow. During... (read more)

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Responsibility of States for Internation
Responsibility of States for Internation
by Nina H Jorgensen
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This book focuses on the concept of state responsibility for international crimes, which gained support following the First World War, but was pushed into the background by the development of the principle of individual criminal responsibility under... (read more)

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The Good Rat: A True Story
The Good Rat: A True Story
by Jimmy Breslin
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Of course Pulitzer Prize winner Jimmy Breslin recognized Burton Kaplan right away as the Mafia witness of the ages. Breslin comes from the same Queens streets as mob bosses John Gotti and Vito Genovese. But even they couldn't match Kaplan in crime —... (read more)

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The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer
The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer
by Philip Carlo
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He was Sammy the Bull Gravano’s partner in the killing of Paul Castellano. John Gotti hired him to torture and kill his neighbor. A favorite among all the seven East Coast crime families, Richard “Ice Man” Kuklinski conducted his... (read more)

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Fire Lover
Fire Lover
by Joseph Wambaugh
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From the acclaimed bestselling author of "The Onion Field" comes the extraordinary true story of a California arson investigator and fire captain who was also, according to government profilers, the most prolific American arsonist of the 20th century.... (read more)

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Shots in the Dark: True Crime Pictures
Shots in the Dark: True Crime Pictures
by Gail Buckland
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When shots ring out, photographers shoot back. Their images can startle, inform, and serve as witness. Mundane and profound, gruesome and compelling crime photographs are, for better or worse, part of our world. Featuring many rarely and never-before... (read more)

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Main Justice: The Men and Women Who Enforce the Nation's Criminal Laws and Guard Its Liberties
Main Justice: The Men and Women Who Enforce the Nation's Criminal Laws and Guard Its Liberties
by Jim Mcgee
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This perceptive examination reveals how the Justice Department operates--from its role in history to critical evaluations of its wars against the Cali cocaine cartel, violent gangs in Shreveport and Chicago, high-level government espionage, and... (read more)

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Thunderstruck
Thunderstruck
by Erik Larson
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A vivid portrait of the Edwardian era recounts two parallel stories--the case of Dr. Hawley Crippen, who murdered his wife and fled the country with his mistress to build a new life in America, and Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of wireless... (read more)

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Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story
Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story
by Kurt Eichenwald
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Intricately detailed yet compulsively readable, Conspiracy of Fools is the best account yet of the Enron debacle. Eichenwald makes you feel like you are there — in the boardroom, on the cell phone — while the deals get brokered and the walls come... (read more)

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Blow
Blow
by Bruce Porter
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BLOW is the unlikely story of George Jung's roller coaster ride from middle-class high school football hero to the heart of Pable Escobar's Medellin cartel-- the largest importer of the United States cocaine supply in the 1980s. Jung's early business of... (read more)

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Black Dahlia Avenger: A Genius for Murder
Black Dahlia Avenger: A Genius for Murder
by Steve Hodel
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In this startling tour-de-force, a professional homicide detective finally solves the case of one of the most shocking murders of the twentieth century in this true-crime page-turner. "Supposin' I did kill the Black Dahlia. They couldn't prove it now.... (read more)

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Hot Blood (St. Martin's True Crime Library)
Hot Blood (St. Martin's True Crime Library)
by Ken Englade
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HELEN BRANCH LEFT BEHIND A HUGE FORTUNE—AND A MYSTERY THAT WOULD HAUNT THE NATION FOR YEARS TO COME. A coal-miner’s daughter, she was a beautiful hat-check girl who snagged a millionaire . . . only to become an eccentric, pet-loving widow... (read more)

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