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The Crisis of Imprisonment: Protest, Politics, and the Making of the American Penal State, 1776-1941 (Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society) by Rebecca M Mclennan Publisher Comments In the Age of Jackson, private enterprise set up shop in the American penal system. Working hand in glove with state government, contractors in both the North and the South would go on to put more than half a million imprisoned men, women, and youth to... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $16.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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No Angel: My Harrowing Undercover Journey to the Inner Circle of the Hells Angels by Jay Dobyns Publisher Comments Here, from Jay Dobyns, the first federal agent to infiltrate the inner circle of the outlaw Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, is the inside story of the twenty-one-month operation that almost cost him his family, his sanity, and his life. Getting shot in the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Laci: Inside the Laci Peterson Murder (St. Martin's True Crime Library) by Michael Fleeman Publisher Comments Praying for a happy ending, friends and family stood by Laci's grieving husband Scott. Four months later, Laci's decomposed body was found in the murky waters of San Francisco Bay. The body of her child had washed ashore about a mile away, after a... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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Shots in the Dark: True Crime Pictures by Gail Buckland Publisher Comments 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) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective by Kate Summerscale Publisher Comments The national bestseller, now in paperback. In June of 1860 three-year-old Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his throat slit. The crime horrified all England and led to a national obsession with detection, ironically destroying,... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Jesus Freaks: A True Story of Murder and Madness on the Evangelical Edge by Don Lattin Publisher Comments In the tradition of Jon Krakauer's Under the Banner of Heaven, Don Lattin's Jesus Freaks is the story of a shocking pilgrimage of revenge that left two people dead and shed new light on The Family International, one of the most controversial religious... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Darkest Night: Two Sisters, a Brutal Murder, and the Loss of Innocence in a Small Town by Ron Franscell Publisher Comments Franscell was just a child when a brutal crime shattered his close-knit Casper, Wyoming, community in 1973, ending the life of one friend and forever changing the life of another. Franscell returns to examine the widespread effect of evil and its... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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Sex on the Moon: Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in History (11 Edition) by Ben Mezrich Publisher Comments Thad Roberts, a fellow in a prestigious NASA program had an idea—a romantic, albeit crazy, idea. He wanted to give his girlfriend the moon. Literally. Thad convinced his girlfriend and another female accomplice, both NASA interns, to break... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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Possession by Ann Rule Publisher Comments Joanne Lindstrom's camping trip to Washington's Cascade mountains goes terribly awry--leaving her husband dead, and Joanne's only hope for survival with a twisted stranger.... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $2.95 Used - Mass Market
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Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts by Julian Rubinstein Publisher Comments DESCRIPTION: Elmore Leonard meets Franz Kafka in the wild, improbably true story of the legendary outlaw of Budapest. Attila Ambrus was a gentleman thief, a sort of Cary Grant--if only Grant came from Transylvania, was a terrible professional hockey... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $1.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Mean Justice by Edward Humes Publisher Comments Besieged by murder, rape, and the most vile conspiracies, the all-American town of Bakersfield, California, found its saviors in a band of bold and savvy prosecutors who stepped in to create one of the toughest anti-crime communities in the nation. There... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson Staff Pick An amazing history that recounts the inconceivable events surrounding the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, Larson's tale captures a time and place that vividly come to life. The central characters in this tale are Daniel H. Burnham, the architect... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer Publisher Comments Jon Krakauers literary reputation rests on insightful chronicles of lives conducted at the outer limits. He now shifts his focus from extremes of physical adventure to extremes of religious belief within our own borders, taking readers inside isolated... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Best American Crime Writing 2004 by Otto Penzler Publisher Comments A year’s worth of the most powerful, the most startling, the smartest and most astute… “Ciudad de la Muerte” by Cecilia Balli, from Texas Monthly “Code of Dishonor” by Clara Bingham, from Vanity Fair “Lord of the... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Too Late to Say Goodbye: A True Story of Murder and Betrayal by Ann Rule Publisher Comments A charming and briliant dentist, tied to two murders nearly two decades apart.... A twisting case in which past and present colide.... Go inside one of the most compelling double homicide investigations of our time with Ann Rule, who was given exclusive... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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Slow Death by Jim Fielder Staff Pick Likely the most morbid and explicit book I have ever read, Slow Death is based on the sadistic life and times of David Parker Ray, a sexual sadist operating in New Mexico. With a little help from his lover and daughter, David kidnapped, raped, and... (read more) List Price $6.50 Your price: $4.50 Used - Mass Market
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Marching Powder: A True Story of Friendship, Cocaine, and South America's Strangest Jail by Rusty Young and Thomas McFadden Publisher Comments Rusty Young was backpacking in South America when he heard about Thomas McFadden, a convicted English drug trafficker who ran tours inside Bolivia's notorious San Pedro prison. Intrigued, the young Australian journalisted went to La Paz and joined one of... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Valachi Papers by Peter Maas Publisher Comments Chapter One At approximately 7:30 A.M. on June 22, 1962, at the U.S. Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia, prisoner number 82811, a convicted trafficker in heroin named Joseph Michael Valachi, seized a two-foot length of iron pipe lying on the ground near... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Dead Reckoning: The New Science of Catching Killers by Michael Baden Publisher Comments For most people, the forensic sciences are something reported on the news when a crime is solved through DNA evidence, or used as a plot twist for television shows. But behind the crime-scene tape and the doors of the morgue is a world never seen by the... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $3.98 Used - Trade Paper
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Justice: Crimes, Trials, and Punishments by Dominick Dunne Publisher Comments For more than two decades, "Vanity Fair" has published Dominick Dunne's brilliant, revelatory chronicles of the most famous crimes, trials, and punishments of our time. Here, in onevolume, are Dominick Dunne's mesmerizing tales of justice denied and... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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