Criminology
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Mercer: BANDITTI OF THE PLAINS or The Cattlemen’s Invasion of Wyoming in 1892
$21.95 Add to cartIn 1894, when A. S. Mercer published this angry eyewitness account of the cattlemen’s invasion of Wyoming, the book was so thoroughly and ruthlessly suppressed that few copies of that edition remain t
- Series: Western Frontier Library #2
- Author: Mercer, A. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: June 15 1954
- ISBN10: 0806113154
- Language: English
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50 Dark Destinations: Crime and Contemporary Tourism
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the Alcatraz East Crime Museum and Jack the Ripper guided tours to the Phnom Penh killing fields, ‘dark tourism’ is now a multi-million-pound global industry. Even in the most pleasant tourist de… [more below]
- Author: Storey, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1447362195
- Language: English
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#Metoo and the Politics of Social Change
$37.99 Add to cart#MeToo has sparked a global re-emergence of sexual violence activism and politics. This edited collection uses the #MeToo movement as a starting point for interrogating contemporary debates in anti-se
- Author: Fileborn, Bianca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: September 26 2019
- ISBN10: 303015212X
- Language: English
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Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing
$34.99 Add to cartThe scope of criminal justice surveillance has expanded rapidly in recent decades. At the same time, the use of big data has spread across a range of fields, including finance, politics, healthcare, a… [more below]
- Author: Brayne, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 02 2020
- ISBN10: 0190684097
- Language: English
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The Dedicated Ex-Prisoner’s Guide for Getting Through the Halfway House: 10 Things to Do to Make Your Rehabilitative Stay Short, Productive, & Profita
$10.00 Add to cartEvery year, thousands of prisoners get released from jails and prisons into halfway houses, with a large percentage of them being sent back to lockup for violating rules or procedures. Halfway houses
- Author: Bovan, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 90
- Publish Date: May 15 2019
- ISBN10: 0979295386
- Language: English
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I Am the Law: How Judge Dredd Predicted Our Future
$19.99 Add to cartAn in-depth examination of the ways in which the comic strip Judge Dredd, published in 2000 AD, has predicted the changing face of policing in Britain over the last 45 years.
He is the law – and you b- Author: Molcher, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1786185709
- Language: English
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Death Row Welcomes You: Visiting Hours in the Shadow of the Execution Chamber
$28.99 Read more“An eye-opening journey to a place that’s hard to access, rarely seen and shrouded by myths of monsters and abominations. … Death Row Welcomes You demands that we not look away.”– New York Times
In- Author: Hale, Steven
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1612199283
- Language: English
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Criminology for Dummies
$29.99 Add to cartExplore the world of crime and punishment
Police, forensics, and detective stories dominate our TV screens and bookshelves–from fictional portrayals such as Silence of the Lambs and Law and Order to
- Author: Briggs, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 18 2021
- ISBN10: 1119773199
- Language: English
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Looking for Trouble
$44.95 Add to cartAn incredible true story of extraordinary courage and grit! Working undercover, conducting covert operations in the shadows, leading an FBI Homicide Task Force, and investigating drug smugglers, drug
- Author: Hicks, Maurice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 490
- Publish Date: October 20 2023
- ISBN10: 9798885050883
- Language: English
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Crime and Punishment in America
$21.99 Add to cartA FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE
When Crime and Punishment in America was first published in 1998, the national incarceration rate had doubled in just over a decade, and yet the United States remaine- Author: Currie, Elliott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 26 2013
- ISBN10: 1250024218
- Language: English
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Forensic Science: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartForensic science is a subject of wide fascination. What happens at a crime scene? How does DNA profiling work? How can it help solve crimes that happened 20 years ago? In forensic science, a criminal … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Fraser, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: May 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0198834411
- Language: English
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Bleeding Out: The Devastating Consequences of Urban Violence–And a Bold New Plan for Peace in the Streets
$30.00 Add to cartFrom a Harvard scholar and former Obama official, a powerful proposal for curtailing violent crime in America
Urban violence is one of the most divisive and allegedly intractable issues of our time. B… [more below]- Author: Abt, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 25 2019
- ISBN10: 1541645723
- Language: English
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Popular Crime: Reflections on the Celebration of Violence
$20.99 Add to cartFrom the one-of-kind mind of Bill James, famous for revolutionizing the way we think about baseball, comes a “thought-provoking meditation” (Seattle Times) and epic tour through American crime–now av… [more below]
- Author: James, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 08 2012
- ISBN10: 141655274X
- Language: English
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Ted Bundy and the Unsolved Murder Epidemic: The Dark Figure of Crime
$37.99 Add to cartThis book revisits the life and crimes of Ted Bundy. It seeks to reconcile the contradictions and controversies about his life that underscore the broader US unsolved murder problem, one that is estim… [more below]
- Author: Delisi, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 303121417X
- Language: English
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The Murderer Next Door: Why the Mind Is Designed to Kill
$16.00 Add to cartAs acclaimed psychological researcher and author David Buss writes, “People are mesmerized by murder. It commands our attention like no other human phenomenon, and those touched by its ugly tendrils n… [more below]
- Author: Buss, David M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 25 2006
- ISBN10: 0143037056
- Language: English
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Love in the Time of Incarceration: Five Stories of Dating, Sex, and Marriage in America’s Prisons
$17.99 Add to cartThis evocative and gripping investigative look into romantic relationships between incarcerated people and their spouses on the outside “is impossible to put down” (The Globe and Mail, Toronto).
What- Author: Greenwood, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1501158422
- Language: English
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Un-Making a Murderer: The Framing of Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey
$14.99 Add to cart“Finally, an amazingly honest book that details exactly how my brother was set up” – Brad Dassey
Innocent people do go to jail. Sometimes mistakes are made. But even more terrifying is when the autho
- Author: Attwood, Shaun
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 22 2017
- ISBN10: 0993021557
- Language: English
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Assassination Generation: Video Games, Aggression, and the Psychology of Killing
$28.00 Add to cartThe author of the 400,000-copy bestseller On Killing reveals how violent video games have ushered in a new era of mass homicide — and what we must do about it.
Paducah, Kentucky, 1997: a 14-year-old- Author: Grossman, Dave
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 15 2016
- ISBN10: 0316265934
- Language: English
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Lobster Boy: The Bizarre Life and Brutal Death of Grady Stiles Jr.
$18.99 Add to cartThe shocking exposé of a carny’s murder arranged by his wife–and the daughter who threatened the author to keep the truth from getting out.
In his account of the sensational life and murder of Grad- Author: Rosen, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: July 21 2015
- ISBN10: 1504023080
- Language: English
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Criminal Justice in the United States, 1789-1939
$39.67 Add to cartThis book chronicles the development of criminal law in America, from the beginning of the constitutional era (1789) through the rise of the New Deal order (1939). Elizabeth Dale discusses the changes… [more below]
- Series: New Histories of American Law
- Author: Dale, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: August 29 2011
- ISBN10: 1107401364
- Language: English
