Criminology
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Freeman’s Challenge: The Murder That Shook America’s Original Prison for Profit
$27.50 Read moreAn award-winning historian tells a gripping, morally complicated story of murder, greed, race, and the true origins of prison for profit.
In the early nineteenth century, as slavery gradually ended i- Author: Bernstein, Robin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 01 2024
- ISBN10: 022674423X
- Language: English
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Pizza Bomber: The Untold Story of America’s Most Shocking Bank Robbery
$9.99 Read moreThe bizarre, true story of a robbery gone wrong and the explosive murder that shocked the nation–as seen on Netflix’s docuseries Evil Genius.
For the first time, two of the people who followed the st- Series: Berkley True Crime
- Author: Clark, Jerry
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: November 06 2012
- ISBN10: 0425250555
- Language: English
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On Trial for Murder
$16.99 Read moreUncover the dramatic events surrounding some of the world’s most controversial murder trials.
Explore the riveting twists and turns of some of the most notorious and controversial murder trials in his- Author: Dk
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0593846206
- Language: English
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Why We Love Serial Killers: The Curious Appeal of the World’s Most Savage Murderers
$16.95 Add to cartFor decades now, serial killers have taken center stage in the news and entertainment media. The coverage of real-life murderers such as Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer has transformed them into ghoulish… [more below]
- Author: Bonn, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 28 2014
- ISBN10: 1629144320
- Language: English
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Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy’s New Killing Fields
$21.99 Add to cartCiudad Juarez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known as the place where women disappear, its murder rate ex… [more below]
- Author: Bowden, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: March 22 2011
- ISBN10: 1568586450
- Language: English
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North Carolina Murder & Mayhem
$23.99 Add to cartAuthor Rick Jackson tells the stories behind some of the most famous, and most heinous, crimes in the history of the Old North State.
The smiling faces and southern hospitality of North Carolina promis
- Series: Murder & Mayhem
- Author: Jackson, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 07 2019
- ISBN10: 1467143561
- Language: English
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Obsession
$28.99 Add to cartIn Obsession, John Douglas once again takes us fascinatingly behind the scenes, focusing his expertise on predatory crimes, primarily against women. With a deep sense of compassion for the victims an… [more below]
- Author: Douglas, John E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: August 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1451607431
- Language: English
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Tangled Up in Blue: Policing the American City
$18.00 Add to cartNamed one of the best nonfiction books of the year by The Washington Post
“Tangled Up in Blue is a wonderfully insightful book that provides a lens to critically analyze urban policing and a road map f… [more below]- Author: Brooks, Rosa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0525557873
- Language: English
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Locked in: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration-And How to Achieve Real Reform
$32.00 Read moreA groundbreaking reassessment of the American prison system, challenging the widely accepted explanations for our exploding incarceration rates
In Locked In, John Pfaff argues that the factors most c- Author: Pfaff, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0465096913
- Language: English
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Organized Crime: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartFor many people around the world, instances of what is described as organized crime may be part of their everyday experience; in their neighborhoods, their streets, and the places they work and live. … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Antonopoulos, Georgios A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: April 22 2018
- ISBN10: 0198795548
- Language: English
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Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair
$44.33 Add to cartThe award-winning “radically original” (The Atlantic) restorative justice leader, whose work the Washington Post has called “totally sensible and totally revolutionary,” grapples with the problem of v
- Author: Sered, Danielle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1620974797
- Language: English
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The Black Hand: The Epic War Between a Brilliant Detective and the Deadliest Secret Society in American History
$18.99 Add to cartSoon to be a major motion picture starring Leonardo DiCaprio, this gripping true story of the origins of the Mafia in America follows the brilliant Italian-born detective who gave his life to stop it.… [more below]
- Author: Talty, Stephan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 17 2018
- ISBN10: 1328911195
- Language: English
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And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank
$29.00 Add to cartThe definitive account of one of American history’s most repellent and most fascinating moments, combining investigative journalism and sweeping social history
“Brilliane…. Years later, the tale of- Author: Oney, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: October 12, 2004
- ISBN10: 0679764232
- Language: English
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The Want-Ad Killer
$10.99 Add to cartFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Stranger Beside Me comes a true crime story of a serial killer who was sentenced to die–yet lived to murder again….and again….
After committin… [more below]- Series: True Crime
- Author: Rule, Ann
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 286
- Publish Date: September 01 1983
- ISBN10: 0451166884
- Language: English
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The Dead Truth: Stories from Behind the Wall
$8.99 Add to cartHave you ever wondered what goes on Behind the Walls of Correctional Institutions? Take a walk with me with this book and you will be enlighted. As an Administrator and Counselor for over 15 years you
- Author: Adminis, C. E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 86
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1665734337
- Language: English
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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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Criminal Justice: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe criminal justice system is wide ranging; from the crimes themselves and policing to the sentencing of offenders and prisons. In this Very Short Introduction Julian V. Roberts draws upon the latest… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Roberts, Julian V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 01 2015
- ISBN10: 198716494
- Language: English
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Parsimony and Other Radical Ideas about Justice
$34.98 Read moreHow to envision a justice system that combines the least possible punishment with the greatest possible healing, from an all-star cast of contributors
“An extraordinary and long overdue collection off- Author: Travis, Jeremy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1620977559
- 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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The War on Kids: How American Juvenile Justice Lost Its Way
$31.99 Add to cartIn 2003, when Terrence Graham was sixteen, he and three other teens attempted to rob a barbeque restaurant in Jacksonville, Florida. Though they left with no money, and no one was seriously injured, T… [more below]
- Author: Drinan, Cara H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0190605553
- Language: English
