Criminology
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Policing a Class Society: The Experience of American Cities, 1865-1915
$19.95 Add to cartAn in-depth critical analysis of how ruling elites use the police institution in order to control communities.
- Author: Harring, Sidney L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: October 31 2017
- ISBN10: 1608468542
- Language: English
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What It Takes: Things a Canadian Police Officer Wants You to Know About His Job
$18.99 Add to cartA police officer pulls back the proverbial curtain on his profession to reveal its inner workings. After more than a decade in the police force, the author shares on-the-job insights and details of hi… [more below]
- Author: Roberts, Owen R. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1039164986
- Language: English
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Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating for Justice That Restores
$21.99 Add to cartIVP Readers’ Choice Award
Outreach Magazine Resource of the YearThe United States has more people locked up in jails, prisons, and detention centers than any other country in the history of the world.
- Author: Gilliard, Dominique DuBois
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 06 2018
- ISBN10: 0830845291
- 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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Bluegrass: A True Story of Murder in Kentucky
$17.99 Add to cartA shocking investigation into a true crime that tore a town apart–the violent murder of a young coed in Kentucky, the innocent boy who was jailed for the crime, and a small Southern community filled … [more below]
- Author: Van Meter, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: January 02 2018
- ISBN10: 1416538690
- 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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A Peculiar Indifference: The Neglected Toll of Violence on Black America
$17.99 Add to cartNamed a best book of 2020 by the New York Times and Kirkus Reviews
“A smart, timely, deeply disturbing and essential book by a veteran scholar and leading expert on the criminal legal system. . . . Th- Author: Currie, Elliott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1250798493
- Language: English
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The Crime Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
$25.00 Add to cartLearn about the world’s most notorious cons, heists, and murders in The Crime Book.
Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow- Series: Big Ideas
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 02 2017
- ISBN10: 1465462864
- 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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Writing Our Way Out: Memoirs from Jail
$16.95 Add to cartDetailing the formative and transformative memories of ten men, Writing Our Way Out is the creative culmination of a writing class that began in the Richmond City Jail in Virginia, and grew into a jou… [more below]
- Author: Coogan, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: October 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1939930596
- 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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Pressure: A Memoir
$18.95 Add to cartPressure is the unbelievable true story of Eric Canori, who buried $10 million worth of gold bars in the woods-and later used them to buy himself out of prison.
Eric Canori was one of the largest high-
- Author: Canori, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: February 25 2022
- ISBN10: 9798985644708
- 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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When Innocence Is Not Enough: Hidden Evidence and the Failed Promise of the Brady Rule
$33.82 Read moreA gripping work of narrative nonfiction, told across time, that exposes what’s at stake when prosecutors conceal evidence–and what we can do about it
The Brady rule was meant to transform the U.S. ju- Author: Dybdahl, Thomas L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1620977044
- 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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Mayhem: Violence as Public Entertainment
$19.99 Add to cartWhat is the effect of long-term media violence on our national character? Do we want four-year-olds watching slasher films? Who should decide?While almost everyone has a strong opinion about the profu… [more below]
- Series: 1999 Printing
- Author: Bok, Sissela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 02 2005
- ISBN10: 0738201456
- Language: English
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The Grim Sleeper: The Lost Women of South Central
$17.95 Read more“One of the best true crime books of all time.” —Time
The inside story of the notorious and elusive serial killer who stalked
As seen on Investigation Discovery’s The Grim Sleeper: Mind of a Monster- Author: Pelisek, Christine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 17 2018
- ISBN10: 1640090231
- 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
