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  • Criminology

    Explaining Crime and Its Context

    Criminology: Explaining Crime and Its Context, Eleventh Edition, offers a broad perspective on criminological theory. It provides students of criminology, criminal justice, and sociology with a thorough exposure to a range of theories about crime, contrasting their logic and assumptions, but also highlighting efforts to integrate and blend these frameworks.In this new edition, the authors have ... Read more

    $115.99 USD

  • White-collar Criminal

    The Offender in Business and the Professions

    by Gilbert Geis ...
    In his presidential address to the American Sociological Society more than a quarter of a century ago, Edwin H. Sutherland advanced the idea that crime was being perpetrated by members of society that were considered "normal," "affluent," and "well-adjusted". This notion of a new criminal class played havoc with the traditional theories of crime causation and directed considerable research away ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Lessons of Criminology

    Presents the stories, musings, advice and conclusions of well-known criminologists about their research and their careers. Provides readers with suggestions about how to manage their professional lives. Contributors include Frank Cullen, Julius Debro, Don Gibbons, John Irwin, Mac Klein, Gary Marx, Joan McCord, Richard Quinney, Frank Scarpitti, Jim Short, Rita Simon, Charles Tuttle and Jackson Toby ... Read more

    $160.00 USD

  • A Trial of Witches

    A Seventeenth Century Witchcraft Prosecution

    In 1662, Amy Denny and Rose Cullender were accused of witchcraft, and, in one of the most important of such cases in England, stood trial and were hanged in Bury St Edmunds. A Trial of Witches is a complete account of this sensational trial and an analysis of the court procedures, and the larger social, cultural and political concerns of the period.In a critique of the official process, the book ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Final Confession

    The Unsolved Crimes of Phil Cresta

    Phil Cresta was no run-of-the-mill thief. Mastermind of the legendary Brink's armored truck robbery and a string of countless other high-stakes heists, he stole more than ten million dollars in escapades that often were breathtakingly daring and at times marvelously inventive. The robberies baffled both police and fellow outlaws for decades, and most of the crimes remain unsolved today. Now the ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

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  • We're Going to Win This Thing

    The Shocking Frame-up of a Mafia Crime Buster

    The riveting front-page news story of an FBI agent falsely accused of ordering four mob hits.FBI agent Lin DeVecchio was a key player in the New York Mafia wars from the late seventies through the early nineties. Yet despite his stunning success fighting organized crime, DeVecchio was accused of taking bribes, selling information to the man who was his informant, and even personally ordering four ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Serial Murder 101

    The shocking true account of a man who learned everything there was to know about getting away with murder.Thirty years ago, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, became the hunting ground for a predator. Women were being brutally raped and murdered in a series of savage-and seemingly unconnected-crimes.Not until 2007 would the truth come to light, when DNA evidence pointed the finger at Timothy Krajcir, a ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Bringing Down the Mob

    The War Against the American Mafia

    The sequel to American Mafia chronicles the fifty-year attack by the federal government that virtually extinguished the nation's most powerful crime syndicate.In the critically acclaimed American Mafia, Thomas Reppetto narrated the ferocious ascendancy of organized crime in America. In this fascinating sequel, he follows the mob from its peak into a shadowy period of decline as the government, no ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Marked for Death

    Dying for the Story in the World's Most Dangerous Places

    by Terry Gould ...
    Worldwide, nearly three–quarters of journalists who die on assignment are targeted and assassinated for their dogged pursuit of important stories of injustice. In Marked for Death, Terry Gould brings this statistic to life by documenting the lives of seven journalists, in Colombia, the Philippines, Bangladesh, Russia, and Iraq, who had the guts to keep telling the truth in the face of threats from ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Mafia Cop

    He was one of the most decorated cops in the history of NYPD. From his "wiseguy" relatives, he learned the meaning of honor and loyalty. From his fellow cops, he learned the meaning of betrayal.MAFIA COPHis father, Ralph "Fat the Gangster" Eppolito, was stone-cold Mafia hit-man. Lou Eppolito, however, chose to live by different code; he chose the uniform of NYPD. And he was one of the best -- a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Iceman

    The True Story of a Cold-Blooded Killer

    by Anthony Bruno ...
    The inspiration for the major motion picture starring Michael Shannon, Winona Ryder, with Ray Liotta and Chris EvansHe was smart, merciless, and deadly. And it took someone just as tough to bring him down.A mob contract killer known as “The Iceman” for hiding a body in an ice-cream truck freezer, Richard Kuklinski boasted a personal body count of more than a hundred victims. Using guns, knives, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Mystic River

    A Novel

    by Dennis Lehane ...
    This New York Times bestseller from Dennis Lehane is a gripping, unnerving psychological thriller about the effects of a savage killing on three former friends in a tightly knit, blue-collar Boston neighborhood.When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange car pulled up to their street, a moment of childhood trauma that would define their lives ... Read more

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