Showing titles in Criminology

In Captive in Iran, Maryam and Marziyeh recount their 259 days in Evin. It’s an amazing story of unyielding faith - when denying God would have meant freedom. Of incredible support from strangers around the world who fought for the women’s release. And of bringing God’s light into one of the world’s darkest places - giving hope to those who had lost everything, and showing love to those in despair.

Law professor James J. Duane became a viral sensation thanks to a 2008 lecture outlining the reasons why you should never agree to answer questions from the police - especially if you are innocent and wish to stay out of trouble with the law. In this timely, relevant, and pragmatic new book, he expands on that presentation, offering a vigorous defense of every citizen's constitutionally protected right to avoid self-incrimination.

* THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Technological advances have benefited our world in immeasurable ways, but there is an ominous flipside. Criminals are often the earliest, and most innovative, adopters of technology and modern times have lead to modern crimes. Today's criminals are stealing...

Human sacrifice still goes on uncomfortably close to home - cases have been found in the U.S., Europe, and the United Kingdom. In other parts of the world, such as South America, ritual killing is almost commonplace. Human Sacrifice investigates the terrifying current spate of human sacrifices and ritual killings. Jimmy Lee Shreeve draws on police reports and interviews with the victims' families to paint a horrifying picture of ritual sacrifice at home and abroad.

In 1993, teenagers Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley, Jr.—who have come to be known as the West Memphis Three—were arrested for the murders of three eight-year-old boys in Arkansas. The ensuing trial was marked by tampered evidence, false testimony, and public hysteria...

A partir de la figura de Luigi Mangione —el estudiante acusado de asesinar al CEO de la mayor aseguradora sanitaria de Estados Unidos y convertido en icono de deseo por miles de seguidores en todo el mundo—, este libro analiza la oscura fascinación que despiertan los criminales bellos y seductores, así como las implicaciones psicológicas, culturales, sociales y legales de convertirlos en un sex-symbol pop. El ensayo recorre el inquietante cruce entre belleza y crimen, para mostrar cómo el atractivo físico puede alterar nuestra percepción de la justicia y del mal mismo.

Nach mehr als dreißig Jahren, in denen unzählige Berichte, Dokumentationen, Filme und sogar Theaterstücke über den mutmaßlichen Serienmörder Jack Unterweger erschienen sind, kommt dieser hier erstmals selbst zu Wort: In Form des Tagebuchs, das er während des Jahrhundertprozesses verfasst hat. Zeilen voller Wut, Verzweiflung, aber auch Leidenschaft, die neue, ungeahnte Facetten des Menschen Jack Unterweger zum Vorschein bringen.

Bloomsbury presents Don't Shoot: One Man, a Street Fellowship, and the End of Violence in Inner-City America by David M. Kennedy, narrated by Patrick Lawlor. The remarkable story of David Kennedy's crusade to combat America's plague of gang- and drug-related violence - with methods that have...

Bloomsbury presents Don't Shoot: One Man, a Street Fellowship, and the End of Violence in Inner-City America by David M. Kennedy, narrated by Patrick Lawlor. The remarkable story of David Kennedy's crusade to combat America's plague of gang- and drug-related violence - with methods that have...

The internationally acclaimed author of the L.A. Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy presents another literary masterpiece, this time a true crime murder mystery about his own mother. In 1958 Jean Ellroy was murdered, her body dumped on a roadway in a seedy L.A. suburb. Her killer was never...

In 1994, Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson were brutally murdered at her home in Brentwood, California. O. J. Simpson was tried for the crime, but was ultimately found not guilty of criminal charges. The victims' families brought civil cases against Simpson, in which he was found liable for willfully and wrongfully causing the deaths of Ron and Nicole by committing battery with malice and oppression. The Goldman family views this book as Simpson's confession.

Elizabeth Ford went through medical school unsure of where she belonged. It wasn't until she did her psychiatry rotation that she found her calling - to care for one of the most vulnerable populations of mentally ill people, the inmates of New York City's jails, including Rikers Island, who are so sick that they are sent to the Bellevue Hospital Prison Ward for care.

Hur känns det att hamna i fängelse för den som aldrig varit i kriminella kretsar? För den som inte har någon erfarenhet av kulturen som finns i en sådan hård miljö? Hur påverkas det av att dessutom vara känd - eller ökänd - som en av Hans Scheikes kvinnor och ha samhällets...

This innovative history explores the rich tradition of music behind bars and shows how policing and prisons have shaped our musical culture from blues to hip-hop. In American popular music, we often glorify rebellious artists and “outlaws.” But in The Midnight Special, Colin Asher tells a...

Silencing and punishing critical voices is a project that lies at the heart of Narendra Modi's authoritarian regime in India. In this unique book, Suchitra Vijayan and Francesca Recchia look at the present of India through the lived experiences of political prisoners. Combining political and legal analysis with firsthand testimonies, the book explores the small gestures that constitute resistance inside and outside jail for the prisoners and their families, telling a story of destruction of institutions and erosion of rights.

THE INSPIRATION FOR THE NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY GIRL IN THE PICTURE Sharon Marshall was a brilliant and beautiful student whose future was filled with promise—until her murderous, fugitive father drew her into a lifetime of deception that became one of the most baffling cases in the annals of...

'Every day in the UK lives are suddenly, brutally, wickedly taken away. Victims are shot or stabbed. Less often they are strangled or suffocated or beaten to death. Rarely they are poisoned, pushed off high buildings, drowned or set alight. Then there are the many who are killed by dangerous...

Bloomsbury presents Pure Narco by Jesse Fink, Luis Navia, read by Keith Scott. For a quarter century, Luis Antonio Navia worked as a high-level cocaine transporter for all of the major Colombian and Mexican drug cartels, including Pablo Escobar’s Medellín Cartel, and flooded the United States...

Like a lot of people, Chris Wilson didn’t have an easy start in life. But, unlike many, he has managed to overcome severe setbacks to achieve a life defined by material success and personal meaning. How did he do it? When he committed a fatal crime at the age of 17 and received a devastating...

'All the staples of the prison memoir are here: sadistic guards and attempted break-out, the terrors of solitary confinement, the joys of freedom . . . The result is a truly gripping piece of testimony' Sunday Telegraph A darkly comic, sometimes shocking account of life in San Pedro, the world's...