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Mass Shootings in America: Understanding the Debates, Causes, and Responses - Hardcover

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by Jaclyn Schildkraut (Editor)This work examines mass shootings in the United States, focusing on events from 1966 to 2016. In addition to providing essential information about each shooting, it surveys underlying causes of such events and potential reforms to prevent future ones. This book is an informed and informative resource for understanding the reasons for and consequences of mass shootings in America. It includes essays from experts in the fields of criminal justice, sociology, and ps...

When Good Companies Go Bad: 100 Corporate Miscalculations and Misdeeds - Hardcover

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by Donald Beachler (Author), Thomas Shevory (Author)Covering the entire world of business from heavy industry to the financial houses of Wall Street, this book shines a spotlight on 100 of the most infamous cases of misconduct and malfeasance in corporate history. Corporations are in the business of making money. But when companies forget ethics, take operational shortcuts, or willingly endanger customers and the general public in their quest for profits, disasters of enormous magnitude can r...

Rape and Sexual Assault: A Reference Handbook - Hardcover

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by Alison Hatch (Author)This authoritative one-stop resource helps readers understand the problem of sexual assault in the United States, including societal factors, notorious cases, laws and practices, victim advocacy and reform efforts, and keys to recovery. It discusses who is being victimized, who is perpetrating the offenses, and what can be done (and is being done) to reduce rape, sexual assault, and sexual harassment in homes and communities across America. The volume also explores the...

School Shootings and the Never Again Movement - Hardcover

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by Laurie Hillstrom (Author)This volume provides a concise but authoritative overview of the Never Again Movement, which arose in the aftermath of a mass shooting that killed 17 people at a high school in Parkland, Florida, in February 2018. This volume in the 21st Century Turning Points series, a one-stop resource for understanding the people and events changing America today, analyzes school shootings and examines the broader issue of gun violence in America. It focuses on the history of sc...

Modern Genocide: Analyzing the Controversies and Issues - Hardcover

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by Paul Bartrop (Editor)An indispensable resource for those interested in the scourge of mass murder and genocide in the 20th and 21st centuries, this book analyzes modern and contemporary controversies and issues to help readers to understand genocide in all its complexity. This vital reference work looks at current areas of debate in genocide studies to provide insights into what a genocide is, why genocides occur, and what the consequences are once a genocide is recognized as such. It also...

The Last Murder: The Investigation, Prosecution, and Execution of Ted Bundy - Hardcover

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by George Dekle (Author)This eye-opening book uses the case of Ted Bundy to show how a case against a serial killer is investigated, how problems common to such cases are overcome, and how the prosecution team marshals and presents the evidence at trial. The Last Murder: The Investigation, Prosecution, and Execution of Ted Bundy follows the facts and circumstances of Kim Leach's disappearance and the investigation and prosecution of Ted Bundy in rough chronological order, from Bundy's escape...

Legends, Monsters, or Serial Murderers? The Real Story Behind an Ancient Crime - Hardcover

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by Dirk Gibson (Author)Covering figures ranging from Catherine Monvoisin to Vlad the Impaler, and describing murders committed in ancient aristocracies to those attributed to vampires, witches, and werewolves, this book documents the historic reality of serial murder. The majority of serial murder studies support the consensus that serial murder is essentially an American crime--a flawed assumption, as the United States has existed for less than 250 years. What is far more likely is that the ...

This Is the Zodiac Speaking: Into the Mind of a Serial Killer - Paperback

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by Michael Kelleher (Author), David Van Nuys (Author)California was thrown into a paralysis of fear in 1969, distraught over the unsolved murders of the Zodiac killer. The Zodiac became the most elusive and frustrating adversary ever encountered by the law enforcement community in the San Francisco Bay Area. A series of letters, allegedly written by the murderer himself and published in local newspapers, only added to the mystery and panic. Over 30 years after he exploded onto the headlines o...

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by Thomas Bazley (Author)This book offers a revealing look at the full scope of criminal activity in the art world--a category of crime that is far more pervasive than is generally realized. Forgeries, fakes, fencing, and felony theft--all are pervasive problems in the world of art, where the stakes are high, the networks wide, and the consequences profound. In recent years, suspicious acquisitions, unreliable provenances, and shady dealers have found their way into the headlines as museums a...

Inside the Minds of Mass Murderers: Why They Kill - Paperback

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by Katherine M. Ramsland (Author)The idea that a person might suddenly snap and slaughter large numbers of people has become part of our cultural understanding through events such as the Columbine High School massacre and the D.C. Sniper case. But this image of the sudden turn from ordinary citizen, quiet neighbor, or non-descript teenager to mass murderer is generally false. People who go out one day and kill innocent people or supposed enemies have typically thought about it, planned it, an...

Bonnie and Clyde: A Biography - Hardcover

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by Nate Hendley (Author)Motivated by greed and sadism--or perhaps by poverty and boredom--star-crossed lovers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow set out on a series of robberies throughout the American Southwest, many of which ended in murder. Frustrated by the suffocating poverty of the Great Depression, they were especially eager to target their oppressors--banks, store owners, and at times, the police. Their numerous crimes triggered an FBI manhunt, but their Robin-Hood ethos made them heroes ...

Shakespeare's Criminals: Criminology, Fiction, and Drama - Hardcover

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by Victoria M. Time (Author)By exploring Shakespeare's use of law and justice themes in the context of historical and contemporary criminological thinking, this book challenges criminologists to expand their spheres of inquiry to avenues that have yet to be explored or integrated into the discipline. Crime writers, including William Shakespeare, were some of the earliest investigators of the criminal mind. However, since the formalization of criminology as a discipline, citations from literar...

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by Edwin H. Sutherland (Author)Author Biographytherland /f Edwin /i H. Number of Pages: 287 Dimensions: 0.85 x 8.78 x 6.44 IN Publication Date: December 05, 1983

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by Robert F. Kennedy (Author), Arthur Krock (Foreword by)Back JacketWriting crisply, with indignation but also with humor, Kennedy focuses on how unions are bout, sold, and sometimes stolen; how 'democracy' actually operated in Jimmy Hoffa's captive unions and what happened to the men who dared to oppose him; how Hoffa was tired on charges of attempting to plant a spy in the McClellan Committee; How an investigating committee works.Author BiographyKennedy /f Robert /i Francis Number of Pages:...

Inside the Minds of Serial Killers: Why They Kill - Hardcover

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by Katherine Ramsland (Author)There are many cultural myths about serial killers, often propagated even by mental health professionals. Many assume there is a profile of a serial killer, that serial killers always go for the same victim type or always use the same MO, that they are more clever than ordinary people, and that they are inevitably charming and attractive. The truth is not as simple as that. There are different types of serial killers, and while there are many books that discuss t...

Serial Murder and Media Circuses - Hardcover

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by Dirk C. Gibson (Author), Dennis L. Wilcox (Foreword by)The Axman of New Orleans specialized in killing grocers of Italian descent in the 1910s, apparently to promote jazz music. Dorothea Puente was a little old landlady who murdered her tenants, but kept cashing their government checks. The Manson Family terrorized California in the 1960s, as did the Hillside Stranglers a decade later. Twelve serial murder cases, occurring in eight decades between the 1890s and 1990s, had one thing in comm...

The Bullet or the Bribe: Taking Down Colombia's Cali Drug Cartel - Hardcover

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by Ron Chepesiuk (Author), Ronald Chepesiuk (Author)For more than 20 years, the Cali cartel saturated U.S. streets with cocaine, ruining neighborhoods and lives while reaping millions in cash. Efforts to combat the influx of drugs from Colombia were often stymied by the careful organization and execution of the drug trade. Through the use of bribery, terrorist structures, and legitimate business practices, the cartel rose to become a serious threat to Colombian society's fragile stability, wh...

Sympathy for the Devil: The Emmanuel Baptist Murders of Old San Francisco - Hardcover

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by Virginia McConnell (Author)On the day before Easter Sunday 1895, four women entered the Emmanuel Baptist Church in San Francisco's Mission District to decorate the altar with flowers. When they opened the door to the little room containing the library, they were greeted with a horrible sight: the stabbed and strangled body of 21-year-old Minnie Williams, her blood coating the floor and spattering the walls. A search of the church revealed another grisly discovery in the belfry: the decompo...

Blind-Sided: Homicide Where It Is Least Expected - Hardcover

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by Gregory K. Moffatt (Author)While print and broadcast media are filled every day with homicide accounts, the general public seems most disturbed by crimes attributed to individuals who otherwise seem normal. Murders by those perceived to be historically non-violent often appear to erupt with no warning whatsoever. Moffatt argues that certain key predictors of a predisposition to violence are usually present. Citing case studies of workplace, school, and domestic homicides, he debunks the my...

Babies for Sale: The Tennessee Children's Home Adoption Scandal - Hardcover

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by Linda Tollett Austin (Author)In 1950, the Governor of Tennessee called for an investigation of the Tennessee Children's Home black market baby operations, said to have grossed $1 million for Georgia Tann, the superintendent of the local branch of the home. Tann was accused of fraudulently persuading pregnant mothers to relinquish their children. A number of Hollywood celebrities adopted children through the home, namely Joan Crawford, June Allyson, and Dick Powell. During the investigation...

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by Martin Ebon (Author)It was official. In 1991, two months after an abortive coup in August, the KGB was pronounced dead. But was it really? In KGB: Death and Rebirth, Martin Ebon, a writer long engaged in the study of foreign affairs, maintains that the notorious secret police/espionage organization is alive and well. He takes a penetrating look at KGB predecessors, the KGB at the time of its supposed demise, and the subsequent use of segmented intelligence forces such as border patrols and...

Vigilantism: Political History of Private Power in America - Paperback

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by William C. Culberson (Author)America does not have a tradition of violence, but it does have a history of violence that can be traced through struggles and popular causes that date from colonial times to the modern era. The psychology of private violence by the American people is deeply ingrained in the concept of popular sovereignty. Repeatedly in American history, the peoples' deep-seated beliefs have led to confrontations and implementations of private will against the state and against...

Hate Crimes: A Reference Handbook - Paperback

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by Donald Altschiller (Author)Hate crime is a disturbing phenomenon that is the subject of constant debate, discussion, and legislation. This book helps readers understand the complex issue and see how the government and activists are proactively combating hate crime. With the first two editions widely praised by reviewers, Hate Crimes: A Reference Handbook, Third Edition remains the most comprehensive reference source on bias-motivated violence committed in the United States. The book contai...

The Myth of Medea and the Murder of Children - Hardcover

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by Lillian Corti (Author)Corti focuses on the meaning and importance of the act of child murder in literary treatments of the ancient myth. A projection of commonly experienced emotions that are often repressed and denied, Medea is the central figure in a tragedy encompassing the psychology of abusive individuals as well as the destructive quality of patriarchal institutions. In the Euripidean prototype of the tragedy, child murder exposes the ironic issue of archaic communal values, and in t...

Inside the Minds of Healthcare Serial Killers: Why They Kill - Hardcover

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by Katherine M. Ramsland (Author)In 2004, Charles Cullen was arrested and charged in the deaths of more than 30 patients in his care. Crossing several jurisdictions in seven counties in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, he was stopped after a fifteen-year spree at ten institutions. While many people do not think of healthcare workers as serial killers, their profession is disproportionately represented among the serial killer population, and they tend to be more prolific than other serial killers,...

All Is Clouded by Desire: Global Banking, Money Laundering, and International Organized Crime - Hardcover

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by Constance A. Weaver (Author), Alan A. Block (Author)Before Enron, before Arthur Anderson, and before Worldcom, there was the Bank of New York money laundering scandal, which hit headlines in 1999. Promising to be one of the most important books on international organized crime, money laundering, and the complicity between legitimate and illegitimate businesses in both the United States and the former Soviet Union, among other places, during the last decade of the 20th century, All Is Cloud...

Halting the Sexual Predators Among Us: Preventing Attack, Rape, and Lust Homicide - Hardcover

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by Duane L. Dobbert (Author)Recently, the National Center for Victims of Crime reported annual figures showing 103,845 children were sexually abused, while in that same year there was a 20% increase in all rape incidents and a 33% increase in sexual assaults. Incarceration and therapy have not reduced the rates, points out this author. The rate of incarceration has increased, but incidence of sex crimes is not waning. Dobbert warns we must all play a vital role to reduce such crimes, by preve...

Fixing the Spy Machine: Preparing American Intelligence for the Twenty-First Century - Paperback

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by Arthur Hulnick (Author), Richard Valcourt (Foreword by)With the end of the Cold War and the dawning of a new century, the U.S. intelligence system faces new challenges and threats. The system has suffered from penetration by foreign agents, cutbacks in resources, serious errors in judgment, and what appears to be bad management; nonetheless, it remains one of the key elements of America's strategic defense. Hulnick suggests that things are not as bad as they seem, that America's intelligen...

Lanza's Mob: The Mafia and San Francisco - Hardcover

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by Christina Diedoardo (Author)Presenting sociological as well as historical perspectives, this book supplies readers with a fascinating, unprecedented look at the most successful organized-crime family they've probably never heard of. From the 1920s until the early 21st century, one Sicilian mob family defied everyone from the California attorney general to J. Edgar Hoover to chart their own American Dream. Unlike their flashier rivals in New York and Chicago who met their end by the knife, ...

The Brooklyn Thrill-Kill Gang and the Great Comic Book Scare of the 1950s - Hardcover

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by Mariah Adin (Author)What caused four recently bar mitzvahed middle-class youths to go on a crime spree of assault and murder in 1954? This book provides a compelling narrative retelling of the boys, their crimes, and a U.S. culture obsessed with juvenile delinquency. After ongoing months of daily headlines about gang shootouts, stomp-killings, and millions of dollars worth of vandalism, by the summer of 1954, America had had enough of juvenile delinquency. It was in this environment that 1...

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Report copyright infringementby Jeff McArthur (Author)In 1958, 19-year-old Charles Starkweather went on a murder spree that paralyzed Nebraska, shocked the nation, and left 11 people dead. With him when he was captured was his 14-year-old ex-girlfriend Caril Fugate. The question soon arose, was Caril a kidnapped victim, or a heartless accomplice? County Attorney Elmer Scheele had already determined her guilt, pressing charges before she was captured. He and his deputies questioned her without...

Brain Games - True Crime Puzzles - Spiral

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by Publications International Ltd (Author), Brain Games (Author)Don't leave these puzzles unsolved This puzzle collection includes an assortment of crime-themed puzzles. Verbal, logic, memory, and visual puzzles are included. Solve word searches and memory puzzles based on true crimes. Other puzzles let you play detective and find witnesses or track down criminals through logical deductions. Answer key found at the back. 192 pages Number of Pages: 192 Dimensions: 0.6 x 9.1 x 7.6 IN Publicat...