True Crime

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Crime Science: Methods of Forensic Detection - Hardcover

$59.85

by Joe Nickell (Author), John F. Fischer (Author)" The O.J. Simpson trial. The Lindbergh kidnapping. The death of Marilyn Monroe. The assassination of the Romanovs. The Atlanta child murders. All controversial cases. All investigated with the latest techniques in forensic science. Nationally respected investigators Joe Nickell and John Fischer explain the science behind the criminal investigations that have captured the nation's attention. Crime Science is the only comprehensive guide to fore...

A Rape in the Early Republic: Gender and Legal Culture in an 1806 Virginia Trial - Paperback

$42.75

by Alexander Smyth (Author), Randal L. Hall (Editor)On January 14, 1806, Sidney Hanson was raped by John Deskins on a rough gravel path in the woods in Tazewell County, Virginia. In the early nineteenth century, trials for rape were rare. Scanty court records typically lacked the detail needed to reconstruct the lives of those involved and evaluate the social and physical setting of the crime. Yet the events on that fateful day in 1806 would be the exception.In A Rape in the Early Republic, ...

Hidden Genocides: Power, Knowledge, Memory - Paperback

$71.73

by Alexander Laban Hinton (Editor), Thomas La Pointe (Editor), Douglas Irvin-Erickson (Editor)Why are some genocides prominently remembered while others are ignored, hidden, or denied? Consider the Turkish campaign denying the Armenian genocide, followed by the Armenian movement to recognize the violence. Similar movements are building to acknowledge other genocides that have long remained out of sight in the media, such as those against the Circassians, Greeks, Assyrians, the indigenous peop...

The Silencing of Ruby McCollum: Race, Class, and Gender in the South - Paperback

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by Tammy D. Evans (Author)"This groundbreaking work reads like a murder mystery, only in this case what has been killed is our American integrity and the right of an individual to a fair trial. Evans has finally addressed the pervasive silence that distorts, fragments, and threatens to bury the history of so many southern places and people."--Rebecca Mark, Tulane University The Silencing of Ruby McCollum refutes the carefully constructed public memory of one of the most famous--and under-exam...

Crane: Sex, Celebrity, and My Father's Unsolved Murder - Paperback

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by Robert Crane (Author), Christopher Fryer (Author)On June 29, 1978, Bob Crane, known to Hogan's Heroes fans as Colonel Hogan, was discovered brutally murdered in his Scottsdale, Arizona, apartment. His eldest son, Robert Crane, was called to the crime scene. In this poignant memoir, Robert Crane discusses that terrible day and how he has lived with the unsolved murder of his father. But this storyline is just one thread in his tale of growing up in Los Angeles, his struggles to reconcile th...

Who Killed Betty Gail Brown?: Murder, Mistrial, and Mystery - Hardcover

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by Robert G. Lawson (Author)On October 26, 1961, after an evening of studying with friends on the campus of Transylvania University, nineteen-year-old student Betty Gail Brown got into her car around midnight-presumably headed for home. But she would never arrive. Three hours later, Brown was found dead in a driveway near the center of campus, strangled to death with her own brassiere. Kentuckians from across the state became engrossed in the proceedings as lead after lead went nowhere. Four ...

Subordinating Intelligence: The Dod/CIA Post-Cold War Relationship - Hardcover

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by David P. Oakley (Author)In the late eighties and early nineties, driven by the post-Cold War environment and lessons learned during military operations, United States policy makers made intelligence support to the military the Intelligence Community's top priority. In response to this demand, the CIA and DoD instituted policy and organizational changes that altered their relationship with one another. While debates over the future of the Intelligence Community were occurring on Capitol Hil...

The Rising Clamor: The American Press, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the Cold War - Hardcover

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by David P. Hadley (Author)The US intelligence community as it currently exists has been deeply influenced by the press. Although considered a vital overseer of intelligence activity, the press and its validity is often questioned, even by the current presidential administration. But dating back to its creation in 1947, the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has benefited from relationships with members of the US press to garner public support for its activities, defend itself from its fail...

The Hall-Mills Murder Case: The Minister and the Choir Singer - Paperback

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by William Kunstler (Author)On Saturday, September 16, 1922, the bodies of Edward Hall, a handsome Episcopal rector, and Eleanor Mills, his choir singer and lover, were found near a lovers' lane in New Jersey. Four years later, the minister's widow and her brothers were tried for the murders and acquitted. Renowned criminal lawyer William M. Kunstler tells the tale.Back JacketOn Saturday, September 16, 1922, the bodies of Edward Hall, a handsome Episcopal rector, and Eleanor Mills, his choir ...

The Lindbergh Case: A Story of Two Lives - Paperback

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by Jim Fisher (Author)"If I had only one book to read on the Lindbergh case I should . . . choose Fisher's. It is balanced, impartial, and contains much material not to be found elsewhere."--Francis Russell, The New York Review of Books "Fisher . . . goes against the revisionist tide and argues strongly--and persuasively--for Hauptmann's guilt . . . a compelling book."--Patrick Reardon, Chicago Tribune "A good real-life crime yarn."--Kirkus Reviews "A riveting book."--Harry Sayen, The Times, ...

The Last Crusade: Martin Luther King Jr., the Fbi, and the Poor People's Campaign - Hardcover

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by Gerald D. McKnight (Author)In The Last Crusade, Gerald McKnight examines the Poor People's Campaign, the last large-scale demonstration of civil rights-era America, and the systematic efforts of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover and his executive officers to subvert King's ambitious effort to force the federal government to live up to its promises of a Great Society. The book also looks at King's last days as he helped Memphis sanitation workers in their labor-cum-civil rights struggle with a ...

Is Killing Wrong?: A Study in Pure Sociology - Paperback

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by Mark Cooney (Author), Donald Black (Editor)"Thou shalt not kill" is arguably the most basic moral and legal principle in any society. Yet while some killers are pilloried and punished, others are absolved and acquitted, and still others are lauded and lionized. Why? The traditional answer is that how killers are treated depends on the nature of their killing, whether it was aggressive or defensive, intentional or accidental. But those factors cannot explain the enormous variation in legal ...

State-Corporate Crime: Wrongdoing at the Intersection of Business and Government - Paperback

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by Raymond J. Michalowski (Editor), Ronald C. Kramer (Editor)Enron, Haliburton, ExxonValdez, "shock and awe"-their mere mention brings forth images of scandal, collusion, fraud, and human and environmental destruction. While great power and great crimes have always been linked, media exposure in recent decades has brought increased attention to the devious exploits of economic and political elites. Despite growing attention to crimes by those in positions of trust, however, violations in bus...

The Slasher Killings: A Canadian Sex-Crime Panic, 1945-1946 - Paperback

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by Patrick Brode (Author)As the city of Windsor, Ontario, celebrated the end of World War II and the return of its troops with parades and public revelry, the industrial city in the south of Canada was shaken by a series of brutal stabbings. The failure of the police to catch the murderer, a "blood lusting maniac" as the local newspaper described him, the turbulence of the times, and the seemingly random nature of the killings plunged the city into a panic. In The Slasher Killings Patrick Bro...

The Events of October: Murder-Suicide on a Small Campus - Paperback

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by Gail Griffin (Author)On a Sunday night during Homecoming weekend in 1999, Neenef Odah lured his ex-girlfriend, Maggie Wardle, to his dorm room at Kalamazoo College and killed her at close range with a shotgun before killing himself. In the wake of this tragedy, the community of the small, idyllic liberal arts college struggled to characterize the incident, which was even called the events of October in a campus memo. In this engaging and intimate examination of Maggie and Neenef's deaths, ...

Justice on Demand: True Crime in the Digital Streaming Era - Paperback

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by Tanya Horeck (Author)Justice on Demand: True Crime in the Digital Streaming Era offers a theoretical rumination on the question asked in countless blogs and opinion pieces of the last decade: Why are we so obsessed with true crime? Author Tanya Horeck takes this question further: Why is true crime thought to be such a good vehicle for the new modes of viewer/listener engagement favored by online streaming and consumption in the twenty-first century?Examining a range of audiovisual true cri...

Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: The Search for a Child Killer - Paperback

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by Tommy McIntyre (Author)In 1976 and 1977, over the course of a thirteen-month period, two boys and two girls, ages ten through twelve, were brutally murdered in Michigan's Oakland County. Their violent deaths triggered the largest murder investigation the state had seen. In Wolf in Sheep's Clothing, Tommy McIntyre provides a compelling and detailed account of the search for the Oakland County child killer. This is a story of tragedy and grief, dead-ends and disappointments.Author BiographyT...

Justice on Demand: True Crime in the Digital Streaming Era - Hardcover

$152.98

The Bobbed Haired Bandit: A True Story of Crime and Celebrity in 1920s New York - Hardcover

$76.95

by Stephen Duncombe (Author), Andrew Mattson (Author)Ripped straight from the headlines of the Jazz Age, The Bobbed Haired Bandit is a tale of flappers and fast cars, of sex and morality. In the spring of 1924, a poor, 19-year-old laundress from Brooklyn robbed a string of New York grocery stores with a "baby automatic," a fur coat, and a fashionable bobbed hairdo. Celia Cooney's crimes made national news, with the likes of Ring Lardner and Walter Lippman writing about her exploits for enthra...

Those Damned Immigrants: America's Hysteria Over Undocumented Immigration - Hardcover

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by Ediberto Román (Author), Michael A. Olivas (Author)Exposes the false narratives at the heart of Americans' fear of Latino/a immigrationThe election of Barack Obama prompted people around the world to herald the dawning of a new, postracial era in America. Yet a scant one month after Obama's election, Jose Oswaldo Sucuzhanay, a 31-year old Ecuadorian immigrant, was ambushed by a group of white men as he walked arm and arm with his brother. Yelling anti-Latino slurs, the men beat Sucuzhanay ...

Rape and the Culture of the Courtroom - Hardcover

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by Andrew E. Taslitz (Author)Rape law reform has been a stunning failure. Defense lawyers persist in emphasizing victims' characters over defendants' behavior. Reform's goals of increasing rape report and conviction rates have generally not been achieved. In Rape and the Culture of the Courtroom, Andrew Taslitz locates the cause of rape reform failure in the language lawyers use, and the cultural stories upon which they draw to dominate rape victims in the courtroom. Cultural stories about ra...

Who You Claim: Performing Gang Identity in School and on the Streets - Paperback

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by Robert Garot (Author)2011 Honorable Mention for the American Sociological Association Community and Urban Section's Robert E. Park Book AwardThe color of clothing, the width of shoe laces, a pierced ear, certain brands of sneakers, the braiding of hair and many other features have long been seen as indicators of gang involvement. But it's not just what is worn, it's how: a hat tilted to the left or right, creases in pants, an ironed shirt not tucked in, baggy pants. For those who live in i...

Corruption and Corruption Control: Democracy in the Balance - Paperback

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by Staffan Andersson (Author), Frank Anechiarico (Author)Corruption in politics and public administration is pervasive and difficult to eliminate. It has a strong effect on public attitudes toward government and is at the same time badly understood. A clear, comprehensive understanding of corruption is critical to the goal of ethical government that is trusted by the public.In this short and accessible text, Staffan Andersson and Frank Anechiarico demonstrate how the dynamics of life in organ...

A Death at Crooked Creek: The Case of the Cowboy, the Cigarmaker, and the Love Letter - Hardcover

$87.21

by Marianne Wesson (Author)"This is an extraordinary and ground-breaking book, a wonderfully creative mix of fact and theory, imagination and drama. Anyone with an interest in law, history, or, for that matter, great storytelling will fall in love with A Death at Crooked Creek. The startling origin of the complex 'intention exception' to the hearsay evidence rule becomes canvas on which a grand and marvelously detailed tale is told. This is modern narrative at its best: a marriage of spectacu...

Terrorism as Crime: From Oklahoma City to Al-Qaeda and Beyond - Paperback

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by Mark S. Hamm (Author)Car bombing, suicide bombing, abduction, smuggling, homicide, and hijacking are all profoundly criminal acts. In Terrorism as Crime Mark S. Hamm presents an understanding of terrorism from a criminological point of view, arguing that the most successful way to understand, detect, prosecute and deter these acts is to use conventional criminal investigation methods. Whether in Oklahoma City or London, Terrorism as Crime demonstrates that criminal activity is the lifebloo...

Fraternity Gang Rape: Sex, Brotherhood, and Privilege on Campus - Paperback

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by Peggy Reeves Sanday (Author)This widely acclaimed and meticulously documented volume illustrates, in painstaking and disturbing detail, the nature of fraternity gang rape. Drawing on interviews with both victims and fraternity members, Peggy Reeves Sanday reconstructs daily life in the fraternity, highlighting the role played by pornography, male bonding, and degrading, often grotesque, initiation and hazing rituals.In a substantial new introduction and afterword, Sanday updates the incide...

Gotham Unbound: How New York City Was Liberated from the Grip of Organized Crime - Hardcover

$192.60

by James B. Jacobs (Author), Coleen Friel (Author), Robert Raddick (Author)Cosa Nostra. Organized crime. The Mob. Call it what you like, no other crime group has infiltrated labor unions and manipulated legitimate industries like Italian organized crime families. One cannot understand the history and political economy of New York City-or most other major American cities-in the 20th century without focusing on the role of organized crime in the urban power structure. Gotham Unbound demonstrate...

Mobsters, Unions, and Feds: The Mafia and the American Labor Movement - Hardcover

$192.60

by James B. Jacobs (Author)The first book to document organized crime's exploitation of organized labor and the massive federal cleanup effort Nowhere in the world has organized crime infiltrated the labor movement as effectively as in the United States. Yet the government, the AFL-CIO, and the civil liberties community all but ignored the situation for most of the twentieth century. Since 1975, however, the FBI, Department of Justice, and the federal judiciary have relentlessly battled again...

Mobsters, Unions, and Feds: The Mafia and the American Labor Movement - Paperback

$66.69

Pranksters: Making Mischief in the Modern World - Hardcover

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by Kembrew McLeod (Author)From Benjamin Franklin's newspaper hoax that faked the death of his rival to Abbie Hoffman's attempt to levitate the Pentagon, pranksters, hoaxers, and con artists have caused confusion, disorder, and laughter in Western society for centuries. Profiling the most notorious mischief makers from the 1600s to the present day, Pranksters explores how "pranks" are part of a long tradition of speaking truth to power and social critique. Invoking such historical and contempo...

Praying with One Eye Open: Mormons and Murder in Nineteenth-Century Appalachian Georgia - Paperback

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by Mary Ella Engel (Author)In 1878, Elder Joseph Standing traveled into the Appalachian mountains of North Georgia, seeking converts for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Sixteen months later, he was dead, murdered by a group of twelve men. The church refused to bury the missionary in Georgia soil; instead, he was laid to rest in Salt Lake City beneath a monument that declared, "There is no law in Georgia for the Mormons." Most accounts of this event have linked Standing's murd...

Alone Among the Living: A Memoir of the Floyd Hoard Murder - Paperback

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by G. Richard Hoard (Author)"When I was twenty I came face to face with the old man convicted of paying five thousand dollars for the murder of my father." From the gripping first line of this true story, you will follow a young man's journey through grief and despair to acceptance and forgiveness. On August 7, 1967, prosecutor Floyd "Fuzzy" Hoard was killed by a car bomb in his own front yard in Jackson County, Georgia. Summoning the memories of the events surrounding that day, Alone among t...