Criminology
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The Murder Factory: Life and Work of H. H. Holmes, First American Serial Killer
$19.95 Read moreThe simultaneous emergence of the serial killer and the assembly line as expressions of the rationality of modern production methods.
In 1896, at the age of 35, Henry Howard Holmes, whose real name was
- Author: Midal, Alexandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 3956795431
- Language: English
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Midnights: A Year with the Wellfleet Police
$17.95 Read more“Midnights is both a comedy of errors and an affectionate portrait of small-town police, those beleaguered souls charged with the task of keeping their neighbors in line….A reminder that those assig
- Series: Nonpareil Books #2
- Author: Wilkinson, Alec
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1567927505
- Language: English
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Lethal Passage: The Story of a Gun
$17.00 Add to cartThis devastating book illuminates America’s gun culture — its manufacturers, dealers, buffs, and propagandists — but also offers concrete solutions to our national epidemic of death by firearm. It b… [more below]
- Author: Larson, Erik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 15 1995
- ISBN10: 0679759271
- Language: English
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The Science of Hate
$21.95 Read moreWhy do people hate? A world-leading criminologist explores the tipping point between prejudice and hate crime, analysing human behaviour across the globe and throughout history in this vital book.
‘T- Author: Williams, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0571357067
- Language: English
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Duped: Why Innocent People Confess – And Why We Believe Their Confessions
$29.95 Add to cartWhy do people confess to crimes they did not commit? And, surely, those cases must be rare? In fact, it happens all the time–in police stations, workplaces, public schools, and the military. Psycholo
- Author: Kassin, Saul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: June 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1633888088
- Language: English
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Defund Fear: Safety Without Policing, Prisons, and Punishment
$16.95 Read moreA groundbreaking new vision for public safety that overturns more than 200 years of fear-based discrimination, othering, and punishment
As the effects of aggressive policing and mass incarceration har- Author: Norris, Zach
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: February 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0807003026
- Language: English
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A Narco History: How the United States and Mexico Jointly Created the Mexican Drug War
$15.95 Add to cartThe term “Mexican Drug War” misleads. It implies that the ongoing bloodbath, which has now killed well over 100,000 people, is an internal Mexican affair.
But this diverts attention from the U.S. role- Author: Boullosa, Carmen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: November 15 2016
- ISBN10: 1944869123
- Language: English
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The Warehouse: A Visual Primer on Mass Incarceration
$24.95 Add to cartMass incarceration is a lived, sensory experience.
The most eye-popping statistics alone cannot relate the enormity of its psychological and societal impacts. This concise, illustrated primer is a coll
- Author: Kilgore, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 9798887440422
- Language: English
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Freeman’s Challenge: The Murder That Shook America’s Original Prison for Profit
$27.50 Add to cartAn award-winning historian tells a gripping, morally complicated story of murder, greed, race, and the true origins of prison for profit.
In the early nineteenth century, as slavery gradually ended i- Author: Bernstein, Robin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 01 2024
- ISBN10: 022674423X
- Language: English
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Pizza Bomber: The Untold Story of America’s Most Shocking Bank Robbery
$9.99 Add to cartThe bizarre, true story of a robbery gone wrong and the explosive murder that shocked the nation–as seen on Netflix’s docuseries Evil Genius.
For the first time, two of the people who followed the st- Series: Berkley True Crime
- Author: Clark, Jerry
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: November 06 2012
- ISBN10: 0425250555
- Language: English
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On Trial for Murder
$16.99 Read moreUncover the dramatic events surrounding some of the world’s most controversial murder trials.
Explore the riveting twists and turns of some of the most notorious and controversial murder trials in his- Author: Dk
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0593846206
- Language: English
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Why We Love Serial Killers: The Curious Appeal of the World’s Most Savage Murderers
$16.95 Add to cartFor decades now, serial killers have taken center stage in the news and entertainment media. The coverage of real-life murderers such as Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer has transformed them into ghoulish… [more below]
- Author: Bonn, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 28 2014
- ISBN10: 1629144320
- Language: English
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Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy’s New Killing Fields
$21.99 Add to cartCiudad Juarez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known as the place where women disappear, its murder rate ex… [more below]
- Author: Bowden, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: March 22 2011
- ISBN10: 1568586450
- Language: English
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North Carolina Murder & Mayhem
$23.99 Add to cartAuthor Rick Jackson tells the stories behind some of the most famous, and most heinous, crimes in the history of the Old North State.
The smiling faces and southern hospitality of North Carolina promis
- Series: Murder & Mayhem
- Author: Jackson, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 07 2019
- ISBN10: 1467143561
- Language: English
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Obsession
$28.99 Add to cartIn Obsession, John Douglas once again takes us fascinatingly behind the scenes, focusing his expertise on predatory crimes, primarily against women. With a deep sense of compassion for the victims an… [more below]
- Author: Douglas, John E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: August 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1451607431
- Language: English
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Tangled Up in Blue: Policing the American City
$18.00 Read moreNamed one of the best nonfiction books of the year by The Washington Post
“Tangled Up in Blue is a wonderfully insightful book that provides a lens to critically analyze urban policing and a road map f… [more below]- Author: Brooks, Rosa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0525557873
- Language: English
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Locked in: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration-And How to Achieve Real Reform
$32.00 Read moreA groundbreaking reassessment of the American prison system, challenging the widely accepted explanations for our exploding incarceration rates
In Locked In, John Pfaff argues that the factors most c- Author: Pfaff, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0465096913
- Language: English
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Organized Crime: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartFor many people around the world, instances of what is described as organized crime may be part of their everyday experience; in their neighborhoods, their streets, and the places they work and live. … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Antonopoulos, Georgios A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: April 22 2018
- ISBN10: 0198795548
- Language: English
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Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair
$44.33 Add to cartThe award-winning “radically original” (The Atlantic) restorative justice leader, whose work the Washington Post has called “totally sensible and totally revolutionary,” grapples with the problem of v
- Author: Sered, Danielle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1620974797
- Language: English
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The Black Hand: The Epic War Between a Brilliant Detective and the Deadliest Secret Society in American History
$18.99 Add to cartSoon to be a major motion picture starring Leonardo DiCaprio, this gripping true story of the origins of the Mafia in America follows the brilliant Italian-born detective who gave his life to stop it.… [more below]
- Author: Talty, Stephan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 17 2018
- ISBN10: 1328911195
- Language: English
