Criminology
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Violence: Reflections on a National Epidemic
$20.00 Add to cartDrawing on firsthand experience as a prison psychiatrist, his own family history, and literature, Gilligan unveils the motives of men who commit horrifying crimes, men who will not only kill others bu… [more below]
- Author: Gilligan, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 29 1997
- ISBN10: 0679779124
- Language: English
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I, Monster: Serial Killers in Their Own Chilling Words
$19.00 Add to cartWhat goes through the dark minds of such notorious killers as Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, David Berkowitz (“Son of Sam”), John Wayne Gacy, Dennis Rader (the “BTK Killer”), and others? In this chilling … [more below]
- Author: Philbin, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: January 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1616141638
- Language: English
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Slaves Among Us: The Hidden World of Human Trafficking
$26.93 Add to cartMonique Villa shows us the world of slaves–no longer physically in chains–who walk among us, trapped in a cycle of exploitation. Her moving book, giving voice to survivors of this horrific trade, vi
- Author: Villa, Monique
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1538180456
- Language: English
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Batman and Psychology: A Dark and Stormy Knight (2nd Edition)
$36.99 Add to cartThis updated edition of Dr. Travis Langley’s beloved Batman and Psychology takes readers into the psyches of Batman and the characters of Gotham City-exploring what makes them tick, and why they have
- Series: Popular Culture Psychology
- Author: Langley, Travis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 388
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1684428564
- Language: English
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Bird Uncaged: An Abolitionist’s Freedom Song
$18.99 Read moreFrom a leading prison abolitionist, a moving memoir about coming of age in Brooklyn and surviving incarceration–and a call to break free from all the cages that confine us.
Marlon Peterson grew up in- Author: Peterson, Marlon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 06, 2022
- ISBN10: 1645036529
- Language: English
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Skating on Thin Ice: Professional Hockey, Rape Culture, and Violence against Women
$43.93 Add to cartSkating on Thin Ice exposes the culture of toxic masculinity in professional hockey and suggests how sport and society can change the narrative on sexual assault and violence.
- Author: Dekeseredy, Walter S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: October 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1487547102
- Language: English
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I Am the Law: How Judge Dredd Predicted Our Future
$19.99 Add to cartAn in-depth examination of the ways in which the comic strip Judge Dredd, published in 2000 AD, has predicted the changing face of policing in Britain over the last 45 years.
He is the law – and you b- Author: Molcher, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1786185709
- Language: English
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Policing a Class Society: The Experience of American Cities, 1865-1915
$19.95 Add to cartAn in-depth critical analysis of how ruling elites use the police institution in order to control communities.
- Author: Harring, Sidney L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: October 31 2017
- ISBN10: 1608468542
- Language: English
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What It Takes: Things a Canadian Police Officer Wants You to Know About His Job
$18.99 Add to cartA police officer pulls back the proverbial curtain on his profession to reveal its inner workings. After more than a decade in the police force, the author shares on-the-job insights and details of hi… [more below]
- Author: Roberts, Owen R. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1039164986
- Language: English
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Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating for Justice That Restores
$23.99 Add to cartIVP Readers’ Choice Award
Outreach Magazine Resource of the YearThe United States has more people locked up in jails, prisons, and detention centers than any other country in the history of the world.
- Author: Gilliard, Dominique DuBois
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 06 2018
- ISBN10: 0830845291
- Language: English
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Death Row Welcomes You: Visiting Hours in the Shadow of the Execution Chamber
$28.99 Read more“An eye-opening journey to a place that’s hard to access, rarely seen and shrouded by myths of monsters and abominations. … Death Row Welcomes You demands that we not look away.”– New York Times
In- Author: Hale, Steven
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1612199283
- Language: English
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Criminology for Dummies
$29.99 Add to cartExplore the world of crime and punishment
Police, forensics, and detective stories dominate our TV screens and bookshelves–from fictional portrayals such as Silence of the Lambs and Law and Order to
- Author: Briggs, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 18 2021
- ISBN10: 1119773199
- Language: English
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Bluegrass: A True Story of Murder in Kentucky
$17.99 Add to cartA shocking investigation into a true crime that tore a town apart–the violent murder of a young coed in Kentucky, the innocent boy who was jailed for the crime, and a small Southern community filled … [more below]
- Author: Van Meter, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: January 02 2018
- ISBN10: 1416538690
- Language: English
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Looking for Trouble
$44.95 Add to cartAn incredible true story of extraordinary courage and grit! Working undercover, conducting covert operations in the shadows, leading an FBI Homicide Task Force, and investigating drug smugglers, drug
- Author: Hicks, Maurice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 490
- Publish Date: October 20 2023
- ISBN10: 9798885050883
- Language: English
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A Peculiar Indifference: The Neglected Toll of Violence on Black America
$18.99 Add to cartNamed a best book of 2020 by the New York Times and Kirkus Reviews
“A smart, timely, deeply disturbing and essential book by a veteran scholar and leading expert on the criminal legal system. . . . Th- Author: Currie, Elliott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1250798493
- Language: English
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The Crime Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
$25.00 Add to cartLearn about the world’s most notorious cons, heists, and murders in The Crime Book.
Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow- Series: Big Ideas
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 02 2017
- ISBN10: 1465462864
- Language: English
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Crime and Punishment in America
$21.99 Add to cartA FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE
When Crime and Punishment in America was first published in 1998, the national incarceration rate had doubled in just over a decade, and yet the United States remaine- Author: Currie, Elliott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 26 2013
- ISBN10: 1250024218
- Language: English
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Writing Our Way Out: Memoirs from Jail
$16.95 Add to cartDetailing the formative and transformative memories of ten men, Writing Our Way Out is the creative culmination of a writing class that began in the Richmond City Jail in Virginia, and grew into a jou… [more below]
- Author: Coogan, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: October 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1939930596
- Language: English
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Forensic Science: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartForensic science is a subject of wide fascination. What happens at a crime scene? How does DNA profiling work? How can it help solve crimes that happened 20 years ago? In forensic science, a criminal … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Fraser, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: May 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0198834411
- Language: English
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Pressure: A Memoir
$18.95 Add to cartPressure is the unbelievable true story of Eric Canori, who buried $10 million worth of gold bars in the woods-and later used them to buy himself out of prison.
Eric Canori was one of the largest high-
- Author: Canori, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: February 25 2022
- ISBN10: 9798985644708
- Language: English
