Criminology
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Bleeding Out: The Devastating Consequences of Urban Violence–And a Bold New Plan for Peace in the Streets
$30.00 Add to cartFrom a Harvard scholar and former Obama official, a powerful proposal for curtailing violent crime in America
Urban violence is one of the most divisive and allegedly intractable issues of our time. B… [more below]- Author: Abt, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 25 2019
- ISBN10: 1541645723
- Language: English
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When Innocence Is Not Enough: Hidden Evidence and the Failed Promise of the Brady Rule
$33.82 Read moreA gripping work of narrative nonfiction, told across time, that exposes what’s at stake when prosecutors conceal evidence–and what we can do about it
The Brady rule was meant to transform the U.S. ju- Author: Dybdahl, Thomas L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1620977044
- Language: English
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Popular Crime: Reflections on the Celebration of Violence
$20.99 Add to cartFrom the one-of-kind mind of Bill James, famous for revolutionizing the way we think about baseball, comes a “thought-provoking meditation” (Seattle Times) and epic tour through American crime–now av… [more below]
- Author: James, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 08 2012
- ISBN10: 141655274X
- Language: English
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Mayhem: Violence as Public Entertainment
$19.99 Add to cartWhat is the effect of long-term media violence on our national character? Do we want four-year-olds watching slasher films? Who should decide?While almost everyone has a strong opinion about the profu… [more below]
- Series: 1999 Printing
- Author: Bok, Sissela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 02 2005
- ISBN10: 0738201456
- Language: English
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The Grim Sleeper: The Lost Women of South Central
$17.95 Read more“One of the best true crime books of all time.” —Time
The inside story of the notorious and elusive serial killer who stalked
As seen on Investigation Discovery’s The Grim Sleeper: Mind of a Monster- Author: Pelisek, Christine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 17 2018
- ISBN10: 1640090231
- Language: English
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Ted Bundy and the Unsolved Murder Epidemic: The Dark Figure of Crime
$44.99 Add to cartThis book revisits the life and crimes of Ted Bundy. It seeks to reconcile the contradictions and controversies about his life that underscore the broader US unsolved murder problem, one that is estim… [more below]
- Author: Delisi, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 303121417X
- Language: English
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The Murderer Next Door: Why the Mind Is Designed to Kill
$16.00 Add to cartAs acclaimed psychological researcher and author David Buss writes, “People are mesmerized by murder. It commands our attention like no other human phenomenon, and those touched by its ugly tendrils n… [more below]
- Author: Buss, David M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 25 2006
- ISBN10: 0143037056
- Language: English
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Mafia Queens of Mumbai: Women Who Ruled the Ganglands
$19.99 Add to cartThis work is a well documented account of some of these women who, through their unwavering devotion to their husbands, their desire to pull themselves out of poverty or simply their refusal to let th… [more below]
- Author: Zaidi, Hussain S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: November 30 2014
- ISBN10: 9380283776
- Language: English
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Blood In, Blood Out: The Violent Empire of the Aryan Brotherhood
$19.95 Add to cartFrom the dead centre of the enormous American penitentiary system, the Aryan Brotherhood was the lion that somehow seized control of the city as well as the zoo, steadily coming to dominate the billio… [more below]
- Author: Lee Brook, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 15 2011
- ISBN10: 1900486776
- Language: English
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Love in the Time of Incarceration: Five Stories of Dating, Sex, and Marriage in America’s Prisons
$17.99 Add to cartThis evocative and gripping investigative look into romantic relationships between incarcerated people and their spouses on the outside “is impossible to put down” (The Globe and Mail, Toronto).
What- Author: Greenwood, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1501158422
- Language: English
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Last Dance, Last Chance
$21.00 Add to cart“America’s best true-crime writer” (Kirkus Reviews) presents an all-new collection of crime stories drawn from her private files and featuring the riveting case of a fraudulent doctor whose lifelong d… [more below]
- Series: Ann Rule’s Crime Files #8
- Author: Rule, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1668024756
- Language: English
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Un-Making a Murderer: The Framing of Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey
$14.99 Add to cart“Finally, an amazingly honest book that details exactly how my brother was set up” – Brad Dassey
Innocent people do go to jail. Sometimes mistakes are made. But even more terrifying is when the autho
- Author: Attwood, Shaun
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 22 2017
- ISBN10: 0993021557
- Language: English
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Assassination Generation: Video Games, Aggression, and the Psychology of Killing
$28.00 Add to cartThe author of the 400,000-copy bestseller On Killing reveals how violent video games have ushered in a new era of mass homicide — and what we must do about it.
Paducah, Kentucky, 1997: a 14-year-old- Author: Grossman, Dave
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 15 2016
- ISBN10: 0316265934
- Language: English
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Thai Stick: Surfers, Scammers, and the Untold Story of the Marijuana Trade
$24.95 Add to cartLocated on the left bank of the Chao Phya River, Thailand’s capital, Krungthep, known as Bangkok to Westerners and “the City of Angels” to Thais, has been home to smugglers and adventurers since the l
- Author: Maguire, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 09 2015
- ISBN10: 0231161352
- Language: English
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Lobster Boy: The Bizarre Life and Brutal Death of Grady Stiles Jr.
$18.99 Add to cartThe shocking exposé of a carny’s murder arranged by his wife–and the daughter who threatened the author to keep the truth from getting out.
In his account of the sensational life and murder of Grad- Author: Rosen, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: July 21 2015
- ISBN10: 1504023080
- Language: English
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Criminal Justice in the United States, 1789-1939
$41.08 Add to cartThis book chronicles the development of criminal law in America, from the beginning of the constitutional era (1789) through the rise of the New Deal order (1939). Elizabeth Dale discusses the changes… [more below]
- Series: New Histories of American Law
- Author: Dale, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: August 29 2011
- ISBN10: 1107401364
- Language: English
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Labyrinth
$17.00 Add to cart” An] engrossing, damning tale of widespread unchecked corruption in one of the nation’s largest police departments, one that deserves attention . . . Exhaustively researched . . . The most thorough e
- Author: Sullivan, Randall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 0802127428
- Language: English
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Female Serial Killers: How and Why Women Become Monsters
$18.00 Add to cartIn this fascinating book, Peter Vronsky exposes and investigates the phenomenon of women who kill–and the political, economic, social and sexual implications buried with each victim.
How many of us a- Author: Vronsky, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: August 07 2007
- ISBN10: 0425213900
- Language: English
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Race, Crime, and the Law
$22.00 Add to cartAn “admirable, courageous, and meticulously fair and honest book” (New York Times Book Review) in which “one of our most important and perceptive writers on race” (The Washington Post) takes on a high… [more below]
- Author: Kennedy, Randall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: March 31 1998
- ISBN10: 375701842
- Language: English
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Reforming Criminal Justice: A Christian Proposal
$34.99 Read moreNoted Attorney and Seminary Graduate Matthew T. Martens Answers the Question: Does the Design and Operation of the American Criminal Justice System Reflect Christian Love of Neighbor?
Jesus told his
- Author: Martens, Matthew T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1433581825
- Language: English
