Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Classic crimes	Roughead, William	Dorothy Sayers called William Roughead "the best showman who ever stood before the door of the chamber of horrors," and in Classic Crimes he combines his professional expertise as a lawyer with his i…	OL1157082W
Dickens' Dreadful Almanac	Charles Dickens	Victorian news snippets	OL15900949W
Property crime in London, 1850-present	William M. Meier	"This book examines London's transformation from the mid-Victorian "miracle" of low (and diminishing) crime to its status as a high-crime society at the outset of the twenty-first century. It treats …	OL15933746W
Crime and society in twentieth-century England	Clive Emsley	244 p. : 24 cm	OL16212321W
The great pearl heist	Molly Caldwell Crosby	In the summer of 1913, under the cover of London's perpetual smoggy dusk, two brilliant minds are pitted against each other -- a celebrated gentleman thief and a talented Scotland Yard detective -- i…	OL16548465W
Flying With The Owls Crime Squad	Paul Allen	x, 291 p., [8] p. of plates : 20 cm	OL17410514W
Scotland Yards First Cases	Joan Lock	256 p. : 23 cm	OL17445936W
Adventures in criminology	Sir Leon Radzinowicz	Sir Leon Radzinowicz is one of the key figures in the development of criminology in the twentieth century, working as an academic criminologist, an adviser to government, and as the founding director…	OL1944934W
Crime Reduction and Community Safety	Daniel Gilling	This book analyses Labour's policies of local crime control from 1997 through to 2006. Picking up on the Conservative legacy, it follows the establishment of local crime and disorder reduction partne…	OL19838577W
Villains	Janet Foster	Villians provides a rare insight into local and family traditions of petty crime. It looks at attitudes to crime and law enforcement, and the relationship of those attitudes to the culture in which t…	OL19909799W
Albion's fatal tree	Calvin Winslow,E. P. Thompson,John Rule,Douglas Hay,Peter Linebaugh	In the popular imagination, informed as it is by Hogarth, Swift, Defoe and Fielding, the eighteenth-century underworld is a place of bawdy knockabout, rife with colourful eccentrics. But the artistic…	OL19976208W
The Role of Community-Mindedness in the Self-Regulation of Drug Cultures	Anke Stallwitz	This book analyzes heroin users and the drug subculture on the Shetland Islands, an area known for its geographical remoteness, rural character and relative wealth. It fills the scientific gap create…	OL20707265W
Crimes of the century	Jim Crawley	A look at some of the most notorious as well as the less well-known crimes of 20th century.	OL20854318W
Out of my depth	Anne Darwin	"The true story of my journey from ordinary housewife to Canoe Widow, Panama and prison"--Cover. "From ordinary housewife to Canoe Widow, Panama and prison. After years of remaining silent, Anne Dar…	OL20854417W
Living with a Serial Killer	Delia Balmer	vii, 327 pages ; 20 cm	OL21150485W
Inheritor's Powder	Sandra Hempel	This is the story of how an infamous murder case led to the birth of modern toxicology. In the 19th century criminal poisoning with arsenic was frighteningly easy. For a few pence and with few questi…	OL21263034W
The Real World of Sherlock Holmes	Peter Costello	This book details how Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the doctor, became a detective writer. It draws on his education by Dr. Joseph Bell in Edinburgh University on how to observe and reason on even the smal…	OL2782514W
Not with a bang but a whimper	Theodore Dalrymple	"In Not with a Bang But a Whimper, he takes rite measure of out cultural decline, noting that our current age seems exceptional in the peculiarity of its unease: "Never in human history have people l…	OL8371671W
Community, Crime and Disorder	Lynn Hancock,Lynn Hancock	"How do changes in the urban environment impact upon local communities? How do changes in housing provision and consumption impact upon crime patterning? How do community groups perceive and respond …	OL8817383W