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Criminal profiling Criminal profiling Jenny MacKay Crime solving is painstaking, but modern methods and technological advances have significantly changed the field of criminal investigation. Clues to crimes both spectacular and ordinary can now be fo… OL11926894W
Born to raise hell Born to raise hell Jack Altman About Richard Speck, an American mass murderer who systematically tortured, raped, and murdered eight student nurses from South Chicago Community Hospital on July 14, 1966. OL15841850W
The Show of Violence The Show of Violence Fredric Wertham In our dreams and fantasies, we are all murderers, leveling whole cities with our unconscious hates and fears. Most of us are content merely to dream. But in some, their dreams lunge out into nightma… OL15845129W
Law & disorder Law & disorder John E. Douglas "It is mankind's most abominable crime: murder. No one is better acquainted with the subject and its wrenching challenges than John Douglas, the FBI's pioneer of criminal profiling, and the model fo… OL17678647W
Grendon and the emergence of forensic therapeutic communities Grendon and the emergence of forensic therapeutic communities Elizabeth Sullivan,Richard Shuker "Grendon opened in 1962 as an experimental psychiatric prison to provide treatment for prisoners with antisocial personality disorder. Today it is run by a prison service governor but continues to op… OL18647205W
Environmental criminology and crime analysis Environmental criminology and crime analysis Richard Wortley,Lorraine Green Mazerolle Defines the field and synthesizes the concepts and ideas surrounding environmental criminology. Chapters analyze the major elements of environmental criminology and crime analysis. OL19052498W
Night moves Night moves Jonathan Kellerman An affluent family returns home from dinner only to find the brutalized corpse of a stranger in their house. The case tests Delaware and Sturgis to their intellectual and emotional limits. OL19735531W
Inside their minds Inside their minds Rochelle Jackson He is 29 years old and commits his horrendous crime alone. He is an underachiever, unskilled, doesn't have a regular job and he is now a mass murderer. OL19957238W
Why they do it Why they do it Eugene Soltes "Rarely does a week go by without a well-known executive being indicted for engaging in a white-collar crime. Perplexed as to what drives successful, wealthy people to risk it all, Harvard Business S… OL20042720W
Criminal psychology Criminal psychology Jacqueline B. Helfgott,J. Reid Meloy "Unfortunately, criminal behavior surrounds us in our society, from petty theft and vandalism to multimillion-dollar white-collar crime to shocking terrorism attempts and school killings. Invariably,… OL20653859W
Un cœur trop lourd Un cœur trop lourd Ann Rule Après son mariage avec Lysia, Chris Northon découvre ses défauts, et leur union commence à battre de l'aile. En octobre 2000, Chris est retrouvé mort, le long du fleuve. Lysia part chercher du réconf… OL21730233W
The disappeared The disappeared Al Cimino When the news broke in May 2013 that three women had been held captive for over ten years in Cleveland, Ohio, the world was stunned. Not only had the women been imprisoned in an ordinary house a few … OL24190718W
Forensic psychology and the law Forensic psychology and the law Ronald Roesch "Introduction to Forensic Psychology introduces students to the theories and practices of forensic psychology within the framework of Canadian society and legal contexts. It is written from an applie… OL26176040W
Psychologie criminologique Psychologie criminologique Bernard Gaillard Qu'est-ce que la psychologie criminologique ? Une discipline nouvelle, en pleine expansion, à l'intersection entre la psychologie, la sociologie et le juridique. Son objectif : aider à comprendre et … OL28943642W
Susan Smith Susan Smith George Rekers This book is based upon the publicly available facts, primarily from the Susan Smith trial itself, which consisted of public sworn testimony, and by interviews with individuals whose comments are pub… OL3006358W
Crime, shame, and reintegration Crime, shame, and reintegration John Braithwaite Crime, Shame and Reintegration is a contribution to general criminological theory. Its approach is as relevant to professional burglary as to episodic delinquency or white collar crime. Braithwaite a… OL4619113W
The compulsion to confess The compulsion to confess Theodor Reik From a Review: Guilt and desire are the subject of this illuminating anthology of lectures and articles by the author of Listening With a Third Fa Of Love and Lust, Masochism in Modern Man and a d… OL5354732W
Dead man coming Dead man coming Charles Postell This book details the Allday family murders in rural Donaldsonville, Georgia by an escaped convict and possy he picks up along the way. The book is based on interviews with Carl Issacs (the ring lead… OL5613001W
The Italian secretary The Italian secretary Caleb Carr Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are summoned to the aid of Queen Victoria in Scotland by a telegram from Holmes’ brother, Mycroft, a royal advisor. Rushed northward on a royal train—and nearly murdere… OL5823533W
Safe Passage on City Streets Safe Passage on City Streets Dorothy T. Samuel A new type of prison has emerged in this day and time - the prison of our own homes. Never in recent history have so many people barricaded themselves behind locked doors and barred windows. Fear is … OL7010497W
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