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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The adolescent drug-crime relationship	Scott W. Whiteford	xiii, 198 p. : 23 cm	OL12297634W
Introduction to criminology	Frank E. Hagan	pages cm	OL15452507W
Dark dreams	Roy Hazelwood	Profiler Roy Hazelwood is the world's leading expert on the strangest and most dangerous of all aberrant offenders--the sexual criminal. In Dark Dreams he reveals the twisted motives and perverse thi…	OL16070460W
Measuring crime & criminality	John M. MacDonald	"Measuring Crime and Criminality focuses on how different approaches to measuring crime and criminality are used to test existing criminological theories. Each chapter reviews a key approach for meas…	OL16562275W
The good father	Diane Chamberlain	After losing his construction job and his home, 23-year-old single father Travis Brown, who will do anything for his daughter Bella, gets an offer to participate in a onetime criminal act that promis…	OL18167561W
The neurobiology of criminal behavior	Joseph Glicksohn	"Criminological theory dating back one hundred years has been aware of the need to develop a neurobiology of extroversion, impulsivity, frontal-lobe dysfunction, and aggressive behavior, yet in the t…	OL18876131W
Shared beginnings, divergent lives	John H. Laub,Robert J. Sampson	This is an analysis of data on crime and social development up to the age of 70 for 500 men who were remanded to reform school in the 1940s in the USA. The book updates their lives at the close of th…	OL20547498W
Blues highway blues	Eyre Price	"Daniel Erickson has the blues. There's a Russian mobster wearing his finger on a necklace, two hit men hot on his trail, an FBI agent obsessed with his capture, and a rogue motorcycle gang hunting h…	OL21205704W
CrimComics Issue 2	Krista S. Gehring,Michael R. Batista	v, 56 pages : 27 cm	OL21299754W
Youth crime	Jacqui Bailey	This book includes statistics about crime today and in the past. It explores what youth crime means, why it happens, types of youth crime and repercussions they may face. Also covered is some of what…	OL21672302W
Crime, justice, and society	Patricia Searles,Marvin D., Jr. Free,Ronald J. Berger	xvi, 586 p. : 23 cm	OL23883694W
One Hustle	Cortney Gee	338 pages ; 22 cm	OL24221183W
Love, Even If It Hurts 2	Tamicka Higgins	1 volume (unpaged)	OL24226783W
Death of a Gentle Lady	Graeme Malcolm,M. C. Beaton	Suspecting that an elderly matron is not quite the kindhearted favorite her neighbors believe her to be, Hamish MacBeth investigates the local inspector's suspicions when the lady dies under mysterio…	OL24679051W
Fighting between love and lust	Sherri Marie	After a great relationship of five years, Gee Hightower grows suspicious that his soon to be wife is being disloyal and unfaithful.	OL27967874W
Aussie true crime stories	Joe Tog	In this compilation of twenty true stories by Joe Tog, the criminal genre is nailed exactly as it was during the 70's and the 80's - he experienced it - both inside prison and on the outside. Step by…	OL27972592W
Choosing white-collar crime	Neal Shover	For more than three decades, rational-choice theory has reigned as the dominant approach both for interpreting crime and as underpinning for crime-control programs. Although it has been applied to an…	OL3231515W
Causes of crime	Stacey L. Tipp	Presents opposing viewpoints on the subject of crime and how it may be affected by poverty, genetics, drug use, and easy access to guns.	OL4096448W
Seductions of crime	Jack Katz	A chilling exploration of the criminal mind--from juvenile delinquency to cold-blooded murder. Drawing on studies of offenders and victims, self-reports and autobiographies, narratve reconstructions …	OL6677770W
Treating the Chemically Dependent Criminal Personality	Eugene Isaac Pitts	This work deals with substance abuse among the incarcerated criminal population as well as the street criminal in a criminogenic neighborhood or setting. It is designed to be used by criminal justice…	OL9886852W