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Celebrity Culture and the American Dream

by Karen Sternheimer

Using examples from the first celebrity fan magazines of 1911 to the present, Celebrity Culture and the American Dream considers how major economic and historical factors shaped the nature of celebrity culture...


Long Way Home: A Young Man Lost in the System and the Two Women Who Found Him

by Laura Caldwell

Nineteen-year-old Jovan Mosley, a good kid from one of Chicago’s very bad neighborhoods, was coerced into confessing to a crime he didn’t commit. Charged with murder, he spent five years and eight months...


Zebratown: The True Story of a Black Ex-Con and a White Single Mother in Small-Town America

by Greg Donaldson

Eight years in the making, this edgy, in-depth account follows a black felon’s attempt to find a new life for himself with a white woman in a small-town neighborhood where—as the book’s title implies—such...


The Restless Sleep: Inside New York City's Cold Case Squad

by Stacy Horn

Between 1985 and 2004 a staggering 8,894 unsolved homicides were committed in New York City. Here is the first ever inside look at the elite NYPD squad that cracks these "unsolvable" cases.

There is no statute...


See Jane Hit: Why Girls Are Growing More Violent and What We Can Do AboutIt

by Ph.D., James Garbarino

From one of America’s leading authorities on juvenile violence comes a groundbreaking investigation of the explosion of violent behavior in girls

With Lost Boys, James Garbarino became our foremost explicator...


The Murderer Next Door: Why the Mind Is Designed to Kill

by David M. Buss

As 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 never forget."...


Murder in Italy: Amanda Knox, Meredith Kercher, and the Murder Trial that Shocked the World

by Candace Dempsey

The true story behind the notorious international murder--updated to cover Amanda Knox's acquittal.

In Perugia, Italy, on November 2, 2007, police discovered the body of a British college student stabbed to...


Texas Death Row

by Bill Crawford

A chilling catalog of the men and women who have paid the ultimate price for their crimes The death penalty is one of the most hotly contested and longest-standing issues in American politics, and no place is...


The Laughing Gorilla: The True Story of the Hunt for One of America's First Serial Killers

by Robert Graysmith

During the 1920s, in more than a dozen cities, over four years, and across two continents, women were being butchered. Eyewitneses claim the perpetrator was a hulking Bible-carrying brute who lumbered on all...


The Best American Crime Reporting 2009

by Jeffrey Toobin, Otto Penzler & Thomas H. Cook

Thieves, liars, and killers—it's a criminal world out there, and someone has to write about it. A thrilling collection of the year's best reportage by the aces of the true-crime genre, The Best American Crime...


Ron Jeremy: The Life and Times of a Porn Star

by Ron Jeremy

He's the porn world's Everyman. Blessed with an enormous "talent" yet average looks, he's starred in more than 1,700 adult films, directed 250 of them, and over the last twenty years has become porn's biggest...


The Best American Crime Writing 2006

by Otto Penzler, Thomas H. Cook & Mark Bowden

A sterling collection of the year's most shocking, compelling, and gripping writing about real-life crime, the 2006 edition of The Best American Crime Writing offers fascinating vicarious journeys into a world...


The Scientific Handwriting Analysis Method for Stopping Gun Violence

by Raj Paode

One of the biggest challenges in preventing tragedies like Newtown is that there is still no way of predicting which individuals possibly have a potential for mindless violence, and need to be monitored, and...


Why We Fight: The Origins, Nature, and Management of Human Conflict

by David Churchman

This book draws on twenty-four academic disciplines to analyze some 100 theories that explain the origins, nature, and management of human conflict. It treats intellectual, moral, community, political, and international...


Glasgow: The Real Mean City: True Crime and Punishment in the Second City of the Empire

by Malcolm Archibald

There cannot be many cities where crime could mean anything from singing a seditious song to stealing a ship, but nineteenth-century Glasgow was a unique place with an amazing dynamism. Immigrants poured in...


Bury My Clothes

by Roger Bonair-Agard

A stirring meditation on violence, race, and the place in art at which they intersect, by poet Roger Bonair-Agard.


Women Exiting Prison: Critical Essays on Gender, Post-Release Support and Survival

by Bree Carlton & Marie Segrave

Women's incarceration is on the rise globally and this has significant intergenerational, economic and humanitarian costs for communities across the world. While there have been efforts to implement reform,...


Race, Law and American Society

by Gloria J. Browne-Marshall

This second edition of Gloria Browne-Marshall's seminal work , tracing the history of racial discrimination in American law from colonial times to the present, is now available with major revisions. Throughout,...


Racialized Correctional Governance: The Mutual Constructions of Race and Criminal Justice

by Claire Spivakovsky

Racialized Correctional Governance examines problems in the relationship between criminology and racialized issues. It questions current models for discussing issues of race in criminal justice systems and asks...


Sex Offenders: Punish, Help, Change or Control?: Theory, Policy and Practice Explored

by Jo Brayford, Francis Cowe & John Deering

Sex offending, and in particular child sex offending, is a complex area for policy makers, theorists and practitioners. A focus on punishment has reinforced sex offending as a problem that is essentially 'other'...