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Forbidden Words: On God Alcohol Vegetarianism & Violence

by Leo Tolstoy & Simon Parke

This book presents writings Tolstoy was never, in his lifetime, allowed to publish in his native Russia. He was a successful author by middle age; world famous for his novels 'War and Peace' and 'Anna Karenina.'...


Blood on the Streets: A-Z of Glasgow Crime

by Robert Jeffrey

For more than a hundred years, Glasgow has been right up there in the major league of big-city crime. From Madelaine Smith and Oscar Slater, by way of the Bridgeton Billy Boys and the Norman Conks, through to...


Letters from the Dhamma Brothers: Meditation Behind Bars

by Jenny Phillips & Robert Coles

Through intimate letters, interviews, and stories, this narrative reveals the impact that a life-changing retreat had on a group of inmates at the highest level maximum-security state prison in Alabama. The...


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...


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 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...


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...


Walter Dew: The Man Who Caught Crippen

by Nicholas Connell

To this day the name of Dr Crippen is universally recognised as one of the most infamous in the annals of crime and his notoriety is second only to that of Jack the Ripper. It was the job of one man to catch...


On a Wicked Wind

by Linda Winstead Jones

The good news is that the vast majority of soldiers are loath to kill in battle. Unfortunately, modern armies, using Pavlovian and operant conditioning, have developed sophisticated ways of overcoming this instinctive...


The African American Criminal Justice Guide

by John Elmore

THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE GUIDE WILL TEACH YOU HOW TO: Fight Crime in The Community Stay Calm When You are Confronted by the Police Not Get Killed by the Police Choose the Best Attorney Know Everything about Bail...


Crime and Punishment in America

by Elliott Currie

“Earnest, free of jargon, lucid…This is a book that ought to be read by anyone concerned about crime and punishment in America.”—The Washington Post Book World

A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize

When Crime...


The Good Prison Guide

by Charlie Bronson & Stephen Richards

Charlie Bronson has taken his 24 years of experience of prison dwelling and condensed it into one handy and comprehensive volume. Moved regularly around the prisons of the British Isles, he has sampled all that...


Murderous Minds on Trial: Terrible Tales from a Forensic Psychiatrist's Casebook

by Stanley Semrau & Judy Gale

Forensic psychiatrist Stanley Semrau takes us through some of the most dreadful stories from his own career and from historical sources.


Deadly Beat: Inside the Royal Ulster Constabulary

by Richard Latham

'You go to work and you might be shot dead. You imagine being horribly maimed in a bomb blast. You come home and wonder if you'll be shot at the door. You go to bed with a revolver on the bedside cabinet. At...


Deadly Divisions: The Spectre Chronicles

by Paul Ferris & Reg McKay

Glasgow, 1989. James Addison, aka Addie, has been a very busy man. Wanted for every type of crime for over a decade, there is only one hitch - he has never been seen, let alone caught. So, who or what is Addie?...


Inside

by Michael G. Santos

American jails and prisons confine nearly 13.5 million people each year, and it is estimated that 6 to 7 percent of the U.S. population will be confined in their lifetimes. Despite these disturbing numbers,...


Facing the U.S. Prison Problem 2.3 Million Strong: An Ex-Con's View of the Mistakes and the Solutions

by Shawn Ramey Griffith

This is the inside story of how and why the U.S. prison system is broken, the mistakes and the solutions to fix it, from the perspective of someone who has gone through it all and defied the odds after 20 years...


TERROR: SOCIAL, POLITICAL, AND ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES

by Mark Worrell

About the Series

The goal of this new, unique Series is to offer readable, teachable "thinking frames" on today's social problems and social issues by leading scholars, all in short 60-page-or-shorter formats,...


Abnormal

by Michel Foucault & Graham Burchell

From 1971 until his death in 1984, Foucault gave public lectures at the world-famous College de France. Attended by thousands, these were seminal events in the world of French letters. Picador is proud to be...


Homicide

by David Simon

From the creator of HBO’s The Wire, the classic book about homicide investigation that became the basis for the hit television show

The scene is Baltimore. Twice every three days another citizen is shot, stabbed,...