Author: John R. Lott Jr.
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: crime, laws, control, understanding, guns, gun
Number of Pages: 321
Published: 2000-06-15
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0226493644
ISBN-13: 9780226493640
Does allowing people to own or carry guns deter violent crime? Or does it simply cause more citizens to harm each other? Directly challenging common perceptions about gun control, legal scholar John Lott presents the most rigorously comprehensive data analysis ever done on crime statistics and right-to-carry laws. This timely and provocative work comes to the startling conclusion: more guns mean less crime. In this paperback edition, Lott has expanded the research through 1996, incorporating new data available from states that passed right-to-carry and other gun laws since the book’s pub
Author: Richard Saferstein
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Keywords: crime, lab, scene, forensic, science
Number of Pages: 576
Published: 2012-01-06
List price: $140.00
ISBN-10: 0131391879
ISBN-13: 9780131391871
Forensic Science: From the Crime Scene to the Crime Lab, Second Edition, is designed to present forensic science in a straightforward and student-friendly format. Ideal for students with limited background in the sciences, topics are arranged to integrate scientific methodology with actual forensic applications. Discussions are focused on explaining state-of-the-art technology without delving into extraneous theories that may bore or overwhelm non-science students. Only the most relevant scientific and technological concepts are presented, keeping students focused on the practical knowledge th
Author: None
Publisher: Harper Paperback
Keywords: crime, true, organized, file, government, secret, mafia
Number of Pages: 944
Published: 2009-11-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0061829145
ISBN-13: 9780061829147
Some time in the early 1960s, during the golden age of organized crime in Americathe era that would inspire The Godfather; Goodfellas, and even The Sopranosfederal investigators pulled every known piece of information on more than 800 Mafia members worldwide into a thick, phone-book-sized directory. From old-school gangsters like Lucky Luciano and Mickey Cohen to young turks like Paul Castellano and Vinny "The Chin" Gigante, the guide offered at-a-glance profiles of small-time thugs and major dons alike... and was allegedly the book Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy used to investigate the
Authors:Jan Van Dijk, etc.,
Publisher: Kluwer Law And Taxation Publishers
Keywords: crime, international, survey, findings, world, across, experiences, key
Number of Pages: 198
Published: 1990-03
List price: $44.00
ISBN-10: 9065444637
ISBN-13: 9789065444639
Authors:Philip C. Parnell, Stephanie C. Kane,
Publisher: Palgrave Macmilla
Keywords: crime, ethnography, power, anthropologists
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2003-07-18
List price: $37.00
ISBN-10: 1403961808
ISBN-13: 9781403961808
The changes that are engulfing the world today--the fall of nation-states and dictatorships, migrations and border crossings, revolution, democratization, and the international spread of capital--call for new approaches to the subject of crime. Anthropologists engage a variety of methods to answer that call in Crimes Power. Their view of crime extends into the intimacies of everyday life as war transforms personal identities, the violence of a serial killer inhabits paintings, and the smell of imprisonment reveals societys potentials. Moving beyond the fixities of law, this book explores the
Author: Candace Kruttschnitt
Publisher: NYU Press
Keywords: crime, perspectives, deviance, law, new, offending, patterns, victimization, gender
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2005-12-01
List price: $23.00
ISBN-10: 0814736750
ISBN-13: 9780814736753
While rates of violent victimization have declined, women are still much more likely than men to be attacked by an intimate partner. Simultaneously, women’s involvement in the criminal justice system, as arrestees and sentenced offenders, is increasing. Criminologists are struggling to understand these patterns of offending and victimization and how they can be prevented. Composed of original contributions by many of the top scholars in criminology, these essays will help to transform our understanding of women’s relation to crime. Composed of original contributions by many of the
Authors:Jack Maple, Chris Mitchell,
Publisher: Broadway
Keywords: crime, free, fighter, community
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2000-10-17
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0767905547
ISBN-13: 9780767905541
Former NYPD Deputy Commissioner Jack Maple was a man in a bow tie and homburg--he was also on a mission to revolutionize the way crime is fought: how cops go after crooks, and how they prevent crime in the first place. And he succeeded.But Maple is not satisfied. In The Crime Fighter, he shows how crime can be attacked all across America. Laced with fascinating, incredible, and often very funny tales of Maple’s adventures as a cop, the book is as entertaining as it is informative. Anyone interested in how criminals think and act, and how the police should do their jobs, will devour this
