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Written by the bestselling author of The Ice Man, The Butcher is a gripping and disturbing fly-on-the-wall account of the US Drug Enforcement Administration's four-year hunt to bring down Tommy 'Karate' Pitera, a drug-dealing, murderous capo in the Bonanno crime family....
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Mainstream Digital
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2011-01-11
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Excellent Cadavers (a term used in Sicily to distinguish the assassination of prominent government officials from the hundreds of common criminals killed in the course of routine mafia business) tells of the remarkable investigation spearheaded by Giovanni Falcone and...
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Vintage Digital
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2011-01-11
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Philip Carlo's successful and acclaimed books reveal the truth about notorious characters such as LA serial killer Richard Ramirez, Mafia contract killer Richard Kuklinski and crime-family boss Anthony Casso. Working closely with the DEA , Carlo also wrote the...
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Mainstream Digital
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2011-01-11
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____________________‘This book will make you think… it will frighten you, and it will shock you… Frankly I could not read it at night.’ – Ann Rule, author of The Stranger Beside Me: The Inside Story of Serial Killer Ted BundyHOW DO YOU CATCH A SERIAL KILLER?Interpreting...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2011-01-11
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How do we reduce and prevent crime? This is a question with which governments, academics and criminal justice professionals have been grappling for decades. Crime Prevention explores the legislative developments, policy changes and practical strategies that have been...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2010-12-20
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Crime in the United States has fluctuated considerably over the past thirty years, as have the policy approaches to deal with it. During this time criminologists and other scholars have helped to shed light on the role of incarceration, prevention, drugs, guns,...
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Oxford University Press
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2010-12-20
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In 1895 twenty-six-year-old Bridget Cleary disappeared from her house in rural Tipperary. At first, some said that the fairies had taken her into their stronghold in a nearby hill, from where she would emerge, riding a white horse. But then her badly burned body was...
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Vintage Digital
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2010-12-15
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Punishment, like all complex human institutions, tends to change as ways of thinking go in and out of fashion. Normative, political, social, psychological, and legal ideas concerning punishment have changed drastically over time, and especially in recent decades. Why...
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Oxford University Press
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2010-12-07
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In recent years, justice-related and human rights issues have figured more and more prominently on the international political agenda. This expansion of the justice space is a product of a growing demand for accountability in world politics. Whether the issue is...
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Springer
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2010-11-25
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In a world where global flows of people and commodities are on the increase, crimes related to illegal trafficking are creating new concerns for society. This, in turn, has brought about new and contentious forms of regulation, surveillance and control. There is a...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2010-11-17
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Gender, Crime and Victimisation is a thoughtful and thought-provoking book, exploring gender patterns in both offending and victimisation. It offers a thorough examination of how these patterns in society are variously established and represented, researched, explained...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2010-11-15
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The Control of Violence in Modern Society, starts from the hypothesis that in modern society we will face an increasing loss of control over certain phenomena of violence. This leads to unpredictable escalations and violence can no longer be contained adequately by the...
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Springer
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2010-11-04
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THE DETECTIVES OFTHE NEW ZEALAND POLICE CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION BRANCH (CIB) ARE CHARGED WITH INVESTIGATING AND SOLVING SERIOUS CRIME.To outsmart and defeat New Zealand's hardened organised crime rings, the CIB employ the most sophisticated techniques and technologies...
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Nz Epenguin
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2010-11-01
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Featuring a collection of essays by leading experts, Female Sexual Offenders: Theory, Assessment and Treatment is the first book to bring together current research, clinical assessment, and treatment techniques of female sexual offenders into one accessible volume. ...
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Wiley
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2010-10-26
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Surveillance has a long-standing relationship with crime and its identification, prevention, detection and punishment. With information on each citizen spanning up to 700 databases, and over 4 million CCTV cameras in the United Kingdom alone, this book explores how new...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2010-10-15
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Nearly all research devoted to policing focuses on public uniformed police and their legal use of force. An overwhelming amount of this work draws on evidence from Anglo-American police forces. These twin emphases have led to a limited view. Agencies such as criminal...
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Oxford University Press
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2010-09-30
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Extrajudicial executions have blighted parts of the world for generations, but criminological coverage has been superficial and selective, in that it has concentrated on South America giving the impression that this is a problem specific to that part of the world and...
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Springer
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2010-09-27
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The Cycle of Juvenile Justice takes a historical look at juvenile justice policies in the United States. Tracing a pattern of policies over the past 200 years, the book reveals cycles of reforms advocating either lenient treatment or harsh punishments for juvenile...
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Oxford University Press
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2010-09-14
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