10 books in Social Science - Criminology
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All God's Children
The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence
Written by Fox Butterfield
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $16.00
A timely reissue of Fox Butterfield’s masterpiece, All God’s Children, a searing examination of the caustic cumulative effect of racism and violence over 5 generations of black Americans.
Willie Bosket is a brilliant, violent man who began his criminal career at age five; his slaying of two subway riders at fifteen... Read more >
The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence
Written by Fox Butterfield
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $16.00
A timely reissue of Fox Butterfield’s masterpiece, All God’s Children, a searing examination of the caustic cumulative effect of racism and violence over 5 generations of black Americans.
Willie Bosket is a brilliant, violent man who began his criminal career at age five; his slaying of two subway riders at fifteen... Read more >
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Teasing Secrets from the Dead
My Investigations at America's Most Infamous Crime Scenes
Written by Emily Craig, Ph.D.
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: September 27, 2005
Price: $13.95
Teasing Secrets from the Dead is a front-lines story of crime scene investigation at some of the most infamous sites in recent history.
In this absorbing, surprising, and undeniably compelling book, forensics expert Emily Craig tells her own story of a life spent teasing secrets from the dead.
Emily Craig has been... Read more >
My Investigations at America's Most Infamous Crime Scenes
Written by Emily Craig, Ph.D.
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: September 27, 2005
Price: $13.95
Teasing Secrets from the Dead is a front-lines story of crime scene investigation at some of the most infamous sites in recent history.
In this absorbing, surprising, and undeniably compelling book, forensics expert Emily Craig tells her own story of a life spent teasing secrets from the dead.
Emily Craig has been... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death
Written by Corinne May Botz
Format: Hardcover, 225 pages
On Sale: September 28, 2004
Price: $35.00
The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death offers readers an extraordinary glimpse into the mind of a master criminal investigator. Frances Glessner Lee, a wealthy grandmother, founded the Department of Legal Medicine at Harvard in 1936 and was later appointed captain in the New Hampshire police. In the 1940s and 1950s she... Read more >
Written by Corinne May Botz
Format: Hardcover, 225 pages
On Sale: September 28, 2004
Price: $35.00
The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death offers readers an extraordinary glimpse into the mind of a master criminal investigator. Frances Glessner Lee, a wealthy grandmother, founded the Department of Legal Medicine at Harvard in 1936 and was later appointed captain in the New Hampshire police. In the 1940s and 1950s she... Read more >
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Teasing Secrets from the Dead
My Investigations at America's Most Infamous Crime Scenes
Written by Emily Craig, Ph.D.
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: August 31, 2004
Price: $13.95
Teasing Secrets from the Dead is a front-lines story of crime scene investigation at some of the most infamous sites in recent history.
In this absorbing, surprising, and undeniably compelling book, forensics expert Emily Craig tells her own story of a life spent teasing secrets from the dead.
Emily Craig has been... Read more >
My Investigations at America's Most Infamous Crime Scenes
Written by Emily Craig, Ph.D.
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: August 31, 2004
Price: $13.95
Teasing Secrets from the Dead is a front-lines story of crime scene investigation at some of the most infamous sites in recent history.
In this absorbing, surprising, and undeniably compelling book, forensics expert Emily Craig tells her own story of a life spent teasing secrets from the dead.
Emily Craig has been... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Inside the Criminal Mind
Revised and Updated Edition
Written by Stanton Samenow
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: March 30, 2004
Price: $25.00
In 1984, this groundbreaking book presented a chilling profile of the criminal mind that shattered long-held myths about the sources of and cures for crime. Now, with the benefit of twenty years' worth of additional knowledge and insight, Stanton Samenow offers a completely updated edition of his classic work, including fresh... Read more >
Revised and Updated Edition
Written by Stanton Samenow
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: March 30, 2004
Price: $25.00
In 1984, this groundbreaking book presented a chilling profile of the criminal mind that shattered long-held myths about the sources of and cures for crime. Now, with the benefit of twenty years' worth of additional knowledge and insight, Stanton Samenow offers a completely updated edition of his classic work, including fresh... Read more >
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Savage Spawn
Reflections on Violent Children
Written by Jonathan Kellerman
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 1, 2003
Price: $13.00
"Ethically and morally, kids are works in progress. Throw in psychopathy and you've got a soul that will never be complete."
In this powerful, disturbing book, bestselling author and noted child psychologist Jonathan Kellerman shines a penetrating light on antisocial youth--kids who kill without remorse--asserting that "psychopathic tendencies begin very early... Read more >
Reflections on Violent Children
Written by Jonathan Kellerman
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 1, 2003
Price: $13.00
"Ethically and morally, kids are works in progress. Throw in psychopathy and you've got a soul that will never be complete."
In this powerful, disturbing book, bestselling author and noted child psychologist Jonathan Kellerman shines a penetrating light on antisocial youth--kids who kill without remorse--asserting that "psychopathic tendencies begin very early... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Men of Blood
Murder in Everyday Life
Written by Elliott Leyton
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2002
Price: $16.95
A milkman shares a take-out supper with his cousin and then fatally stabs him.…A man breaks into a shelter for abused women and snuffs out the life of his wife who has taken refuge there.…A youth rapes and kills a woman on the landing of her apartment building.…The boyfriend of a... Read more >
Murder in Everyday Life
Written by Elliott Leyton
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2002
Price: $16.95
A milkman shares a take-out supper with his cousin and then fatally stabs him.…A man breaks into a shelter for abused women and snuffs out the life of his wife who has taken refuge there.…A youth rapes and kills a woman on the landing of her apartment building.…The boyfriend of a... Read more >
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Gangbusters
How a Street Tough, Elite Homicide Unit Took Down New York's Most Dangerous Gang
Written by Michael Stone
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2002
Price: $14.95
An elite homicide investigation unit takes on one of the most savage and destructive gangs in New York City history in this gritty true-crime narrative.
The investigation into the late-night murder of a college student on the West Side Highway leads to the Wild Cowboys, a group of young men who for... Read more >
How a Street Tough, Elite Homicide Unit Took Down New York's Most Dangerous Gang
Written by Michael Stone
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2002
Price: $14.95
An elite homicide investigation unit takes on one of the most savage and destructive gangs in New York City history in this gritty true-crime narrative.
The investigation into the late-night murder of a college student on the West Side Highway leads to the Wild Cowboys, a group of young men who for... Read more >
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The Crime Fighter
Putting the Bad Guys Out of Business
Written by Jack Maple and Chris Mitchell
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: October 17, 2000
Price: $16.95
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... Read more >
Putting the Bad Guys Out of Business
Written by Jack Maple and Chris Mitchell
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: October 17, 2000
Price: $16.95
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... Read more >
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Why They Kill
The Discoveries of a Maverick Criminologist
Written by Richard Rhodes
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: October 10, 2000
Price: $15.95
Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, brings his inimitable vision, exhaustive research, and mesmerizing prose to this timely book that dissects violence and offers new solutions to the age old problem of why people kill.
Lonnie Athens was raised by a brutally domineering father. Defying all odds... Read more >
The Discoveries of a Maverick Criminologist
Written by Richard Rhodes
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: October 10, 2000
Price: $15.95
Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, brings his inimitable vision, exhaustive research, and mesmerizing prose to this timely book that dissects violence and offers new solutions to the age old problem of why people kill.
Lonnie Athens was raised by a brutally domineering father. Defying all odds... Read more >
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