40 books in Social Science - Criminology
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The Anatomy of Violence
The Biological Roots of Crime
Written by Adrian Raine
Read by Jonathan Cowley
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: April 30, 2013
Price: $25.00
With a 4-page full-color insert, and black-and-white illustrations throughout
Why do some innocent kids grow up to become cold-blooded serial killers? Is bad biology partly to blame? For more than three decades Adrian Raine has been researching the biological roots of violence and establishing neurocriminology, a new field that applies neuroscience techniques... Read more >
The Biological Roots of Crime
Written by Adrian Raine
Read by Jonathan Cowley
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: April 30, 2013
Price: $25.00
With a 4-page full-color insert, and black-and-white illustrations throughout
Why do some innocent kids grow up to become cold-blooded serial killers? Is bad biology partly to blame? For more than three decades Adrian Raine has been researching the biological roots of violence and establishing neurocriminology, a new field that applies neuroscience techniques... Read more >
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The Anatomy of Violence
The Biological Roots of Crime
Written by Adrian Raine
Format: Hardcover, 496 pages
On Sale: April 30, 2013
Price: $35.00
With a 4-page full-color insert, and black-and-white illustrations throughout
Why do some innocent kids grow up to become cold-blooded serial killers? Is bad biology partly to blame? For more than three decades Adrian Raine has been researching the biological roots of violence and establishing neurocriminology, a new field that applies neuroscience techniques... Read more >
The Biological Roots of Crime
Written by Adrian Raine
Format: Hardcover, 496 pages
On Sale: April 30, 2013
Price: $35.00
With a 4-page full-color insert, and black-and-white illustrations throughout
Why do some innocent kids grow up to become cold-blooded serial killers? Is bad biology partly to blame? For more than three decades Adrian Raine has been researching the biological roots of violence and establishing neurocriminology, a new field that applies neuroscience techniques... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and an
eBook.
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The Anatomy of Violence
The Biological Roots of Crime
Written by Adrian Raine
Format: eBook, 528 pages
On Sale: April 30, 2013
Price: $18.99
With a 4-page full-color insert, and black-and-white illustrations throughout
Why do some innocent kids grow up to become cold-blooded serial killers? Is bad biology partly to blame? For more than three decades Adrian Raine has been researching the biological roots of violence and establishing neurocriminology, a new field that applies neuroscience techniques... Read more >
The Biological Roots of Crime
Written by Adrian Raine
Format: eBook, 528 pages
On Sale: April 30, 2013
Price: $18.99
With a 4-page full-color insert, and black-and-white illustrations throughout
Why do some innocent kids grow up to become cold-blooded serial killers? Is bad biology partly to blame? For more than three decades Adrian Raine has been researching the biological roots of violence and establishing neurocriminology, a new field that applies neuroscience techniques... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and a
hardcover.
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Jumped In
What Gangs Taught Me about Violence, Drugs, Love, and Redemption
Written by Jorja Leap
Format: Trade Paperback
On Sale: January 8, 2013
Price: $16.00
What Gangs Taught Me about Violence, Drugs, Love, and Redemption
Written by Jorja Leap
Format: Trade Paperback
On Sale: January 8, 2013
Price: $16.00
When Jorja Leap began studying Los Angeles gang violence in 2002, she encountered a myriad of proposed solutions to the seemingly intractable “gang problem” and set out to discover what was really going on. The stakes—then and now—could not be higher: a child or teenager is killed by gunfire every three...
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Psycho USA
Famous American Killers You Never Heard Of
Written by Harold Schechter
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: August 7, 2012
Price: $20.00
AMERICA’S MOST COLD-BLOODED!
In the horrifying annals of American crime, the infamous names of brutal killers such as Bundy, Dahmer, Gacy, and Berkowitz are writ large in the imaginations of a public both horrified and hypnotized by their monstrous, murderous acts. But for every celebrity psychopath who’s gotten ink for... Read more >
Famous American Killers You Never Heard Of
Written by Harold Schechter
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: August 7, 2012
Price: $20.00
AMERICA’S MOST COLD-BLOODED!
In the horrifying annals of American crime, the infamous names of brutal killers such as Bundy, Dahmer, Gacy, and Berkowitz are writ large in the imaginations of a public both horrified and hypnotized by their monstrous, murderous acts. But for every celebrity psychopath who’s gotten ink for... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Psycho USA
Famous American Killers You Never Heard Of
Written by Harold Schechter
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: August 7, 2012
Price: $13.99
AMERICA’S MOST COLD-BLOODED!
In the horrifying annals of American crime, the infamous names of brutal killers such as Bundy, Dahmer, Gacy, and Berkowitz are writ large in the imaginations of a public both horrified and hypnotized by their monstrous, murderous acts. But for every celebrity psychopath who’s gotten ink for... Read more >
Famous American Killers You Never Heard Of
Written by Harold Schechter
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: August 7, 2012
Price: $13.99
AMERICA’S MOST COLD-BLOODED!
In the horrifying annals of American crime, the infamous names of brutal killers such as Bundy, Dahmer, Gacy, and Berkowitz are writ large in the imaginations of a public both horrified and hypnotized by their monstrous, murderous acts. But for every celebrity psychopath who’s gotten ink for... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Discipline & Punish
The Birth of the Prison
Written by Michel Foucault
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: April 18, 2012
Price: $11.99
In this brilliant work, the most influential philosopher since Sartre suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul. Read more >
The Birth of the Prison
Written by Michel Foucault
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: April 18, 2012
Price: $11.99
In this brilliant work, the most influential philosopher since Sartre suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul. Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Central Park Five
The Untold Story Behind One of New York City's Most Infamous Crimes
Written by Sarah Burns
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: April 3, 2012
Price: $15.95
The Untold Story Behind One of New York City's Most Infamous Crimes
Written by Sarah Burns
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: April 3, 2012
Price: $15.95
In this spellbinding account of the real facts of the Central Park jogger case, Sarah Burns powerfully reexamines one of New York City's most notorious crimes and its aftermath.
On April 20th, 1989, two passersby discovered the body of the "Central Park jogger" crumpled in a ravine. She'd been raped and severely...
Jumped In
What Gangs Taught Me about Violence, Drugs, Love, and Redemption
Written by Jorja Leap
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 6, 2012
Price: $26.95
Jumped In tells the story of the gangs of Los Angeles in the words of the gang members themselves as well as the people who interact with them on a daily basis--trying to arrest them, control them, and help them. There are priests and police officers, murderers and drug dealers, victims... Read more >
What Gangs Taught Me about Violence, Drugs, Love, and Redemption
Written by Jorja Leap
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 6, 2012
Price: $26.95
Jumped In tells the story of the gangs of Los Angeles in the words of the gang members themselves as well as the people who interact with them on a daily basis--trying to arrest them, control them, and help them. There are priests and police officers, murderers and drug dealers, victims... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Jumped In
What Gangs Taught Me about Violence, Drugs, Love, and Redemption
Written by Jorja Leap
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: March 6, 2012
Price: $26.95
What Gangs Taught Me about Violence, Drugs, Love, and Redemption
Written by Jorja Leap
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: March 6, 2012
Price: $26.95
When Jorja Leap began studying Los Angeles gang violence in 2002, she encountered a myriad of proposed solutions to the seemingly intractable “gang problem” and set out to discover what was really going on. The stakes—then and now—could not be higher: a child or teenager is killed by gunfire every three...
Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Queer (In)Justice
The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States
Written by Joey L. Mogul, Andrea J. Ritchie and Kay Whitlock
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: January 24, 2012
Price: $18.00
Winner of the 2011 PASS (Prevention for a Safer Society) Award from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency
A groundbreaking work that turns a “queer eye” on the criminal legal system, Queer (In)Justice is a searing examination of queer experiences—as “suspects,” defendants, prisoners, and survivors of crime. The authors unpack queer... Read more >
The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States
Written by Joey L. Mogul, Andrea J. Ritchie and Kay Whitlock
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: January 24, 2012
Price: $18.00
Winner of the 2011 PASS (Prevention for a Safer Society) Award from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency
A groundbreaking work that turns a “queer eye” on the criminal legal system, Queer (In)Justice is a searing examination of queer experiences—as “suspects,” defendants, prisoners, and survivors of crime. The authors unpack queer... Read more >
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Inside the Criminal Mind
Revised and Updated Edition
Written by Stanton Samenow
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 11, 2012
Price: $13.99
Long-held myths defining the sources of and cures for crime are shattered in this ground-breaking book--and a chilling profile of today's criminal emerges.
From the Hardcover edition. Read more >
Revised and Updated Edition
Written by Stanton Samenow
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 11, 2012
Price: $13.99
Long-held myths defining the sources of and cures for crime are shattered in this ground-breaking book--and a chilling profile of today's criminal emerges.
From the Hardcover edition. Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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The Killer of Little Shepherds
A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science
Written by Douglas Starr
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2011
Price: $16.00
A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science
Written by Douglas Starr
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2011
Price: $16.00
Winner of the Gold Dagger Award
A fascinating true crime story that details the rise of modern forensics and the development of modern criminal investigation.
At the end of the nineteenth century, serial murderer Joseph Vacher terrorized the French countryside, eluding authorities for years, and murdering twice as many victims as Jack The...
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and an
eBook.
Men of Blood
Murder in Everyday Life
Written by Elliott Leyton
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 5, 2011
Price: $12.99
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: eBook
On Sale: October 5, 2011
Price: $12.99
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 >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Lethal Passage
The Story of a Gun
Written by Erik Larson
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: July 27, 2011
Price: $11.99
This devastating book begins with an account of a crime that is by now almost commonplace: on December 16, 1988, sixteen-year-old Nicholas Elliot walked into his Virginia high school with a Cobray M-11/9 and several hundred rounds of ammunition tucked in his backpack. By day's end, he had killed one teacher... Read more >
The Story of a Gun
Written by Erik Larson
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: July 27, 2011
Price: $11.99
This devastating book begins with an account of a crime that is by now almost commonplace: on December 16, 1988, sixteen-year-old Nicholas Elliot walked into his Virginia high school with a Cobray M-11/9 and several hundred rounds of ammunition tucked in his backpack. By day's end, he had killed one teacher... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Unruly Women
The Politics of Confinement & Resistance
Written by Karlene Faith
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: July 26, 2011
Price: $19.95
Winner of the VanCity Book Prize, Unruly Women: The Politics of Confinement & Resistance is the seminal book about women’s imprisonment that helped spark examinations around the world into the special circumstances women face in prison, as well as the sex and gender crimes that get them there. Most women who... Read more >
The Politics of Confinement & Resistance
Written by Karlene Faith
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: July 26, 2011
Price: $19.95
Winner of the VanCity Book Prize, Unruly Women: The Politics of Confinement & Resistance is the seminal book about women’s imprisonment that helped spark examinations around the world into the special circumstances women face in prison, as well as the sex and gender crimes that get them there. Most women who... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Unruly Women
The Politics of Confinement & Resistance
Written by Karlene Faith
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 26, 2011
Price: $19.95
Winner of the VanCity Book Prize, Unruly Women: The Politics of Confinement & Resistance is the seminal book about women’s imprisonment that helped spark examinations around the world into the special circumstances women face in prison, as well as the sex and gender crimes that get them there. Most women who... Read more >
The Politics of Confinement & Resistance
Written by Karlene Faith
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 26, 2011
Price: $19.95
Winner of the VanCity Book Prize, Unruly Women: The Politics of Confinement & Resistance is the seminal book about women’s imprisonment that helped spark examinations around the world into the special circumstances women face in prison, as well as the sex and gender crimes that get them there. Most women who... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Dead Man Walking
An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States
Written by Helen Prejean
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: February 2, 2011
Price: $11.99
In 1982, Sister Helen Prejean became the spiritual advisor to Patrick Sonnier, the convicted killer of two teenagers who was sentenced to die in the electric chair of Louisiana's Angola State Prison. In the months before Sonnier's death, the Roman Catholic nun came to know a man who was as terrified... Read more >
An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States
Written by Helen Prejean
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: February 2, 2011
Price: $11.99
In 1982, Sister Helen Prejean became the spiritual advisor to Patrick Sonnier, the convicted killer of two teenagers who was sentenced to die in the electric chair of Louisiana's Angola State Prison. In the months before Sonnier's death, the Roman Catholic nun came to know a man who was as terrified... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Bud Inc.
Written by Ian Mulgrew
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 29, 2010
Price: $14.99
According to Forbes magazine,* marijuana is “Canada’s most valuable agricultural product — bigger than wheat, cattle or timber.” Bud Inc. gives us an inside look at this thriving homegrown industry.
Although the cultivation and selling of marijuana remains illegal in Canada, it is already big business, especially in British Columbia. Law enforcement... Read more >
Written by Ian Mulgrew
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 29, 2010
Price: $14.99
According to Forbes magazine,* marijuana is “Canada’s most valuable agricultural product — bigger than wheat, cattle or timber.” Bud Inc. gives us an inside look at this thriving homegrown industry.
Although the cultivation and selling of marijuana remains illegal in Canada, it is already big business, especially in British Columbia. Law enforcement... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Big Con
The Story of the Confidence Man
Written by David Maurer
Introduction by Luc Sante
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2010
Price: $14.99
Shares insights from confidence men and swindlers on the schemes they used to cheat their victims. Read more >
The Story of the Confidence Man
Written by David Maurer
Introduction by Luc Sante
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2010
Price: $14.99
Shares insights from confidence men and swindlers on the schemes they used to cheat their victims. Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Crime Fighter
Putting the Bad Guys Out of Business
Written by Jack Maple and Chris Mitchell
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: September 22, 2010
Price: $14.99
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: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: September 22, 2010
Price: $14.99
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 >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Profilers
Leading Investigators Take You Inside The Criminal Mind
Edited by Don Denevi
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 28, 2010
Price: $11.99
The popularity of television shows and movies like Profiler, CSI, and The Silence of the Lambs has made the concept of criminal profiling familiar to most Americans. Though such dramas follow the general approach of real-life criminal investigative analysis, artistic license often results in a simplistic and sensationalistic image of the... Read more >
Leading Investigators Take You Inside The Criminal Mind
Edited by Don Denevi
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 28, 2010
Price: $11.99
The popularity of television shows and movies like Profiler, CSI, and The Silence of the Lambs has made the concept of criminal profiling familiar to most Americans. Though such dramas follow the general approach of real-life criminal investigative analysis, artistic license often results in a simplistic and sensationalistic image of the... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
Gangbusters
How a Street Tough, Elite Homicide Unit Took Down New York's Most Dangerous Gang
Written by Michael Stone
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: April 28, 2010
Price: $11.99
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: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: April 28, 2010
Price: $11.99
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 >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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But They Didn't Read Me My Rights!
Myths, Oddities, and Lies About Our Legal System
Written by Michael D. Cicchini
Format: Trade Paperback, 275 pages
On Sale: April 27, 2010
Price: $19.00
Do the police have to read you your rights when they arrest you? Can you get charged with drunk driving if you weren’t even driving the car? Do contracts have to be in writing to be enforceable? If you break up with your fiancé, can you keep the ring? Do you... Read more >
Myths, Oddities, and Lies About Our Legal System
Written by Michael D. Cicchini
Format: Trade Paperback, 275 pages
On Sale: April 27, 2010
Price: $19.00
Do the police have to read you your rights when they arrest you? Can you get charged with drunk driving if you weren’t even driving the car? Do contracts have to be in writing to be enforceable? If you break up with your fiancé, can you keep the ring? Do you... Read more >
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The Guilt Project
Rape, Morality and Law
Written by Vanessa Place
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: March 23, 2010
Price: $25.95
An English court in 1736 described rape as an accusation “easily to be made and hard to be proved, and harder to be defended by the party accused, though never so innocent. ”To prove the crime, the law required a woman to physically resist, to put up a “hue and cry,”... Read more >
Rape, Morality and Law
Written by Vanessa Place
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: March 23, 2010
Price: $25.95
An English court in 1736 described rape as an accusation “easily to be made and hard to be proved, and harder to be defended by the party accused, though never so innocent. ”To prove the crime, the law required a woman to physically resist, to put up a “hue and cry,”... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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