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Media and Crime by Yvonne Jewkes
RRP: $79.78$47.10This book critically examines the complex interactions between media and crime. Written with an engaging and authoritative voice, it guides you through all the key issues, ranging from news reporting of crime, media constructions of children and... -
Criminal Children: Researching Juvenile Offenders 1820-1920 Emma Watkins 9781526738080
RRP: $31.48$23.00How were criminal children dealt with in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? Over this hundred-year period, ideas about the way children should behave - and how they should be corrected when they misbehaved - changed dramatically, and Emma... -
Napper: Through a Glass Darkly by Alan Jackaman
$41.90The book contains information not until now in the public domain and tells of the author's tenacity as a lower-ranking officer in the face of dwindling resources and sometimes disparagement by more senior investigators. A straightforward account of the... -
Philosophical Criminology Andrew Millie, Ph.D. (Edge Hill University) 9781447323716
RRP: $52.48$40.72Philosophical criminology asks big questions about how we get on with one another and what happens when we do not. This accessible book in the New Horizons in Criminology series is the first to foreground this growing area. The book is structured around... -
This Present Darkness: A History of Nigerian Organised Crime by Stephen Ellis
RRP: $41.98$37.42Nigeria and Nigerians have acquired a notorious reputation for involvement in drug-trafficking, fraud, cyber-crime and other types of serious crime. Successful Nigerian criminal networks have a global reach, interacting with their Italian, Latin American... -
Serial Killers and the Phenomenon of Serial Murder: A Student Textbook by David Wilson
RRP: $52.50$45.76A superbly targeted resource for those wanting to learn about serial killings. Deals with and analyses some of the best known (as well as lesser) cases from English criminal history, ancient and modern. Looks at the lifestyles, backgrounds and activities... -
Criminal Man by Mary Gibson 9780822337232
RRP: $52.48$46.35Cesare Lombroso is widely considered the founder of criminology. His theory of the "born" criminal dominated European and American thinking about the causes of criminal behavior during the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth. This volume... -
The Smugglers' Banker: The Story of Zephaniah Job of Polperro by Jeremy Rowett Johns 9780953001224
RRP: $16.70$14.87This text reveals the true story of Zephaniah Job, the Cornishman who masterminded the flourishing contraband trade in Polperro during the Napoleonic wars, as well as the privateers whose adventures led to the capture of handsome prizes. Job's flair for... -
Judicial Decision Making: Is Psychology Relevant? by Lawrence S. Wrightsman 9780306461545
RRP: $188.98$188.73In the mid-1970s, as a social psychologist dedicated to the application of knowl edge, I welcomed our field's emerging interest in the legal system. I have al ways been fascinated by jury trials-something about the idea that two con ceptions of the truth... -
Beyond OODA: Developing the Orientation for Deception, Conflict and Violence by Varg Freeborn 9780578250373
RRP: $27.36$24.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578250373Author Varg FreebornFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Varg FreebornPublisher Varg FreebornWeight(grams) 254g -
Policing Citizens: Police, Power and the State P.A.J. Waddington 9781857286939
RRP: $100.78$87.80This analysis of policing throughout the modern world demonstrates how many of the contentious issues surrounding the police in recent years - from paramilitarism to community policing - have their origins in the fundamentals of the police role. The... -
The Science of Hate: How prejudice becomes hate and what we can do to stop it by Matthew Williams 9780571357062
RRP: $31.48$29.09Why do people hate? A world-leading criminologist explores the tipping point between prejudice and hate crime, analysing human behaviour across the globe and throughout history in this vital book. 'This should be on the curriculum. A must read.' DR... -
Case Studies of Famous Trials and the Construction of Guilt and Innocence Caroline Gorden 9781529203677
RRP: $52.48$40.72From the trials of Oscar Pistorius to O.J. Simpson and Michael Jackson, this innovative book provides a critical review of 11 high profile criminal cases. These case studies examine how 'guilt' and 'innocence' are constructed in the courts and in wider... -
Send Them to Hell: The Brutal Horrors of Bangkok's Nightmare Jails by Sebastian Williams
RRP: $27.28$19.09Send Them to Hell is a horrifying, authentic chronicle of life as lived by foreign inmates over the past two decades in Bangkok's notorious prison system.Murder, human-rights abuse, drugs, blackmail, extortion, extreme violence, medical maltreatment and... -
Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forger's Life: A Forger's Life by Sarah Kaminsky 9780997003475
RRP: $41.98$28.98[An] engrossing literary debut...Writing in Adolfo's voice gives this suspenseful narrative candor and immediacy. - Kirkus Reviews Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forger's Life is "worthy of the best spy novels" and tells the story of Sarah Kaminsky's father, "the... -
Pain Hustlers: Crime and Punishment at an Opioid Startup Originally published as The Hard Sell by Evan Hughes 9780525566328
RRP: $37.80$20.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525566328Author Evan HughesFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 289gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 132mm... -
Understanding Homicide by Fiona Brookman 9780761947554 [USED COPY]
RRP: $86.08$4.58Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Bristol Murders by Nicola Sly
RRP: $31.48$24.26Contained within the pages of Bristol Murders are the stories behind some of the most heinous crimes ever committed in Bristol. They include the murder and suicide of a brother and sister in 1842; the tragic death of 10-year-old Mabel Price in 1897; the... -
On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society by Dave Grossman 9780316040938
$27.76The 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 aversion. The psychological cost for... -
Psychology and Crime: A Transdisciplinary Perspective by Craig Webber
RRP: $81.88$67.77'Criminologists have been waiting a very long time for a psychology of crime that speaks their language. Finally it has arrived.' - Dr David Gadd, Keele University Now in an updated second edition, this book explores the links between psychology and... -
Forensic Case Histories: Understanding Serious Offending Behaviour in Men by Jackie Craissati
RRP: $77.68$68.31Forensic Case Histories: Understanding Serious Offending Behaviour in Men examines men's violent and sexual offending behaviours, outlined through a series of real offender narratives, from a psychological perspective and in an accessible manner that... -
A General History of the Pyrates by Daniel Defoe 9780486404882
RRP: $52.48$34.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486404882Author Daniel DefoeFormat PaperbackPage Count 800Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Hash: The Chilling Inside Story of the Secret Underworld Behind the World's Most Lucrative Drug by Wensley Clarkson
RRP: $27.28$15.77For millions of people across the world, lighting up a joint is no more controversial than having a cup of tea. But in Hash Wensley Clarkson explores the dark and sinister side of this multi-billion pound business: one fuelled by a brutal underworld... -
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
RRP: $44.10$31.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812994384Author Truman CapoteFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 510gDimensions(mm) 212mm... -
Ted Bundy: A Visual TImeline by Robert a Dielenberg 9780994579218
$60.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994579218Author Robert a DielenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Motion MensuraPublisher Motion MensuraWeight(grams) 699g -
The Killing Of Father Niall Molloy: Anatomy of an Injustice by Maresa Fagan 9781915306005
RRP: $27.28$19.09Separating fact from fiction, Anatomy of an Injustice - The Killing of Fr Niall Molloy re-examines the astonishing circumstances surrounding the death of a 52-year-old priest almost forty years ago. In July 1985, the discovery of Fr Niall Molloy's badly... -
Bethy's Mum is in Prison by Lorna Brookes 9781914603297
RRP: $20.98$16.91Bethy's Mum is in Prison is the third in the My Parent in Prison Series of books for children of imprisoned parents. It portrays the challenges they face and allows them to understand they are not alone. The story follows Bethy who lives with her Nan and... -
The Corporation: The Rise and Fall of America's Cuban Mafia by T J English
RRP: $27.28$18.02SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING BENICIO DEL TORO, PRODUCED BY LEONARDO DICAPRIO.Cuba, 1961.A failed invasion at The Bay of Pigs results in Fidel Castro tightening his hold over Cuba. Jose Miguel Battle Sr., a former cop and member of the... -
Seeing Like a Smuggler: Borders from Below by Shahram Khosravi
RRP: $41.98$33.10'This conceptually vivid book refreshes our vision' - Ruth Wilson Gilmore The word smuggler often unleashes a simplified, negative image painted by the media and the authorities. Such state-centric perspectives hide many social, political and economic... -
Economic Crime: From Conception to Response by Mark Button
RRP: $75.58$66.55This book is the first attempt to establish 'economic crime' as a new sub-discipline within criminology. Fraud, corruption, bribery, money laundering, price-fixing cartels and intellectual property crimes pursued typically for financial and professional... -
Bitter Harvest: A Woman's Fury. A Mother's Sacrifice Ann Rule 9780751579178
RRP: $27.28$18.06From the bestselling true crime author comes the mesmerising true story of Debora Green, a beautiful, wealthy, successful doctor and mother of three whose murderous rage and jealousy brings death and destruction to her family. With direct access to all... -
Mad Frank's Diary: The Confessions of Britain's Most Notorious Villain by Frankie Fraser
RRP: $27.28$19.09'They say I've killed 40 people and who am I to disagree? I've always liked even numbers.'Branded the dentist for using pliers to extract the teeth of those who owed money to his boss Charlie Richardson, Frankie Fraser was labelled the most dangerous man... -
Talking with Dementia, Reconsidered by Keith Oliver 9780335251285
RRP: $54.58$51.81The aim of the book is to extend understanding and knowledge of the lived experience of dementia through analysis of current research and in-depth conversations about dementia with a range of people living with the condition in the UK. It draws upon... -
Ricky Reel: Silence Is Not An Option by Sukhdev Reel
RRP: $21.00$14.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914143571Author Sukhdev ReelFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Bookmarks PublicationsPublisher Bookmarks Publications -
Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic by Alexander Stille
RRP: $27.28$19.09Excellent 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... -
Psychological Therapy in Prisons and Other Settings Joel Harvey 9781843927990
RRP: $83.98$73.63This book examines a range of therapeutic approaches used in prisons and other secure settings and explores the challenges in such work.The approaches include Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Cognitive-Analytic Therapy (CAT), Attachment-Based... -
The Prison Psychiatrist's Wife by Sue Johnson
$35.01The Prison Psychiatrist's Wife is a gripping true story of a Herculean project. Sue Johnson's psychiatrist husband Bob, recruited to work with notorious offenders at Parkhurst Prison, sets out to discover whether he can change dangerous and violent men... -
Strengths-Based Approaches to Crime and Substance Use: From Drugs and Crime to Desistance and Recovery David Best (Department of Law and Criminology, Sheffield Hallam University, UK) 9781138288744
RRP: $73.48$64.79Although there is a strong and growing literature in the two areas of desistance and addiction recovery, they have developed along parallel pathways with little systematic assessment of the empirical evidence about the co-occurrence of the relationship... -
Among the Hoods: Exposing the Truth About Britain's Gangs by Harriet Sergeant 9780571289189 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.08$5.57"They changed me a lot more than I changed them ... I went in as Anne Widdecombe and came out an anarchist." In 2008 Harriet Sergeant - think tank report-writer, Daily Mail journalist and author of The Public and the Police - befriended a teenage... -
A Fever In The Heart Ann Rule 9780751515732
RRP: $27.28$18.06A FEVER IN THE HEART dissects an explosive triangle that led to obsession and murder in a small town in the north-west of America. Ann Rule reveals the story of an alluring wife and the two men desperate for her love; a story with a bizarre and deadly...