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Book cover for Howard Abadinsky: Organized Crime

Organized Crime

Howard Abadinsky
Hardcover - $226.95

Abadinsky provides a detailed, comprehensive analysis of the origins, history, theoretical explanations, and structure of domestic and international organized crime, including drug trafficking, gambling, and loan sharking. The author also explains th ...

Book cover for Paul R. Abramson: A House Divided

A House Divided : Suspicions of Mother-Daughter Incest

Paul R. Abramson
Paperback - $42.95

Based on a true story, A House Divided tells the emotionally harrowing tale of a mother's fight to retain custody of her daughter amid horrifying accusations of mother-daughter incest. Searching for the truth behind these accusations, while reconstru ...

Book cover for David Adams: Why Do They Kill?

Why Do They Kill? : Men Who Murder Their Intimate Partners

David Adams
Paperback - $58.95



Book cover for Biko Agozino: Counter-Colonial Criminology

Counter-Colonial Criminology : A Critique of Imperialist Reason

Biko Agozino
Paperback - $62.95

This book is about how the history of colonialism has shaped the definition of crime and justice systems in former colonies. Biko Agozino argues that criminology in the West was originally tested in the colonies and then brought back to mother countr ...

Book cover for Leanne Fiftal Alarid: Community-Based Corrections

Community-Based Corrections

Leanne Fiftal Alarid
Paperback - $220.95

Up-to-date, comprehensive, and objective, COMMUNITY-BASED CORRECTIONS gives you essential information on the wide array of punishment and treatment programs that constitute alternatives to incarceration. You'll be introduced into a number of programs ...

Book cover for Jay Albanese: Transnational Crime

Transnational Crime

Jay Albanese
Paperback - $82.95



Book cover for Jay S. Albanese: Crime in America

Crime in America : Some Existing and Emerging Issues

Jay S. Albanese
Paperback - $111.95

With the foreseeable end of the Cold War and the Soviet menace we find ourselves poised on a new threshold-a time for America to pause from its international preoccupation and look inward. In many ways, America now appears more threatened from within ...

Book cover for Jay S. Albanese: Criminal Justice (Book Alone)

Criminal Justice (Book Alone)

Jay S. Albanese
Hardcover - $240.95

This innovative introductory text continues to focus on critical thinking and the media's influence on criminal justice. Albanese gives new attention to up-to-the-minute laws and policies related to the Patriot Act, as well as issues of technology, i ...

Book cover for Ken Alder: The Lie Detectors

The Lie Detectors : The History of an American Obsession

Ken Alder
Hardcover - $40.95

The idea was mesmerizing--a scientific instrument that could reveal if someone was lying. From the award-winning author of "The Measure of All Things" comes the story of an invention that destroyed the souls of its inventors but captured the heart of ...

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