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Wicked Women : Black Widows, Child Killers, and Other Women in Crime
Betty Sowers Alt
Paperback - $33.95
The "gentle" sex: mothers, nurturers . . . and sometimes killers. In this look at female criminals, you'll meet wives who poisoned their mates for profit, nurses who hastened their patients' demises and mothers who did the unthinkable. You'll also se ...
Bad Youth : Juvenile Delinquency and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Japan
David Richard Ambaras
Hardcover - $111.95
"This is an ambitious work, well-written with a persuasive argument. It makes an important contribution to modern Japanese social and cultural history."--Andrew Gordon, author of "The Modern History of Japan"This is a fascinating social and cultural ...
Biological Influences on Criminal Behavior
Gail S. Anderson
Hardcover - $201.95
Biological Influences on Criminal Behavior fundamentally questions the way most criminologists attempt to explain, let alone ameliorate the problem of human criminal behavior. Written by a respected expert in forensics, who also brings a much-needed ...
Crime in Texas : Your Complete Guide to the Criminal Justice System, Revised Edition
Ken Anderson
Paperback - $32.95
From reviews of the first edition: "There is nothing modest about the title of a new book by Ken Anderson--Crime in Texas: Your Complete Guide to the Criminal Justice System. But in only [208] pages, the book comes pretty close to living up to its [t ...
Welcome to Hell : Letters & Writings from Death Row
Jan Arriens
Paperback - $53.95
Now Available in a new edition, this compelling and deeply moving book gives condemned men and women in the United States the rare opportunity to speak for themselves--to talk about their existence in the hidden world of death row. Consisting of lett ...
Criminal Behavior : A Systems Approach
Bruce A. Arrigo
Hardcover - $194.95
"Criminal Behavior: A Systems Approach" strikes a sensible, reader-friendly, and insightful balance between explaining crime and delinquency and interpreting human behavior. In this way, the emerging insights of criminal justice and the unique values ...
Philosophy, Crime, and Criminology
Bruce A. Arrigo
Paperback - $54.95
Philosophy, Crime, and Criminology represents the first systematic attempt to unpack the philosophical foundations of crime in Western culture. Utilizing the insights of ontology, epistemology, aesthetics, and ethics, contributors demonstrate how the ...
Violent Acts and Violentization : Assessing, Applying and Developing Lonnie Athens' Theory and Research
L. Athens
Hardcover - $218.95
DESCRIPTION: Athens, who is both a criminologist and sociologist, opens the volume with a restatement of his violentization thesis, which Richard Rhodes made famous in his highly claimed book, Why They Kill: The Discoveries of a Maverick Criminologis ...
The Practice of Research in Criminology and Criminal Justice with CDROM
Ronet Bachman
Paperback - $218.95
Integrates substantive Criminal Justice issues with research techniques. It shows how quantitative and qualitative techniques can be used together to strengthen research design and data analysis. It uses SPSS as a way of teaching and reinforcing the ...