Social Services & Welfare, Criminology

Former Prussian soldier Herman Baron Lamm (1890-1930) adapted his military training to a much less noble occupation after moving to America, dev...

The Little Book of Crime and Punishment is a repository of fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts and trivia about the history of the...

The Massie-Kahahawai case of 19311932 shook the Territory of Hawaii to its very core. Thalia Massie, a young Navy wife, alleged that she had been k...

Richmond in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was home to a lively underworld of tricksters, swindlers, confidence men and thieves. The for...

The Depression-era murder trial of George Crawford in Northern Virginia helped end the exclusion of African Americans from juries. Nearly forgotten...

The second edition of this book continues the debate on whether transplantable organs of executed capital felons should be used to save American li...

Corruption is a chronic public concern affecting America's cities. Greed, ethical lapses and lack of accountability have drained untold millions...

It was a story so bizarre it defied belief: in April 1974, twenty-year-old newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst robbed a San Francisco bank in the com...

Convicts represent those wrong-doers who have taken to a particular form of wrong-doing punishable by law. Of the larger army of bad men they repre...

Criminal psychology should be the form of psychology used in dealing with crime; not merely, the psychopathology of criminals. This book was the fi...

The recent Colombian peace negotiations took the art and science of negotiating transitional justice to unprecedented levels of complexity. For dec...

Nepal, because it was never directly colonized, is seen as something of an outlier on the subcontinent, but the country could not remain totally im...

In this revised, updated and expanded edition, the author explores the life of Theodore Bundy, one of the more infamous--and flamboyant--America...

This handbook is an international, comprehensive, reference tool in the field of trafficking in people and slavery. It covers everything from histo...

Master story teller Marc Mappen applies a generational perspective to the gangsters of the Prohibition eramen born in the quarter century span from...

Fascinating . . . vividly recounts one of the most tragic true stories to emerge from the Iraq War . . . eloquent, disturbing, and haunting. Mark B...

With gripping photos, an engaging magazine-like format, and riveting examples straight from today''s headlines, CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN ACTION: THE COR...

Now world famous for football and music, in the nineteenth century Liverpool had a very different reputation. One of the greatest ports in the worl...