Mary Tate was sexually attacked and strangled to death with a silk stocking only three days after Short's body was found . ... When Hansen picked up Manley for questioning , the suspect yelled : " I don't know her !
Brilliantly catalogued by the dean of American true-crime writers, Jay Robert Nash, this volume profiles the notorious gangsters, crime families, cartels, and gangland events that have shaped world history.Here are gangs such as the Dead ...
Written with clarity and accessibility in mind for students and professionals alike, this reference work offers a go-to scholarly place to quickly educate oneself on familiar and unfamiliar topics in the criminological and criminal justice ...
From the Introduction:"The history of crime in America is quite simply the history of America"
A Chronology provides readers with a historical perspective of street crime in America. Appendices provide sources of data and statistics, annotated to highlight their relevance.
World Encyclopedia of Organized Crime
Schacht, Hjalmar Horace Greeley (1877–1970) German banker Hjalmar Schacht was a leading German financier who served as minister of economics under Adolf HITLER before falling out of favor with the führer. He was exonerated on war crime ...
Accessible and jargon-free and available in both print and electronic formats, the one-volume Encyclopedia of Transnational Crime and Justice contains a range of up-to-date entries that not only reflect transnational crime, but ...
Criminal justice professionals will also find it valuable and fascinating balance of academic research and "true crime" material they can relate to in their own experience.
Over one thousand entries present a sociologically informative portrait of the men and women who kill.