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Covering figures ranging from Catherine Monvoisin to Vlad the Impaler, and describing murders committed in ancient aristocracies to those attributed to vampires, witches, and werewolves, this book documents the historic reality of serial murder.

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This timely book illustrates in convincing detail what needs to be done to prevent crime and keep people out of prison.

Here, Waller shows that hiring public health nurses and investing in helping youth at risk to complete school and get job training is better than hiring more police;

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This collection brings together distinguished international authors, who pay tribute to von Hirsch by engaging with topics on which he himself has focussed. Together, they articulate and defend the ideal of a liberal criminal justice system.

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In the third and final section, Stephen Stanko, an inmate in the South Carolina correctional system, provides a detailed look at prison life from the inside.

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Based upon a qualitative study of the prison adjustment of advantaged offenders, this book challenges the "special sensitivity" hypothesis and concludes that these offenders adjust well to incarceration.

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In a book that confronts our society's obsession with sexual violence and the image of the violated female corpse in our collective consciousness, Harvard culturist Maria Tatar examines images of sexual murder and studies how art and murder have intersected in sexual culture from Weimar Germany to the present. 44 photos.

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James W. Messerschmidts Masculinities and Crime quickly became a classic text for social scientists examining the relationship between masculinities and crime. The book is completely revised and unique in its focus on Messerschmidts most important research and theorizing accomplished over the last twenty-five years.

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James W. Messerschmidts Masculinities and Crime quickly became a classic text for social scientists examining the relationship between masculinities and crime. The book is completely revised and unique in its focus on Messerschmidts most important research and theorizing accomplished over the last twenty-five years.

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This book provides readers and researchers with a critical examination of mass shootings as told by the media, offering research-based, factual answers to oft-asked questions and investigating common myths about these tragic events.

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Champion, an expert on criminal behavior, paroling, and sentencing, assesses how the justice system makes critical decisions about offender risks and needs.

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The standard reference on the psychology of rape, Men Who Rape presents a comprehensive clinical profile of sexual offenders with extensive information on counseling, prevention, and psychiatric treatment.

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This volume presents the first ever book-length treatment of Emile Durkheim's concept of the 'collective consciousness of society'.

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This exceptional volume explores historical mistreatment of these minority groups, current trends in victimization, patterns in criminal behavior, arrest and imprisonment among minority group members, theoretical models in criminality, differential enforcement of the law, and future implications in addressing minorities and criminality.

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Grounded in both current and original research, Minorities and Deviance expands the definition of stress and its relationship to deviance, providing a better understanding of the role stress can play in addiction, obsession, and self-harm.

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A criminal defense attorney, sociologist, and legal scholar takes readers inside New York City's lower criminal courts.

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This reference text explains what modern piracy is, where and why it happens, and what measures are being taken to combat it.

While piracy today typically occurs in specific areassuch as Somalia and Southeast Asiaa single pirate attack can involve and affect many different countries.

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In Multiple Marginality and Gangs: Through a Prism Darkly, James Diego Vigil unravels the youth gang problem in America. Vigil uses a multidimensional approach that encompasses the place, status, and social control of urban street gangs and highlights associated subcultural and identity facets.

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From the commission of the crime to the collection of evidence, examination of the crime scene, roundup of suspects, interrogation, and resolution, he leads readers from the scene to the courtroom, stopping along the way to consider all the elements that go into a murder investigation.