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A riveting account of the role of Americans in the evolution of the Tokyo underworld in the years since 1945. In the ashes of postwar Japan lay a gold mine for certain opportunistic, expatriate Americans. Addicted to the volatile energy of Tokyo's freewheeling underworld, they formed...

貧困や国家の機能不全を養分にして巨大化する麻薬カルテル、その台頭と血塗られた崩壊の歴史的構造を解き明かし、裏社会のメカニズムを浮き彫りにする本格犯罪学ノンフィクションです。毎日の通勤時間やじっくりと...

Truman Capote’s masterpiece of true crime, intensely researched and vividly atmospheric—“as it if were happening before [the reader’s] very eyes” (Time) “Harrowing . . . The best documentary account of an American crime ever written. . . . The book chills the blood and exercises the...

連続殺人という極限の犯罪心理を解剖し、トゥルー・クライムの熱狂の裏に隠された社会システムの脆弱性を浮き彫りにする。夜の静かな思索の時間や、一人で深く考え込みたい通勤のひとときに、人間の暗部と静かに向...

沈黙する事件現場に落ちた微小な痕跡が、いかにして冷酷な殺人犯を暴く絶対的な証拠へと変わるのか、法科学と犯罪捜査の劇的な進化を紐解きます。毎日の通勤電車や夜の静かなリラックスタイムに、あなたの知的好奇...

世界を裏から支配する犯罪帝国の興亡と、ビジネスとしてシステム化された暴力の冷酷な歴史を解き明かす、重厚なクライム・ノンフィクションです。知的好奇心を刺激するダークで分析的な世界観は、日々の通勤時間や...

The never-before-published edition of Francis Ford Coppola's notes and annotations on The Godfather novel by Mario Puzo reveals the story behind one of the world's most iconic films. In this one-of-a-kind audio production, Coppola provides listeners with unfiltered access to his creative process in his own voice. Featuring notes from eight scenes - handpicked by Coppola himself - The Godfather Notebook is a must-listen for fans of the 1972 film.

The diminutive Joaquín Guzmán Loera, known universally by his nickname of "El Chapo" ("Shorty" in Spanish), is the highest-profile narco-terrorist since the demise of Pablo Escobar in the 1990s. Loera began work at the age of nine as a gomero—a farmhand harvesting opium—and as he grew up he shot and murdered his way to the top, strewing corpses in his wake.

日本では女性の12人に１人が性犯罪の被害者になり、1年間で350人に１人が交通事故により死傷している。犯罪は、いつどこでも起こりうる。思いがけず犯罪に巻き込まれた時、被害者側に立って司法手続きやマスコミ対応などに尽力する弁護士が「犯罪被害者代理人」だ。

Are you fascinated by criminology, forensics, and detective work? This you-are-there guide takes you deep into the world of crime, giving you a better understanding of the dark recesses of the criminal mind and how law enforcement officials investigate crime. You'll gain real-world knowledge of the reasons for and consequences of crime, the way society responds to it, and, most important, how crime can be prevented.

Nick Wallis, an acclaimed freelance journalist and broadcaster, has been following the story since 2010 when he met a taxi driver who told him his pregnant wife had been sent to prison for a crime she did not commit. Since then, he has recorded interviews with dozens of victims, insiders and experts, uncovering hundreds of documents to build up an unparalleled understanding of the story. Using these sources, he has been instrumental in bringing the scandal into the public eye.

Prison is harsh enough, but as a foreigner ( farang) in a strange land, jail time is an even more horrifying reality. Rotting in the Bangkok Hilton is a collection of short stories chronicling T. M. Hoy’s descent into the harrowing world of Southeast Asian prison life. Through his eyes, listeners will experience the bizarre events of daily life in a Thai maximum security prison: feel the weight of the chains he wears; the stomachaches from lack of food; witness the murders, drug overdoses, torture, and unbridled cruelty that ensues.

Ten years after the school massacre at Columbine High School in Colorado, school shootings are a new and alarming epidemic. While sociologists have attributed the trigger of violence to peer pressure, such as bullying and social isolation, prominent psychologist Peter Langman, argues here that psychological causes are responsible. Drawing on 20 years of clinical experience, Langman offers surprising reasons for why some teens become violent. Langman divides shooters into three categories, and he discusses the role of personality, trauma, and psychosis among school shooters.  

In this groundbreaking book, renowned psychiatrist Michael H. Stone explores the concept and reality of evil from a new perspective. In an in-depth discussion of the personality traits and behaviors that constitute evil across a wide spectrum, Dr. Stone takes a clarifying scientific approach to a topic that for centuries has been inadequately explained by religious doctrines.

Oprah's Book Club Summer 2018 Selection A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit. “An amazing and heartwarming story, it restores our faith in the inherent goodness of humanity.”...

Part memoir and part forensic investigation, Textures of Terror is a gripping first-person story of women, violence, and migration out of Guatemala-and how the United States is implicated. Accompanying Jorge Velásquez in a years-long search for answers after the brutal murder of his daughter Claudina Isabel, Victoria Sanford explores what it means to seek justice in "postconflict" countries where violence never ended.

Jesus told his followers that the entirety of the Old Testament’s law is encapsulated in the commands to love God and to love their neighbors as themselves. In Reforming Criminal Justice: A Christian Proposal, Matthew T. Martens argues that love of neighbor must be the animating force for true reformation of the criminal justice system, obligating us to seek the best for both the criminally victimized and the criminally accused.

Nach mehr als dreißig Jahren, in denen unzählige Berichte, Dokumentationen, Filme und sogar Theaterstücke über den mutmaßlichen Serienmörder Jack Unterweger erschienen sind, kommt dieser hier erstmals selbst zu Wort: In Form des Tagebuchs, das er während des Jahrhundertprozesses verfasst hat. Zeilen voller Wut, Verzweiflung, aber auch Leidenschaft, die neue, ungeahnte Facetten des Menschen Jack Unterweger zum Vorschein bringen.

"Creepy crawling" was the Manson Family's practice of secretly entering someone's home and, without harming anyone, leaving only a trace of evidence that they had been there, some reminder that the sanctity of the private home had been breached. Now, author Jeffrey Melnick reveals just how much the Family creepy crawled their way through Los Angeles in the sixties and then on through American social, political, and cultural life for close to fifty years, firmly lodging themselves in our minds. 

The story of the young sociologist who studied a Chicago crack-dealing gang from the inside captured the world's attention when it was first described in Freakonomics. Gang Leader for a Day is the fascinating full story of how Sudhir Venkatesh managed to gain entrée into the gang, what he...