犯罪学

「盗撮とは、相手に気づかれないように、日記を盗み見る行為なんです。その優越感は、日常生活では絶対に味わえないですから。

密着取材で浮かび上がる「袴田事件」再審の戦い。事件発生から58年を経て、ついに再審判決の時を迎えた「袴田事件」。支え続けた姉・ひで子さんの献身、死刑判決を書いた元裁判官の告白と謝罪など…

Told through the stories of eight former foster youth, a jolting exploration of a broken system from an award-winning journalist.

One of the most feared Chicago mobsters, Sam Giancana, clawed his way to the top of the Mafia hierarchy by starting as a hit man for Al Capone. He was known as one of the best vehicle escape artists, a tenacious business man, and a ruthless killer....

With makeup and an affected Elvis pout, Tucson’s Charlie Schmid was a crude parody of a bad-boy heartthrob. In 1964, he still had a hold on girls who’d follow him anywhere. He murdered three of them....

This fascinating Very Short Introduction discusses all the aspects of psychology that are relevant to the legal and criminal process as a whole....

Murder on the Inside is the most exhaustive and definitive account of the famous 1971 Kingston Penitentiary riot. The book includes never-before-revealed information and will continue the story after the riot, documenting three separate trials and a government inquiry....

In the fall of 1969, a public execution in an Italian restaurant in Brooklyn earned Joey a mention in the New York Daily News and a twenty-grand payout from the mob.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The most famous true crime novel of all time "chills the blood and exercises the intelligence" (The New York Review of Books)—and haunted its author long after he finished writing it. On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the...

Love, greed and betrayal in the Las Vegas mob. From Nicholas Pileggi, author of the bestselling Wiseguy -- the #1 bestseller that later became the hit movie Goodfellas -- comes this brilliantly told tale of love, marriage, adultery, murder and revenge Mafia-style, the true story of how the mob...

Courtroom 302 is the fascinating story of one year in Chicago's Cook County Criminal Courthouse, the busiest felony courthouse in the country....

Linda Scarpa had the best toys, the nicest clothes, and a close-knit family. Yet her childhood was far from idyllic. Classmates avoided her; boys wouldn't date her....

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The “entertaining [and] often-moving account” (The Wall Street Journal) of the remarkable POWs whose relentlessly creative attempts to escape a notorious Nazi prison embodied the spirit of resistance against fascism, from the author of The Spy and the Traitor...

The purpose of this book is to develop a plan for your successful transition from incarceration to living a full and productive life post-release. Ideally, the process of getting ready for the transition starts six months prior to your release....

A groundbreaking exposé about the alarming use of rap lyrics as criminal evidence to convict and incarcerate young men of color....

Gerald Posner examines all of the available evidence and reaches the only possible conclusion: Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone....

In partnership with Texas Monthly, Katy Vine's "Cops and Robbers" is now available as an audio download, where the length and timeliness of a podcast meets the high-quality production of a full-length audio program. Law enforcement in Hidalgo County would joke that without the drug trade, half...

In 2018, police announced that they had finally arrested the "Golden State Killer," a man responsible for over 140 burglaries, fifty rapes, and at least thirteen murders committed in California throughout the 1970s and '80s.

Rockere, mordere og terrorister. Bag Statsfængslet i Vridsløselilles høje mur afsoner Danmarks farligste kriminelle. For første gang nogensinde åbnes dørene nu på klem til fængselslivet bag de massive tremmer.

Some crimes are so horrific they attract the harshest punishment possible: a sentence that means ....