Download or read book A Wonderful Career in Crime written by Frank W. Garmon Jr. and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2024-07-23 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Cowlam’s career as a convict, spy, detective, congressional candidate, adventurer, and con artist spanned the Civil War, Reconstruction, and Gilded Age. His life touched many of the most prominent figures of the era, including Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, and Ulysses S. Grant. One contemporary newspaper reported that Cowlam “has as many aliases as there are letters in the alphabet.” He was a chameleon in a world of strangers, and scholars have overlooked him due to his elusive nature. His intrigues reveal how Americans built trust amid the transience and anonymity of the nineteenth century. The stories Cowlam told allowed him to blend in to new surroundings, where he quickly cultivated the connections needed to extract patronage from influential members of American society. Whereas historians of capitalism have uncovered the vulnerabilities of an economic system dependent upon trust and personal relationships, Cowlam’s life exposes the liabilities of a political system constructed on the same foundations. Rather than perpetrating frauds against average citizens, Cowlam reserved his most fantastic schemes for officials in the highest levels of government. He is the only person to receive presidential pardons from both Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis during the Civil War. When the fighting ended, he conned his way into serving as a detective investigating Lincoln’s assassination, later parlaying that experience into positions with the Internal Revenue Service and the British government. Reconstruction offered additional opportunities for Cowlam to repackage his identity. He convinced Ulysses S. Grant to appoint him U.S. marshal and persuaded Republicans in Florida to allow him to run for Congress. After losing the election, Cowlam moved to New York, where he became a serial bigamist and started a fake secret society inspired by the burgeoning Granger movement. When the newspapers exposed his lies, he disappeared and spent the next decade living under an assumed name. He resurfaced in Dayton, Ohio, claiming to be a Union colonel suffering from dementia in an effort to gain admittance into the National Soldiers’ Home. In A Wonderful Career in Crime, Frank W. Garmon Jr. brings Cowlam’s stunning machinations to light for the first time.

Download or read book Homicide written by David Simon and published by Holt Paperbacks. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the creator of HBO's The Wire, the classic book about homicide investigation that became the basis for the hit television show The scene is Baltimore. Twice every three days another citizen is shot, stabbed, or bludgeoned to death. At the center of this hurricane of crime is the city's homicide unit, a small brotherhood of hard men who fight for whatever justice is possible in a deadly world. David Simon was the first reporter ever to gain unlimited access to a homicide unit, and this electrifying book tells the true story of a year on the violent streets of an American city. The narrative follows Donald Worden, a veteran investigator; Harry Edgerton, a black detective in a mostly white unit; and Tom Pellegrini, an earnest rookie who takes on the year's most difficult case, the brutal rape and murder of an eleven-year-old girl. Originally published fifteen years ago, Homicide became the basis for the acclaimed television show of the same name. This new edition—which includes a new introduction, an afterword, and photographs—revives this classic, riveting tale about the men who work on the dark side of the American experience.

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Download or read book Federal assistance to State and local criminal justice agencies written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Laws and Procedures and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Great Jobs for Criminal Justice Majors written by Stephen Lambert and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2007-04-06 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides descriptions of careers in the field of criminal justice and skills needed to begin a focused job search.

Download or read book Making Work Work for the Highly Sensitive Person written by Barrie Jaeger and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2005-05-05 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book gives highly sensitive persons (HSPs) strategies to build confidence, combat stress, and find work that is emotionally, financially, and creatively rewarding. Based on cutting-edge medical and scientific research, this fresh perspective on how readers can secure satisfying careers." -- WEBSITE.

Download or read book The Future of Criminology written by Rolf Loeber and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Criminology is a dynamic and evolving field of study. In recent decades, the study of the causes, development, prevention, and treatment of juvenile delinquency and adult crime has produced many important discoveries. This volume addresses two questions about crucial topics facing criminology - from causation to prevention to public policy: Where are we now? What does the future hold? Rolf Loeber and Brandon C. Welsh lead a team of more than forty top scholars from across the world to present the future of research, policy, and practice in the discipline.

Download or read book Working in Community Health Foundations for a Successful Career written by () (Kay) M. M. M. Perrin and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2023-02-14 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working in Community Health: Foundations for a Successful Career prepares community health workers for employment with the potential of a career ladder. This book provides knowledge required for effective employment skills, understanding basic anatomy and physiology of common chronic diseases, teaching how to access and understand health knowledge, resume development, and interview proficiency. - Written at a community college literacy level and provides an overarching foundation for several public health and clinical careers, such as nursing, health education, physician assistant, and counseling. - Divided into four sections, the book teaches medical terminology; body systems and most common chronic diseases and their prevention; links between social and environmental issues and health promotion and prevention; and resume writing and interviewing skills. -The chapters cover a summarized list of the most common state and national competencies for community health worker training.

Download or read book A Perfect Crime written by A Yi and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a normal day in provincial China, a teenager goes about his regular business, but he’s also planning the brutal murder of his only friend. He lures her over, strangles her, stuffs her body into the washing machine and flees town, whereupon a perilous game of cat-and-mouse begins. A shocking investigation into the despair that traps the rural poor as well as a technically brilliant excursion into the claustrophobic realm of classic horror and suspense, A Perfect Crime is a thrilling and stylish novel about a motiveless murder that echoes Kafka’s absurdism, Camus’ nihilism and Dostoyevsky’s depravity. With exceptional tonal control, A Yi steadily reveals the psychological backstory that enables us to make sense of the story’s dramatic violence and provides chillingly apt insights into a country on the cusp of enormous social, political and economic change.

Download or read book Career Criminal written by D. Henderson and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-31 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Pretty Boy Floyd, a charismatic young man with an overwhelming desire to become the boss of a powerful crime family. Growing up on the wicked streets of Southeast San Diego, with his eyes towards the sky and his ears to the ground Pretty Boy studies the game like a Boss, determined to take over the city one block at a time. Returning home from San Quentin during the height of the crack epidemic, Pretty Boy became a Crack Dealer worst nightmare. Kidnap, robbery, and murder was the tools he used to build his empire. The Crime Game was a gamble; and as of all gambles you had to ante-up. Pretty wanted it all and was willing to risk it all. Death or imprisonment vs. A Lifetime of riches, Fast Cars. and beautiful women.

Download or read book The Crime Numbers Game written by John A. Eterno and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-07-27 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-1990s, the NYPD created a performance management strategy known as Compstat. It consisted of computerized data, crime analysis, and advanced crime mapping coupled with middle management accountability and crime strategy meetings with high-ranking decision makers. While initially credited with a dramatic reduction in crime, questions quic

Download or read book Tale of a Physician Or The Seeds and Fruits of Crime written by Andrew Jackson Davis and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book 1G 6T Part 1 written by James Phillips and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-08-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young guy from a poor projects local authority housing estate is clever, and attends a top school-college and is offerred at 18 years old a job as an air force jet pilot-officer. However due to defence budget cuts he is transferred to an endemic corrupt non performing Police Service and then he has to come to terms with this corruption, which is the opposite to being an air force pilot officer and gentleman.He is in love with his council estate "princess" and their love endures to eternity as part of this book and the trilogy's love story.He gets promoted to sergeant by his clever policing and is offerred a university course in Criminology as an experiment by The Government to cut out endemic corruption in the police to make them more professional. He is awarded a bravery medal for risking his life and thereby scaring his darling fiancee.He meets a millionaire at a BBQ and they become friends.The book ends with him on holiday in Barbados at his villa, given to him by the millionaire.

Download or read book Task Force Report Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Crime written by United States. Task Force on Juvenile Delinquency and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A socio-economic analysis of juvenile delinquency that is critical of society's approach to juvenile crime responds with recommendations and principles for change. Efforts to modernize the juvenile court system and the general attitude of the public sector toward youth crime are discussed. To teach the youthful offenders involvement in community life, the public and private sectors of the population must respond to youthful needs. Emphasis is placed on the following areas for changes in attitude and approach of responsible individuals - public officials, community and social agencies, teachers, and potential employers. Greatest emphasis is placed on juvenile justice system personnel ranging from the police to the judge. The Gault decision is discussed as a viable vehicle for giving perspective to future programs and priorities. That a revitalized juvenile court system is needed is a logical conclusion.

Download or read book Delinquency and Ethnicity written by M. Junger and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Task Force Report Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Crime Report on Juvenile Justice and Consultants Papers written by United States President of the United States and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Challenge of Crime in a Free Society written by United States. President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report of the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice -- established by President Lyndon Johnson on July 23, 1965 -- addresses the causes of crime and delinquency and recommends how to prevent crime and delinquency and improve law enforcement and the administration of criminal justice. In developing its findings and recommendations, the Commission held three national conferences, conducted five national surveys, held hundreds of meetings, and interviewed tens of thousands of individuals. Separate chapters of this report discuss crime in America, juvenile delinquency, the police, the courts, corrections, organized crime, narcotics and drug abuse, drunkenness offenses, gun control, science and technology, and research as an instrument for reform. Significant data were generated by the Commission's National Survey of Criminal Victims, the first of its kind conducted on such a scope. The survey found that not only do Americans experience far more crime than they report to the police, but they talk about crime and the reports of crime engender such fear among citizens that the basic quality of life of many Americans has eroded. The core conclusion of the Commission, however, is that a significant reduction in crime can be achieved if the Commission's recommendations (some 200) are implemented. The recommendations call for a cooperative attack on crime by the Federal Government, the States, the counties, the cities, civic organizations, religious institutions, business groups, and individual citizens. They propose basic changes in the operations of police, schools, prosecutors, employment agencies, defenders, social workers, prisons, housing authorities, and probation and parole officers.