Download or read book Cops Crooks and Criminologists written by Charles Phillips and published by Facts on File. This book was released on 2000 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring more than 600 of the most colorful criminals and crime-stoppers the world has ever known, this book is a fascinating biographical dictionary of key figures in the history of crime. 80 photos.
Download or read book Cops Crooks And Criminologists written by Charles Phillips and published by . This book was released on 1996-03-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the most exciting details from the lives & careers of the world's most famous & infamous lawbreakers & law enforcers. It features more than 600 of the most colorful criminals & crime-stoppers from around the world. Figures have been selected for inclusion in this book based on their contributions, salutary or adverse, to the development of the practices, principles, & philosophy of law enforcement. Also covers individuals from many professions who influenced police work & criminology. Numerous entries cover the development of specific crime-fighting techniques -- from 19th-century anthropometric identification to the advent of finger printing & DNA testing -- & the cases for which they were implemented. B&W illustrations.
Download or read book What Cops Know written by Connie Fletcher and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1992 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a distillation of police life and lore, drawing on the experiences of Chicago cops to present the often surprising knowledge they acquire and the methods they employ in their line of work.
Download or read book The Setup written by Pete Crooks and published by BenBella Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-01-13 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pitch went like this: Chris Butler, a retired cop, ran a private investigator firm in Concord, California. His business had a fascinating angle—his firm was staffed entirely by soccer moms. In fact, Butler employed PI Super Moms: attractive, organized, smart, and trained in investigative techniques, self-defense, and weaponry. This American Life host Ira Glass described them as “MILF: Charlie's Angels." When this story came across Pete Crooks's desk when he was working at Diablo magazine in 2010, he was instantly hooked. He'd heard a little bit about Butler and his super moms in the news; they'd been featured in People magazine and on Dr. Phil. What Butler's publicist was offering was too tantalizing to pass up: an opportunity to ride along with Butler and a few of his sexy PIs as they prepared to start filming a reality TV show. But after the ride-along—and after he started receiving mysterious emails from one of Butler's employees—Crooks started to realize something didn't seem right. After doing a little digging, he discovered the “sting" he'd seen only had one real victim…him. The PI bust had been a setup. Crooks wasn't a hardboiled crime reporter. He did lifestyle pieces for a regional magazine. The more he learned about Butler's operation, the more he realized he was in far over his head. But swallowing his fears, he decided he was going to write an expose on Butler and his entire organization. He soon found himself deep in the underbelly of fake sting operations, wannabe celebrities, police corruption, drug-dealing, reality television, double-crossing employees, and more twists and turns than a dozen crime thrillers.
Download or read book Pockets of Crime written by Peter K. B. St. Jean and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why, even in the same high-crime neighborhoods, do robbery, drug dealing, and assault occur much more frequently on some blocks than on others? One popular theory is that a weak sense of community among neighbors can create conditions more hospitable for criminals, and another proposes that neighborhood disorder—such as broken windows and boarded-up buildings—makes crime more likely. But in his innovative new study, Peter K. B. St. Jean argues that we cannot fully understand the impact of these factors without considering that, because urban space is unevenly developed, different kinds of crimes occur most often in locations that offer their perpetrators specific advantages. Drawing on Chicago Police Department statistics and extensive interviews with both law-abiding citizens and criminals in one of the city’s highest-crime areas, St. Jean demonstrates that drug dealers and robbers, for example, are primarily attracted to locations with businesses like liquor stores, fast food restaurants, and check-cashing outlets. By accounting for these important factors of spatial positioning, he expands upon previous research to provide the most comprehensive explanation available of why crime occurs where it does.
Download or read book Just the Facts written by Jim Doherty and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-04-10 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction is filled with fantastic crimefighters, people who put on the badge and solve every mystery and put every criminal where they belong. But those same sort of people have always existed beyond the page. Real life lawmen who went above and beyond in the pursuit of justice and the law. Jim Doherty, “Just The Facts” Columnist for Mystery Readers Journal and a third generation policeman, tells the stories of law enforcement legends in 'Just The Facts'.Bill Tilghman, legendary Oklahoma lawman and town-tamer from the Territorial era to the Roaring Twenties. Richard Crafts, an airline pilot who killed his stewardess wife and fed her frozen body into a rented woodchipper. Hawaiian Policeman Chang Apana, the real Chinese-American detective who inspired Earl Derr Biggers to create Charlie Chan. Their stories and many more are brought to life in this new edition of JUST THE FACTS: TRUE TALES OF COPS AND CRIMINALS, featuring articles new to the collection as well as three exclusive to this edition.JUST THE FACTS: TRUE TALES OF COPS AND CRIMINALS from Pro Se Productions.“This is a well researched, addictive collection of true case studies, some sensational, others little known, all intensely interesting. And one, 'The Mad Doctor and The Untouchable,' will no doubt become a terrific movie.” —Joseph Wambaugh“With his stories of crime and crime-fighters in Chicago and nearby, Jim Doherty told me things about old-time Chicago that I never knew, even though I've lived here thirty years. Well-written, well-researched and fascinating!”
Download or read book Crimes Criminals and Cops written by R.S. Kulkarni and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Just the Facts written by Jim Doherty and published by . This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bill Tilghman, legendary Western lawman at the turn of the century. Mary Cecilia Rogers, the real-life ?Marie Roget? whose story inspired Edgar Allan Poe. FBI Special Agent Ed Mireles, who?literally single-handedly?took down two murderous bank robbers in South Miami. Their stories and many more are brought to life by Jim Doherty, ?Just the Facts? columnist for Mystery Readers Journal.?Jim Doherty combines the cool eye of a law enforcement professional (which he is) with the fiery enthusiasm of a fan (which he also is) in a superb collection of essays detailing the true-crime back-stories of some mystery fiction?s greatest yarns. These crisp, no-nonsense accounts are hypnotically readable, and the Eliot Ness chapter alone is worth the price of admission.? ?Max Allan Collins, author of Road To Perdition
Download or read book Crooks and Squares written by Malin Akerstrom and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-07 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Crooks and Squares' is a study of crime as a way of life. By interviewing drug addicts and property criminals, Malin Akerstrom presents a study of the demands, attractions, and drawbacks of criminal lifestyles.
Download or read book The Crime Fighter written by Jack Maple and published by Crown. This book was released on 2010-09-22 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former NYPD Deputy Commissioner Jack Maple was a man in a bow tie and homburg--he was also on a mission to revolutionize the way crime is fought: how cops go after crooks, and how they prevent crime in the first place. And he succeeded. But Maple is not satisfied. In The Crime Fighter, he shows how crime can be attacked all across America. Laced with fascinating, incredible, and often very funny tales of Maple's adventures as a cop, the book is as entertaining as it is informative. Anyone interested in how criminals think and act, and how the police should do their jobs, will devour this absorbing book.
Download or read book On the Take written by William J. Chambliss and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ..". this book makes a significant contribution to what we know about illicit enterprise and corruption." -- Social Forces ..". reads with the ease of an action-filled, best-selling novel... worthy and refreshing... " -- Journal of Criminal Justice
Download or read book More Cops Crooks and Catastrophes written by Shirley Hardy-Rix and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Crooks Kill Cops Lie written by Timothy C. Richards and published by . This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Crooks Kill Cops Lie written by Timothy C. Richards and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-02-27 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1980's, the St. Louis Region was controlled by the Chicago "outfit" controlled by Joey (Doves) Aiuppa. Joey (Doves) controlled all of the labor locals and most of the trade unions. He had considerable clout within local and state government due to union financial support of local politicians. Joey (Doves) guys in charge in St. Louis (John Vitale and Tony Giordano) became sick and old and the young guns in the region saw a chance to take over the rackets in the region. A Syrian family (Leisure (Paul and Anthony) decided to bomb a few of the "outfit's guys. One good car bombing begets another. It was chaos on the streets of St. Louis. The author was a detective in the prestigious Intelligence Unit of the police department. His job was to investigate (spy on) the organized criminals. His first hand account of what transpired in the St. Louis gang war is true and indisputable. The book contains crime scene photos, true names, and an index. It is nonfiction true crime at its finest.
Download or read book Cops and Robbers written by John Townsend and published by Capstone Classroom. This book was released on 2005-10 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the risks robbers will take to steal money and how police use dogs to sniff out criminals.
Download or read book The Murder of Police Officers written by Robert J. Kaminski and published by LFB Scholarly Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author seeks to explain murders of police officers in 190 cities during four time periods (1987, 1990, 1993, and 1996). Homicides of police officers are primarily a function of exposure and proximity to motivated offenders. The murders of police officers are determined by criminogenic structural conditions, arrest activity, and the number of officers deployed in the field.
Download or read book The Complete Idiot s Guide to Criminal Investigation written by Alan Axelrod and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the ideal entry point to learning about criminal investigation and forensics, including both the theoretical and practical aspects of the ways society copes with, and the way law enforcement investigates, crime today.
