Download or read book The trial of John Thomas Straffen ed written by John Thomas Straffen (defendant) and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Trial of John Thomas Straffen written by John Thomas Straffen and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Trial of John Thomas Straffen Edited by Letitia Fairfield and Eric P Fullbrook With Plates Including a Portrait written by John Thomas STRAFFEN and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Trial of John Thomas Straffen written by Letitia Fairfield and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trials for the murder of Linda Bowyer, held at the Southampton summer assizes, Winchester: 1st trial, July 21-22, 1952; 2nd trial, July 22-25, 1952; Appeal to Court of Criminal Justice, Aug. 20, 1952.
Download or read book The Trial of John Thomas Straffen written by Letitia Fairfield and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trials for the murder of Linda Bowyer, held at the Southampton summer assizes, Winchester: 1st trial, July 21-22, 1952; 2nd trial, July 22-25, 1952; Appeal to Court of Criminal Justice, Aug. 20, 1952.
Download or read book Escape from Broadmoor written by Gordon Lowe and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: JOHN THOMAS STRAFFEN – Britain’s longest-serving prisoner – was the first patient to escape from Broadmoor Hospital and be prosecuted for a crime committed on the run. He killed within hours. Prior to this, at his home in Bath, he was dismissed as a loner, an imbecile, a ‘child trapped in an adult’s body’. On the afternoon of Sunday 15 July 1951, John Straffen strangled 8-year-old Brenda Goddard as she picked flowers. Three weeks later, he committed a similar murder before inadvertently confessing to the police.Faced with a serial killer with a mental age of 10, whose motive apparently was nothing more than to annoy the police, the court sent Straffen to Broadmoor Institute, as it was known then, for the criminally insane. But on 29 April 1952, having spent only six months at the Institute, he escaped in a carefully planned bid for freedom that should have been possible. During these four hours on the run, hoping to show the authorities he could be free and not commit further offences, Straffen instead murdered 5-year-old Linda Bowyer. Prime Minister Winston Churchill and his beleaguered government intervened to prevent Straffen walking free again.But was Straffen insane? Using previously unpublished documents, including government classified papers, author Gordon Lowe paints a vivid picture of a man who shocked the nation and confused the courts with his crimes.
Download or read book Comparative Criminology written by Hermann Mannheim and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Volume I of fifteen in a series on the Sociology of Law and Criminology. Originally published in 1965, this textbook is part one of two, meant for students and deals more fully than usual with such fundamental matters as the very concepts of crime and criminology and especially with the highly complex relationship between crime, the criminal law and certain burning moral issues of our time. It also includes several chapters on the methodsof research used in criminological and penological investigations.
Download or read book Rebecca West Today written by Bernard Schweizer and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost the entire corpus of West's fiction receives attention in this volume (with the exception of The Thinking Reed, which is in itself a telling fact)."--Jacket.
Download or read book Murderers Row written by Robin Odell and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-10-30 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Criminoloogist Robin Odell has compiled this gruesome gallery of cases from all over the world, revealing the growth in serial slayings, contract killings and middle-class murders and investigating what motivates people to commit the ultimate crime. As well as gangsters and ordinary felons, the book includes doctors, millionaries, housewives, children, lawyers, accountants, officers and gentlemen who have succumbed to the killing instinct. Behind the sensational names concocted by the tabloid press - 'Boston Strangler', 'Dracula Killer', 'Night Stalker', 'Granny Killer' - lurk real murderers committing acts of violence in circumstances often more bizarre than fiction. Arranged in an easy-to-use A-Z format, the book contains over 500 cases from serial killers such as Dennis Nilsen and Ted Bundy, to those such as Jeremy Bamber and Steven Benson who dispatched their parents for money; from murderous New Zealand teenagers whose story made a successful film, to the many doctors and nurses who took life instead of saving it; from unsolved murders such as the murder of Little Gregory in France to the paid assignments of John Waynes Hearn, a Vietnam veteran who killed to order. The result is a classic of true crime, a definitive work on murder as a worldwide phenomenon.
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Kidnappings written by Michael Newton and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a historical survey of kidnappings from biblical times to the present.
Download or read book The Undesirables written by Sarah Wise and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-04-04 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the early twentieth century, the British Government locked away over 50,000 innocent people. Their ‘crimes’? Being poor and unyielding. This is their story. 'The heartrending stories Sarah Wise has unearthed beggar belief… beautifully researched and truly compelling.' Catherine Bailey, author of Black Diamonds By 1950, an estimated 50,000 people had been deemed ‘defective’ by the British government and detained indefinitely under the 1913 Mental Deficiency Act. Their ‘crimes’ were various: women with children born out of wedlock; rebellious teenagers caught shoplifting; those with epilepsy, hearing impairments and chronic illnesses who had struggled in school; and many who were simply ‘different’. Forcibly removed from their families and confined to a shadow world of specialist facilities in the countryside, they were hidden away and forgotten – out of sight, out of mind. Through painstaking archival research, award-winning historian Sarah Wise shines a light on this shameful chapter. Piecing together the lives irrevocably changed by this devastating legislation, The Undesirables provides a compelling study of how early twentieth-century attitudes to class, gender and disability resulted in a nationwide scandal – and how they continue to shape social policy to this day.
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