Download or read book When Crime Waves written by Vincent Sacco and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2005-05-11 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical examination of crime waves aimed at an undergraduate audience. Historical & contemporary examples are drawn primarily from the US, but international examples are threaded throughout for comparison.
Download or read book Crime Waves and Criminals written by St. Louis Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Is a Crime Wave Coming written by American Historical Association and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Crime waves and criminals written by Lucius H. Cannon and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Patterns in Crime written by Paul J. Brantingham and published by New York : Macmillan. This book was released on 1984 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Great American Crime Myth written by Kevin N. Wright and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1985-12-11 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a cogent, although admittedly not unbiased, analysis of misconceptions about crime and the criminal justice system. The main theme of the book is that the `myths' on which efforts to deal with this crime `anxiety' are based stem from two common beliefs--that there is an unprecedented crime wave, and that government should and can do something to recognize the source and purpose they serve, and also to know how and why Americans react to crime. Choice Wright offers a challenging new analysis of the misconceptions surrounding crime and an evaluation of the role of the criminal-justice system and the social context of crime. He notes that a comparatively high rate of violence has been characteristic of this nation from its earliest days and that crime waves and attempts at suppression have occurred at frequent intervals. He examines modern crime statistics and the distortions and confusion accompanying their use and looks at the effects of the pervasive fear of crime, demonstrating how law enforcement agencies and the press benefit from exaggerating its incidence and seriousness. The author makes a convincing case for the view that even with enlightened policies and higher levels of support, no criminal-justice system can, by itself, effect a significant reduction in crime. Since most crime is socially determined, he argues, we need to look at the conditions and attitudes within our society that create an atmosphere congenial to crime.
Download or read book Public Enemies written by Bryan Burrough and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book U S V Crime in the Streets written by Thomas E. Cronin and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Crime Situation written by Samuel Bailey Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rise and Fall of a Violent Crime Wave written by Henry H. Brownstein and published by Criminal Justice Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Smooth Criminal written by Bill Deane and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David T. Riley dreamt big. His desire to be a superstar recording artist led the adolescent hoodlum into the fringes of organized crime. Ironically though, it was a failed extortion attempt at the Coral Gables bus station that landed him in jail where he found his calling in June of 1960. When the CIA needed recruits to carry out dangerous spying missions to Cuba, their Ivy League educated agents would rather not do themselves, they found Riley languishing in a light green jumpsuit in Miami Dade County Jail awaiting trial. Street-smart, confident to the point of being cocky and extremely intelligent, the Agency believed he'd be able to talk his way out of any situation. Trained by the Feds to operate in a complex world of international crime, David became one of the Agency's top operatives. The CIA's use for him eventually waned, and with skills learned through covert work, Riley afforded himself an extensive career in gunrunning, drug dealing, fraud and embezzlement. SMOOTH CRIMINAL, A One-Man American Crime Wave exposes how the Government's secret release of criminals to conduct dangerous overseas assignments backfires when they return home.
Download or read book Economic Misery Crime Waves written by Severin L. Sorensen and published by Sikyur Publications. This book was released on 2009 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract. Economic Misery and Crime Waves: the Second Great Depression and the coming Crime Wave, and what we can do about it. The theory behind this book is that every sharp negative economic shock since 1954 has resulted in a crime wave. Sharp economic contractions such as our current global deep economic recession can create conditions of heightened economic misery (i.e. unemployment, loss of purchasing power through inflation, home equity loss, or asset deflation) which, if left unabated, can create conditions of increased crime opportunity and crime waves, where some people will choose crime as a 'rational' means of support to augment, or replace, their prior legal income. The author posits that the present economic downturn is comparable to the most severe economic shocks from the past 100 years, and this includes events such as the 1929 stock market crash and Great Depression. In the book the author reviews the past to learn clues to the types of events that occurred including past trials of crime waves and the crime control policies designed to arrest crime waves. The author is also aware that our past criminal justice policies are limited, and we must include modern technology and crime problems with no 100-year history to follow, and determine how to combat these new challenges as well. As the coming crime wave is foreseeable, it is imperative that government officials, businesses, communities, and families prepare themselves for this imminent threat. Governments can be proactive and get in front of this crime wave, preparing institutions, revising laws, targeting serious habitual offenders and known crime hotspots, and reducing the number of the most likely new offenders through diversion programs such as employment relocation. Individuals and families can change their ground, secure their places, and repel much of the crime opportunity through situational crime prevention. The book concludes with chapters and appendices that focus on solutions and suggestions on what individuals, families, communities, businesses, and governments can do to shield themselves from the crime wave. Periodic updates on signs of economic misery and crime waves as well as subsections of content from my research are posted on the author's economic misery and crime wave website (www.crimewaves.com) and periodic blogs posted at (http: //d2crimewave.blogspot.com).
Download or read book Comparative Histories of Crime written by Barry Godfrey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to both reflect and take forward current thinking on comparative and cross-national and cross-cultural aspects of the history of crime. Its content is wide-ranging: some chapters discuss the value of comparative approaches in aiding understanding of comparative history, and providing research directions for the future; others address substantive issues and topics that will be of interest to those with interests in both history and criminology. Overall the book aims to broaden the focus of the historical context of crime and policing to take fuller account of cross-national and cross-cultural factors.
Download or read book Crime Policy and Criminal Behavior in America written by James Houston and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of crime in America. It looks at crime in terms of numbers and rates and attempts to prove that the American public has been misled, by the politician and the media, into believing there is a crime wave. The book gives an overview of crime, the criminal justice system. There is a discussion of economic considerations, how to approach crime policy rationally, and how to work with elected officials and assist in the initiation of effective crime policy.
Download or read book Crime Wave written by James Ellroy and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 1999-01-26 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Los Angeles. In no other city do sex, celebrity, money, and crime exert such an irresistible magnetic field. And no writer has mapped that field with greater savagery and savvy than James Ellroy. With this fever-hot collection of reportage and short fiction, he returns to his native habitat and portrays it as a smog-shrouded netherworld where"every third person is a peeper, prowler, pederast, or pimp." From the scandal sheets of the 1950s to this morning's police blotter, Ellroy reopens true crimes and restores human dimensions to their victims. Sublimely, he resurrects the rag Hush-Hush magazine. And in a baroquely plotted novella of slaughter and corruption he enlists the forgotten luminaries of a lost Hollywood. Shocking, mesmerizing, and written in prose as wounding as an ice pick, Crime Wave is Ellroy at his best.
Download or read book Losing Legitimacy written by Gary Lafree and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past fifty years, street crime rates in America have increased eightfold. These increases were historically patterned, were often very rapid, and had a disproportionate impact on African Americans. Much of the crime explosion took place in a space of just ten years beginning in the early 1960s. Common explanations based on biological impulses, psychological drives, or slow-moving social indicators cannot explain the speed or timing of these changes or their disproportionate impact on racial minorities. Using unique data that span half a century, Gary LaFree argues that social institutions are the key to understanding the U.S. crime wave. Crime increased along with growing political distrust, economic stress, and family disintegration. These changes were especially pronounced for racial minorities. American society responded by investing more in criminal justice, education, and welfare institutions. Stabilization of traditional social institutions and the effects of new institutional spending account for the modest crime declines of the 1990s.
Download or read book Crime and the Media written by Richard V. Ericson and published by Dartmouth Publishing Company. This book was released on 1995 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A great deal of what is consumed and made integral to daily life through the mass media are stories of crime, law and justice. This study explores the ramifications of this, focusing on such topics as media formats, institutional relations, and popular drama and fear.
