criminals

Addresses alternatives to incarceration and the pros and cons of employing them to control crime and recidivism.

Chronicles the lives of twenty-six noted criminals, lawyers, and members of law enforcement who played key roles in the history of crime and punishment including J. Edgar Hoover, Clarence Darrow, and author Truman Capote as well as convicted felons such as Ted Kaczynski, Timothy McVeigh, and Lizzie Borden.

A madman wages a terrifying campaign to eliminate mystery writer Marty Stillwater when he claims he's the real Marty Stillwater.

Kakashi, having boarded a ship to try and escape his life on a little island, soon realizes the vessel is full of criminals and contains a treasure.

Contains thirteen essays that provide varying perspectives on issues related to DNA data banks, including the benefits and burdens of DNA databases, governmental intrusion on private information, securing privacy, physical profiles, and more.

Discusses the debate on incarceration and society's role as punisher or helper, focusing on prison conditions and the American criminal justice system.

The author, a Rhodes scholar and combat veteran, analyzes factors that influenced him as well as another man of the name and from the same neighborhood who was drawn into a life of drugs and crime and ended up serving life in prison, focusing on the influence of relatives, mentors, and social expectations that could have led either of them on different paths.

A teenaged pickpocket, haunted by the ghost of his brother killed by his father, is recruited for Mandel Academy, a school for criminals where only one student survives each semester.

When seventeen-year-old Hog Burnell goes to Russia to play in an all-star series, he discovers that money is more important than hockey to the series promoter, which forces Hog to make some difficult and dangerous decisions.

A collection of bizarre true stories about crimes, criminals, prisoners, and police.