crime

Analyzes eleven high-profile criminal cases including those involving Dr. Samuel Mudd in 1865 and Lizzie Borden in 1892, questioning whether the evidence against them was sufficient enough to convict them.

Sophie shares safety tips with her younger brother, such as watch out for speeding cars, avoid strangers, and stay calm and seated on the school bus. Includes activities for kids to identify hidden dangers at home, further resources, and a glossary.

Explores violence on the domestic scene in the light of the fact that more people in the U.S. have been killed by shooting since 1900 than were lost in all American wars from the Revolution through Vietnam.

A detailed inquiry featuring the life of a mother who shot her three children and the destructive forces in her life.

"[Examines] issues in the headlines concerning racial bias, crime, and police violence ... Shines a light on biases and assumptions that link race with crime in the media, and encourages readers to reflect on these biases in the information they consume daily. Readers are asked to consider the roles that policing, prisons, immigration, and the media play in enforcing racism, and to examine their effects throughout history, which include hate crimes in the forms of slavery, genocide, and police violence"--Provided by publisher.

Draws on historic and contemporary examples to explore why and how activists break the law and why they feel their civil disobedience is justified in order to promote and protect their beliefs and causes.

Documents some of America's most famous and appalling crimes with a visual look at each case, the perpetrators, and the justice system at work, in such cases as the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the Oklahoma City bombing.

Child prodigy Cadel Piggot, an antisocial computer hacker, discovers his true identity when he enrolls as a first-year student at an advanced crime academy.

Harry Posehn is the best dad, the best husband; well, maybe not. Detective Teaghan Beaumont is getting closer and closer to discovering the truth about Harry Posehn. But there's a twist that she, and you, dear reader, will never see coming.

Brevin McCoy's life takes a downward turn when he is slipped a drug at a party that affects his mind, and he is just beginning to recover when a popular teacher is attacked and rumors are spread that he is the culprit.