crime

Fleeing from a neighbor's assailants, who believe he has identified them to the police, LeRoy leaves his Chicago housing project to live with his grandfather, a shrimp fisherman, in Mississippi. When the Chicago police come for him, LeRoy must decide if he is going to risk his life testifying.

Examines the relationship between race and crime in the United States and the role that race plays in the American criminal justice system.

Details the history and cases of private investigators and bounty hunters and discusses their fictional representations in novels, short stories, motion pictures, and television shows.

Young people whose lives have been impacted by violence and crime, either as perpetrators or as victims, tell their stories. Also includes comments from concerned adults who work with these teens.

Traces the history of crime and punishment from 3200 B.C. to the present and discusses how and why the laws which govern people's behavior were created.

Spider-Man becomes the lead suspect when a rash of unspeakable crimes hits New York City and he will have to come up with some ingenious ideas to clear his name and find the real culprit.

Presents information about crime through charts and graphs and discusses how to organize data in different visual forms.

Jennifer's wonderful summer with a pony of her own is marred by a tense encounter with horse thieves.

While on vacation with Rachel and Richard, Conan must try to discover who killed the patriarch of the wealthy Hatamoto family on board a cruise ship.