Anatomy Of Crime

Author : Val McDermid
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-07
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780802191052

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Forensics by Val McDermid Pdf

Bestselling author of Broken Ground “offers fascinating glimpses” into the real world of criminal forensics from its beginnings to the modern day (The Boston Globe). The dead can tell us all about themselves: where they came from, how they lived, how they died, and, of course, who killed them. Using the messages left by a corpse, a crime scene, or the faintest of human traces, forensic scientists unlock the mysteries of the past and serve justice. In Forensics, international bestselling crime author Val McDermid guides readers through this field, drawing on interviews with top-level professionals, ground-breaking research, and her own experiences on the scene. Along the way, McDermid discovers how maggots collected from a corpse can help determine one’s time of death; how a DNA trace a millionth the size of a grain of salt can be used to convict a killer; and how a team of young Argentine scientists led by a maverick American anthropologist were able to uncover the victims of a genocide. Prepare to travel to war zones, fire scenes, and autopsy suites as McDermid comes into contact with both extraordinary bravery and wickedness, tracing the history of forensics from its earliest beginnings to the cutting-edge science of the modern day.

Author : Adrian Raine
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780307378842

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The Anatomy of Violence by Adrian Raine Pdf

Provocative and timely: a pioneering neurocriminologist introduces the latest biological research into the causes of--and potential cures for--criminal behavior. With an 8-page full-color insert, and black-and-white illustrations throughout.

Author : Steve Coughlan,Alex Gorlewski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1552215059

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The Anatomy of Criminal Procedure by Steve Coughlan,Alex Gorlewski Pdf

Criminal law is a powerful legal tool in Canadian society consisting of numerous procedural rules but little organization. Provisions of the Criminal Code that are directly relevant to each other are often separated by many different (and usually irrelevant) sections and subsections. The common law rules of criminal procedure, meanwhile, are often established incrementally, in numerous cases decided over a long period of time. With both the Code and common law, it can be difficult and time-consuming to assemble and explain the entire legal framework governing a particular police power or court procedure. This deficiency in the law is what led authors Steve Coughlan and Alex Gorlewski to create a comprehensible resource that clarifies the relationships among the individual statutory provisions and the common law rules of criminal procedure.The Anatomy of Criminal Procedure: A Visual Guide to the Law illustrates the law of criminal procedure through nearly seventy annotated charts and diagrams. Across the whole criminal process -- from search and seizure to appeals and sentencing -- this book consolidates the statutory and common law rules around each step, visually depicts how they fit together, and explains in detailed annotations how the rules work and have been interpreted by courts. This is a valuable text for practitioners who work with the criminal process every day, as well as for students learning it for the first time. Coughlan and Gorlewski aim to outline the law as it was created and implemented by our institutions, while providing the coherence it sometimes lacks yet certainly requires.

Author : Carl Darryl Malmgren
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0879728426

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Anatomy of Murder by Carl Darryl Malmgren Pdf

Mystery fiction takes place in a centered world, one whose most distinctive characteristic is motivation (of behavior and signs). Built on a faith in foundations, it insists upon the solidity of social life, the validity of social conventions, and the sanctity of signs. Mystery assures us that motives exist for both words and deeds.".

Author : David G. Horn
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0415947294

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The Criminal Body by David G. Horn Pdf

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Author : Mutea Rukwaru
Publisher : Mutea Rukwaru
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2008-12-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789966728203

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Anatomy of Crime by Mutea Rukwaru Pdf

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 There is no society which is free from crime and criminals. As society advances and new changes sets in crime is bound to increase. Any society which is dynamic should prepare itself to meet the challenge of crime. It is also important to note that even in the dim past crime existed. There were the rules and don'ts of the society though they were not documented. Causes of crime are multifaceted and this means that the treatment plan should also be multifaceted. A question which comes up often is, are criminals born or made by the society? Has hereditary any part to play? Anatomy of crime attempts to address the theories which attempt to explain crime commission, how societies in the older times dealt with crime, the modern ways of dealing with criminals and lastly the book gives detailed and pragmatic approach to crime prevention. Anatomy of crime covers introduction to basic concepts in criminology, Types of crimes, Theories of crime causation, History of punishments; Police, history, functions and challenges, Capital punishment, Corporal punishment, History of prisons Anatomy of crime also covers A view of prisons, prisoners, prison officers; Prison problems, Prisons reforms, Fine, Probation, Parole; Forfeiture, security for good behavior, settlements and absolute and conditional discharge, Extra mural penal employment (EMPE), Guided group interaction programmes and Crime prevention /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;}

Author : Raymond Bonner
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-08
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780307948540

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Anatomy of Injustice by Raymond Bonner Pdf

From Pulitzer Prize winner Raymond Bonner, the gripping story of a grievously mishandled murder case that put a twenty-three-year-old man on death row. In January 1982, an elderly white widow was found brutally murdered in the small town of Greenwood, South Carolina. Police immediately arrested Edward Lee Elmore, a semiliterate, mentally retarded black man with no previous felony record. His only connection to the victim was having cleaned her gutters and windows, but barely ninety days after the victim's body was found, he was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death. Elmore had been on death row for eleven years when a young attorney named Diana Holt first learned of his case. With the exemplary moral commitment and tenacious investigation that have distinguished his reporting career, Bonner follows Holt's battle to save Elmore's life and shows us how his case is a textbook example of what can go wrong in the American justice system. Moving, enraging, suspenseful, and enlightening, Anatomy of Injustice is a vital contribution to our nation's ongoing, increasingly important debate about inequality and the death penalty.

Author : Lisa Rosner
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-07
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780812203554

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The Anatomy Murders by Lisa Rosner Pdf

Up the close and down the stair, Up and down with Burke and Hare. Burke's the butcher, Hare's the thief, Knox the man who buys the beef. —anonymous children's song On Halloween night 1828, in the West Port district of Edinburgh, Scotland, a woman sometimes known as Madgy Docherty was last seen in the company of William Burke and William Hare. Days later, police discovered her remains in the surgery of the prominent anatomist Dr. Robert Knox. Docherty was the final victim of the most atrocious murder spree of the century, outflanking even Jack the Ripper's. Together with their accomplices, Burke and Hare would be accused of killing sixteen people over the course of twelve months in order to sell the corpses as "subjects" for dissection. The ensuing criminal investigation into the "Anatomy Murders" raised troubling questions about the common practices by which medical men obtained cadavers, the lives of the poor in Edinburgh's back alleys, and the ability of the police to protect the public from cold-blooded murder. Famous among true crime aficionados, Burke and Hare were the first serial killers to capture media attention, yet The Anatomy Murders is the first book to situate their story against the social and cultural forces that were bringing early nineteenth-century Britain into modernity. In Lisa Rosner's deft treatment, each of the murder victims, from the beautiful, doomed Mary Paterson to the unfortunate "Daft Jamie," opens a window on a different aspect of this world in transition. Tapping into a wealth of unpublished materials, Rosner meticulously portrays the aspirations of doctors and anatomists, the makeshift existence of the so-called dangerous classes, the rudimentary police apparatus, and the half-fiction, half-journalism of the popular press. The Anatomy Murders resurrects a tale of murder and medicine in a city whose grand Georgian squares and crescents stood beside a maze of slums, a place in which a dead body was far more valuable than a living laborer.

Author : Robert Fabian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1970-01-01
Category : Crime prevention
ISBN : 0720703697

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The Anatomy of Crime by Robert Fabian Pdf

Author : The Detection Club,Dorothy L. Sayers,Francis Iles,Freeman Wills Crofts,Helen Simpson,John Rhode
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007569694

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The Anatomy of Murder by The Detection Club,Dorothy L. Sayers,Francis Iles,Freeman Wills Crofts,Helen Simpson,John Rhode Pdf

A unique anthology for crime aficionados – seven of the world’s most notorious genuine murder mysteries retold by the most accomplished classic crime writers of their generation.

Author : Michael H. Stone, MD
Publisher : Prometheus Books
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781633883369

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The Anatomy of Evil by Michael H. Stone, MD Pdf

FROM NARCISSISM TO AGGRESSION, AN ORIGINAL LOOK AT THE PERSONALITY TRAITS AND BEHAVIORS THAT CONSTITUTE EVIL In this groundbreaking book, renowned psychiatrist Michael H. Stone explores the concept and reality of evil from a new perspective. In an in-depth discussion of the personality traits and behaviors that constitute evil across a wide spectrum, Dr. Stone takes a clarifying scientific approach to a topic that for centuries has been inadequately explained by religious doctrines. Stone has created a 22-level hierarchy of evil behavior, which loosely reflects the structure of Dante's Inferno. Basing his analysis on the detailed biographies of more than 600 violent criminals, he traces two salient personality traits that run the gamut from those who commit crimes of passion to perpetrators of sadistic torture and murder. One trait is narcissism, as exhibited in people who are so self-centered that they have little or no ability to care about their victims. The other is aggression, the use of power over another person to inflict humiliation, suffering, and death. What do psychology, psychiatry, and neuroscience tell us about the minds of those whose actions could be described as evil? And what will that mean for the rest of us? Stone discusses how an increased understanding of the causes of evil will affect the justice system. He predicts a day when certain persons can safely be declared salvageable and restored to society and when early signs of violence in children may be corrected before potentially dangerous patterns become entrenched.

Author : Robert Traver
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1983-03-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0312033567

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Anatomy of a Murder by Robert Traver Pdf

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Author : Terance D. Miethe,Richard C. McCorkle
Publisher : Roxbury Publishing Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Crime
ISBN : 1931719578

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Crime Profiles by Terance D. Miethe,Richard C. McCorkle Pdf

Provides a descriptive summary of seven major forms of crime: homicide and aggravated assault, sexual assault, robbery, burglary, motor vehicle theft, occupational and organizational crime, and public order crimes. Each chapter focuses on crime definitions, trends in their occurrence, the offender and victim profiles, and more.

Author : Eugene Milhizer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0578920948

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Dissecting Anatomy of a Murder by Eugene Milhizer Pdf

"Eugene Milhizer, a highly regarded criminal law and procedure professor, has written a thoughtful book about Michigan's most famous criminal trial of the 20th Century, People v Peterson, and the book that brought the case its renown, Anatomy of a Murder, penned by Peterson's defense lawyer, John Voelker.Voelker, a folksy master storyteller, probed the ethical and legal issues the trial turned on and drew readers to consider these legal and ethical concerns in the demanding context of a murder trial. Milhizer does the same, but with a more scholarly focus that repays the careful reader and helps us appreciate more fully Voelker's novel and the blockbuster movie of the same name that came after the book's success. The book and movie success, while unexpected by the very private Voelker, lead to an appointment to the Michigan Supreme Court, where he served for several years before the lure of the deep woods and waters as well as the ever elusive trout drew him back to Michigan's north country and the streams he loved.As with those he served with on the Supreme Court, we who have served long after him have admired his bracing writing and clear-headed opinions. Professor Milhizer and his thoughtful analysis have added an additional dimension to Volker and this great trial."Clifford W. TaylorRetired Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1936
Category : Crime
ISBN : OCLC:20251075

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The Anatomy of Murder by Anonim Pdf