Capital Crimes

Author : Jonathan Kellerman,Faye Kellerman
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006-11-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345495327

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Capital Crimes by Jonathan Kellerman,Faye Kellerman Pdf

Internationally bestselling husband and wife Jonathan and Faye Kellerman team up for a powerful one-two punch with Capital Crimes, a gripping pair of original crime thrillers. MY SISTER’S KEEPER: BERKELEY Some of progressive state representative Davida Grayson’s views have made her unpopular. Although her foes are numerous no one suspects that any buttons Davida might push could evoke deadly force. But now Davida lies brutally murdered in her office, and Berkeley homicide detectives Will Barnes and Amanda Isis must unravel Davida’s complex, before the killer pulls off a repeat performance. MUSIC CITY BREAKDOWN: NASHVILLE Baker Southerby was a child prodigy performer. But something leads him to become a Nashville cop. His partner, Lamar Van Gundy, is a would-be studio bassist who earned himself a detective’s badge. As part of Nashville PD's elite Murder Squad, they catch a homicide that’s high-profile even for a city where musical celebrity is routine. Capital Crimes is page-turning, psychologically resonant suspense–just what we’ve come to expect from two of the world’s most successful crime writers.

Author : George Winslow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1999-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UCSC:32106015498964

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Capital Crimes by George Winslow Pdf

Crime tops the headlines, leads the evening news, and is a focus of every election. But what causes crime? Is there a more rational way to address it than by law-and-order crusades? In this fact-filled, sweeping treatment, George Winslow takes on every aspect of the topic, from the streets to the suites. Unlike conventional accounts, Capital Crimes places the issue in the context of a larger political economy. From the Burmese heroin trade to homicide, from the capital flight that has generated crime in inner cities to corporate money-laundering schemes, Capital Crimes shows how economic forces and elite interests have shaped both the world of crime and society's response to it. Based upon extensive research and interviews, Capital Crimes presents a comprehensive alternative to a "lock 'em up" approach that has produced a gargantuan prison-industrial complex without coming to terms with the root of crime.

Author : Stuart Woods
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2004-04-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0451211561

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Capital Crimes by Stuart Woods Pdf

Will Lee, the courageous and uncompromising senator from Georgia, is back—now as President of the United States—in the fifth book in the New York Times bestselling series that began with Chiefs. When a prominent conservative politician is killed inside his lakeside cabin, authorities have no suspect in sight. And two more deaths—seemingly isolated incidents, achieved by very different means—might be linked to the same murderer. With the help of his CIA director wife, Kate Rule Lee, Will is facing a perilous challenge: catch the most clever and professional of killers before he can strike again. From a quiet D.C. suburb to the corridors of power to a deserted island hideaway in Maine, Will, Kate, and the FBI will track their man and set a trap with extreme caution and care—and await the most dangerous kind of quarry, a killer with a cause to die for...

Author : S. Platt
Publisher : Springer
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137337306

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Criminal Capital by S. Platt Pdf

Criminal Capital is an engaging but authoritative account of how financial structures and products can and are being used to evade proper scrutiny and enable criminal activity and what can be done about it. Based on the analysis of the financial methods that are frequently used by criminals, it deals with the widespread abuse of financial systems.

Author : Rick Unklesbay
Publisher : Wheatmark, Inc.
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781627876810

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Arbitrary Death by Rick Unklesbay Pdf

Over a career spanning nearly four decades, Rick Unklesbay has tried over one hundred murder cases before juries that ended with sixteen men and women receiving the death sentence. Arbitrary Death depicts some of the most horrific murders in Tucson, Arizona, the author's prosecution of those cases, and how the death penalty was applied. It provides the framework to answer the questions: Why is America the only Western country to still use the death penalty? Can a human-run system treat those cases fairly and avoid unconstitutional arbitrariness? It is an insider's view from someone who has spent decades prosecuting murder cases and who now argues that the death penalty doesn't work and our system is fundamentally flawed. With a rational, balanced approach, Unklesbay depicts cases that represent how different parts of the criminal justice system are responsible for the arbitrary nature of the death penalty and work against the fair application of the law. The prosecution, trial courts, juries, and appellate courts all play a part in what ultimately is a roll of the dice as to whether a defendant lives or dies. Arbitrary Death is for anyone who wonders why and when its government seeks to legally take the life of one of its citizens. It will have you questioning whether you can support a system that applies death as an arbitrary punishment -- and often decades after the sentence was given.

Author : Michael L. Radelet,Hugo Adam Bedau,Constance E. Putnam
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Law
ISBN : 1555531970

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In Spite of Innocence by Michael L. Radelet,Hugo Adam Bedau,Constance E. Putnam Pdf

The stories of some 400 innocent Americans who were falsely convicted of capital crimes.

Author : Lucy Andrew,Catherine Phelps
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780708325872

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Crime Fiction in the City by Lucy Andrew,Catherine Phelps Pdf

Crime Fiction in the City: Capital Crimes expands upon previous studies of the urban space and crime by reflecting on the treatment of the capital city, a repository of authority, national identity and culture, within crime fiction. This wide-ranging collection looks at capital cities across Europe, from the more traditional centres of power - Paris, Rome and London - to Europe's most northern capital, Stockholm, and also considers the newly devolved capitals, Dublin, Edinburgh and Cardiff. The texts under consideration span the nineteenth-century city mysteries to contemporary populist crime fiction. The collection opens with a reflective essay by Ian Rankin and aims to inaugurate a dialogue between Anglophone and European crime writing; to explore the marginalised works of Irish and Welsh writers alongside established European crime writers and to interrogate the relationship between fact and fiction, creativity and criticism, within the crime genre.

Author : Newton Martin Curtis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Capital punishment
ISBN : PURD:32754082453527

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Capital Crimes by Newton Martin Curtis Pdf

Author : Petra Schmidt
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Law
ISBN : 9004124217

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Capital Punishment in Japan by Petra Schmidt Pdf

This book provides an overview of capital punishment in Japan in a legal, historical, social, cultural and political context. It provides new insights into the system, challenges traditional views and arguments and seeks the real reasons behind the retention of capital punishment in Japan.

Author : Ernest Van den Haag,John Phillips Conrad
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781489927873

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The Death Penalty by Ernest Van den Haag,John Phillips Conrad Pdf

From 1965 until 1980, there was a virtual moratorium on executions for capital offenses in the United States. This was due primarily to protracted legal proceedings challenging the death penalty on constitutional grounds. After much Sturm und Drang, the Supreme Court of the United States, by a divided vote, finally decided that "the death penalty does not invariably violate the Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause of the Eighth Amendment." The Court's decisions, however, do not moot the controversy about the death penalty or render this excellent book irrelevant. The ball is now in the court of the Legislature and the Executive. Leg islatures, federal and state, can impose or abolish the death penalty, within the guidelines prescribed by the Supreme Court. A Chief Executive can commute a death sentence. And even the Supreme Court can change its mind, as it has done on many occasions and did, with respect to various aspects of the death penalty itself, durlog the moratorium period. Also, the people can change their minds. Some time ago, a majority, according to reliable polls, favored abolition. Today, a substantial majority favors imposition of the death penalty. The pendulum can swing again, as it has done in the past.

Author : E. P. Evans
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547011033

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The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals by E. P. Evans Pdf

The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals is a book by E.P. Evans. It covers the history and procedures of killing animals that took the life of human beings, in most cases through no fault of the animals themselves.

Author : Max Decharne
Publisher : Random House
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781409023630

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Capital Crimes by Max Decharne Pdf

Over seven centuries London has changed dramatically - from walled medieval settlement to bustling modern metropolis. But throughout its history there has been one inescapable constant: murder. It winds through the heart of the capital as surely as the River Thames. Capital Crimes tells the story of crime and punishment in the city, from the killing of infamous 'questmonger' Roger Legett during the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 through to the hanging of Styllou Christofi in 1954. Along the way we encounter such shocking characters as railway murderer Franz Muller, the ‘baby farmers’ of Finchley and the notorious political assassin John Bellingham. Some are well known, some obscure; the lives and fates of all, however, have much to tell us, providing a glimpse into the workings of London’s mysterious underworld and reminding us that dark deeds are not so far removed from everyday life as we would perhaps like to believe.

Author : Margaret Truman,Donald Bain
Publisher : Forge Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466804241

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Margaret Truman's Undiplomatic Murder by Margaret Truman,Donald Bain Pdf

Private investigator Robert Brixton has always hated Washington. Against his better judgment, he decides to stick around and take a job as an agent in a new State Department security agency headed by his former boss at the Washington P.D. After work one day he meets his youngest daughter, Janet, for a drink at an outdoor cafe. Shockingly, a young Arabic woman blows herself up, killing Janet and a dozen others. Seeking revenge for his daughter, Brixton follows the tracks of the bomber to a powerful senator's son. Brixton finds himself digging deep into what turns out to be a small but powerful cabal whose goal is to kill embassy workers from nations involved in the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan. Donald Bain thrills again with Undiplomatic Murder, the riveting next installment in the Margaret Truman's beloved Capital Crimes series. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Cesare Bonesana
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781425029265

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Of Crimes and Punishments by Cesare Bonesana Pdf

Author : Brandon Garrett
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674970991

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End of Its Rope by Brandon Garrett Pdf

Today, death sentences in the U.S. are as rare as lightning strikes. Brandon Garrett shows us the reasons why, and explains what the failed death penalty experiment teaches about the effect of inept lawyering, overzealous prosecution, race discrimination, wrongful convictions, and excessive punishments throughout the criminal justice system.