criminals

Provides narrative accounts of ten real-life crimes of passion.

Contains twelve articles in which the authors provide various perspectives on alternatives to prisons, debating whether incarceration reduces crime, and discussing different types of courts, prison overcrowding, electronic monitoring, and other topics.

Macy and Danny, two teenage boys who have both grown up under difficult circumstances, turn out very differently--one becomes a hero, the other a murderer.

Examines the debate over whether rehabilitation should be the goal of punishment for crime in the United States, looking at various theories of crime deterrence, and discussing specific prison populations, and the death penalty.

Contains over 450 alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about various aspects of the Mafia, covering people, places, schemes, crimes, and culture.

Describes the rape and murder of seven-year-old Megan Kanka in 1994 and the subsequent development of Megan's Law, which requires that communities be notified when convicted sex offenders move into them; and discusses the arguments for and against such notification.

Chronicles Rubin Carter's twenty-year imprisonment, discussing why he was accused of three murders he did not commit, how racial issues affected the outcome of his trial, how he earned the support of celebrities, and why a group of Canadians decided to help him prove his innocence.

Profusely illustrated text describes gangsters of the 1920s and 1930s.

In the first half of the book, entitled The villians, you will meet outlaws such as Jesse and Frank James, Butch Cassidy, Billy the Kid, John Dillinger, Charles "Lucky" Luciano and many more. The second half, entitled The deeds, describes the exploits of well-known outlaws and mobsters and profiles 20 crimes that shocked the United States.

A fictionalized account of the life and career of legendary gangster Jack "Legs" Diamond, as seen through the eyes of his attorney, Marcus Gorman.