For more than 70 years, Al Capone has been equated with wealth, violence, and corruption. As America's most infamous criminal, he has intrigued, attracted, and repulsed the general public with his legendary criminal deeds. This concise biography separates the myth from the man. Beginning with a historical look at corruption in American society--along with a clarification of the terms Black Hand, Mafia, and Organized Crime--Capone is presented in his own time and place. A timeline summarizes the events of his life and career.
Junius Wilson (1908-2001) spent 76 years at a state mental hospital in Goldsboro, North Carolina, including 6 in the criminal ward. He had never been declared insane by a medical professional or found guilty of any criminal charge. But he was deaf and black in the Jim Crow South. Unspeakable is the story of his life. In addition to offering a bottom-up history of life in a segregated mental institution, Burch and Joyner's biography also enriches the traditional interpretation of Jim Crow by highlighting the complicated intersections of race and disability as well as of community and language.
The best plain-English book on criminal law available! The criminal justice system is a complex maze, full of confusing rules and procedures. Fortunately, you can turn to this book for clear and complete explanations. The Criminal Law Handbook answers your questions about every part of a criminal case. Find out everything you've ever wanted to know about how the system works and why police, lawyers and judges do what they do.
Appropriate for high school students and above as well as for general readers, this two-volume reference, in a thoughtful, non-sensational manner, presents criminal cases of the past 100 years that have caught the attention of the public for various reasons.
AUDIOBOOK: Cleanskin
Cleanskin is a taut psychological thriller, from Val McDermid. Jack
Farrell, a 'cleanskin' (a known career criminal with no convictions)
disappears after his daughter is killed in a targeted arson attack.
When his body washes up on a Suffolk beach, the CID assume a
grief-stricken suicide, but then Farrell's enemies start to be murdered
in the most horriffic ways... Told from the perspective of the
investigating cop, Andy Martin, this is hard boiled crime fiction of
the highest order.
Synopsis
When career criminal Jack Farlowe's body is found washed-up on a
Suffolk shore, it looks to the police like a clear-cut case.
Broken-hearted at his daughter's death, he has drowned himself - good
riddance and one less crime to solve, according to CID.
Then again, maybe not. For, one by one, Farlowe's enemies are being
killed. And the horrific manner of their deaths makes drowning look
like a day at the beach
