A riveting true story about the notorious 1924 Leopold-Loeb murder case.

"Why do we do the things we do? Over a decade in the making, this game-changing book is Robert Sapolsky's genre-shattering attempt to answer that question as fully as perhaps only he could, looking at it from every angle. Sapolsky's storytelling concept is delightful but it also has a powerful intrinsic logic: he starts by looking at the factors that bear on a person's reaction in the precise moment a behavior occurs, and then hops back in time from...

In Sara Learns about Police Officers, Sara develops a newfound appreciation for law enforcement while learning some of the fun things they get to do and the kinds of positive interactions police officers make within the community. Sara Learns about Police Officers is a great educational guide to help parents and educators alike, teach children the importance of a good, strong bond with law enforcement.

Winner of the VanCity Book Prize, Unruly Women: The Politics of Confinement & Resistance is the seminal book about women's imprisonment that helped spark examinations around the world into the special circumstances women face in prison, as well as the sex and gender crimes that get them there. Most women who are incarcerated do not pose a danger to society but transgress patriarchal, capitalist norms that seek to control their bodies and choices,...

There's no question that law enforcement officers are under intense scrutiny. In high-profile Canadian cases like Robert Dziekanski and Willie Pickton, police are blamed by a critical public and the media for everything from excessive use of force to allowing criminals to get away with murder. In Souls Behind the Badge, retired veteran RCMP officer Wayne Ryan describes in graphic detail the emotional trauma the job inflicts on those who serve and...

Topics include: Chicago's Criminals, Politicians, and Joseph Ragen's Career; Controlling Time and Space in a Prison; Stateville's Daily Schedule In Detail; Control of the Guards; Control of Inmates; Beatings and Violence; The Inmate Economy. and much more.

Way ahead of its time, in this classic text the authors convincingly introduce social science theory and methods to the field of private security. While they deal with the various approaches to private security including management styles and adaptations of regular policing styles, the significant innovation is the introduction of situational crime prevention -- at the time virtually unknown in the private policing field -- as a major tool of private...

L'adoption de la Loi sur le système de justice pénale pour adolescents (LSJPA)en 2003, en remplacement de la Loi sur les jeunes contrevenants, a eu des répercussions certaines dans les milieux d'intervention dédiés aux adolescents contrevenants. Conçue en fonction du principe de proportionnalité entre la gravité du délit et la sévérité de la sentence, elle préconise autant que possible le recours à des mesures non judiciaires avant que...

This was one of the first social science books to recognize migration as THE issue of the 21st century. The issue of immigration and crime in all of its many contexts and forms, is a problem which increasingly affects numerous countries throughout the world. In many countries, immigrants have been accused of disproportionate involvement in crime while, in others, immigrants are often claimed to be the victims of criminal offenders, as well as indifferent...

Get the Summary of Tom Wright & Bradley Hope's Billion Dollar Whale in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In 2009, a chubby, mild-mannered graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business named Jho Low set in motion a fraud of unprecedented gall and magnitude - one that would come to symbolize the next great threat to the global financial system. Over a decade, Low,...