True crime

The victim impact statement is an indispensable tool that helps hold the offender accountable for the consequences of a crime.

Vom Imbisswagen zum Drogenimperium – der größte Kriminalfall des OstensKokainhandel, illegales Glücksspiel, Erpressung, Betreiben eines Bordells und Gründung einer kriminellen Vereinigung lautete die Anklage.

This book provides an approachable introduction to food labels.

This book provides an accessible introduction to food inequality in the United States, offering readers a broad survey of the most important topics and issues and exploring how economics, culture, and public policy have shaped our current food landscape.

This captivating resource covers the bloody history of Mexican drug cartels from their rise in the 1980s to the latest round of brutal violence, which has seen more than 125,000 Mexican citizens killed over the past decade.

The state of Yucatan has its own distinct culinary tradition, and local people are constantly thinking and talking about food.

This volume explores our cultural celebration of food, blending lobster festivals, politicians' roadside eats, reality show "e;chef showdowns,"e; and gravity-defying cakes into a deeper exploration of why people find so much joy in eating.

This important work addresses the difficult ethical issues surrounding the accessibility of food to all people as a human right, and not a privilege that emerges because of social structure or benefit of geography.

The first nonfiction volume in the "e;superb series"e; -true crime stories from Bushwick to Borough Park to Brooklyn Heights (The Globe and Mail, Toronto).

Nutritional Anthropology and public health research and programming have employed similar methodologies for decades; many anthropologists are public health practitioners while many public health practitioners have been trained as medical or biological anthropologists.

"e;Not only is this book the best sort of true-crime writing, but it is also a stunning exploration of the concept of manhood in America"e; (Sebastian Junger, New York Times-bestselling author of War).

The availability of food is an especially significant issue in zones of conflict because conflict nearly always impinges on the production and the distribution of food, and causes increased competition for food, land and resources Controlling the production of and access to food can also be used as a weapon by protagonists in conflict.

Foods are changed not only by those who produce and supply them, but also by those who consume them.

This volume offers a comprehensive guide to methods used in the sociocultural, linguistic and historical research of food use.

Biocultural and archaeological research on food, past and present, often relies on very specific, precise, methods for data collection and analysis.

An agricultural revolution is sweeping the land.

Why did Eleanor Roosevelt, in 1957, 12 years after FDRs death, suddenly hire a private investigator to probe the case?

Most people could probably tell you that Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks, but few could say that, when tried, Lizzie Borden was acquitted, and fewer still, why.

It was the most brutal murder in the history of Coffey County, Kansas.

After it was announced that the twenty month-old son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh was abducted, the entire world grieved for their loss.

The objective of this e-book is to share information theory that was emailed to the Aljazeera network in Palestine and the Western government offices in Canada and the USA and Great Britain.

The Black Squares Club is a gripping psycho-sexual detective novel written for themature reader.

The spy agency is Charlies life however he is being challenged by Veronica for the big promotion to run the Spy Land agency.

Grab your thinking as we probe every part of Presleys mysterious death, FBI involvement, and the sinister forces at work during the final days of his career.

A Kansas Notable BookMa Barker and Pretty Boy Floyd once shot their way across the state, and Bonnie and Clyde were known to travel within its borders.

The daily robbing, bashing, drugging, extortion and murder of foreign tourists on Thai soil, along with numerous scandals involving unsafe facilities and well established scams, has led to frequent predictions that Thailands multi-billion dollar tourist industry will self-destruct.

This memoir about a friend's murder-and the mystery surrounding her daughter's role in it-is "e;a true-crime work that digs deeper"e; (Foreword Reviews).

With all that has already been written about President Abraham Lincoln's assassination, one of the little known stories is the case of the only successful conspirator, John Harrison Surratt, the son of Mary Surratt, who was hanged for her part in the crime.

'Listen, Leaf,' Pritchard said, 'the hash is neither here nor there.

When a teenage Sri Lankan au pair goes missing, it's up to the Bradford police to find her.

In Black Metal music, the "e;most evil"e; wins.

President John F.

This volume in the series Sociology of Crime, Law, and Deviance edited by Mathieu Deflem addresses contemporary issues of policing with a focus on the characteristics of police power as a coercive force in society and its continued need for legitimacy in a democratic social order.

In recent years labor relations have altered significantly and new and more serious forms of labor marginalization and control have emerged.

A Good Day to Die is a thought-provoking look into gang violence in Gary.

On December 4, 1969, attorney Jeff Haas was in a police lockup in Chicago, interviewing Fred Hampton's fiancee.

The tragic death of 13-year-old Danny Croteau in 1972 faded from headlines and memories for 20 years until the Boston abuse scandal--a string of assaults within the Catholic Church--exploded in the early 2000s.

Why do Americans alternately celebrate and condemn gangsters, outlaws and corrupt politicians?

These mystifying and spine-tingling stories are just what the doctor ordered and they are all true.

In the early 1930s women practicing criminal law were often held in the same low regard as the clients they served.

Each year, hundreds of thousands of people are reported missing in the United States alone.

As a new attorney, Pamela Braswell was confident her career was about to skyrocket.

An upright citizen kidnapped in public and dumped in a shallow grave.

Since the publication of The Compleat Meadmaker, mead has enjoyed a remarkable resurgence in the United States.

Published in 1912, The Curse of the Tramp is the third book in the series by A-No 1 "e;The Famous Tramp"e; who traveled 500,000 miles for only $7.

In this revised, updated and expanded edition, the author explores the life of Theodore Bundy, one of the more infamous--and flamboyant--American serial killers on record.

The path of Grand Prix racing in America wound through raceways at Sebring, Riverside, Watkins Glen, Long Beach, and finally Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.

Interest in the Jerry Sandusky child abuse scandal swept the nation when the highly-respected Penn State University football coach and founder of a childrens charity was charged with 51 criminal counts involving 10 prepubescent boys.

Dorothea Gray Johanson Montalvo Puente was a female serial killer, an extremely rare phenomenon in the annals of American crime.

Florence Maybrick was the first American woman to be sentenced to death in England--for murdering her husband, a crime she almost certainly did not commit.