Social services and welfare, criminology

George W.

From the critically acclaimed author of Every Last Fear and The Night Shift, a gripping thriller about one young man's search for the truth after an inexplicable crime leaves his world torn apart.

When foster carer Maggie Hartley meets Sean and Sheila, they're facing every parent's worst nightmare.

Incarceration has a long and inglorious history, from dungeons in the bowels of castles to oppressive penal colonies in Australia.

'Could I do that, Maggie?

Planned Giving is the next great frontier in philanthropy.

Nikola Tesla dreamed of a wireless future.

The definitive study of John Wayne Gacy—from his abusive childhood to the murders of thirty-three boys—based on four years of investigative reporting.

'Confessions of an English Opium-Eater' (1821) is an autobiographical account written by Thomas De Quincey, about his laudanum (opium and alcohol) addiction and its effect on his life.

Widespread poverty continued to exist in Durham at the start of the twentieth century.

Twelve-year-old Meg arrives at Maggie's after a fire destroys the children's home she's been living in.

In the fight against crime, science and technology now play the leading role in many of the big police investigations making news headlines.

The Mafia began on the small Mediterranean island of Sicily.

Mike i Elvis ćwiczą przed wieczornym koncertem.

The Mafia Files presents the rap sheets of key figures in the Italian-American underworld, featuring Lupo the Wolf, the Teflon Don, Joey 'the Clown' Lombardo, Tony 'Joe Batters' Accardo and many more.

Nikola Tesla was a genius who revolutionized how the world looks at electricity.

City Kid can either be read as a full-length eBook or in 3 serialised eBook-only parts.

Jeffrey Dahmer committing his first murder with a fear of being left alone, then went on luring young boys and keeping souvenirs of their skulls.

The diminutive Joaquin Guzman Loera, known universally by his nickname of 'El Chapo' ('Shorty' in Spanish), is the highest-profile narco-terrorist since the demise of Pablo Escobar in the 1990s.

SOMEONE'S ABOUT TO TURN THEIR LAST PAGE.

Revenge killings, gangland shootouts, brutal executions and drownings - there was no escape from the Mob's hitmen.

Anarchism is generally defined as the political philosophy which holds the state to be undesirable, unnecessary, and harmful, or alternatively as opposing authority in the conduct of human relations.

'With biting, mordant humor, Chilton sends readers on a serial killer hunt for our disassociated, true-crime-obsessed social media age.

How do you begin to rebuild the confidence of a child with no home?

My background is crowded with robberies, burglaries, and thefts too numerous to recall.

Criminal profiling has been seen more and more in newspapers and on TV.

Sent to Reformatory at the age of 10, Sicilian-American Sam Giancana lived a gilded life as mobster and mob boss at a pivotal point in history when the mafia decided who ruled America, who lived and who died.

Anyone who had read "e;The Greatest Thing in the World"e; could not help but desire to see and hear its author; and, when Professor Drummond visited Boston in the spring of 1893, the capacity of lecture halls was taxed to the utmost.

Public Opinion exposes how media can shape public perception and how that perception changes society.

A British detective superintendent recounts a remarkable ten-year investigation, and other compelling murder cases he worked in his long police career.

An utterly gripping thriller from TOP 20 BESTSELLER O.

Linda Fairstein unmasks the true face of psychopathy, and reveals the warning signs that every woman should knowThe 2009 “Craigslist Killer” murder case shocked America, not just because of the heinous nature of the crimes but because their perpetrator—a handsome young law student with an unsuspecting girlfriend—seemed a very unlikely suspect.