Murder on the Mountain: Crime, Passion, and Punishment in Gilded Age New Jersey, Wosh Peter J., Schall Patricia L.

Автор: Sullivan Kevin M.
Название: The Bundy Murders: A Comprehensive History, 2D Ed.
ISBN: 1476681007 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476681009
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Описание: 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. This in-depth examination of Bundy`s life and his killing spree is drawn from legal transcripts, correspondence and interviews with detectives and prosecutors.

Автор: Webb William
Название: In Love and Murder: Crimes of Passion That Shocked the World
ISBN: 1629177636 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781629177632
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Love is patient. Love is kind. Love is...deadly? For the people in this book, that's certainly the case. They acted out of love and performed some of the most hideous acts of passion in the history of romance.

This short book follows several cases of deadly passion, from the celebrated French woman who had enough of her husband's blatant cheating to the woman who made her husband a few inches shorter. These deadly divas and wannabe studs shocked the world and proved that love can be fatal

Автор: Dekle Sr George R.
Название: Six Capsules: The Gilded Age Murder of Helen Potts
ISBN: 1606353705 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781606353707
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Описание: As Ted Bundy was to the 20th century, so Carlyle Harris was to the 19th. Harris was a charismatic, handsome young medical student with an insatiable appetite. His trail of debauched women ended with Helen Potts, a beautiful young woman of wealth and privilege who was determined to keep herself pure for marriage. Unable to conquer her by other means, Harris talked her into a secret marriage under assumed names, and when threatened with exposure, he poisoned her. The resulting trial garnered national headlines and launched the careers of two of New York’s most famous prosecutors, Francis L. Wellman and William Travers Jerome. It also spurred vigorous debate about Harris’s guilt or innocence, the value of circumstantial evidence, the worth of expert testimony, and the advisability of the death penalty. Six Capsules traces Harris’s crime and his subsequent trial and highlights what has been overlooked — the decisive role that the second-class status of women in Victorian Era culture played in this tragedy. The Harris case is all but forgotten today, but Six Capsules seeks to recover this important milestone in American legal history.

Автор: Nick Fonda
Название: Murder on the Orford Mountain Railway
ISBN: 1771862467 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781771862462
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Описание: On a warm August evening in 1905, a 12-year old boy is shot in the back and killed near the Orford Mountain Railway construction site in rural Quebec. The crime is all the more shocking for being the second such murder on a railway in three days.

Автор: Lewis Jon
Название: Hard-Boiled Hollywood: Crime and Punishment in Postwar Los Angeles
ISBN: 0520284321 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520284326
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: Two spectacular dead bodies-Elizabeth Short, known as the Black Dahlia, found dumped and posed in a vacant lot in January 1947, and Marilyn Monroe, found dead in her home in August 1962-bookend this new history of Hollywood`s postwar transition.

Автор: Lewis Jon
Название: Hard-Boiled Hollywood: Crime and Punishment in Postwar Los Angeles
ISBN: 0520284313 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520284319
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: Two spectacular dead bodies - Elizabeth Short, known as the Black Dahlia, found dumped and posed in a vacant lot in January 1947, and Marilyn Monroe, found dead in her home in August 1962 - bookend this new history of Hollywood`s postwar transition.

Автор: Jerome Gold
Название: In the Spiders Web: A Non-Fiction Novel
ISBN: 193636414X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781936364145
Издательство: Gazelle Book Services
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In the Spider's Web is set in Ash Meadow, a prison for children in Washington State. The story centers on Caitlin Weber, a girl who, in collusion with her mother and four other children, murdered her mother's employer. While the murder is briefly depicted, it is with what happens afterward to two of the perpetrators, particularly Caitlin, that the story is primarily focused.

Arrested less than a week following the murder, Caitlin and her best friend, Sonia, are charged as adults and each sentenced to 22 years in prison. Caitlin was 13 years old; Sonia was 14 years and one week old. Neither had been in legal trouble before. Upon sentencing, they were sent to Ash Meadow where they would stay until they turned 18. Then they would be transferred to Purdy, a prison for adult women, to serve the remainder of their sentences. In the Spider's Web focuses on Caitlin's experience in Ash Meadow and on her relationship with Jerry, her rehabilitation counselor (and the author of this book). Part I of the book provides the reader with a feel for the prison environment that awaits Caitlin, and introduces the reader to the staff and inmates of the Maximum Security unit where Caitlin will live for most of her time in Ash Meadow. Part I also introduces the reader to the relationships between staff, and between staff and the administrators who govern the prison, which relationships will have an effect on Caitlin.

Part II begins with Caitlin's arrival at the prison and the start of her relationship with Jerry. The relationship is rocky at first, because Jerry has the same name and is around the same age as the man Caitlin helped to kill. Although Jerry does not know this at first, Caitlin is effectively haunted by her victim. She is assailed by guilt over what she did, and anger toward her mother whose idea the murder was. She struggles with depression and has contemplated suicide. She wants t deny responsibility for her role in the murder and resents Jerry for bringing up the past when she wants to forget it. But as their relationship progresses, they develop respect and even love for each other, she for him because he does not judge her and because she senses that in some way he is like her; he for her because, despite her sometimes feeling overwhelmed by prison life, something in her insists that she keep trying to better herself, to make life tolerable for herself even in confinement. He is the surrogate for the father who abandoned her when she was small, and she is the daughter he lost when he was divorced.

Eventually Caitlin is transferred to the adult prison at Purdy and Jerry resigns from his job. In an epilogue, the reader sees that their relationship, while changed, continues. Leonard Chang, author of Triplines and Over the Shoulder, provides this testimonial: "In the Spider's Web takes a penetrating look into the lives of juvenile prisoners caught in their traumatized circumstances and struggling to maintain a semblance of normalcy. Jerome Gold has transformed his years of experience as a rehab counselor into a riveting and important narrative, offering insight into a difficult world that is at times harrowing as well as deeply moving. This is a resonant and significant book."

Note: In the Spider's Web is the second book to be published concerning the author's experience as a counselor in Ash Meadow. The first book was published under the title Paranoia & Heartbreak: Fifteen Years in a Juvenile Facility. A third book is underway.

Автор: Shirley Dicks
Название: Victims of Crime and Punishment: Interviews with Victims, Convicts, Their Families, and Support Groups
ISBN: 0786469455 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780786469451
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: This thought-provoking collection of interviews provides an insight into the multi-faceted issue of victims. Topics include personal accounts, support and survival and voices for reform. Also discussed are organisations that provide assistance to victims.

Автор: Hernandez, Kelly Lytle
Название: City of inmates
ISBN: 1469659190 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469659190
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Описание: Los Angeles incarcerates more people than any other city in the United States, which imprisons more people than any other nation on Earth. This book explains how the City of Angels became the capital city of the world's leading incarcerator. Marshaling more than two centuries of evidence, historian Kelly Lytle Hernandez unmasks how histories of native elimination, immigrant exclusion, and black disappearance drove the rise of incarceration in Los Angeles. In this telling, which spans from the Spanish colonial era to the outbreak of the 1965 Watts Rebellion, Hernandez documents the persistent historical bond between the racial fantasies of conquest, namely its settler colonial form, and the eliminatory capacities of incarceration.

But City of Inmates is also a chronicle of resilience and rebellion, documenting how targeted peoples and communities have always fought back. They busted out of jail, forced Supreme Court rulings, advanced revolution across bars and borders, and, as in the summer of 1965, set fire to the belly of the city. With these acts those who fought the rise of incarceration in Los Angeles altered the course of history in the city, the borderlands, and beyond. This book recounts how the dynamics of conquest met deep reservoirs of rebellion as Los Angeles became the City of Inmates, the nation's carceral core. It is a story that is far from over.

Автор: Bob Alexander, Richard K. Alford
Название: Tall Walls and High Fences: Officers and Offenders, the Texas Prison Story
ISBN: 1574418076 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781574418071
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Описание: Provides the first comprehensive history of Texas prisons. Bob Alexander and Richard Alford chronicle the significant events and transformation of the Texas prison system from its earliest times to the present day, paying special attention to the human side of the story.

Автор: Friedman Lawrence M., Percival Robert V.
Название: The Roots of Justice: Crime and Punishment in Alameda County, California, 1870-1910
ISBN: 0807897485 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780807897485
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Описание: Focusing on a single county at a time when the population grew from 24,000 to 246,000, the authors combine statistical analysis of documentary sources, contemporary newspaper accounts, and exploration in criminal case files to give a detailed reconstruction of the operations of the county`s entire criminal justice system.

Автор: White Richard
Название: Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University
ISBN: 1324004339 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781324004332
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: A premier historian penetrates the fog of corruption and cover-up still surrounding the murder of a Stanford University founder to establish who did it, how and why