True Crime

Anna Nicole Smith: she was famous for being famous.   She was Americana at its scarlet letter wearing best --a bodacious young girl from Texas who remade herself into the centerfold of the world.   She was a Playboy star, a stripper, a ''gold-digger,'' a ''dumb blonde'' who nevertheless found herself before the Supreme Court of the United States.  Easy to dismiss, she was nevertheless, a complex character -- helpless yet brazen, beautiful yet ugly, outwardly confident yet inwardly frightened. And her tragic life and death evoke an odd mix of fascination and disgust, yet a desperate thirst in millions to discover more and more about who she was and what motivated her. more...

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A behind-the-scenes look at death in New York City. For almost a century, New York City's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner has presided over the dead. Over the years, the OCME has endured everything-political upheavals, ghastly murders, bloody gang wars, the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and non-stop battles for power and influence-and remains the final authority in cases of sudden, unexplained, or violent death. Founded in 1918, the OCME has evolved over decades of technological triumphs and all-too human failure to its modern-day incarnation as the foremost forensics lab in the world, investigating an average caseload of over 15,000 suspicious deaths a year. This is the behind-the-scenes chronicle of public service and private vendettas, of blood in the streets and back-room bloodbaths, and of the criminal cases that made history and headlines. more...

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A gripping tale of personal revolution by a man who went from Crips co-founder to Nobel Peace Prize nominee, author, and antigang activist. When his L.A. neighborhood was threatened by gangbangers, Stanley Tookie Williams and a friend formed the Crips, but what began as protection became worse than the original gangs. From deadly street fights with their rivals to drive-by shootings and stealing cars, the Crips' influence -- and Tookie's reputation -- began to spread across L.A. Soon he was regularly under police surveillance, and, as a result, was arrested often, though always released because the charges did not stick. But in 1981, Tookie was convicted of murdering four people and was sent to death row at San Quentin in Marin County, California. By turns frightening and enlightening, Blue Rage, Black Redemption is a testament to the strength of the human spirit and an invaluable lesson in how rage can be turned into redemption. more...

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Early one quiet Monday morning, in an empty executive office, assistant Janice Denard begins to prepare for another ordinary day - but instead discovers evidence of horrific crimes, shocking photographs left abandoned in a printer. Now, with the help of the LVPD's computer forensics experts, the CSI team must track through hardware and software, deception and deceit to find the perpetrators. more...

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Territorial borders are taking on a significance, the implications of which are relatively unexplored within the discipline of criminology. This book presents the attempt to develop a critical criminology of the border and offers a treatment of the impact of globalisation and mobility. more...

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