Beautiful Sydney Delaney makes a desperate attempt to gamble her way into a fortune at the Great Barrier Reef casino, and finds herself losing control of her emotions when she is drawn to the casino's mysterious owner

 The Third Edition of this highly acclaimed book expands on previous editions with coverage of newly emerged theories and empirical updates supported by over 140 new references. Criminological Theory provides coverage of the latest theories in the field without diminishing the presentation of classic analysis. Major theoretical perspectives that have developed from both recent critical work and traditional schools, together with practical applications, compel the reader to apply theories to the contemporary social milieu. A strong emphasis on social policy implications concerning crime and criminals make this a vital text for sociology, criminology, and criminal justice classes.

Product Description: Criminal Behavior explores crime as a developmental process from birth through early adulthood. It further examines the role that legal, political, and criminal justice systems play in the development of criminal behavior. Criminal Behavior: takes into account biological, genetic, developmental, familial, social, educational, cultural, political, and economic factors correlated with crime; references actual cases and events to serve as examples of the principles introduced; critically examines the roles of the criminal and juvenile justice systems and methods of punishment in the development of and response to criminal behavior; explores the effects of crime on victims and looks at correlations between crimes and victim characteristics and behaviors; examines the role of childhood and adolescent behavioral and mental health disorders in the development of criminal behavior; and investigates the differences between criminals and the rest of society, and the differences and similarities between and among criminals...read more

Product Description: Harrell uses several waves of the National Youth Survey to measure whether Agnew's General Strain Theory (GST) could explain the relationship between adolescent victimization and delinquency. She examines the effects of victimization on different types of delinquency across racial and gender groups...read more

Product Description: Now in its third edition, this innovative core text provides a comprehensive and critical introduction to key theories and topics in criminology. Highlighting issues of class, race, and gender, the authors navigate the study of crime and criminals in an accessible and compelling manner...read more

Describes how a romantic obsession with fellow astronaut William Oefelein led astronaut Lisa Nowak to to a planned scheme to murder Air Force Captain Colleen Shipman, her alleged romantic rival, in an in-depth account that looks at the true facts and motivations behind the headline-grabbing case. Original.

Product Description: Written by a leading expert on the subject, Hunting Serial Predators describes the empirical process used to analyze serial murderers' crime scene actions, making it possible to form logical decisions about how to detect and apprehend serial killers...read more

Product Description: The majority of the available published accounts of serial murderers are not in scholarly or technical publications. Even such few academic reviews as do exist typically commence with reference to fictional accounts so that the profile of a serial murderer is typically far from clear or precise...read more

Product Description: In Her Own Words: Women Offenders' Views on Crime and Victimization offers first-hand accounts of women's experience with crime and victimization and provides a rare opportunity for students to view the world from the perspective of the female offender...read more

The author of Pros and Cons and Private Felons documents the criminal activities of today's professional basketball players, charging the NBA and the criminal justice system with complacently tolerating numerous athlete crimes. Reprint.

Small enough to take to the garden center or nursery yet filled with beautiful photos, a handy omnibus gardening guide contains all the gardening information you need to decide which plant varieties to select and how to care for them. Original.

This volume uses a cognitive-behavioral and interactionist approach, integrating international theory and research and moving from broad, theoretical explanations and descriptions of crime toward empirical research on specific criminal offenses. Viewing the criminal offender as being embedded and continually influenced by multiple systems within the psychosocial environment, the book examines the causes, classification, prediction, prevention intervention, and treatment of criminal behavior from a social psychological perspective. The Sixth Edition presents the criminal offender as existing on a continuum, ranging from the serious, repetitive offender that begins his/her criminal career at a very young age to the adolescent-limited offender who usually begins offending during adolescence. This overview provides readers with an explanation of the elements of criminal behavior including juvenile delinquency, developmental factors, the origins of criminal behavior, biological factors, mentally disordered offender, human aggression and violence, criminal homicide and assault, offenses, economic issues, drugs and correctional psychology. For individuals interested in criminal behavior, criminology and the psychology of crime. (view table of contents)

The author of Pros and Cons and Private Felons documents the criminal activities of today's professional basketball players, charging the NBA and the criminal justice system with complacently tolerating numerous athlete crimes. 50,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Product Description: The primary emphasis of this method book is developing the three essential concepts for learning to play a mallet instrument: (1) Learning the names of the notes on the music staff; (2) Learning the value of the notes and how to count them; and (3) Learning where the notes are located on the mallet instrument keyboard...read more

A former FBI profiler journeys into the dark recesses of the criminal mind to determine why sexual sadists do what they do, offering accounts of real-life crimes and the intense search for the perpetrators.

Product Description: This is a uniquely sociologically oriented Criminology text designed to help students cultivate their own "sociological imagination" about crime and criminal justice. The book takes a critical approach and places questions of social inequality and power at the center of criminological inquiry...read more

Explores various viewpoints about the issues of crime in America, with sections on criminal behavior, society's response to juvenile delinquency, and alternative approaches to prevention.

Explores various viewpoints about the issues of crime in America, with sections on criminal behavior, society's response to juvenile delinquency, and alternative approaches to prevention.