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Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
Language
English
Description
For one hundred years, criminologists have studied crime and intelligence, concluding that offenders possess IQ scores eight to ten points below those of non-offenders. Although the criminal genius is one of the most cherished villains in history, literature, and film, little is actually known about the criminal behavior of those with above-average IQ scores. This study provides some of the first empirical information about the self-reported crimes...
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xiv, 481 pages)
Language
English
Description
"This sociology of deviance textbook draws on up-to-date scholarship across a spectrum of deviance categories, providing a symbolic interactionist analysis of the deviance process. The book addresses positivistic theories of deviant behavior within a more encompassing description of the deviance process that includes the work of deviance claims-makers, rule-breakers, and social control agents. Cross-cultural and historical treatment of deviance categories...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Martin H. Ehrengraf, dapper and diabolical, may be Lawrence Block's darkest creation. He's the defense attorney who never sees the inside of a courtroom, because all his clients are innocent--no matter how guilty they may seem. Some even believe themselves to be guilty: they remember pulling the trigger, or wiring the dynamite to their spouse's car, or holding the bloody blade. But things have a way of working out when Martin Ehrengraf is on the...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From an award-winning Mother Jones editor comes the inside story of the decades-long search for identifiable profiles and warning signs of mass shooters, by way of the specialized teams of psychologists, cops, and ordinary citizens working to predict andprevent violence in America--a fearless, in-depth, and ultimately redemptive account of an epidemic that desperately needs solving"--
Author
Language
English
Description
At the start of his second adventure, Artemis is at boarding school in Ireland when he receives an urgent video e-mail from Russia. In it is a plea from a man who has been kidnapped by the Russian Mafia--a man Artemis had thought never to see again: his beloved father. Artemis must join forces with the fairies instead of battling them if he wants to save one of the few people in the world he loves.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
With the help of Lieutenant Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman raises the stakes on his war on crime and sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that plague the city streets. The partnership proves to be effective, but they soon find themselves prey to a reign of chaos unleashed by a rising criminal mastermind known to the terrified citizens of Gotham as The Joker. The Joker, whose eerie grin, laughter, and inhuman...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The United States currently holds the distinction of housing nearly one-quarter of the world's prison population. But our reliance on mass incarceration, Fox Butterfield argues, misses the intractable reality: As few as 5 percent of families account for half of all crime, and only 10 percent account for two-thirds. In introducing us to the Bogle family, the author invites us to understand crime in this eye-opening new light. He chronicles the malignant...
9) Be cool
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chili Palmer is tired of the producing movies after being forced to make a useless sequel. When a music producer friend is gunned down, he offers to help his widow run the business. Checking out a talented singer that his friend had been talking to him about puts Chili at odds with her sleazy music manager, his gay bodyguard, and his equally sleazy partner. The mismanagement of the music company also gets Chili threatened by members of the Russian...
10) Give unto others
Author
Series
Guido Brunetti mysteries volume 31
Commissario Brunetti
A Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery volume 31
Commissario Brunetti
A Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery volume 31
Language
English
Description
"What role can or should loyalty play in the life of a police inspector? It's a question Commissario Guido Brunetti must face and ultimately answer in Give unto Others, Donna Leon's splendid thirty-first installment of her acclaimed Venetian crime series. Brunetti is approached for a favor by Elisabetta Foscarini, a woman he knows casually, but her mother was good to Brunetti's mother, so he feels obliged to at least look into the matter privately,...
11) The butler
Author
Language
English
Description
"Joachim von Hartmann was born and raised in Buenos Aires by his loving German mother, inseparable from his identical twin. When Joachim moves to Paris with his mother in his late teens, his twin stays behind and enters a dark world. Meanwhile, Joachim begins training to be a butler, fascinated by the precision and intense demands, and goes on to work in some of the grandest homes in England. His brother never reappears. Olivia White has given ten...
Author
Publisher
Super Genius
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 volume (unpaged)) : color illustrations
Language
English
Description
Welcome to Titan City, a metropolis where everyone's hiding secrets and there's no one to trust. In a corrupt world where everyone is looking to cash in, three larger-than-life combatants collide. John Cena's been framed for a crime he didn't commit. Randy Orton's on the verge of achieving city-wide power. And CM Punk is determined to bring the whole corrupt system crashing down. From the scheming south side to the barren desert no man's land where...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (ca. 392 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Inspector Alleyn has the upper crust contacts and manners, but like more modern detectives, he's a bona fide cop. Offers elegant country house settings, complex cases, and a detective who works for Scotland Yard. Agatha Troy is the Inspector's independent and insightful lady friend.
14) Hearts of darkness: serial killers, the Behavioral Science Unit, and my life as a woman in the FBI
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jana Monroe was no ordinary cop. One of the first analysts—and, at the time, the only female agent—in the world-renowned FBI Behavioral Sciences Unit at Quantico, she consulted on more than 850 homicide cases, including infamous serial killers Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, Edmund Kemper, and Aileen Wuornos. Monroe was also the model for Clarice Starling in the movie version of The Silence of the Lambs; she even helped train Jodie Foster for her...
15) Blackbeard
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (170 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the 18th century, Blackbeard stood out among the lawless rogues as the most fearsome and notorious seafarer of them all. He killed for the reputation which is now legend. The true story of pirate Edward Teach, the man who terrorized the seas.
16) After the sunset
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two master thieves are finally retiring after one last incredibly succesful heist. Moving to the Bahamas to reside in their own tropical paradise, the pair's old nemesis, FBI Agent Stan P. Lloyd shows up to make sure they really are retired. Docked in the port is a ocean liner called the "Diamond Cruise" and Stan is convinced that they're not really retired at all, and that this is just the next set up. While Lola is busy settling into their new life,...
17) Kidnapped
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 150 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Robert Louis Stevenson's coming-of-age adventure is back and breathtaking, in this widely heralded presentation bursting with scoundrels and scallywags, villains and heroines, and two memorable heroes who will stop at nothing in their quest for justice.
18) Tsotsi
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Zulu
Description
A young man running with a criminal gang on the streets of Johannesburg, Tsotsi - a nickname meaning thug - is immersed in a world of violence that seems to leave him unaffected, until he discovers an infant in the backseat of a car he has stolen.
20) Incredibles 2
Publisher
Disney Pixar
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
2 blu-rays (approximately 111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Bob Parr, Mr. Incredible, is left to care for Jack-Jack while Helen, Elastigirl, is out saving the world
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