Cops, crooks, and criminologists: an international biographical dictionary of law enforcement

This book features more than 600 of the most colorful criminals and crime-stoppers the world has ever known. From Ur-Nammu, who set down the Sumerian system of legal codes around 2100 B.C. to present day law-breakers, this is the guide to the history of crime and law enforcement. Easy-to-read entrie...

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Hauptverfasser: Phillips, Charles 1948- (VerfasserIn), Axelrod, Alan 1952- (VerfasserIn), Kemper, Kurt 1940- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY Checkmark Books 2000
Ausgabe:Updated ed.
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Zusammenfassung:This book features more than 600 of the most colorful criminals and crime-stoppers the world has ever known. From Ur-Nammu, who set down the Sumerian system of legal codes around 2100 B.C. to present day law-breakers, this is the guide to the history of crime and law enforcement. Easy-to-read entries introduce the reader to the perpetrators of groundbreaking crimes and the agents and officers who brought them to justice. Also featured are the significant figures behind landmark achievements in law enforcement techniques and technology as well as historic figures who laid the foundations of modern legal theory. Coverage includes recent changes made to Miranda laws by new Supreme Court rulings; jury nullification of the O.J. Simpson trial; Barry Scheck's attempts to free those wrongly convicted of crimes based on advances in DNA testing; and new laws surrounding child abuse and abduction.
Beschreibung:Frühere Ausg. u.d.T.: Axelrod, Alan: Cops, crooks and criminologists
Beschreibung:XIII, 322 S. Ill.
ISBN:0816030162
0816040761

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