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B9798881448325Hardback. New. hardcover
ria9780198719946_inpPaperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Argues that evidence-based policing is not just the process of evaluating police practices but also about translating that knowledge into digestible and useable forms as well as institutionalizing research processes and findings into paperback
000006751Philadelphia Lippincott 1968 1st . Hardcover . VG/VG-. Some edgewear; few light dings and few dog-eared pages. DJ w/ some rubbing/chipping; two 1/2in CTs plus crease lower front; in new Brodart protector. Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1968, 1st hardcover
1989025303London: Quartet Books Ltd 1989. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 172pp. An account of the depraved regime of Idi Amin in Uganda in the late 1970s where murder torture imprisonment and mutilation were standard methods used on anyone he wanted to by Amin who had been humiliated by the Israeli's Entebbe Raid. The story is told by Wycliffe Kato who had been Assistant Director General of Civil Aviation at the time of his arrest and imprisonment. He tells of his time in custody and how he managed to escape to Nairobi. Very scarce. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8.75 x 5.5 inches. Quartet Books Ltd Hardcover
17338On letterhead of Av. Eugene Rambert 20 1815 Clarens Suisse Switzerland . 1 May 1981. 1p. 8vo. In good condition on lightly aged and worn paper. With envelope addressed by Ambler to Pitt at Kennister in Somerset. Also present are copies of two letters to Ambler from Pitt dated 2 January and 20 February 1980. In the first Pitt congratulates Ambler on the receipt of an OBE reminds him of their previous correspondence through Peter Janson-Smith and sends 'Part I of my trilogy on the North African campaign' 'If it gives you one tenth of the enjoyment I get from every one of your books it will have been worth writing.'. In his letter Ambler apologises for not acknowledging the receipt of PItt's book 'I was in America in January' and regarding one of his own to be sent in return blames a 'part-time secretary' who 'with her nice Swiss sense of the fitness of things sees a book and thinks of postage'. He ends the letter by telling Pitt that he is taking the book 'on a journey as an antidote to boredom. Needless to say I wish you well with parts 2 and 3 of the trilogy'. A postscript reads: 'A.J.P. Taylor said that the OBE was invented by George V to give to stationmasters who whistled off the Royal train to Balmoral. Nowadays I hahve to say they don't attempt to explain why you are being given it. Not a word.' On letterhead of Av. Eugene Rambert 20, 1815 Clarens, Suisse [ Switzerland ]. 1 May 1981. unknown
1874012359Oxford: Clarendon Press 1874 sunned spine lightly rubbed or bumped edges original endpapers with small pencil inscription to fep xii 286pp supplement of 91pp adverts of 39pp the Supplement to the Elements of Law is dated 1875. Second Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7 - 9 tall. Clarendon Press hardcover
2018__395456193XBosworth GmbH 2018. Paperback. New. German language. 12.20x9.45x0.91 inches. Bosworth GmbH paperback
1959025578Springfield Illinois: Charles C. Thomas Publisher 1959. Fine condition in a Very Good dust jacket. Sharp corners. Previous owner's name stamp i.e. Texas Department of Public Safety Polygraph Section Austin. Otherwise all pages are clean and unmarked. Foreword by Franklin D. Johnston. Well illustrated with drawing and diagrams. Tables. Bibliography with 233 entries. Index. Bound in the original gilt-stamped yellow cloth. Complete with dust jacket. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Very Good dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. xvii 243pp. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Charles C. Thomas, Publisher Hardcover
1991001888Akron Ohio: Professional Education Services 1991. Near Fine condition. Clean and unmarked. No owner's name or bookplate. Not a remainder. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. 9" wide by 11" tall. Bound in the original pictorial spiral-bound wraps comb binding. From the Publisher: "Concise well-written security reports are the mark of a top notch security organization. As this practical book points out good report writing skills are key to professional development. These skills require no special talent and are easy enough for anyone to pick up. Officers managers and administrators alike can benefit from the simple `how-to' guidelines and easy-to-follow samples offered here. Contains a complete introduction to event reports and includes sample reports for fire theft and injury. Easy to follow format and helpful examples and exercises. Uses practical tips for improving writing skills." . First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine condition. 166pp. Professional Education Services Paperback
2000x-0309071933National Academies Press 2000. Paperback. New. 58 pages. 9.00x6.00x9.00 inches. National Academies Press paperback
A9780309071932Paperback / softback. New. The Panel on Juvenile Crime: Prevention Treatment and Control convened a workshop on October 2 1998 to explore issues related to educational performance school climate school practices learning student motivation and commitment to school and their relationship to delinquency. The workshop was designed to bring together researchers and practitioners with a broad range of perspectives on the relationship between such specific issues as school safety and academic achievement and the development of delinquent behavior. Education and Delinquencyreviews recent research findings identifies gaps in knowledge and promising areas of future research and discusses the need for program evaluation and the integration of empirical research findings into program design. paperback
17201295341720. First Edition. CRIMINALS. The Dying Speeches and Behaviour of the Several State Prisoners That Have Been Executed the Last 300 Years. London: J. Brotherton and W. Meadows et al. 1720. Octavo modern full dark blue calf elaborately gilt-decorated spine marbled endpapers. $1250.First edition of the last words of almost 100 prisoners executed in Great Britain along with brief accounts of their lives and crimes handsomely bound.Arranged chronologically from Lollard martyr William Sawtre in 1401 to Scottish spy William Gregg in 1708 this compilation presents the final words of prisoners executed for high treason or heresy along with descriptions of their last moments lives and characters. Subjects include Sir Thomas More Mary Queen of Scots King Charles I and Sir Walter Raleigh along with many less well-known names. The preface cites a related but separate work published in 1719 The Compleat Collection of State-Tryals and Proceedings upon Impeachments for High Treason which is now attributed to Thomas Salmon; it seems possible that the anonymously published Dying Speeches may have been compiled by Salmon as well. ESTC T11590. Goldsmiths' I:5916. A few instances of early penciled underlining and bracketing. Early inked owner's name on preliminary leaf; laid-in armorial bookplate of previous owner John Dunning 1st Baron Ashburton the eminent lawyer and politician.Fine condition. unknown
2005012027Langley VA: Central Intelligence Agency 2005. 336pp/illus. This is an in-house unclassified CIA publication. It's an oversized 8" x 11" softcover that provides brief resumes and portraits of the 16 CIA Directors and 17 Deputy Directors plus OSS legendary Chief General Donovan. Clean. 1st Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine/No Jacket - Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Central Intelligence Agency Paperback
195124382Concord N.H.: Common Sense Publishing Co. Inc. 1951. Mild edge rubbing and soiling nearly fine copies. 24382. Small octavo two issues pictorial wrappers. Digest sized magazine. Billed on the front covers "A selection of the best True Crime stories new and old." Authors include Eleazar Lipsky Craig Rice Lillian de la Torre Stuart Palmer James Thurber and others. Published by Lawrence Spivak's Mercury Publications these two issues are perhaps the only two published this cataloger is unsure. Common Sense Publishing Co., Inc. unknown
0964794527.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1939D170012Boston: Little Brown & Co 1939. An expose blaming corrupt local police for the crimes they permitted and championing the Federal Bureau of Investigation to fix the problems. Cooper was a close friend and supporter of J. Edgar Hoover. Second printing. Lightly bumped and rubbed with just a touch of wear at the spine ends sticker scuff on the spine. Square and solid end papers and edges of the text block foxed. Inscribed on the front end paper "To my "neighbor" W. Eldridge Smith with a load of good wishes from Courtney Ryley Cooper." Laid in is a note from Cooper typed and hand signed on his letterhead to Smith and dated May 31 1939. Inscribed By the Author. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Little Brown & Co Hardcover
1901001952Berlin - Dahlem: J. Guttentag 1901. SEE PHOTOS. Very Good condition. Bright clean square tight and unmarked. Handsomely bound with cream cloth spine and corners over marbled-paper covered boards. Decorated endpapers. Page edges are also attractively marbled. No underlining. No margin notes. Text in German. Hans Gustav Adolf Gross 1847 - 1915 is considered the 'father of criminalistics.' Dr. Gross was Examining Magistrate and Professor of Penal Law at the Universities of Czernowitz and Graz. Gross's work was based on the practical application of scientific techniques. His book HANDBUCH FÜR UNTERSUCHUNGSRICTER ALS SYSTEM DER KRIMINALISTIK was published in 1893 and translated into English as CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION in 1907 See p. 222 in THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FORENSIC SCIENCE by Brian Lane Headline Book Publishing PLC 1992. Keywords: Criminal Psychology. Criminalistics. Fingerprinting. Art Forgery. Kriminalpsychologie. Psychische Kriminalistik. Verbrechensbekämpfung. Strafrecht. Strafpolitik. First Edition 1. Auflage. Hardcover. Very Good condition. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. viii 288pp. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. J. Guttentag Hardcover
193629958Detroit: Juvenile Court and the Human Relations Councils of Wayne County 1936. First Edition. Quarto 28cm. Side-stapled mimeographed self-wrappers; illus. Extremities a bit foxed and toned minor wear from handling else Very Good and sound. <br /> <br /> Monthly newsletter that "aims to acquaint the public with the work of prevention councils in Wayne County." Provides short pieces on treatment research and prevention; articles include "Forgiveness Is Not Condonation" "Boys Don't Want to Be Criminals" and "Lock Your Car." No holdings located in OCLC as of April 2024. Juvenile Court and the Human Relations Councils of Wayne County unknown
19602083002116203831Tachibana Shobo Police Department Security Bureau Crime Prevention Division Science Police Research Institute Crime Prevention Juvenile Department 1960. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Tachibana Shobo Police Department Security Bureau Crime Prevention Division Science Police Research Institute Crime Prevention J paperback
1994003453New York: William Morrow and Company Inc. 1994. Appears unread. Fine condition in a Near Fine dust jacket. NOT price clipped $23.00. No chips. No tears. No creases. Bright clean square tight and unmarked. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Pages are fresh and crisp probably unread. Illustrated with photographs facsimiles of police crime scene notes and investigation records evidence and legal documents. "First Edition" is so stated with complete number row 123456789 10 on the copyright page. Bound in the original red cloth spine and gray boards lettered in silver on the spine. From the Dust Jacket: "DEFENDING THE DEVIL is the story of the author's three years trying to keep one of America's most notorious and hated serial killers Ted Bundy out of the electric chair. How does a new lawyer fight a battle that nobody wants her to win. Nelson faced a legal system stacked against her: judges who were willing to bend the law for 'justice'. Even anti-death penalty advocates worked to distance themselves from the case. His own worst enemy Bundy seemed never to understand the severity of his crimes. Through it all stood Nelson defending him from both the system and himself.". First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket. 8vo. 336pp. William Morrow and Company, Inc. Hardcover
193344785New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1933. Book Club Edition. With "H-H" code on copyright page. Octavo 21.5cm; dark blue cloth with titling and decorations stamped in lime green across spine and covers; patterned endpapers; dustjacket; viii2951pp. Inscribed by the author on the dedication page: "For Bill Paxson who likes greyhound racing as much as I do - Best regards - W.R. Burnett." Sunning to spine light wear to extremities with some scattered soil to front cover; contents clean; Very Good or better. Dustjacket is spine-sunned with modest shelfwear several tiny nicks and short tears and a 1.5" closed tear at upper front joint; Very Good. Inscribed copy of Burnett's seventh book a novel set in California and centered around a down-and-out gambler his interaction with gangsters and his love affair with dog racing - particularly with a greyhound named Dark Hazard. Burnett became involved in dog racing for a time while writing the novel and even owned a greyhound named War Cry. Basis for Alfred E. Green's 1934 film of the same name starring Edward G. Robinson and Genevieve Tobin and a 1937 B-picture titled Wine Women and Horses. Hubin p.58; Baird 359. Harper & Brothers Publishers unknown
1524937282.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
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2007029455Las Vegas Nevada: Huntington Press 2007. INSCRIBED / SIGNED by all three: author Frank Cullotta co-author Dennis Griffin & contributor Dennis Arnoldy. Near Fine condition. Only light shelfwear to the cover. Flat uncreased spine. NO chips. NO tears. NO fading. Sharp corners. Bright clean square and tight. NOT a remainder. Autobiography of nearly thirty years as a master thief Chicago Outfit associate and hit man. Cullotta was the technical consultant on the film CASINO. Index. Bound in the original full color pictorial wraps. From the rear cover: "From burglary to armed robbery and murder infamous bad guy Frank Cullotta not only did it all in CULLOTTA he admits to it -- and in graphic detail. This no-holds-barred biography chronicles the life of a career criminal who started out as a thug on the streets of Chicago and became a trusted lieutenant in Tony Spilotro's gang of organized lawbreakers in Las Vegas. Cullotta's was a world of high-profile heists street muscle and information -- lots of it -- about many of the FBI's most wanted. In the end that information was his ticket out of crime as he turned government witness and became one of a handful of mob insiders to enter the Witness Protection Program. 'Frank Cullotta is the real thing' says Nicholas Pileggi in the book's Foreword and in these pages Cullotta sets the record straight on organized crime witness protection and life and death in mobbed-up Las Vegas." . INSCRIBED / SIGNED by Frank Cullotta and 2 others. 1st ed No additional printings listed. Softcover. Near Fine condition. Illus. by NOT a library discard. xvi 296pp. 8 pages of photos. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Huntington Press Paperback
