Gangs (Opposing Viewpoints (Paperback)) (Opposing Viewpoints (Library))
Slavery Today (Groundwork Guides)
by Kevin Bales and Rebecca Cornell
Forced to work in back-breaking, under- or unpaid jobs from agricultural work to prostitution, slaves today men and women, old and young are trapped in the same spiral of brutality and control they have endured for centuries, with one crucial difference: a collapse in the price of human beings. Globalization, governmental corruption, and the population explosion have thrust billions of people into the pool of potential slaves. This huge surplus of impoverished people has pushed the human pri...
Criminal Justice Professionals (Practical Career Guides)
by Kezia Endsley
Welcome to the criminal justice field! If you are interested in a career in criminal justice, you've come to the right book. So what exactly do these people do on the job, day in and day out? What kind of skills and educational background do you need to succeed in this field? How much can you expect to make, and what are the pros and cons of these various professions? Is this even the right career path for you? How do you avoid burnout and deal with stress? This book can help you answer these qu...
Violence Against Women (Current Controversies (Paperback)) (Current Controversies (Hardcover))
A History of Ambition in 50 Hoaxes (History in 50, #0)
by Gale Eaton
The con artists in this book pursued a variety of ambitions—making money, winning wars, mocking authority, finding fame, trading an ordinary life for a glamorous one—but they all chose the lowest, fastest road to get there. Every hoax is a curtain, and behind it is a deceiver operating levers and smoke machines to make us see what is not there and miss what is. As P.T. Barnum knew, you can short-circuit critical thinking in any century by telling people what they want to hear. Most scams opera...
Jobs in Law Enforcement (Do You Want a Career in Criminal Justice?)
by Corona Brezina
Rosen Verified: The Bill of Rights (Rosen Verified: The Bill of Rights)
John Taliaferro Thompson had a mission: to develop a lightweight, fast-firing weapon that would help Americans win on the battlefield. His Thompson submachine gun could deliver a hundred bullets in a matter of seconds but didn't find a market in the U.S. military. Instead, the Tommy gun became the weapon of choice for a generation of bootleggers and bank-robbing outlaws, and became a deadly American icon. Following a bloody decade and eighty years before the mass shootings of our own time Congre...