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Criminal investigation Criminal investigation Drama Criminal investigation United States Drama Criminal psychology Dahmer, Jeffrey Gacy, John Wayne Manson, Charles 1934- United States United States. Naval Criminal Investigative Service Drama United States. Naval Criminal Investigative Service.Summary: Sane or insane? Court verdicts and parole decisions alike often hinge on that single crucial question. This program explores the intricacies of psychiatric evaluation and parole risk assessment with forensic psychologist Jeremy Coid, clinical psychologists, a probation officer, and others. The Yorkshire Ripper serial murders, the London Nail Bomber case, the Ipswich Rapist case, the 1999 attack...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Criminal minds revolves around an elite team of FBI profilers who analyze the country's most twisted criminal minds, anticipating their next moves before they strike again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CRISummary: Job opportunities in criminal justice are on the rise. This program looks at a number of different occupations, ranging from entry-level positions to those requiring a four-year degree. Experts and people on the job share firsthand information about what their work is like. Some of the occupations discussed include local and state police officers, detectives, correctional officers, bodyguards,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Fabricant, M. Chris
Summary: "In 2012, the Innocence Project began searching for prisoners convicted by junk science, and three men, each convicted of capital murder, became M. Chris Fabricant's clients. Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System chronicles the fights to overturn their wrongful convictions and to end the use of the "science" that destroyed their lives. Weaving together courtroom battles from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Books 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Soft Moon (Musical group)
Contents: Burn -- Choke -- Give something -- Like a father -- The pain -- It kills -- Ill -- Young -- Born into this -- Criminal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sacred Bones Records 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SOFRudolf, David S.
Summary: "From the fearless defense attorney and civil rights lawyer who rose to fame with Netflix's The Staircase comes an essential examination of America's corrupt and abusive criminal justice system"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 345.73 RUDSummary: In 2001, the last piece of a serial rape/murder case that had tantalized London police for nearly 20 years finally fell into place. In this program, retired FBI profiler Robert Ressler, LAPD psychologist Kris Mohandie, and British law enforcement professionals discuss the history and techniques of criminal profiling within the context of the Railway Rapist crimes that terrorized greater London...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Take an electrifying journey into the unexplored territory of our culture's dark side, and get an up-close and powerfully personal perspective on some of the most savage serial killers in the history of law enforcement.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A & E 2000
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Summary: "A crusading legal scholar exposes the powerful psychological forces that undermine our criminal justice system--and affect us all Our nation is founded on the notion that the law is impartial, that legal cases are won or lost on the basis of evidence, careful reasoning and nuanced argument. But they may, in fact, turn on the temperature of the courtroom, the camera angle of a defendant's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2015
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Summary: "It was a time, much like today, when Americans feared for the future of their democracy and women stood up for equal treatment. At the crossroads of the Watergate scandal and the women's movement stood a young lawyer named Jill Wine Volner (as she was then known), barely thirty years old and in charge of some of the most important prosecutions of high-ranking White House officials. Called "the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WINSummary: Are some people born evil? Steve Jones addresses this question by examining the genetic and social factors that contribute to crime and antisocial behavior. The work of Dutch geneticist Hans Brunner and his discovery of the "crime gene"-the genetic marker for violence-is examined, as lawyers seize upon the research to defend a murderer. Los Angeles geneticist David Comings, who runs a clinic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Brubaker, Ed.
Summary: In spite of all he has going for him, Riley Richards finds himself obsessed with his old life in small-town Brookview, while getting involved in the shady side of life in the city.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Worldwide 2011
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BRUBrubaker, Ed.
Summary: The lives of a boxer, a Vietnam veteran, and a young girl on the wrong track intersect in a graphic story set in the early 1970s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Explore the legally treacherous terrain of white collar crime under the guidance of an acclaimed law school professor."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 345.0268 WHICall number: DVD 345.0268 WHI
Rapping, Jonathan
Summary: "Rapping urges us to understand that meaningful criminal justice reform requires a cultural transformation, and that public defenders, serving as the voice of impacted communities, must be at the center of this effort"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 345.73 RAPSummary: We do not cure anybody, the director of Atascadero State Hospital's Sexually Violent Predator unit frankly admits. Nevertheless, many in the criminal justice community admire Atascadero's relentless efforts to treat the criminally insane. This MSNBC documentary provides an inside look at the facility, which houses several types of offender-from MDOs, or the mentally disordered, to frighteningly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Brubaker, Ed.
Summary: After being lured into a risky heist, professional thief Leo comes face-to-face with the consequences of breaking the career-long rules that have kept him out of trouble and out of prision, finding himself on the run from the crooked cops who double-crossed him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: As crimes committed by youngsters become progressively more violent, the criminal justice system must decide whether harsh sentences given out to adult criminals, including capital punishment, should also apply to violent young offenders. This ABC News Nightline examines the issue through the eyes of young criminals, their families, and attorneys, prosecutors, and law enforcement officials....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1996
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Summary: Revolves around an elite team of FBI profilers who analyze the country's most twisted criminal minds, anticipating their next moves before they strike again. The Behavioral Analysis Unit's most prominent agent is David Rossi, a founding member of the BAU, who returns to help the team solve new cases, while pursuing some unfinished business of his own. Each member brings his or her own area of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CRISummary: Television series about an elite team of special agents that bravely battle spies, kidnappers, murderers and terrorists around the world. This season is marked by mysterious secrets among the cutting-edge crew and an explosive showdown with an elusive arms dealer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The NCIS team is back in action with all 24 suspense-filled episodes of season 9. Special Agent Jethro Gibbs continues to lead the team at the Navel Criminal Investigative Service as they probe into intense military matters, including national security breaches, a secret society of superheroes, and brutal murders, one of which drops them in the heart of Afghanistan and another which leads them...
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Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: NCIS (Naval Criminal Investigative Service) is more than just an action drama. With liberal doses of humor, it's a show that focuses on the sometimes complex and always amusing dynamics of a team forced to work together in high-stress situations. NCIS Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs, a former Marine gunnery sergeant whose skills as an investigator are unmatched, leads this troupe of colorful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: "With the birth of her first child, soon-to-be professor Laura Jean Baker finds herself electrified by oxytocin, the "love hormone"--the first effective antidote to her lifelong depression. Over the next eight years, her "oxy" cravings, and her family, only grow--to the dismay of her husband, Ryan, a freelance public defender. As her reckless baby-making threatens her family's middle-class...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Experiment 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BAKER, LAURA JEAN BAKBoogie Down Productions (Musical group)
Contents: Poetry -- South-Bronx -- 9mm goes bang -- Word from my sponsor -- Elementary -- Dope beat -- P is free (remix) -- Bridge is over -- Super hoe -- Criminal minded -- Poetry (instr.) -- South-Bronx (instr.) -- 9mm goes bang (instr.) -- Word from my sponsor (instr.) -- Elementary (instr.) -- Dope beat (instr.) -- P is free (instr.) -- Bridge is over (instr.) -- Super hoe (instr.) -- Criminal minded...
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Publisher / Publication Date: LandSpeed Records 2001