Cops, Crooks, & Criminologists: An International Biographical Dictionary of Law Enforcement

Home > Diane Publishing Books >

Our Price: $30.00

Year: 1996
Pages: 321
Binding Hardcover
ISBN 816030162

Product Code: 756775566

Description

Charles Phillips (au); Alan Axelrod (au). Covers the most exciting details from the lives & careers of the world’s most famous & infamous lawbreakers & law enforcers. It features more than 600 of the most colorful criminals & crime-stoppers from around the world. Figures have been selected for inclusion in this book based on their contributions, salutary or adverse, to the development of the practices, principles, & philosophy of law enforcement. Also covers individuals from many professions who influenced police work & criminology. Numerous entries cover the development of specific crime-fighting techniques -- from 19th-century anthropometric identification to the advent of finger printing & DNA testing -- & the cases for which they were implemented. B&W illustrations.

Share your knowledge of this product with other customers... Be the first to write a review