Inviting students to assume the role of a lead investigator on a case, Murder at 144: Student Investigative File is an active problem-solving text containing hypothetical crimes and fact patterns. The opening section of the text describes a crime that has been called into the local police department. Students review crime scene illustrations, follow case updates, and use example legal documentation to build their case. The investigation culminates in a charge and other court-related outcomes that require the research of relevant case law. Throughout the text, students learn how to solve the crime while using appropriate investigative techniques and correct application of the law. Investigative updates and worksheets are included to help students organize and build their case while learning professional record-keeping and report writing skills. This affordable text/workbook helps students foster their knowledge of crime scene procedures, investigative techniques, interviews, subpoenas, probable cause, search warrants, complaints, arrest warrants, direct versus indirect evidence, plain view evidence, and more. Murder at 144: Student Investigative File is part of From the Files of Fanelli and Moscato: An Investigative Criminal Justice Series, a collection of scenario-based textbooks and active learning materials that help students cultivate critical thinking and investigative skills while applying their knowledge of key criminal justice principles, techniques, and theories.

Inviting students to assume the role of a lead investigator, Murder at 144: A Student Investigative File is a problem-based, active learning text that focuses on evidence processing procedures and crime scene investigations. The text opens with explanations on laboratory protocols, use of crime scene equipment, forensic evidence collection methods, and more. Students are also introduced to a hypothetical crime using problem-based learning including crime scene illustrations, case updates, and example legal documentation. The investigation culminates in a charge and other court-related outcomes that require the research of relevant case law. Students learn how to solve the crime while using appropriate investigative techniques and correct application of the law. Investigative updates and worksheets help students organize and build their case while learning professional recordkeeping and report writing skills. This affordable text helps students foster their knowledge of forensics, crime scene procedures, investigative techniques, interviews, subpoenas, probable cause, search and arrest warrants, and more. The second edition features a new standalone section on how to process a crime scene, along with sectional video tutorials made by a subject matter expert. Murder at 144 is part of From the Files of Fanelli and Moscato: An Investigative Criminal Justice Series, a collection of problem-based textbooks and active learning materials that help students cultivate critical thinking and investigative skills while applying their knowledge of key criminal justice principles, techniques, and theories.

This revised and updated edition of Murder in America presents a pragmatic examination of both common and unusual acts of homicide in the United States.

McLaren develops a historiographical survey on Victorian attitudes toward sexuality and morality, and their relation to violence as he describes the story of Dr. Thomas Cream. Cream murdered prostitutes and women seeking abortions in England and North America between 1877 and 1892.

In the states of the former Confederacy, Reconstruction amounted to a second Civil War, one that white southerners were determined to win. An important chapter in that undeclared conflict played out in northeast Texas, in the Corners region where Grayson, Fannin, Hunt, and Collin Counties converged. Part of that violence came to be called the Lee-Peacock Feud, a struggle in which Unionists led by Lewis Peacock and former Confederates led by Bob Lee sought to even old scores, as well as to set the terms of the new South, especially regarding the status of freed slaves. Until recently, the Lee-Peacock violence has been placed squarely within the Lost Cause mythology. This account sets the record straight. For Bob Lee, a Confederate veteran, the new phase of the war began when he refused to release his slaves. When Federal officials came to his farm in July to enforce emancipation, he fought back and finally fled as a fugitive. In the relatively short time left to his life, he claimed personally to have killed at least forty people--civilian and military, Unionists and freedmen. Peacock, a dedicated leader of the Unionist efforts, became his primary target and chief foe. Both men eventually died at the hands of each other's supporters. From previously untapped sources in the National Archives and other records, the authors have tracked down the details of the Corners violence and the larger issues it reflected, adding to the reinterpretation of Reconstruction history and rescuing from myth events that shaped the following century of Southern politics.