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Caught! : nabbing history's most wanted / by Bragg, Georgia,author.(CARDINAL)492334; O'Malley, Kevin,1961-illustrator.(CARDINAL)367098;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-212) and index.Joan of Arc: certifiably Joan -- Sir Walter Raleigh: rhyming Raleigh -- Caravaggio: the brush is mightier than the sword -- Blackbeard: burning man -- John Wilkes Booth: leading bad guy -- Jesse James: momma's boy -- Billy the Kid: I won't grow up - Mata Hari: I spy a bad girl -- Typhoid Mary: don't eat where you poop -- Rasputin: super creep -- Vincenzo Peruggia: the invisible man -- Bernard Otto Kuehn: secret agent man -- Anna Anderson: duchess doppelganger -- Al Capone: the world according to Al Capone."A humorous look at how famous people got caught, including Joan of Arc, Blackbeard, Al Capone, and more! From the award-winning team that brought you How They Croaked and How They Choked. Outlaw, assassin, art thief, and spy, these fourteen troublemakers and crooks--including Blackbeard the pirate, Typhoid Mary, and gangster Al Capone--have given the good guys a run for their money throughout the ages. Some were crooked, some were deadly, and some were merely out of line--but they all got Caught! as detailed in this fascinating and funny study of crime, culture, and forensic science. FEATURING HISTORY'S MOST WANTED: Joan of Arc, Sir Walter Raleigh, Caravaggio, Blackbeard, John Wilkes Booth, Jesse James, Billy the Kid, Mata Hari, Typhoid Mary, Rasputin, Vincenzo Peruggia (Mona Lisa thief), Bernard Kuehn (Pearl Harbor spy), Anna Anderson (Anastasia impersonator), and Al Capone"--Ages 10-14.Grades 4-6.1020LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Biographies.; Informational works.; Humor.; Illustrated works.; Young adult literature.; Young adult literature.; Criminals; Arrest (Police methods); Arrest; Crime;
Available copies: 19 / Total copies: 23
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A professional's guide to ending violence quickly : how bouncers, bodyguards, and other security professionals handle ugly situations / by MacYoung, Marc.(CARDINAL)782226;
Subjects: Arrest (Police methods); Police, Private; Bodyguards; Bouncers; Hand-to-hand fighting.; Self-defense.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Harold & Kumar escape from Guantanamo Bay [videorecording] / by Kahane, Nathan,film producer.; Shapiro, Greg,film producer.; Hurwitz, Jon,1977-film director,screenwriter,creator.(CARDINAL)817566; Schlossberg, Hayden,1978-film director,screenwriter,creator.(CARDINAL)815211; Cho, John,1972-actor.(CARDINAL)864312; Penn, Kal,1977-actor.(CARDINAL)344841; Corddry, Rob,actor.(CARDINAL)340059; Conley, Jack(Actor),actor.; Bart, Roger,actor.(CARDINAL)848106; Harris, Neil Patrick,1973-actor.(CARDINAL)349120; Okada, Daryn,1960-cinematographer.; Kingsgate (Firm),production company.; Mandate Pictures (Firm),presenter.; New Line Cinema Corporation,presenter.(CARDINAL)340619; New Line Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.(CARDINAL)356389;
Director of photography, Daryn Okada ; editor, Jeff Freeman ; music, George S. Clinton ; costume designer, Shawn Holly Cookson ; production designer, Tony Fanning.John Cho, Kal Penn, Rob Corddry, Jack Conley, Roger Bart, Neil Patrick Harris.Harold and Kumar take an ill-fated flight to Amsterdam, but Kumar's suspicious-looking bong is mistaken for a bomb. Their arrest prompts a racist Homeland Security official to send the boys to indefinite lockup at Guantanamo Bay. Once there, they watch as beefy guards sexually subjugate 'enemy combatants.' The guys manage to get away and make it back to the U.S., hoping the well-connected fiancé of Kumar's old girlfriend, Vanessa, can get them out of their mess. During a dangerous and grotesque odyssey to Texas, Harold and Kumar have encounters with the Ku Klux Klan, a one-eyed, inbred monster, and old friend Neil Patrick Harris, who swallows fistfuls of magic mushrooms and drags the boys to a brothel stop that goes terribly wrong.Unrated.Blu-ray; Region A, wide screen (1.85:1) presentation; Dolby Digital DTS-HD 7.1 surround, MA3 mbps variable 24 bit, High-Definition 1080p, 14mpbs or higher; Blu-ray player required.
Subjects: Feature films.; Comedy films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Drug paraphernalia; Arrest (Police methods); United States. Department of Homeland Security; Prisons;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Harold & Kumar escape from Guantanamo Bay [videorecording] / by Adomian, James.; Bart, Roger.(CARDINAL)848106; Cho, John,1972-(CARDINAL)864312; Conley, J. N.; Conley, Jack.; Corrdry, Rob.; D'Angelo, Beverly.(CARDINAL)346721; Garcés, Paula,1974-; Harris, Danneel.; Harris, Neil Patrick,1973-(CARDINAL)349120; Hurwitz, Jon,1977-(CARDINAL)817566; Kahane, Nathan.; Munoz, Mark.; Penn, Kal,1977-(CARDINAL)344841; Pyle, Missi,1972-; Reep, Jon.; Schlossberg, Hayden,1978-(CARDINAL)815211; Shapiro, Greg.; Winter, Eric.; Kingsgate (Firm); Mandate Pictures (Firm); New Line Cinema Corporation.(CARDINAL)340619; New Line Home Entertainment (Firm)(CARDINAL)356389;
Director of photography, Daryn Okada ; editor, Jeff Freeman ; music, George S. Clinton ; costume designer, Shawn Holly Cookson ; production designer, Tony Fanning.John Cho, Kal Penn, Rob Corddry, Jack Conley, Rogert Bart, Neil Patrick Harris, Danneel Harris, Eric Winter, Paula Garcés, Jon Reep, Missi Pyle, Mark Munoz, James Adomian, Beverly D'Angelo.Harold and Kumar take an ill-fated flight to Amsterdam, but Kumar's suspicious-looking bong is mistaken for a bomb. Their arrest prompts a racist Homeland Security official to send the boys to indefinite lockup at Guantanamo Bay. Once there, they watch as beefy guards sexually subjugate 'enemy combatants.' The guys manage to get away and make it back to the U.S., hoping the well-connected fiancé of Kumar's old girlfriend, Vanessa, can get them out of their mess. During a dangerous and grotesque odyssey to Texas, Harold and Kumar have encounters with the Ku Klux Klan, a one-eyed, inbred monster, and old friend Neil Patrick Harris, who swallows fistfuls of magic mushrooms and drags the boys to a brothel stop that goes terribly wrong.Unrated.DVD, region 1, widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 EX surround, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo. surround.
Subjects: Comedy films.; Feature films.; Fiction films.; Road films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Comedy films.; Comedy films.; Feature films.; Fiction films.; Road films.; United States. Department of Homeland Security; United States. Dept. of Homeland Security; United States. Dept. of Homeland Security; Arrest (Police methods); Drug paraphernalia; False imprisonment; Feature films.; Prisons; Arresto; Uso de drogas; Arrest (Police methods); Drug paraphernalia; Prisons;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 10
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Handcuffed : what holds policing back, and the keys to reform / by Sparrow, Malcolm K.,author.;
"The police shooting of an unarmed young black man in the St. Louis, Missouri, suburb of Ferguson earlier this year sparked riots and the beginning of a national conversation on race and policing. Much of that conversation has focused more on social issues. Malcolm Sparrow, who teaches at Harvard's Kennedy School and is a former British police detective, argues in this new book that there is another dimension that played a role not only in Ferguson but in many other high-profile police killings of unarmed blacks: the character of policing itself. Sparrow shows how police departments across America have shelved the traditional ideas of community policy-the cop on the beat how knows his or her neighborhood and its inhabitants-and also simple problem solving when it comes to crime to focus on crime reduction. That has meant a reliance on quantitative methods where police define how well they are doing by tallying up how many traffic tickets have been issued (Ferguson), or arrests made for petty crimes (Eric Garner selling nontaxed cigarettes in New York). The list goes on. Police departments need to shed this reliance on crime reduction metrics and mindsets and turn back to making public safety, and public cooperation, their primary goals"--
Subjects: Police; Public safety; Race discrimination; Police.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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A death in Harlem : a novel / by Holloway, Karla F. C.,1949-author.(CARDINAL)274864;
The fall -- Weldon Haynie Thomas -- Harlem night -- Bound north blues -- Political parties -- The Ninth Annual Opportunity Awards banquet -- Misadventure? -- The morning after -- Downtown-upper east -- Harlem, in between -- After the fall -- The thirtieth precinct-Harlem -- Rumor, gossip, and innuendo -- Indictment -- Obsequies -- Arrested -- The Omada -- Police court -- The brothers' law -- Waiting for Weldon -- Before the fall -- The Harlem Branch Library -- Passing -- Rooms with a view -- Cinnamon and salt -- Color struck -- Just spring -- Witness -- Keys -- Office visit -- Evidence -- Eyes on the prize -- The Palmer method -- Vermilion Parish -- Blood will out -- One too many -- Reshelving -- Without sanctuary -- Minding the gap -- The Omada collection -- Common ground."Renowned African American studies scholar Karla Holloway has been working on her first novel, "A Death in Harlem," for some years, as she blazed bright, consequential, and broad trails as a professor, dean, and administrator at Duke University. In this Harlem Renaissance mystery, Weldon Haynie Thomas is Harlem's first "colored" policeman, blessed with insight, humor, resourcefulness, and a deep intuition. (While Haynie is a fictional creation, the first African American policeman in NYC, Samuel Battle, also served during this time period, between 1911-1941.) "A Death in Harlem" improvises and extends the plot of Nella Larsen's "Passing" by asking "what happened after the fall?" Officer Thomas investigates the light-enough-to-pass woman who jumped? fell? was pushed? from the Hotel Theresa during the Opportunity Magazine Awards Banquet. While A Death in Harlem is lively and conversational, it's also informed by a deep knowledge of African American culture and history -- which support pointed critiques of the relationships between Harlem's Sugar Hill colored folk, and the regular folk uptown, for instance. Impeccably researched and confidently written, "A Death in Harlem" is a life's work -- an especially fun, stylish, and edifying read"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Novels.; African Americans; African American police; Homicide investigation;
Available copies: 14 / Total copies: 14
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Maigret and the tall woman / by Simenon, Georges,1903-1989,author.(CARDINAL)141186; Watson, David(Translator),translator.(CARDINAL)622075;
A visit from a tall, thin woman he arrested many years ago; now married to a hapless burglar;leads Maigret on a tortuous investigation in which he struggles with a formidable suspect. The thirty-eighth book in the new Penguin Maigret series. A face from Maigret's past reappears to tell him about the misadventures of her husband, a safecracker nicknamed "Sad Freddie" who discovered a dead body while committing a burglary and fled the scene in a panic. In a race against the clock, Maigret must use his full arsenal of investigative methods to solve the crime.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Maigret, Jules (Fictitious character); Police; Murder; Burglary investigation; Police.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Bigfoot : the life and times of a legend / by Buhs, Joshua Blu.(CARDINAL)464122;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-267) and index.Preface -- Dramatis personae -- 1. Wildmen -- Wildmen through history -- What-is-it -- The Abominable Snowman -- The life and times of Bigfoot -- 2. Yeti : 1951-1959 -- Sensation -- The Yeti, science, and Zadig's method -- Britain hunts the Yeti -- America hunts the Yeti -- What the evidence told -- 3. Sasquatch : 1929-1958 -- The great Sasquatch hunt -- The kidnapping of Albert Ostman -- "Occam's razor cuts on the side of the Sasquatch" -- Slick eyes the Sasquatch -- 4. Big Foot : 1958 -- The folkloric origins of Bigfoot -- Big Foot makes the papers -- The confirmed and converted confront Bigfoot -- Humbug! -- "Maybe Bigfoot is lost relative of old 'Sasquatch'" -- 5. ABSMery : 1959-1961 -- The (weird, wacky) wonderful world of Ivan T Sanderson -- ABSMery -- The Pacific Northwest Expedition -- Enter Peter Byrne -- The wipe : or true's trouble with truth, and Ivan Sanderson's -- 6. Melting the Snowman : 1961-1967 -- Melting the Snowman -- Sanderson's failed debunking of the debunking -- The quiet years -- Big Foot daze -- 7. The return of Bigfoot : 1967-1980 -- Bigfoot filmed! -- Making sense of the movie -- The return of Bigfoot -- Bozo, the Minnesota Iceman -- Bigfoot on tour -- The secret of Sasquatch -- 8. A contest for dignity : 1969-1977 -- The Bigfoot community -- Cripplefoot -- The center that wasn't -- Hoaxing, the unconquerable problem -- The laughter curtain -- 9. Cryptozoology : 1978-1990 -- Grover Krantz, Sasquatch scientist -- Anthropology of the unknown -- Cryptozoology -- Science police -- "Definitive proof" -- Arrested by the science police -- 10. The death of Bigfoot? 1980-2002 -- The green man -- The death of Bigfoot -- "The most abominable hoaxer" -- Bigfoot is dead! Long live Bigfoot! -- Not the end, but an end -- Curse of the Sasquatch -- Bibliography -- Index.
Subjects: Sasquatch.;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 6
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Crime victim's guide to justice / by Boland, Mary L.(CARDINAL)642243;
Using self-help law books -- Introduction -- 1: Victim In The Criminal Justice System -- Rights of victims -- Constitutional rights -- Rights of crime victims -- Family members and loved ones -- Witnesses -- Technology and crime -- Technology and victims -- Enforcing your rights -- 2: Getting Help -- Impact of crime -- Victim-assistance programs -- Hotline services -- Crisis counseling -- Crime victim advocate -- Lawyers for crime victims -- Finding help -- 3: Understanding Criminal Law -- Overview -- Criminal law -- Types of crimes -- Elements of crimes -- Offender -- State's case -- Defense's case -- 4: Police -- Reporting the crime -- Role of hospitals and medical personnel -- Police investigation -- Rights of the victim -- Arrest of the offender -- What if police do not make an arrest? -- 5: Charging The Crime -- Who can file charges -- Deciding what to charge -- Methods of charging -- Grand Jury -- Time limits -- Charges in your case -- 6: Pretrial Procedures -- Victim's right to notice and to protection -- Speedy trial -- Arraignment-defendant's initial appearance -- Bail -- Preliminary hearing -- Pretrial motions -- 7: Plea Bargaining -- Types of plea bargains -- Procedures -- 8: Criminal Trial -- Process of a criminal trial -- Victim's right to be present -- Defendant's right to a jury -- Opening statements -- Evidence and testimony -- State's case -- Victim as a witness -- Defense's case -- Closing statements -- Findings and verdicts -- 9: After The Trial -- Sentence -- What the sentence really means -- Sentencing dispositions -- Sentencing hearing -- Victim impact statement -- Violations of sentencing orders -- Appeal -- Offender during an appeal -- What an appeals court can do -- Release or escape of the offender -- 10: Victim Privacy In The Criminal Justice System -- Protecting the victim's privacy -- Your rights and the media -- 11: Recovering Your Losses -- Crime victim compensation -- Restitution and reparation -- Insurance -- Considering civil court -- Effect of the criminal case on the civil suit -- 12: Civil Lawsuit -- Advantages and disadvantages -- Procedures in civil cases -- Identifying and collecting proof -- Basics of a civil suit -- Enforcing the judgment -- Defendant's suit against the victim -- 13: Role Of Lawyers -- Confidentiality -- Finding a lawyer -- Fee agreements -- Working with your lawyer -- Firing your lawyer -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Appendix A: Victim resources -- Appendix B: Legal rights of victims -- Appendix C: Legal research -- Appendix D: Case management guide -- Appendix E: Sample forms -- Index -- About the author.From the Publisher: Don't Become A Victim of the Legal System. If you have been the victim of a crime, your involvement with the justice system is just beginning. As a crime victim, you have certain rights and obligations within the criminal justice system as well as the opportunity to seek your own justice and receive compensation for your injuries through civil court proceedings. Crime Victim's Guide to Justice explains everything you need to know to get justice. Learn how to: report a crime and get the police to investigate your case; seek medical and emotional help for yourself; effectively testify at trial and sentencing; pursue a civil case against your assailant to win compensation. Essential information on: finding help when you are in an emotional crisis; obtaining crime victim's compensation; how the court system works and what to expect; your rights as a victim and much more.
Subjects: Criminal procedure; Victims of crimes;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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The devil's making / by Haldane, Seán.(CARDINAL)710917;
"Victoria, 1869. The ramshackle capital of British Columbia, the last colony in North America, where a few thousand settlers aspire to the values of the Victorian age while coexisting beside the native Indians that vastly outnumber them. That peace is challenged when a mutilated body is discovered: Dr. McCrory, an American alienist whose methods include phrenology, Mesmerism, and sexual-mystical magnetation. Chad Hobbes, recently arrived from England, is the policeman who must solve the crime. At first it's assumed the murderer was a Tsimshian medicine man, Wiladzap, who has already been arrested. It would be easy for Hobbes to let Wiladzap swing for the murder, but his own interest in an Indian woman causes him to look at the case in more detail. And once he does, he discovers that everyone who knew McCrory seems to have something to hide. Published by a small Irish press, Sean Haldane's The Devil's Making was the surprise winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel. Its detailed depiction of a frontier where the cultures of Native Americans, Americans, Europeans, and Asians clashed offers a fresh view of a little-known historical era"--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Historical fiction.; Murder; Police; Police.;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 6
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