Vile Crimes is a riveting examination of one of New Zealands most sensational court cases. In August 1886, Tom Hall junior, a well-known local businessman of Timaru and nephew of former New Zealand Premier Sir John Hall, was arrested for attempting to murder his wife, Kitty, by poison. Shortly afterwards, Hall was charged with the murder of his father-in-law, Captain Henry Cain, whose body was exhumed for evidence.Peter Graham presents a fascinating portrait of this scandal and its effect on a newly emerging colonial society, and of the man at its centre.

Join me in exploring some of the most heinous crimes known to man in Unbelievable Crimes Volume Six. In this installment, I'll cover the story of a female spree killer, whose lust for blood saw her take the lives of three men - and try to murder two more unsuspecting victims. The purpose of her crimes? In her own words, it was for "fun." I'll also delve into a most frustrating crime - a cold case dating back to 1968 - where a teen girl was mercilessly murdered by an unknown assailant. While I find cold cases frustrating due to the lack of closure they bring, crimes as horrific as this ought to be dredged up from the archives of true crime. To forget them is to abandon hope of the killer being brought to justice. Come with me to 1970s Texas to learn about the shocking serial killer known as "The Pied Piper." This criminal sought teenage boys to carry out his wicked crimes and even enlisted the help of a teenager to lure youngsters to his home. What would then occur in his house of horrors is nothing short of nightmarish. The ending to this case is compatible with a twisted horror movie. Then there's the disturbing case of the Welsh cannibal. The man lured his victim back to a hotel room with him before barbarically attacking her. The hotel owner heard the screams coming from room seven, so she unlocked the door only to be greeted with an awfully bloody sight. She raced to call the police, screaming down the phone, "He's eating her." Join me in understanding more about these crimes, as well as six more lesser-known cases, in Unbelievable Crimes Volume Six. As with all content covering true crime, this book contains descriptions of violence, assaults, and murder.

Come with me to investigate some truly terrifying (yet relatively unknown) true crimes in Unbelievable Crimes Volume Thirteen. In this installment of this series, I'll recount some of the most heinous crimes in recent history. The first is the story of a young woman who was lured to her death by a nefarious couple using a dating app. The victim thought she was going on a date—but ended up entangled in a twisted lovers' killer plot. Then, I cover the heartbreaking case of a young woman whose car broke down in a desolate area. Two men stopped to "help." She would be dead before the night was over. I also explore the crimes of a lesser-known serial killer who preyed on the young and vulnerable. Learn about these crimes (and other lesser-known cases) in Unbelievable Crimes Volume Thirteen.

Take a walk through the depths of human depravity with Unbelievable Crimes Volume Two. I’ll delve into some of the most shocking and disturbing crime cases in recent history, taking you on a harrowing journey through of some of the most twisted tales you’ve not heard of - yet. I’ll tell you about the heinous crimes of Lawrence Singleton, who brutally assaulted and mutilated a teenage girl as she tried hitchhiking her way home in Los Angeles. I’ll also cover the truly twisted (and incredibly deadly) antics of The Lonely Hearts Killers, a couple who lured unsuspecting victims to their demise for their own greedy desires. From the lies and manipulation of Christopher Porco, who brutally murdered his own father, to the chilling case of Anatoly Moskvin, who desecrated the graves of dozens of young girls, I’ll shine a light on some of the most wicked minds to set foot on earth. Despite the horrors within its pages, Unbelievable Crimes: Volume Two aims to retell the stories of the victims, ensuring their deaths are never forgotten and the perpetrators’ deplorable actions are always remembered. As with all true crime reads, this book explores the darkest aspects of human nature: cases in this book will contain details that cover real life murders and violence.

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Presents theories, practices and critiques alongside each other to engage students, scholars and professionals from multiple fields. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Debate has long been waged over the morality of capital punishment, with standard arguments in its favour being marshalled against familiar arguments that oppose the practice. In The Ethics of Capital Punishment, Matthew Kramer takes a fresh look at the philosophical arguments on which the legitimacy of the death penalty stands or falls, and he develops a novel justification of that penalty for a limited range of cases. The book pursues both a project of critical debunking of the familiar rationales for capital punishment and a project of partial vindication. The critical part presents some accessible and engaging critiques of major arguments that have been offered in support of the death penalty. These chapters, suitable for use in teaching courses on capital punishment, valuably take issue with positions at the heart of contemporary debates over the morality of such punishment. The book then presents an original justification for executing truly terrible criminals, a justification that is free-standing rather than an aspect or offshoot of a general theory of punishment. Its purgative rationale, which has not heretofore been propounded in any current philosophical and practical debates over the death penalty, derives from a philosophical reconception of the nature of evil and the nature of defilement. As the book contributes to philosophical discussions of those phenomena, it also contributes importantly to general normative ethics with sustained reflections on the differences between consequentialist approaches to punishment and deontological approaches. Above all, the volume contributes to the philosophy of criminal law with a fresh rationale for the use of the death penalty and with probing assessments of all the major theories of punishment that have been broached by jurists and philosophers for centuries. Although the book is a work of philosophy by a professional philosopher, it is readily accessible to readers who have not studied philosophy. It will stir both philosophers and anyone engaged with the death penalty to reconsider whether the institution of capital punishment can be an appropriate response to extreme evil.

A complete reappraisal of the scale and significance of female criminality in a period of major legislative changes. This book offers important new insights into the relationship between crime and gender in Scotland during the Enlightenment period. Against the backdrop of significant legislative changes that fundamentally altered the face of Scots law, Anne-Marie Kilday examines contemporary attitudes towards serious offences against the person committed by women. She draws particularly on rich and varied court records to explores female criminality and judicial responses to it in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.Through a series of case studies of homicide, infanticide, assault, popular disturbances and robbery, she argues that Scottish women were more predisposed to violence than their counterparts south of the border and considers how this relates to the contemporary drive to `civilise' popular behaviour and to promote a more ordered society. The book thus challenges conventional feminist interpretations that see women principally as the victims of male-controlled economies, institutions and power structures, and calls for a major re-evaluation of the scope and significance of female criminality in this era. It will be ofinterest to scholars, students and those interested in the fields of gender studies, social history and the history of crime. ANNE-MARIE KILDAY is Pro Vice-Chancellor and Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and Professor of Criminal History at Oxford Brookes University.