Poor
Caleb Femi
Published 2020
140 pages
The most popular criminology books of 2020
Criminology books study crime and the ways societies respond to it. Why people break the law, how police and courts work, what prisons achieve and how justice could be fairer are the central questions. Textbooks for students sit beside readable accounts drawn from research and real cases. This list shows the ones first published in 2020.
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Agent Sonya Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy
Ben Macintyre
Published 2020
377 pages
We Keep the Dead Close A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence
Becky Cooper
Published 2020
499 pages
The House of Kennedy
James Patterson
2020 · 2021 edition
448 pages
The Last Days of John Lennon
James Patterson
Published 2020
434 pages
A Bit of a Stretch The Diaries of a Prisoner
Chris Atkins
Published 2020
340 pages
American Sherlock Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI
Kate Winkler Dawson
Published 2020
325 pages
The Cold Vanish Seeking the Missing in North America's Wilderness
Jon Billman
2020 · 2021 edition
384 pages
Fake Law The Truth about Justice in an Age of Lies
Secret Barrister
Published 2020
400 pages
The Third Rainbow Girl
Emma Copley Eisenberg
Published 2020
336 pages
Kleptopia How Dirty Money Is Conquering the World
Tom Burgis
2020 · 2021 edition
480 pages
Written in Bone Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind
Sue Black
2020 · 2021 edition
336 pages
The Perfect Father The True Story of Chris Watts, His All-American Family, and a Shocking Murder
John Glatt
2020 · 2021 edition
320 pages
Becoming Bulletproof Life Lessons from a Secret Service Agent
Evy Poumpouras
2020 · 2021 edition
336 pages
Murder Thy Neighbor
James Patterson
Published 2020
320 pages
The Ratline
Philippe Sands
2020 · 2021 edition
304 pages
My Vanishing Country A Memoir
Bakari Sellers
Published 2020
226 pages
A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum Murder in Ancient Rome
Emma Southon
2020 · 2022 edition
352 pages
Unspeakable Acts True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit, and Obsession
Sarah Weinman
Published 2020
416 pages
18 Tiny Deaths The Untold Story of the Woman who Invented Modern Forensics
Bruce Goldfarb
2020 · 2021 edition
353 pages
Missing from the Village
Justin Ling
Published 2020
352 pages
The Lost Family How DNA Testing Is Upending Who We Are
Libby Copeland
2020 · 2021 edition
304 pages
Broken Faith Inside the Word of Faith Fellowship, One of America's Most Dangerous Cults
Mitch Weiss, Holbrook Mohr
Published 2020
416 pages
Duty of Care One NHS Doctor's Story of Courage and Compassion on the COVID-19 Frontline
Dominic Pimenta
2020 · 2021 edition
352 pages