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Informationen zum Autor Jerry Clark, PhD, retired as a special agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 2011 after twenty-seven years in law enforcement, including careers as a special agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. Clark is an associate professor of criminal justice at Gannon University in Erie, Pennsylvania, where he is also co-owner of Clark & Wick Investigations LLC and Fisher Security. Ed Palattella joined the Erie Times-News, in Erie, Pennsylvania, in 1990. He has won a number of awards, including for his investigative work and his coverage of crime. They are co-authors of Mania and Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong: Inside the Mind of a Female Serial Killer (R&L, 2017), A History of Heists: Bank Robbery in America (R&L, 2015), and Pizza Bomber: The Untold Story of America’s Most Shocking Bank Robbery (2012). Klappentext As long as the United States has banks, robbers will try to steal from them. A History of Heists details trends in bank robbery, including how advances in law enforcement and security have foiled many bandits. The ostensible goal of every bank robbery is to get the money, but it is a crime that often has a strong hold on the popular imagination. Zusammenfassung As long as the United States has banks! robbers will try to steal from them. A History of Heists details trends in bank robbery! including how advances in law enforcement and security have foiled many bandits. The ostensible goal of every bank robbery is to get the money! but it is a crime that often has a strong hold on the popular imagination. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction1: Breaking In: Early Banks and Early Thieves2: The Original Outlaw: Jesse James, the Civil War, and Crimes like No Other3: Robbery on the Range: The Wild West, the Wild Bunch, and the Rise of the Professional Bandit4: The G-Men Get Guns: Bank Robbery and the Birth of the Modern FBI5: Marquee Mayhem: John Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde, and the Glamorization of the Gangster6: Lone Wolves: Willie Sutton, the Great Brink's Robbery, and a Thief Found Dead7: Countercultural Chaos: Clean-Cut Killers, Patty Hearst, and a Dog Day Afternoon8: Striking Back, Striking Big: Boosted Bank Security and Record-Breaking Hauls9: Robbery and Reverberations: Pizza Bomber, the Post-9/11 FBI, and Online HeistsAfterword...
