Black Widow (Jon Stanton, Book 7) by Victor Methos

By Victor Methos

MURDERS without MOTIVE…

Two males are came upon killed one month aside in sumptuous Honolulu lodges. The Honolulu Police division reveals the situations unsolvable. without discernible intent, and a brutality nobody at the strength has ever obvious, the killings seem to be the paintings of an intensely deranged brain. A brain the police think is one step prior to their investigation.

JON STANTON IS PULLED again INTO THE DARKNESS...

Having notion he left police paintings in the back of, famed murder detective Jon Stanton is still thrown again into the Black Widow Murders. The killings are vicious, effective, and designed to impose greatest discomfort sooner than loss of life. Stanton understands whoever devoted those crimes has not anything within them that's human from now on, placing each person in Honolulu at risk.

TIME IS operating OUT...

The Black Widow is ruthless and smart in a fashion Stanton hasn't ever handled earlier than. He knows that the Black Widow is smarter than he's, and keen to visit extremes he's not. And they've selected the subsequent victim.

With the victim's lifestyles within the stability, Stanton needs to race to prevent a killer that has proven themself unstoppable. And he needs to probability his sanity and his lifestyles to do it.

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Neumeyer, Juvenile Delinquency in Modern Society, Second Edition, New York: Van Nostrand, 1955, p. 152 ; James F. , "Differential Association as a Hypothesis: Problems of Empirical Testing", Social Problems,8 (Summer, 1960), pp. 14-25; Trice, op. ; S. Kirson Weinberg, "Theories of Criminality and Problems of Prediction", Journal ofCriminal Law and Criminology, 45 (November-December, 1954), pp. 412--429. 21 See the statement on p. 19, above. 22 Op. , p. 182. "23 Such statements are not so much errors in interpretation of the differential association statement as they are errors regarding the role of theory, hypotheses and facts in scientific research.

10 A further complication in this regard arises because some crimes become known to the police only if a victim complains, while other offences become known by direct observation on the part of the police. Cases of drunken driving, for example, usually get into police records only if observed by a policeman, while cases of burglary usually become known to the police as a result of a report by the victim. The ratio of offences committed to offences known probably is greater for those offences that get into police records only when observed by the police than for those which get into the reports as a result of complaints by victims.

63--65. 36 INTRODUCTION TO THE THEORY and sometimes as "forgery," making it impossible to get a close estimate of the amount of variation in time of anyone of these offences. 12 Fifth, when comparisons are made, the mere number of crimes known to the police is not sufficient. What is needed is statements of rates-the number of crimes in proportion to the number of population or in proportion to some other base. But determination of this base is sometimes almost as difficult as determination of the crime ratio itself.

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