Organized Crime

Winner, 2014 Distinguished Contribution to Research Award presented by the Latina/o Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association Lo...

Graphic narratives of tragedies involving the journeys of irregular migrants trying to reach destinations in the global north are common in the med...

Adopting a multi-disciplinary and comparative approach, this book focuses on the emerging and innovative aspects of attempts to target the accumula...

This selection of influential articles traces our evolving understanding of transnational organized crime - paradigm shifts - from the 'alien consp...

The rapid growth of organized crime in Mexico and the governments response to it have driven an unprecedented rise in violence and impelled major s...

With a selection of fine historic images from his best-selling book Historic Photos of Chicago Crime: The Capone Era, John Russick provides a valua...

'I am not a gangster,' I spat. 'I'm a businessman trying to make a hard-earned crust. Understood?'I didn't give him time to reply. I took the barre...

Charles 'Lucky' Luciano was a vicious mobster who rose to become the multimillionaire king of the New York underworld. He was a legend - but also a...

Crime can be seen as an act of defiance against the rule of law, particularly if is committed with intent. This intension is often to make unlawful...

Crime is not just a reality out there, but also the outcome of social constructions: crime is often in the eye of the beholder. When society change...

This collection of classic texts offers a longitudinal overview of the Italian mafia through the eyes of those who have questioned it in the past 1...

As powerful and addictive as the first outing of Siòn Scott-Wilsons personable Regency graverobbers, What We Leave Behind leads its reader through ...

Sandtown is one of the deadliest neighbourhoods in the world; it earned Baltimore its nickname Bodymore, Murderland, and was made notorious by 'The...

How global organized crime shapes the politics of borders in modern conflictsSeparatism has been on the rise across the world since the end of the ...

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Law today is incomplete, inaccessible, unclear, underdeveloped, and often perplexing to those whom it affects. In The Legal Singularity, Abdi Aidid...

Few subjects elicit greater moral outrage than human trafficking. Media reports of dehumanizing practices such as slavery, abduction, child prostit...

Sensational headlines have publicized the drug trafficking, brutal violence, and other organized crime elements associated with Central America's ...

The killing took place outside a busy coffee bar in Naples in broad daylight. Pupetta was eighteen years old and six months pregnant when she pulle...

Charlie Richardson, one of Britain's most notorious gangland bosses, sheds light on his extraordinary life story completed just weeks before his de...

'Reveals criminal corruption on a scale that the Kray twins would never have dreamt of' John Pearson, Profession of Violence, The Rise and Fall of ...

In 1992, at the end of a twelve-year civil war, El Salvador was poised for a transition to democracy. Yet, after longstanding dominance by a small ...