Organized Crime

An astonishing read -- full of corruption, greed, strong drink and stronger language -- that reveals the rotten heart of the global economy - Olive...

A child’s body in an unmarked grave. A killer waiting to strike again.A young boy’s body is found in a meadow beside the River Mersey. No DNA. No w...

'A gripping murder mystery and a vivid recreation of Paris under German Occupation.' ANDREW TAYLOR*WINNER OF THE HWA GOLD CROWN AWARD FOR BEST HIST...

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the South Bronx had one of the highest per capita murder rates in America. As the use of crack cocaine surged, r...

Presenting an original institutional approach, this book makes the case for an empirically based crime economics that aims to guide the fight again...

Presenting an original institutional approach, this book makes the case for an empirically based crime economics that aims to guide the fight again...

The American mafia has long held powerful sway over our collective cultural imagination. But how many of us truly understand how a clandestine Sici...

THE NO. 1 BESTSELLER‘Grim, forensic and often eye-opening … meticulously researched and soberly written’ Sunday Independent‘A fascinating book’ Pat...

Pulling together the most salient, current issues in the field today, The Handbook of Gangs provides a significant assessment by leading scholars o...

Bringing a unique rural lens to the analysis of dark tourism in Australia, this book covers a range of sites including convict museums, sites of se...

John Gotti: Gangster, killer, celebrity.From the tough streets of Queens to the heights of the American Mafia, John Gotti thought he was invincible...

The explosive memoir of legendary DEA agents and the subject of the hit Netflix series Narcos, Steve Murphy and Javier F. Peña For the first time,...

Illicit business is big business. It covers a diverse range of activities from money laundering, drug trafficking and human trafficking through to ...

Illicit business is big business. It covers a diverse range of activities from money laundering, drug trafficking and human trafficking through to ...

Behind Bars is filled with stories both ancient and urgent of what happens when alcohol meets crime, from illicit stills in the Scottish Highlands ...

The post 9/11 era has produced structured rehabilitation programmes in a wide range of countries including Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Pakistan, Malay...

This book meticulously examines how centers of illicit trade pose myriad threats to global security and sustainable development. The exponential gr...

Born in the tough East End of Glasgow and married into one of the city’s most notorious criminal families, Janey Godley’s young life was far from o...

Criminals are not born in a vacuum, and Frank Lucas is no exception. At the age of six he watched his cousin die in a lynching and in that moment o...