Organized Crime

This book delves into a previously unexplored realm within criminological scholarship: Israeli organized crime. Breaking the silence that has shrou...

With a foreword by four-time Oscar nominated filmmaker Michael Mann.The story of Paul LeRoux, the twisted-genius entrepreneur and cold-blooded kill...

One of the most elusive pursuits in the study of organized crime is developing a definition, description, or conceptual model that captures its com...

One of the most elusive pursuits in the study of organized crime is developing a definition, description, or conceptual model that captures its com...

This edited collection discusses the rule of law in the Amazon and the capabilities of the regions sovereign states to police their territory consi...

This edited collection discusses the rule of law in the Amazon and the capabilities of the regions sovereign states to police their territory consi...

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...

This book examines the role of agencies and agency-like bodies in the EUs Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (AFSJ).When the Maastricht Treaty e...

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

This volume investigates the role of the transnational terrorist and criminal organizations in the peace-building processes, with a particular focu...

Kinahan Assassins is the extraordinary story of how the killers used by Irelands most notorious drug gang, the Kinahan Cartel, were taken down.Afte...

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

This third edition of UNODC's quadrennial World Wildlife Crime Report, aims to provide a tool to assess and improve responses to this hugely damagi...

Worldwide, waste trafficking is increasingly recognized as a serious crime, with close links to corruption, organized crime and money laundering. T...

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,...

For nearly twenty years, Glasgow has been coined Europes murder capital, and identified as having the continents highest drug harms. The Contempora...

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...

Born in the tough East End of Glasgow and married into one of the citys most notorious criminal families, Janey Godleys young life was far from ord...

For most of us in Britain, the Mafia seems as distant as the characters in Goodfellas, Gomorrah, or The Godfather trilogy. However, the truth is fa...

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...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe unbelievable true story of the man who built a billion-dollar online drug empire from his bedroom and almost got a...

Across the world, most people are well aware of ordinary criminal harms to person and property. Often committed by the powerless and poor, these in...