Organized Crime

An in-depth study of the U.S. v. the International Brotherhood of Teamsters In 1988, Manhattan U.S. Attorney Rudy Giuliani brought a massive civil ...

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 ...

HIGHLY ANTICIPATED OPRAH DAILY PICK FOR 2023'Ill-fated love and toxic family power struggles provide emotional drive for this big dynastic saga' JA...

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 ...

One missing girl. Five bodies. Time is running out.When nineteen-year-old university student Emma goes missing, Detective Inspector Gareth Gravel i...

Is it revenge or is it justice?DI Gravel is supposed to be on mandatory leave, but when a severed head washes up on the estuary beach his holiday i...

'Shocking and thrilling at the same time. It will take your breath away!' Gillian Godden She's the boss now...Daddys girl Samantha Reynold hadnt ba...

Its different when its your daughter.DI Gravels daughter Emily has landed her dream job working for high profile solicitor Charles Turner. But the ...

Hes inside her home. Successful novelist Mia is being stalked. Photos of her and her four-year-old daughter arrive in untraceable emails that dema...

Piracy in Somalia sheds light on an often misunderstood world, oversimplified and demonized in the media and largely decontextualized in scholarly ...

THE CARTER WOMEN DON'T FOLLOW THE RULES: THEY MAKE THEM. The brilliant new gangland thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of DIAMOND.Ga...

From the Alcatraz East Crime Museum and Jack the Ripper guided tours to the Phnom Penh killing fields, dark tourism is now a multi-million-pound gl...

This volume examines the relationship between states and organized crime. It seeks to add to the theoretical literature for analyzing the criminali...

Murder Inc. is the latest blockbuster by Ireland's most respected crime writer and journalist, Paul Williams. Murder Inc. is the definitive account...

The Mexican government's full-frontal attack on the powerful drugs cartels has achieved mixed results. This book considers the issue from a variety...

The ability of law enforcement agencies to manage and act upon intelligence is the key to countering terrorism. Likewise, a critical foundation of ...

Organised crime, corruption, and terrorism are considered to pose significant and unrelenting threats to the integrity, security, and stability of ...

FROM THE AUTHOR OF ALL THE HIDDEN TRUTHS, WHICH WON THE MCILVANNEY DEBUT PRIZE'(a) meticulous and compelling novel about the aftermath of a major c...

Building upon a range of case studies that range from civil war to maritime security and cyber crime, the contributors analyse how non-state actors...

How the Aussie economy got hooked on the world's dirtiest cash. Longlisted for a 2022 Walkley Award and earning the author the 2022 Financial Crime...

Winner of the British Society of Criminology Book Prize, 2015Fleetwood explores how women become involved in trafficking, focusing on the lived exp...

Policing Wildlife examines both the extent and enforcement of wildlife law, one of the fastest growing areas of crime globally. The book considers ...