Organized Crime

The story of baby trafficking organised by nuns, sanctioned by an archbishop, administered by civil servants and approved by politicians who tried ...

Gangs are multifaceted and varied, so any attempt to understand them cannot be restricted to a singular approach. On Gangs provides a diverse and c...

The author draws on behavioral ecology to predict the evolution of organized crime in unregulated systems of exchange and the further development o...

This book provides a critical analysis of the employment of intelligence-led policing (ILP) strategies. It aims to convey a better understanding of...

This book reveals the extent, types, investigation, enforcement and governance of international corruption. Providing a unique international covera...

This volume provides a unique collection of essays in honour of the work of Marcus Felson and his notable contribution to routine activity theory, ...

Exploring the dynamics of law-making in a world where the pace of technological change is outstripping our capacity to capture new forms of transna...

Since the late 1990s, the Japan Coast Guard (JCG) has countered a myriad of 'outlaw' threats at sea including piracy, terrorism, the proliferation ...

Integrating theories from a wide range of disciplines, Nir Kshetri compares the patterns, characteristics and processes of cybercrime activities in...

This book argues that it is witnesses who are the targets of terrorism and that the question of whose witnessing counts, and which stories are the ...

This is the first book dedicated to Australian youth gangs, exploring the subtleties and nuances of street life for young men and their quest for s...

In this book, leading academics and policy practitioners develop approaches for managing critical contemporary and emerging security challenges for...

This book analyzes the political and material conditions driving contemporary border control policies and discusses the processes that mediate popu...

Drawing on new studies from major European countries and Australia, this exciting collection extends the ongoing debate on falling crime rates from...

Terrorist's Creed casts a penetrating beam of empathetic understanding into the disturbing and murky psychological world of fanatical violence, exp...

As policy-makers look first (and easily) for existing policy solutions which could be adapted from elsewhere, policy transfer becomes increasingly ...

Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs are increasingly seen as a threat to communities around the world. They are a visible threat as a recognizable symbol of de...

In 2007 Luke Harding arrived in Moscow to take up a new job as a correspondent for the British newspaper the Guardian. Within months, mysterious ag...

Considering an under-researched dimension of political violence, this interdisciplinary collection provides an extensive examination of terrorist v...

This unique study explores the relationship between informal financial systems, illegal migration and human smuggling. Focusing on Chinese illegal ...