Social Services & Welfare, Criminology

The product of five years of investigative reporting, the subject of intense national controversy, and the source of death threats that forced the ...

What makes one of the most gifted, charismatic and successful young literary agents in New York fall into full-blown crack-addiction: a collapse th...

Howard Marks is the most famous drug smuggler of his age, and a hero to a generation. On his release from one of America's toughest prisons, Howard...

Today all would agree that Mexico and the United States have never been closer--that the fates of the two republics are inextricably intertwined. I...

Smuggling has been a way of life in Galicia for millennia. The Romans considered its windswept coast the edge of the world. To the Greeks it was fr...

A highly decorated veteran agent recounts his incredible undercover career, and reveals the shocking links between narcotics trafficking and terror...

Ciudad Juárez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known a...

This book provides an overview of prior judicial treatment of the Second Amendment, with a focus on the litigation of Colombia versus Heller and th...

This is a book I wish I'd written. It's brilliantly researched, full of detail and illuminating Jake Adelstein, author of Tokyo ViceUncover the sho...

[An] engrossing literary debut...Writing in Adolfo's voice gives this suspenseful narrative candor and immediacy. - Kirkus Reviews Adolfo Kaminsky...

Violent crimes committed by drug trafficking organizations in Mexico often involve firearms, and a 2009 Government Accountability Office (GAO) repo...

Methamphetamine: A Love Story presents an insider's view of the world of methamphetamine based on the life stories of thirty-three adults formerly ...

Forty years in, the War on Drugs has done almost nothing to prevent drugs from being sold or used, but it has nonetheless created a little-known su...

Congress has maintained an interest in the effects of gang violence in Central America, and on the expanding activities of transnational gangs with...

Ice. Methedrine. Crank. Crystal. Whatever its guise, the social and political contexts of methamphetamine share a certain uniqueness. Nicholas Pars...

A global workforce. Billions in sales. But, unlike Tesco or BP, few have heard of it. The Cartel is Britains biggest drugs organisation, a shadowy ...

Evidence-based policing is a core part of the National Policing Curriculum but policing students and new officers often feel daunted by the prospec...

Revenue from the illegal drug industry provides international drug trafficking organisations with the resources to evade and compete with law enfor...

The federal government prohibits the manufacturing, distribution, and possession of many intoxicating substances that are solely intended for recre...

This book explores the trafficking of persons for the purpose of exploitation and illicit drug trafficking in Latin America and the Caribbean. Traf...

In recent years, West Africa has played an increasing role in the global drug trade. In the early 2000s, drug traffickers searching for new routes ...

An increasing number of states have adopted laws that legalise marijuana for medical or recreational purposes under state law, yet federal penaltie...

Anthony Nott joined the Metropolitan Police in 1971, which was a very different world from that of today. He describes his early experiences in the...

**THE TRUE STORY BEHIND MAJOR ITV DRAMA WHITE HOUSE FARM, NOW ON NETFLIX**'An extraordinary book . . . both deeply moving and quietly inspiring' FR...

Meth, murder and pirates: the coder who became a crime boss. A world that lurks just outside of our everyday perception, in the dark corners of the...

In 1981, Detective Inspector Satchwell was the officer in charge of the case against Train Robber Tom Wisbey and twenty others. The case involved m...

On 22 September 1928, four-year-old Barbara Griffith strayed into the woods surrounding Massena in New York. Hundreds of people looked for the chil...