Social Services & Welfare, Criminology

In the summer of 1930, two federal prohibition agents were murdered. The first died in a hail of buckshot on a dark street in Aguilar, Colorado. Si...

In 1919, when a shopkeeper and her dog were found dead in Hitchin, Hertfordshire with brutal head injuries, there followed an extraordinary catalog...

From the files of Scotland Yard's Black Museum (open only to police officers) come true crime stories of some of the most infamous murder cases ...

You are about to enter a world of drug smuggling, drug greed, and drug murder. With those words, the West Palm Beach assistant DA began the 1986...

Joanne Hayes, at 24 years of age, concealed the birth and death of her baby in County Kerry, Ireland, in 1984. Subsequently she confessed to the mu...

In this new edition of a cult classic, Henrik KrÜger and Jerry Meldon have added new material and provided updates of the investigations Danish inv...

Tobacco products face varying levels of taxation in different locations, creating opportunities and incentives for illicit trade. Cigarettes are ta...

A sense of scale is a prerequisite to thinking sensibly about illicit drug markets. For example, knowing whether a country consumes tens, hundreds,...

Why do affluent, upwardly mobile college students - who have everything to lose and little to gain - choose to sell drugs? Why do law enforcement o...

A drug policy most often refers to a government''''s attempt to combat the negative effects of drug addiction and misuse in its society. Government...

Methamphetamine (meth), a drug with limited medical use and high potential for abuse and addiction, is a subject of widespread concern. Once associ...

Robert Mazur spent five years undercover infiltrating the criminal hierarchy of Colombias drug cartels. The dirty bankers and businessmen he befr...

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

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

Marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug across the world, including in the United States. The federal government prohibits the manufacture...

Pepper strikes a number of goals in one text simultaneously. It is a fine tool to assist CSI practitioners with their day-to-day duties; it is also...

This book, prepared by the foreign law specialists and analysts of the Law Library of Congress, provides a review of laws adopted in Argentina, Aus...

_____________ THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION _____________ 'John le Carré demystified the i...

The No 1 Bestseller!'A triumph' Nicola Tallant, Sunday World Crime World podcast'An incredible catalogue of mayhem ... amazing' Pat Kenny, Newstalk...

Stephen Port was jailed in November 2016 after luring four young, gay men through dating apps so he could drug them to death and rape them. Easy K...

**Longlisted for the ALCS Gold Non-Fiction Dagger** **Longlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize 2022** Haunting lingers in th...

THE 12 MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE ENZO FILES AND THE CHINA THRILLERSAWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF THE CWA DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY 2021'One of t...

Crime investigation is not always a matter of gathering hard evidence. Just as police officers sometimes follow a hunch, people with psychic abilit...

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On 9 November 1966, popular GP Dr Helen Davidson was battered to death in dense woodland while birdwatching and exercising her dog a few miles from...

At approximately noon on Saturday 9 August 2014, Officer Darren Wilson of the Ferguson Police Department (FPD) shot and killed Michael Brown, an un...