A comprehensive global investigation into Vietnamese organised crime overseas (VOCO) elucidates the mechanisms by which migration, inequality, and trust networks facilitate illicit economies, ranging from cannabis cultivation to human trafficking...Loe edasi...
Financial crime in the digital era has become more complex, sophisticated, and pervasive. With the increasing use of technology and digital platforms, criminals are exploiting new methods to commit fraud, money laundering, identity theft, and other...Loe edasi...
This book offers a comprehensive exploration of gangs as a global phenomenon, moving beyond the traditional American-centric perspective. It delves into the study of gangs worldwide as well as factors that aid in prevention and intervention. Compile...Loe edasi...
The text examines the impacts of human trafficking panics perpetuated by media, including understanding the origins of human trafficking in the nineteenth century white slave panic, the ways that popular media perpetuates stereotypes, the reality of...Loe edasi...
This book meticulously examines how centers of illicit trade pose myriad threats to global security and sustainable development. It will be of great value to researchers in the fields of trade, economics, criminology, and international development....Loe edasi...
The book offers an important rapprochement between studies in organized crime and green criminology, and considers the operational differences between underworld and upperworld criminal economies....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198876212)
Once dominant and institutionalised, the Yakuza, one of Japans best known criminal organisations, is now shrinking under the combined pressure of legal exclusion, social stigmatisation, and market regulation. Their membership has dropped from more t...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Apr-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Random House Large Print, ISBN-13: 9798217290239)
From the bestselling, prize-winning author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain, a spellbinding account of a family devastated by the sudden death of their nineteen-year-old son, only to discover that he had created a secret life which...Loe edasi...
NATIONAL BESTSELLERFor Yves Trudeau, the blood was all business. An assassin for the Hells Angels in the ’70s and ’80s, Trudeau was known as Apache, the Mad Bumper, and the Mad Bomber. As a contract killer, he did his job s...Loe edasi...
The true story of Hitler’s plot to turn Hollywood’s Dream Factory into a Nazi propaganda machine—and the Jewish moguls’ clandestine operation to sabotage the Reich’s insidious reach.World War II began at Hollywood and Vine.From...Loe edasi...
This book offers a novel perspective for conceptualising legality in market exchanges. It challenges the conventional binary of “legal” versus “illegal” markets by introducing the concept of variably legal markets - arenas of exchange where legali...Loe edasi...
“A deeply reported literary non-fiction masterpiece.” — Wright ThompsonA shocking murder at the nexus of Silicon Valley, California surf culture, and the cannabis gold rush exposes the dark side of the legal weed business i...Loe edasi...
This is the story of Joe Mac, a mysterious figure in the Boston underworld, founder of the Winter Hill Gang in the 1950s, member of the FBIs Ten Most Wanted Fugitives in the 1970s. He killed dozens over a criminal career that spanned five decades. A...Loe edasi...
The Coterel Gang, who flourished in the Midlands of England during the late 1320s and early 1330s, was led by James Coterel and supported by his brothers Nicholas and John....Loe edasi...
Peter Rachman dominated housing in post-war London - he owned vast swathes in the west of the city, accumulating huge wealth as his tenants lived in squalor and fear of his hard-nosed collectors and enforcers. He was also at the heart of the citys...Loe edasi...
For the first time in forty years, former New York Times editor Michael Cannell unearths the full story behind two ruthless New York cops who acted as double agents for the Mafia.No episode in NYPD history surpasses the depra...Loe edasi...
The stunning blood-soaked saga of a real-life Godfather—Don Carlo Gambino—the quiet gangster with a whispery voice who struck fear into his enemies as he rose to the top of the Mafia family ladder, told by an insider who lived in that world, knew...Loe edasi...
Though there are many books about organized crime, this is the only book that focuses on how the mob adapted to the murders of its bosses, failed hits, internecine wars, and to prosecutions and continued to thrive throughout the United States f...Loe edasi...
A gripping and deeply researched exploration of the hidden influence of organized crime on the global economy that reveals the mafia as an uncredited architect of modern society.In Mafia: A Global History, Ryan Gingeras takes re...Loe edasi...
The book explores the concept of counter-narratives to terrorism within the context of Pakistans unique socio-political, cultural, and historical experiences. It provides actionable insights to combat extremism, focusing on the role of ideology, soc...Loe edasi...
Where Saints Show Respect reveals the penetration of mafia values in Sicilian society. Instead of focusing on sensational criminality, this study considers rituals through which local society learns deep respect – sometimes fearful, but o...Loe edasi...
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth interviews in Hong Kong, this book offers an investigation of the lives of older triad members who use drugs, focusing on their social exclusion within the underground criminal economy.Situated...Loe edasi...
This volume offers a comprehensive, research-based analysis of gang transformation in the context of globalization, technological change, and shifting socio-political environments. Taking the group as the core unit of analysis, it traces the evoluti...Loe edasi...
A comprehensive global investigation into Vietnamese organised crime overseas (VOCO) elucidates the mechanisms by which migration, inequality, and trust networks facilitate illicit economies, ranging from cannabis cultivation to human trafficking...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 29-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Bristol University Press, ISBN-13: 9781529233940)
This vital book exposes the devastating ways families are treated after their loved ones have been killed by a relatively powerful perpetrator; revealing how families are harmed; silenced by the criminal justice process and invisible in both crimi...Loe edasi...
Financial crime in the digital era has become more complex, sophisticated, and pervasive. With the increasing use of technology and digital platforms, criminals are exploiting new methods to commit fraud, money laundering, identity theft, and other...Loe edasi...
This book offers a comprehensive exploration of gangs as a global phenomenon, moving beyond the traditional American-centric perspective. It delves into the study of gangs worldwide as well as factors that aid in prevention and intervention. Compile...Loe edasi...
The text examines the impacts of human trafficking panics perpetuated by media, including understanding the origins of human trafficking in the nineteenth century white slave panic, the ways that popular media perpetuates stereotypes, the reality of...Loe edasi...
This book meticulously examines how centers of illicit trade pose myriad threats to global security and sustainable development. It will be of great value to researchers in the fields of trade, economics, criminology, and international development....Loe edasi...
The book offers an important rapprochement between studies in organized crime and green criminology, and considers the operational differences between underworld and upperworld criminal economies....Loe edasi...
A complex phenomenon which has undergone significant changes in the past forty years, Leslie Holmes argues that organised crime is in need of re-conceptualisation. This innovative book navigates the evolution of this issue to grasp its full scope in...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198876212)
Once dominant and institutionalised, the Yakuza, one of Japans best known criminal organisations, is now shrinking under the combined pressure of legal exclusion, social stigmatisation, and market regulation. Their membership has dropped from more t...Loe edasi...
The Kray Twins aka Ronnie and Reggie ruled London’s Gangland underworld during the 1960s with a ruthlessness rod of iron that still shocks yet captivates young and old alike to this very day. The Kray Twins aka Ronnie and Reggie ruled London’...Loe edasi...
PC George William Gutteridge was a well-liked and respected village policeman for Stapleford Abbotts in rural Essex, where he lived with his wife and two young children. While on his beat out on a lonely country road in the early hours of the morning...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Apr-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Pittsburgh Press, ISBN-13: 9780822967989)
The development of the global illicit drug trade has posed significant challenges to democracy throughout Latin America. As Bolivia democratized, state-narco networks evolved and became bound to a fragile post-transition settlement between the main...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Pittsburgh Press, ISBN-13: 9780822948919)
The development of the global illicit drug trade has posed significant challenges to democracy throughout Latin America. As Bolivia democratized, state-narco networks evolved and became bound to a fragile post-transition settlement between the main...Loe edasi...
Coinciding with the 40th anniversary of the broadcast, an inside look at the historic televised reveal of Al Capones vaults that would define Geraldo Riveras career and change television forever....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Apr-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Random House Large Print, ISBN-13: 9798217290239)
From the bestselling, prize-winning author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain, a spellbinding account of a family devastated by the sudden death of their nineteen-year-old son, only to discover that he had created a secret life which...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Doubleday & Co Inc., ISBN-13: 9780385548533)
From the bestselling, prize-winning author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain, a spellbinding account of a family devastated by the sudden death of their nineteen-year-old son, only to discover that he had created a secret life which...Loe edasi...
NATIONAL BESTSELLERFor Yves Trudeau, the blood was all business. An assassin for the Hells Angels in the ’70s and ’80s, Trudeau was known as Apache, the Mad Bumper, and the Mad Bomber. As a contract killer, he did his job s...Loe edasi...
The FBIs high stakes capture of fugitive Boston mob boss James Whitey Bulger at his hideout in Santa Monica, California, slammed shut a 16-year-long international odyssey to find one of the FBIs most wanted men. But it was not the end of th...Loe edasi...
The true story of Hitler’s plot to turn Hollywood’s Dream Factory into a Nazi propaganda machine—and the Jewish moguls’ clandestine operation to sabotage the Reich’s insidious reach.World War II began at Hollywood and Vine.From...Loe edasi...
This book offers a novel perspective for conceptualising legality in market exchanges. It challenges the conventional binary of “legal” versus “illegal” markets by introducing the concept of variably legal markets - arenas of exchange where legali...Loe edasi...
“A deeply reported literary non-fiction masterpiece.” — Wright ThompsonA shocking murder at the nexus of Silicon Valley, California surf culture, and the cannabis gold rush exposes the dark side of the legal weed business i...Loe edasi...
This is the story of Joe Mac, a mysterious figure in the Boston underworld, founder of the Winter Hill Gang in the 1950s, member of the FBIs Ten Most Wanted Fugitives in the 1970s. He killed dozens over a criminal career that spanned five decades. A...Loe edasi...
The Coterel Gang, who flourished in the Midlands of England during the late 1320s and early 1330s, was led by James Coterel and supported by his brothers Nicholas and John....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Mar-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Texas Christian University Press, ISBN-13: 9780875659633)
Mimi: The Perilous Journey of a Free-Spirited Texas Woman tells the extraordinary true story of a Texas debutante who lived a life few could imagine. A niece of Texas Senator John Tower, Mimis journey takes her from tragedy and privilege to the dang...Loe edasi...
Peter Rachman dominated housing in post-war London - he owned vast swathes in the west of the city, accumulating huge wealth as his tenants lived in squalor and fear of his hard-nosed collectors and enforcers. He was also at the heart of the citys...Loe edasi...
For the first time in forty years, former New York Times editor Michael Cannell unearths the full story behind two ruthless New York cops who acted as double agents for the Mafia.No episode in NYPD history surpasses the depra...Loe edasi...
The stunning blood-soaked saga of a real-life Godfather—Don Carlo Gambino—the quiet gangster with a whispery voice who struck fear into his enemies as he rose to the top of the Mafia family ladder, told by an insider who lived in that world, knew...Loe edasi...
Deeply researched and scrupulously even-handed, this work provides readers with a clear and accurate understanding of human trafficking and related issues related to socioeconomic inequality, human rights, and international law. In doing so...Loe edasi...
Though there are many books about organized crime, this is the only book that focuses on how the mob adapted to the murders of its bosses, failed hits, internecine wars, and to prosecutions and continued to thrive throughout the United States f...Loe edasi...
A gripping and deeply researched exploration of the hidden influence of organized crime on the global economy that reveals the mafia as an uncredited architect of modern society.In Mafia: A Global History, Ryan Gingeras takes re...Loe edasi...
Boys and young men have been previously overlooked in domestic violence and abuse policy and practice, particularly in the case of boys who are criminalized and labelled as gang-involved by the time they reach their teens. Jade...Loe edasi...
