Organized crime

Umberto Anastasio, better known as Albert Anastasia, was an Italian-American mobster and hitman who became one of the deadliest criminals in American history and one of the founders of the modern American Mafia in New York City.

With the war between the Mexican state and the drug traffickers operating within its borders having claimed over 70,000 lives since 2006, noted journalist and author Michael Deibert zeroes in on the story of the notorious Gulf Cartel, their deadly war with their former allies Los Zetas, the cartels connections in Mexican politics and what its trajectory means for Mexico's--and America's--future.

Countless criminals have made their mark on Chicago and the surrounding communities.

At the age of twelve, my ambition was to become a gangster.

The inside storyfrom the organizer himself--of the largest unrecovered cash haul in history.

This groundbreaking book investigates the emergence and evolution of the organ trade across North Africa and Europe.

At a time when New York City's booming waterfront industry was ruled by lawless criminals, one gangster towered above the rest and secretly controlled the docks for over thirty years.

Murder Capital explores Prohibition-era Madison, Wisconsin.

The relationship between drugs and today's wars has grown more noticeable since the end of the Cold War and will likely gather strength in this era of increased globalization.

Growing up in an aristocratic family that seems almost to have stepped out of the pages of The Leopard, Leoluca Orlando entered law and politics in the late 1970s as one of the young idealists identified with the Catholic Church who were challenging the Mafias control of Sicilian life.

The Violent Years, a companion volume to author Paul Kavieff's best-selling book, The Purple Gang, is the story of Prohibition-era Detroit, a place of tremendous wealth and brutal violence.

Cyberterrorism in the 21st century is now one of the greatest threats to global security and information.

'Tense, pacy and full of surprises, Go Seek is like nothing I've ever read before .

This is the story of the most successful cocaine dealers in the world: Pablo Escobar Gaviria, Jorge Luis Ochoa Vasquez, Carlos Lehder Rivas and Jose Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha.

This book examines the use of social network analysis (SNA) in operational environments from the perspective of those who actually apply it.

This book identifies and examines the novel ways in which money is laundered internationally through illegal activities on the internet, focusing on sales, payments, social media, online gaming, and tax misapplication.

This book explores the historical origins, activities, and structure of the archetypal 'new' Asian criminal entrepreneurs in Canada, known as The Big Circle Boys (BCB).

This book examines the global phenomenon of school violence and its wide range of behaviours, from school shootings to minor theft, bullying and sexual harassment.

This textbook offers a foundation for understanding adolescents' rights by articulating the complexity, breadth, and challenging nature of laws regulating adolescents.

This book offers a contemporary look at violence in Mexico and argues for a recalibration in how necropolitics, as the administration of life and death, is understood.

Amidst ongoing allegations of inappropriate behavior and trafficking during UN peacekeeping missions, this volume takes a step back to analyze the post-war and peacekeeping contexts in which prostitution flourishes.

This book comprehensively examines right-wing extremism (RWE) in Canada, discussing the lengthy history of violence and distribution, ideological bases, actions, organizational capacity and connectivity of these extremist groups.

This brief sheds light on evolving drug markets and the county lines phenomenon in the British context.

This book reviews research on psychology and crime in Japan, and compares the findings with similar research conducted in Western industrialised countries.

This book explores how the 'new' Asian criminal entrepreneurs in Canada, known as The Big Circle Boys (BCB), competitively dominated the Canadian heroin market in the 1990s without a formal organisation or explicit hierarchical structure.

This book draws on research into darknet cryptomarkets to examine themes of cybercrime, cybersecurity, illicit markets and drug use.

This book explores the consumption of counterfeit fashion goods.

This Palgrave Pivot surveys facts and cases exhibiting and exemplifying corruption in sport.

This book explains the existence of illicit markets throughout human history and provides recommendations to governments.

This edited collection provides an original and comprehensive take on retail crime and its prevention, by combining international data and multidisciplinary perspectives from criminologists, economists, geographers, police officers and other experts.

This book explains and theorises the ways in which family policy instruments come to shape the routine care arrangements of young children.

This book provides a novel criminological understanding of white-collar crime and corporate lawbreaking in China focusing on: lack of reliable official data, guanxi and corruption, state-owned enterprises, media censorship, enforcement and regulatory capacity.

This edited volume examines the use of militarised responses to different forms of criminal activity, discussing the outcomes and unintended consequences.

This book describes the complex process of desistance from sexual crime as told by 74 men incarcerated for sexual offenses and released back into the community.

Listening to Sicarios presents new insights into the lives of paid assassins of Mexico's drug trafficking syndicates from the perspectives of the assassins themselves.

This edited collection offers in-depth essays on outlaw motorcycle clubs and street gangs.

This book brings together empirical and theoretical case-study research on art and heritage crime.

This edited volume presents nine new state-of-the-science chapters covering topics relevant to psychology and law, from established and emerging researchers in the field.

This book focuses on the displacement and convergence of transnational crimes in North Africa and in the area of the Mediterranean Sea, providing empirical analysis of human smuggling and of drug trafficking.

This brief investigates school shootings and their impact on individual, community, and societal levels.

This book explores young people's experiences of social control and the state, especially those living at the margins of society within the UK.

This book evaluates the impact of situational crime prevention measures implemented by social media platforms to identifying, blocking, and removing content linked to illegal traded medicines.

This edited volume explores recent research and developments in the study of organized crime.

This book examines the changing police landscape over the past 25 years to establish how Police Leadership has evolved to meet this challenge.

This edited collection analyses the prison through the most fundamental challenge it faces: escapes.

This book challenges the rhetoric linking 'war on terror' with 'war on human trafficking' by juxtaposing lived experiences of survivors of trafficking, refugees, and labor migrants with macro-level security concerns.

This book provides a critical discussion of the way in which religion influences: criminal and antisocial behaviour, punishment and the law, intergroup conflict and peace-making, and the rehabilitation of offenders.

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This book examines the role of religion and spirituality in desistance from crime and disengagement from gangs.

This book compiles research on female crime and delinquency in Portugal in order to critically and reflectively explore interdisciplinary views on the link between gender, crime and delinquency.