Organized crime

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

This book presents primary research conducted in Italy, USA, Australia and the UK on countering strategies and institutional perceptions of Italian mafias and local organized crime groups.

This book provides the "e;how to's"e; of police patrol, focusing on how officers on the front line perform their duties (covering both skills and techniques), meet day-to-day challenges, and manage the tasks and risks associated with modern police patrol.

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 develops the idea that the Cosa Nostra Sicilian mafia likes and, more than any other criminal organization, follows the patterns of capitalist transformation.

This book examines the lives of the sentenced to argue that 'sentencing' should be re-conceived to consider the human perspective.

This book introduces 'convenience' as the key concept to explain financial crime by white-collar criminals.

This book provides a fully-contextualised, multidisciplinary examination of bullying and violence in South Korean society.

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

This book provides practical recommendations on how to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of AML compliance by introducing the theory, framework and approach for dealing with the concerns of Money Laundering Reporting Officers (MLROs) within the UK banking industry.

This book offers an ethnographic study of the lives of girls in the juvenile justice system.

This book critically examines the link between guns and violence.

This book provides a sociological examination of young people's pathways into, and out of, substance abuse.

This book presents an historical and sociological account of the Italian mafia-type organisation known as the 'ndrangheta.

This book discusses the role of the prison in Europe across a divide of over 200 years.

Sandra Gregory seemed to have the perfect life in Bangkok - until illness, unemployment and political unrest turned it into a nightmare.

Diskrete Geschäfte sind es, die Wirtschaftsjournalist Florian Horcicka in seinem Buch unter die Lupe nimmt.

Bringing together academics and professionals, this edited collection considers key issues in current criminal justice policy and practice related specifically to women to answer the important question: are women being failed by the criminal justice system?

["The Sanctioning of Insubordinate Patient Behaviour.

This book focuses on the enforcement aspect of tobacco control policy, and argues that the intense regulation of the tobacco market will never be successful as long as it can be circumvented by the availability of illicit tobacco products.

Ein Kommentar von Praktikern für Praktiker!

This book seeks to contribute to the analysis of the serious violations of human rights in Mexico during the processes of democratic transition and the "e;War on Drugs"e; by taking bodies and territories as archives of the crimes committed by the Mexican State in the last decades.

John Dickie erzählt in seinem internationalen Bestseller die spannende Geschichte der Mafia von ihren Anfängen in den Olivenhainen Siziliens, über ihre Erfolgsgeschichte in den USA bis hin zu ihrem Ausbau zur global operierenden Holding.

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 book ties restorative justice into the exercise of patriarchal power.

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 book provides a comprehensive, global exploration of the scale, scope, threats, and drivers of wildlife trafficking from a criminological perspective.

This initiating monograph provides the first thorough examination of the concept of white-collar crime online.

This edited volume  presents an innovative and critical analysis of corporate compliance from an interdisciplinary and international perspective.

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

This book is the first to compare the shared cultural tenets of ancient warbands and outlaw biker gangs.

This book discusses environmental crime and individual wrongdoing.

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This book focuses on the enforcement aspect of tobacco control policy, and argues that the intense regulation of the tobacco market will never be successful as long as it can be circumvented by the availability of illicit tobacco products.

This edited book addresses the issues of gun trafficking and gun violence across different regions of the world, including the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe and Oceania.

This book looks into the processes of change and renewal of border control and border security and management during the past 30 years after the fall of the Iron Curtain, and the immense challenges in nation-building in South-Eastern Europe after the collapse of former Yugoslavia in relation to strategic security management.

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.

The profile of prisoners across many Western countries is strikingly similar - 95% male, predominantly undereducated and underemployed, from the most deprived neighbourhoods.

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

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.

The County Lines phenomenon has become one of the most significant drug market developments in the UK over recent years.

This book deals with the widespread economic and financial crime issues of corruption, the shadow economy and money laundering.

Drawing on extensive life-history interviews with serious violent offenders, this book offers a unique socio-historical analysis of gang membership and gang evolution in Glasgow, Scotland's largest city.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the illegal extraction of metals and minerals from the perspectives of organized crime theory, green criminology, anti-corruption studies, and victimology.