Organized crime

Anyone alive, and wanting to stay that way, must deal with food.

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

This book focuses on the phenomenon of hacktivism and how it has been dealt with up to now in the United States and the United Kingdom.

Truly international in scope, this Handbook focuses on approaches to discipline, surveillance and social control from around the world, critically examining the strategies and practices schools employ to monitor students and control their behavior.

Family Group Conferences are seen as a progressive and influential form of practice in child welfare across the globe.

The working of the 1969 Children and Young Persons Act was the subject of much debate in the 1970s.

This book challenges the dominant narrative of young people being a uniquely violent group.

The Routledge Handbook on Deviance brings together original contributions on deviance, with a focus on new, emerging, and hidden forms of deviant behavior.

This book considers the role of deception during adolescence, and explores the factors which underpin adolescents' choice to deceive, whether these deceptions will be successful, and the ways in which such lies could be detected.

Understanding the politics of security in city-regions is increasingly important for the study of contemporary policing.

Increasing Resilience in Police and Emergency Personnel illuminates the psychological, emotional, behavioral, and spiritual impact of police work on police officers, administrators, emergency communicators, and their families.

Organized crime is now a major threat to all industrial and non-industrial countries.

This book analyses the Youth Justice Conferencing Program in New South Wales, Australia.

This book explores two major social problems facing Chinese society today: increased strain in the lives of young people and heightened rates of crime and delinquency, ultimately examining the links between them.

This book examines how conflict has affected the rights of youth in Northeast India.

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

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 two-volume, edited collection lays the groundwork for an international exploration of incarceration and generation, covering a range of geographic, judicial and administrative contexts of incarceration from contributors across a range of subjects.

This two-volume, edited collection lays the groundwork for an international exploration of incarceration and generation, cover a range of geographic, judicial and administrative contexts of incarceration from contributors across a range of subjects.

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

This book offers a sociological exploration of street children in India and what pulls and pushes them into delinquency, at a time when the government of India is contemplating strengthening its juvenile justice system.

Penal Abolitionism and Transformative Justice in Brazil discusses how penal abolitionism provides fundamental theoretical bases and practical references for the construction of a transformative justice in Brazil, supporting the claim that justice is a socially constructed conception and that victims do not unanimously stand for punishment.

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

Juvenile Delinquency, Eleventh Edition, discusses delinquency as it relates to and emerges from the youths family, neighborhood, school, peer group, social class, and overall cultural and social environment.

This Palgrave Pivot forms the final part of Andreff's trilogy reviewing the economic aspects of criminal behaviour in sports.

This book provides a complex, socio-anthropological analysis of organized crime operating in the Vietnamese diaspora in the Czech Republic, and its international implications.

This book assesses the implications of how children and young people are represented in print media in Northern Ireland - a post-conflict transitioning society.

In light of asymmetrical security threats in western democracies as well as in conflict regions, this timely book examines the actors, strategies and tactics of Islamist terrorism and transnational organized crime around the globe.

This book examines the nature of relations between penal reform campaigners, journalists and policymakers at the crime-media nexus.

This book presents an in-depth analysis of how statutory and third sector organisations have faced the challenge of dealing with former 'terrorists'.

The Purple Gang was a loosely organized confederation of mobsters who dominated the Detroit underworld and whose tentacles reached across the country.

Milwaukees Sicilian underworld is something few people speak about in polite company, and even fewer people speak about with any authority.

Psychology and Criminal Justice covers the ways that psychology intersects with the criminal justice system, from explaining criminal behavior to helping improve the three criminal justice pillars of policing, courts, and corrections.

As communities continue to undergo rapid demographic shifts that modify their composition, culture, and collective values, police departments serving those communities must evolve accordingly in order to remain effective.

The book deals with illicit trafficking in the Mediterranean, seen as a borderline issue between mobility and security under a strongly interdisciplinary approach.

Digital Pirates examines the unauthorized creation, distribution, and consumption of movies and music in Brazil.

The first book about Guided Participation written for nursesThis authoritative publication delivers an in-depth examination of Guided Participation (GP), a dynamic process of teaching and learning that parents and guardians have used for generations to help their charges become self-reliant.

Originally published in 1967, Social Policy and the Young Delinquent is an account of a process: of the way in which the treatment of the child delinquent has developed from the days when a boy of nine could be sentenced to be hanged for stealing two penny worth of paint (though the sentence, imposed in 1833, was not actually carried out) to the controversies of the time concerning the desirability of replacing the legalistic and penal framework of the services for young offenders by a service more appropriate to their educational and social needs.

Transatlantic policing is experiencing an unprecedented crisis of legitimacy, epitomised by public responses to the murders of George Floyd and Sarah Everard during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Blinded in one eye by a childhood incident, his tormentors called him 'One Eye' or 'Cyclops'; it could have instilled a victim mentality in him, but instead he became a fighter.

Understanding the financial motivations behind white collar crime is often the key to the apprehension and successful prosecution of these individuals.

Teen legal rights are perpetually changing in American society, whether in the classroom, at work, or within family and community settings.

Approaching the topic from a law enforcement perspective, this volume provides an unprecedented look at the investigation of human trafficking in America.

This book introduces readers to the concept of parental alienation (PA), a belief system that is used with increasing frequency in judicial child custody and parenting plan decisions.

In 2018, Alastair McAlpine, a palliative paediatrician in Cape Town, decided to share some inspiring thoughts from the children in his care.

Today's gangsters are streets apart from the old-style gang lords of the Fifties and Sixties.

This book is a comprehensive guide to setting up, running and growing a successful private therapy practice that resonates with your values and professional goals.

Originally published in 1962, this was the first comprehensive study of a group of families often referred to as 'problem families'.

Gangs have long been a social and criminal threat to society.

Establishing a new framework for understanding insider risk by focusing on systems of organisation within large enterprises, including public, private, and not-for-profit sectors, this book analyses practices to better assess, prevent, detect, and respond to insider risk and protect assets and public good.