Organized crime

Written by a foremost expert in the field, this hands-on, evidence-based guide describes how to conduct a comprehensive forensic neuropsychological evaluation and provide expert testimony.

The vast and mysterious world of criminals, from ancient times through the 21st century, is vividly captured in The Great Pictorial History of World Crime.

Bestselling true crime author Edward Butts presents a rogues' gallery of desperadoes whose crimes range from robbery to murder.

Bestselling true crime author Edward Butts presents a rogues' gallery of desperadoes whose crimes range from robbery to murder.

On April 15, 1920, five bandits robbed and killed a paymaster and his guard in a Boston suburb.

For over fifty years, Freddie Foreman's name has commanded respect, and occasionally fear, from those who work to uphold the law - and those who operate just outside of it.

'Reveals criminal corruption on a scale that the Kray twins would never have dreamt of' John Pearson, Profession of Violence, The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins'Gillard's detailed investigation makes for a stunning and shocking read' Barry Keeffe, The Long Good Friday'Legacy illustrates the sordid links between business, politics and organised crime' Ioan Grillo, El Narco and Gangster WarlordsWhen billions poured into the neglected east London borough hosting the 2012 Olympics, a turf war broke out between crime families for control of a now valuable strip of land.

The classic, bestselling account of the infamous Kray twins, now a major film, LEGEND, starring Tom Hardy.

'Of course I'm a f**king hooligan, you pr**k.

Irish Travellers have never enjoyed a higher profile, at home and abroad, for good reasons and bad.

Forget Peaky Blinders - meet The Westies .

We live our lives online banking, shopping, working, dating but have we become complacent?

Charlie Richardson, one of Britain's most notorious gangland bosses, sheds light on his extraordinary life story completed just weeks before his death in September 2012.

John Gotti: Gangster, killer, celebrity.

Real-life all too rarely offers stories that are quite as satisfying as fiction.

For nearly fifty years, J.

Brought up amid near-Dickensian squalour in the tough East End of Glasgow and sexually abused by her uncle, Janey married into a Glasgow criminal family as a teenager, then found herself having to cope with the murder of her mother, violence, religious sectarianism, abject poverty and a frightening family of in-laws.

To the outside world, Opus Dei's stated intention is 'to remind all people that they are called to holiness, especially through work and ordinary life'.

In a corrupt world where crooked cops and desperate gamblers play dangerous games of betrayal, one man has power over them all The Last Don is Mario Puzo at his finest - a masterful saga of the last great American crime family, the Clericuzios, and their powerful reach into Hollywood and Las Vegas.

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE CLASSIC BESTSELLER, THE GODFATHER'An offer of evil and romance that cannot be refused.

The trade in counterfeit goods is growing and is increasingly linked to transnational organised crime.

The trade in counterfeit goods is growing and is increasingly linked to transnational organised crime.

In DarkMarket: CyberThieves, CyberCops and You, Misha Glenny plunged into the murky depths of the world's most notorious carder fraud site, DarkMarket.

AN IMPOSSBLE CHOICEJorge Salcedo was trapped.

The CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction Award winning true story behind GoodfellasBy the son and daughter of Henry Hill - immortalised in the book Wiseguy and the Martin Scorsese film Goodfellas - On The Run is the harrowing account of a childhood spent coping with an explosive father whilst dodging Mafia payback.

_______The shocking, gripping autobiography from one of the UK's most infamous criminals and gang leaders, and one half of the legendary Kray Twins, Reggie Kray.

_____________________________At Ronnie Kray's funeral, London crime expert John Pearson saw a man he didn't recognise - but who all the notorious criminals present deferred to.

Through most of the 20th century, Atlantic City, New Jersey, was controlled by a powerful partnership of local politicians and racketeers.

Excellent Cadavers (a term used in Sicily to distinguish the assassination of prominent government officials from the hundreds of common criminals killed in the course of routine mafia business) tells of the remarkable investigation spearheaded by Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, the two Sicilian prosecutors who in the 1980s took the war against the Mafia further than anyone had ever dared.

Arabische Clans beherrschen die Berliner Unterwelt.

'I have long wanted to write a book about my life and the extraordinary years I spent with my husband Howard Marks.

Jonathan Wild (born c.

In the early twenty-first century, juvenile crime has become a matter of widespread social and political concern and debate.

In MAFIA REPUBLIC, John Dickie, Professor of Italian Studies at University College, London and author of the international bestsellers COSA NOSTRA and MAFIA BROTHERHOODS, shows how the Italian mafias have grown in power and become more and more interconnected, with terrifying consequences.

From the bestselling author of The Hard Way Out and for fans of Sons of Anarchy comes a new book that reveals the cold, dark and dirty secrets of the biker underworldHells Angels.

True-crime writing at its finest.

Jerry Langton is a veteran journalist whose work has appeared in the Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, Maclean's, Daily News (New York) and many other publications.

In the world of organized crime, the bosses grab the headlines.

The inside story of the street war between Canada's most violent biker gangs-the Outlaws and the Hell's Angels Once bikers who road together, Mario Parente and Walter Stadnick, are now mortal enemies, chiefs, respectively, of the Outlaws and Hell's Angels, embroiled in a bloody turf war over control of the lucrative drug, prostitution, and vice markets in Ontario's Golden Horseshoe.

Sometimes, you make bad choices.

A remarkable tale of greed, treachery and deceit in one of the most outlandish criminal stunts ever conceived: the theft of a nation In 1981, a small but heavily armed force of misfits from Canada and the United States set off on a preposterous mission: invade an impoverished Caribbean country, overthrow its government in a coup d'etat, install a puppet prime minister and transform the island into a crooks' paradise.

Michael Plante, a low-level Hells Angels dog's body in Vancouver, is arrested for extortion in 2003.

Organized crime, understood in a literal sense as systematic illegal activity for money or power, is as old as the first systems of law and government and as international as trade.

Contemporary philosophy still lacks a satisfying theory of punishment, one that adequately addresses our basic moral concerns.

From the late-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century juvenile reformatories served as citizen-building institutions and a political tool of state racism in post-emancipation America.

From the late-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century juvenile reformatories served as citizen-building institutions and a political tool of state racism in post-emancipation America.

The prisons and asylums of Canada and the United States were a popular destination for institutional tourists in the nineteenth-century.

The prisons and asylums of Canada and the United States were a popular destination for institutional tourists in the nineteenth-century.

Vegas Concierge tells the tale of domestic sex trafficking in America through the riveting inside story of a decade-long investigation into sex trafficking, police corruption, and hip-hop music in Sin City.

Since its implementation in 2003, the Youth Criminal Justice Act has been the subject of intense political and scholarly debate.