Organized crime

Based on first-hand interviews with survivors, people who have committed offences, and others on the frontlines, Indictment puts the Canadian criminal justice system on trial and proposes a bold new vision of transformative justice.

Policing is a dynamic profession with increasing demands and complexities placed upon police officers, staff and volunteers who provide a 24-hour service across a diverse range of communities.

The Mob was the biggest, richest business in America until it was destroyed from within by drugs, greed and the decline of traditional crime-family values.

Clubland UK is a story of violent men and the worlds they inhabit.

Everybody in the unlicensed fight game knows that only one man has the honour of being titled 'Guv'nor' - and that man is Lew 'Wild Thing' Yates.

The pre-dawn arrests of the last remaining mafiosi in December 2008 signalled the end of the Sicilian Mafia as we know it.

Trouble in Mind is bernard o'mahoney's unblinkingly honest account of his eventful life so far.

Charlie, snow, toot, white: cocaine goes by many different names.

Bernard O'Mahoney was a key member of the Essex Boys firm - one of the most violent criminal gangs in Britain.

Kray gang boss Tony Lambrianou, who served a life sentence for the brutal murder of Jack 'the Hat' McVitie, has threatened to kill Bernard O'Mahoney 'by smashing a hammer through his head'.

What would make a champion kickboxer and loving husband and father turn to ice?

Intelligence-led Policing clearly explains the distinction between information and intelligence, and discusses how to gather, analyse and utilise intelligence to inform decision making in practice.

This book explores and explains how traditional and alternative media have framed the issues of gun trafficking into Mexico, drug-related violence, and spillover violence.

Favored by instructors and students for its real-world focus and engaging style, this authoritative text on the interface of psychology and law has now been revised and expanded.

Racism is like a Cadillac, they bring out a new model every year.

This multifaceted reference work surveys the history, development, leadership, and priorities of Black Lives Matter (BLM), including the group's efforts to raise public awareness of police violence in communities of color.

In a violent world with an increase of family violence there is also correlated an increase of school violence, substance abuse and sexual abuse.

UNFIT is a true story of corruption within the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) that depicts the various struggles within the organization, complete with a well-developed assassination plot, disregard for the lives of any citizen in the traveling public and apparent payoffs from those who seek approval.

In San Diego, not far from the gates of the fantasy world of Disneyland, tent cities lining the freeways remind us of an ugly reality.

Building a Better Law Practice: Become a Better Lawyer in Five Minutes a Day will help you be a better lawyer and build a better practice.

In 1893 Western Sicily, Gaetano DiGiovanni, twenty-five years old, foresees a day when he abandons his turbulent, hard-scrabble life in the Palermo Province hinterlands for the promise of America.

The real-life adventures of a United States Secret Service undercover agent.

Pediatric nursing is the niche area of nursing where one works solely with babies, toddlers and children.

The Kray twins were Britain's most notorious gangsters.

Nearly a quarter of a million youth are tried, sentenced, or imprisoned as adults every year across the United States.

Queen of Thieves is the gritty, fast-paced story of Fredericka Marm Mandelbaum, a poor Jewish woman who rose to the top of her profession in organized crime during the Gilded Age in New York City.

As the biggest criminal trial since the Boston Strangler draws nearer, the publics fascination with the life and crimes of mob boss Whitey Bulger continues to heat up.

Getting Away With Murder is an explosive investigation into the death of an American hero, the strange case of the American Taliban, and why we never got the truth about eitheruntil now.

Interest in meditation and mindfulness has skyrocketed in recent years, thanks largely to neuroimaging and the body of scientific research that has validated the many benefits of these practices.

Conducted under the umbrella of Project Gunrunner, intended to stem the flow of firearms to Mexico, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) ran a series of gun walking sting operations, including Operations Wide Receiver and Operation Fast & Furious.

Risk assessment and risk management are top of every mental health organisation's agenda.

Detective Michael Palermo built his career on his unique ability to inhabit two worlds at once: the world of law enforcement and the underworld of New Yorks crime family organizations.

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Based on information compiled from police and court documents, contemporary news accounts, and interviews with O'Banion's friends and associates, Guns and Roses traces O'Banion's rise from Illinois farm boy to the most powerful gang boss .

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been fast growing since its evolution and experiments with various new add-on features; human efficiency is one among those and the most controversial topic.

A vital guide to keeping gangs and youth violence out of your community—including one hundred ways to keep your kids safe.

“Toni walks us through the experience of having foster children with undiagnosed mental illness .

This book offers a concise and authoritative overview of the full scope of crime prevention, including foundations, theory, application, and techniques.

The great founding figures of organized crime in the 20th century were born and bred in New York City, and the city was the basis of their operations.

As the first chief of the Special Intelligence Unit at the Treasury Department, Elmer L.

There will never be another Billy Hill - Reggie Kray.

This book aims to describe and demystify what makes organized criminal groups so culturally powerful.

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This comprehensive handbook synthesizes the rapidly growing research base on child and adolescent psychopathy: its nature, causes, development, assessment, and treatment.

This rigorous yet reader-friendly book reviews the state of the science on a broad range of psychological issues commonly encountered in the forensic context.

A pragmatic guide to a growing area of professional practice, this book describes the multiple roles of the trial consultant and provides tools for carrying them out competently and ethically.

This reference text explains what modern piracy is, where and why it happens, and what measures are being taken to combat it.

This fascinating work is a two-volume guide to the shadow world, the critical issues, and the global reach of organized crime.