Organized crime

This book explores how young people perceive the severity of crime and delinquency.

Phases of Terrorism in the Age of Globalization considers terrorism as an aspect of the capitalist world system for almost five centuries.

This book argues that Britain is gripped by an endemic and ongoing panic about the position of children in society - which frames them as, alternately, victims and threats.

This book critically examines both theory and practice around conservation crimes.

This book surveys the development of laws surrounding the crime of money laundering and the associated changes in the anti-money laundering (AML) industry.

Juvenile Offenders and Guns explores how and why twenty-five incarcerated young men of color acquired and used guns, and how guns made them feel.

This volume poses a series of key questions about the practice of probation as an integral part of the European criminal justice system.

This edited volume fills a critical void by providing the most current and authoritative information on what is known about disciplinary disparities.

A realistic understanding of the mafia must avoid depictions both of a monolithic organization and of localized, isolated groups.

The author draws on behavioral ecology to predict the evolution of organized crime in unregulated systems of exchange and the further development of racketeer economies into unstable kleptocratic states.

Corruption is a problem in prisons about which we hear very little, except when there is an escape from custody or other scandal that makes the media.

This book explores the complexities of drugs policy in Britain, contradicting the over simplified representation found in the public sphere.

"e;The strength of this book is that it does not look at a single case or even a few disparate examples of drug, weapon, and human trafficking but looks at many patterns-intra-regionally, cross-nationally, and internationally.

As policy-makers look first (and easily) for existing policy solutions which could be adapted from elsewhere, policy transfer becomes increasingly central to policy development.

This book explores the success and failures of the Prevent strategy, which was developed by the UK Government to help stop people becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism.

Winner of the American Educational Studies Association 2016 Critics' Choice Book AwardYouth Gangs, Racism, and Schooling examines the formation of Vietnamese American youth gangs in Southern California.

This book examines the most recent and contentious issues in relation to cybercrime facing the world today, and how best to address them.

This edited collection provides an innovative and detailed analysis of the relationship between the financial crisis, risk and corruption.

This book critically examines coordination work between police officers and agencies.

Self-Selection Policing introduces and explores an approach for crime control which seeks to identify active, serious offenders by attending to the minor offences they commit.

This book shows how the overall impact of the penal policy agenda of the Coalition Government 2010-2015 has not led to the intended 'rehabilitation revolution', but austerity, outsourcing and punishment, designated here as 'punitive managerialism'.

Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs are increasingly seen as a threat to communities around the world.

This unique collection brings together international contributors from a range of disciplines to explore crime and responses to crime through a religious/faith-based lens.

This book explores current and emerging trends in policy, strategy, and practice related to cyber operations conducted by states and non-state actors.

This book explores the critical questions of how and why criminal justice policies emerge, and examines how criminal justice policy is understood and applied by practitioners.

This book explores the perceptions and role of juvenile justice educators.

The US-led war on drugs has failed: drugs remain purer, cheaper and more readily available than ever.

This unique volume unpacks the concept and practice of naming and shaming by examining how governments, NGOs and international organisations attempt to change the behaviour of targeted actors through public exposure of violations of normative standards and legal commitments.

This book analyzes how strategic intelligence can support decision-makers in national policing organizations to anticipate transnational organized crime (TOC).

This book provides a short, comprehensive, critical analysis of trafficking in human beings.

Young Offenders provides one of the most in-depth studies of young males seeking, if often failing, to find a life beyond crime and punishment.

Community reparation for young offenders involves unpaid work such as painting and decorating, litter picking and graffiti removal.

Policing Wildlife examines both the extent and enforcement of wildlife law, one of the fastest growing areas of crime globally.

Cyber-War provides a critical assessment of current debates around the likelihood and impact of cyber warfare.

By examining averted school rampage incidents, this work addresses problematic gaps in school violence scholarship and advances existing knowledge about mass murder, violence prevention, bystander intervention, threat assessment, and disciplinary policy in school contexts.

This book critically analyses how men in prison act out their masculine identities.

Challenging dominant discourses in neoliberal marketized societies about working with disconnected young people, this book argues that alternative, radical approaches to formal and informal education are necessary to challenge repressive practices, and to help build a more equal, socially-just society.

Informed by witness testimonies, Eurafrican Migration details how the perilous journeys undertaken by irregular migrants are enabled by complex networks of guides during the Sahara phase, and explores the relationship between migrants and the criminal groups who arrange for them to be transported across the sea to southern Europe.

This book surveys the history, current status, and critical issues regarding the various mechanisms designed to control sex offenders.

Since the late 1990s, the Japan Coast Guard (JCG) has countered a myriad of 'outlaw' threats at sea including piracy, terrorism, the proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) and the threat posed by 'rogue states'.

This comprehensive collection contributes to, advances and consolidates discussions of the range of research methods in criminology through the presentation of diverse international case studies in which contributors reflect upon their experiences with powerless and powerful individuals or groups.

Within contemporary youth research there are two dominant streams - a 'transitions' and a 'cultures' perspective.

This book explores the contours of women's involvement in the Irish Republican Army, political protest and the prison experience in Northern Ireland.

Youth crime and youth violence blights our communities and shapes the lives of many, whether they are victims, perpetrators or family members.

Young people explain, excuse and justify violence in a range of situations and view violence prevention as a difficult, if not impossible, endeavour.

This innovative new book aims to put society's fight against terrorism into a comprehensive crime prevention perspective with a clear, understandable theoretical foundation, developing a general model for the prevention of crime which is, in this book, applied to terrorism.

Criminal Capital is an engaging but authoritative account of how financial structures and products can and are being used to evade proper scrutiny and enable criminal activity and what can be done about it.

This book reviews the key controversies surrounding the police power to stop and search members of the public.

Graycar and Prenzler present a readily accessible guide to the issues of public and private sector corruption, outlining the nature and dimensions of corruption problems in a variety of settings across the world, and providing a set of practical strategies to prevent corruption that also facilitate economic growth and development.

Building upon a range of case studies that range from civil war to maritime security and cyber crime, the contributors analyse how non-state actors can and should be involved in contributing to state and human security.