Organized crime

Illicit business is big business.

For many people around the world, instances of what is described as organized crime may be part of their everyday experience; in their neighbourhoods, their streets, and the places they work and live.

For more than a hundred years, Glasgow has been right up there in the major league of big-city crime.

It is essential that those in the criminal justice system understand the tasks that police dogs perform and the evidence that their work produces.

Drawing heavily on original research designed to train police officers to survive deadly encounters, Profiling Cop-Killers examines the sociological history, psychology, and motives of 50 murderers of police officers in 2011.

This book critically analyses the conceptual understanding of financial investigation and financial intelligence among UK law enforcement authorities and their commentators.

From The Sixth Family, according to witness testimony: BROOKLYN, MAY 5, 1981 "e;We were in the closet.

The Detective's Handbook details the vital information law enforcement officers need to know to become better detectives.

This important book introduces the basics of prenatal psychology and works through the current scientific findings in the psychology and psychosomatics of pregnancy and birth.

An anthology of writings in Italian which examine the origins, nature and culture of the Sicilian mafia.

Originally published in 1922, Juvenile Delinquency was written while the author was Director of the Ohio Bureau of Juvenile Research.

Originally published in 1961, when delinquency and its cure constituted one of the gravest problems facing modern society.

Understanding Police Operational Performance provides a roadmap for police agencies to implement performance-improvement strategies that work.

For nearly twenty years, Glasgow has been coined Europe's murder capital, and identified as having the continent's highest drug harms.

This book brings together experts from different fields and with different jurisdictional focuses to provide fresh ideas and deep insights into crypto regulation.

Professionalizing the Police is a timely reassessment of the development of British police training and its contribution to the furtherance of the police professionalism agenda.

A one-stop resource for understanding historical and contemporary perspectives on ideological extremism in law enforcement, as well as its wider impacts on American society.

This book explores how we can re-constitute our approach to analysing and empirically investigating the organisation of white-collar and corporate crimes, with a view to building fuller theoretical and empirical accounts.

In terms of raw numbers, the amount of world urban dwellers have increased four-fold, skyrocketing from 740 million in 1950 to almost 3.

This book explores the ethics around everything connected with setting up and running a therapy private practice.

Originally published in 1922, Juvenile Delinquency was written while the author was Director of the Ohio Bureau of Juvenile Research.

Bringing a unique rural lens to the analysis of dark tourism in Australia, this book covers a range of sites including convict museums, sites of serial killings and colonial violence, ghost tours and the emerging tourism of bushfire sites.

This essential resource offers extensive updates on the leading Supreme Court cases impacting law enforcement in the United States, creating a must-have reference for police officers to stay up-to-date and have a strong understanding of the law and their function within it.

Fuel trafficking has consolidated in recent years as a paramount illegal enterprise and a priority for Mexico's diverse criminal actors.

This book integrates research on the causes, responses and protective strategies for vicarious trauma that are recognised in a range of human services and argues their relevance to the legal profession.

This book brings together research and studies in the fields of organised crime and of 'green criminality' against the natural environment.

Every day the media floods the airwaves with their often-contradictory version of the role and behavior of the police force.

For many people around the world, instances of what is described as organized crime may be part of their everyday experience; in their neighbourhoods, their streets, and the places they work and live.

Fuel trafficking has consolidated in recent years as a paramount illegal enterprise and a priority for Mexico's diverse criminal actors.

The Darke family and their associates are under attack.

For nearly twenty years, Glasgow has been coined Europe's murder capital, and identified as having the continent's highest drug harms.

This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to criminological theory for students taking courses in criminology at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.

Illicit business is big business.

Providing an in-depth interrogation of the practitioner/academic role within the context of criminal justice, this book outlines the benefits and challenges of different roles through exploring the lived experience of the contributing authors.

Healing Veteran Moral Injury highlights the importance of story and metaphor in the change process and in trauma-related work.

In modern industrial societies, the demand for policing services frequently exceeds the current and foreseeable availability of public policing resources.

Bringing a unique rural lens to the analysis of dark tourism in Australia, this book covers a range of sites including convict museums, sites of serial killings and colonial violence, ghost tours and the emerging tourism of bushfire sites.

Professionalizing the Police is a timely reassessment of the development of British police training and its contribution to the furtherance of the police professionalism agenda.

This edited collection discusses the rule of law in the Amazon and the capabilities of the region's sovereign states to police their territory considering security matters.

This important book introduces the basics of prenatal psychology and works through the current scientific findings in the psychology and psychosomatics of pregnancy and birth.

This book meticulously examines how centers of illicit trade pose myriad threats to global security and sustainable development.

The Communicative Architecture of Policing is a ground-breaking study of police communications and police-media relations in the social media era.

This edited collection of contributions explores non-normative genders, sexualities, and relationality among Autistic people.

The late 1970s saw the emergence of a heated debate on the treatment of juvenile delinquents.

Many changes have occurred in the twenty-five years that have passed since the enactment of the Money Laundering Control Act of 1986.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the illicit practice of football trafficking, focusing on the exploitation of underage African players being transferred to Europe.