Organized crime

Focusing on juvenile transfer and disposition evaluations, this volume provides an up-to-date integration of current law, science, and practice with respect to juvenile risk assessment, treatment needs/amenability, and sophistication-maturity.

The 'ndrangheta - the Calabrian region of Italy's mafia - is one of wealthiest and most powerful criminal organizations today.

This handbook showcases studies on art theft, fraud and forgeries, cultural heritage offences and related legal and ethical challenges.

Effective Police Supervision, 9th ed.

The sprawling saga of legendary Australian cop, Bumper Farrell, the most feared and revered policeman in Australia's history.

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

Professionalization has come to the field of threat management.

This book examines the national and international law, human rights and civil liberties issues involved in governments calling out the armed forces to deal with civil unrest or terrorism.

Get crucial ethical and clinical knowledge as it relates to the legal system Ethical and Legal Issues for Mental Health Professionals: in Forensic Settings comprehensively focuses on the integration of ethical, legal, and clinical issues for practicing mental health professionals dealing with legal processes in forensic settings.

How do individuals, communities, and institutions react to crime, disorder, and social control events?

This book provides comprehensive coverage of community policing, the philosophy and organizational strategy that expands the traditional police mandate of fighting crime to include forming partnerships with citizenry that endorse mutual support and participation.

Crime Scene Unit Management: A Path Forward is a must-have resource for anyone involved with forensic investigations and the search for evidence at the crime scene.

This book critiques the connection between Western society and madness, scrutinizing if and how societal insanity affects the cause, construction, and consequence of madness.

This book delves into risks that can easily bedevil any psychotherapist and what can happen if they are ignored.

The contention that young people commit offences due to inadequate parenting and parental difficulties has been an abiding feature of the debates on juvenile offending.

Good police officers are often promoted to supervisory positions with little or none of the training it takes to be a good manager.

This book explores the historical origins, activities, and structure of the archetypal 'new' Asian criminal entrepreneurs in Canada, known as The Big Circle Boys (BCB).

This edited collection by internationally recognized authors provides essays on police behavior in the categories of police administration, police operations, and combating specific crimes.

This book undertakes an exploratory exercise in decolonizing criminology through engaging postcolonial and postdisciplinary perspectives and methodologies.

This volume considers the most appropriate criminal jurisdiction to prosecute aggravated sex trafficking of the kind associated with northern Albanian crime groups.

In this fascinating new work, Karen Duke explores the conflicts and contradictory pressures in the development of prison drugs policy in Britain from 1980 to the present.

Watching Murder shines a light onto the dark world of jihadi murder videos and the people who watch and share them on the internet.

The realities of international law enforcement are widely misunderstood and generally mystifying to the uninitiated.

This textbook considers the full breadth of the criminal justice system, going beyond prisons to cover other punishments such as out-of-court disposals and community penalties, as well as issues around rehabilitation and reintegration.

Psychoanalysis is not just about what happens in the room - it is also about the structure that holds it all together.

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.

The feeling of insecurity is a little known phenomenon that has been only partially explored by social sciences.

When rumors about Geraldine Ferraro--the first woman vice-presidential nominee by a major party in U.

This book provides a unique, comprehensive exploration of the scale, scope, threats and drivers of wildlife trafficking.

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

After decades of rigorous study in the United States and across the Western world, a great deal is known about the early risk factors for offending.

"e;The lessons in this book remind us that we can and that we must do better, for the sake of our children, their futures, and the sake of our nation.

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.

Drug dealers beware.

One of the dark sides to democratization can be crime and corruption.

Several million reported and unreported delinquent acts take place each year.

Speaking Truths to Power: Policy Ethnography and Police Reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina presents a rigorous institutional-level analysis of the effects of globalisation on local policing, drawing on data generated from two ethnographic case studies conducted in 2011 in the transitional, post-conflict society of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Violence at the Intersection: The Interlocking Impact of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class on Risk and Resilience builds upon and expands recent scholarship on the intersectionality of race, ethnicity, gender/gender identity, and class and their multiplicative effects on violent offending and victimization.

This groundbreaking book investigates the emergence and evolution of the organ trade across North Africa and Europe.

Despite great strides in recent years, human trafficking remains a horrific reality for countless millions of people around the world.

Mexico has one of the highest kidnapping rates in the world.

This title, first published in 1930, examines the events of eleven female criminals and the conditions that surrounded their crimes.

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

Psychology of Gang Involvement expands existing knowledge by applying psychological knowledge to gangs, including how gang members think, their mental and emotional well-being, and their perceptions of gang involvement, as well as issues relating to gang prevention and intervention strategies.

This book explains how improvements in intelligence analysis can bene!

This book aims to provide an accessible introduction to the study of organised crime - about those who commit it, the effect it has on individuals, businesses and states, and the ways in which states and the international community have sought to contain it.

For occupational therapists who want to incorporate health promotion or prevention into their practices, here is a thought-provoking new volume.

This book provides a comprehensive, student-friendly and critical introduction to youth justice in England and Wales, offering a balanced evaluation of its development, rationale, nature and evidence base.

This handbook introduces the reader to the field of terrorism investigation.

Heroin, Organized Crime, and the Making of Modern Turkey explores the history of organized crime in Turkey and the roles which gangs and gangsters have played in the making of the Turkish state and Turkish politics.