Organized crime

Luego de décadas de una política de mano dura contra el delito, muchos Estados de América se enfrentan hoy a una paradoja: mientras han aumentado el uso del encarcelamiento a tal punto que el hacinamiento de sus cárceles se ha desbordado, Latinoamérica se ha convertido en el continente con las cifras más altas de homicidios en el mundo.

"El futuro del mundo está en los jóvenes" es una frase altamente repetida en distintos escenarios sociales y de formulación de políticas públicas.

En este estudio sobre las cárceles de Lima entre 1850 y 1935, Carlos Aguirre reconstruye las influencias sociales, culturales y doctrinales detrás de las formas en que se trataba a los delincuentes, la implementación –parcial y llena de contradicciones– de proyectos de reforma carcelaria, y las estrategias desplegadas por los reclusos para enfrentar la experiencia de la prisión.

From Boy Scout to assassin the true confessions of a cartel hitmanAt the age of twelve Martin Corona started dealing drugs.

A true crime travel guide to the haunts and hangouts of the most notorious gangsters of London’s East End.

The shocking true story of a Canadian biker turned informant, in the vein of Gangland Undercover and Under and Alone, now a national bestsellerDave Atwell was a regular suburban Canadian kid who rose to the heights of society, rubbing elbows with billionaires as a personal security specialist before getting involved with some of the countrys most notorious gangsters as a member of first the Para-Dice Riders and then the Hells Angels.

This is the true story of Tot Riina, the Cosa Nostra boss who rose from nothing to become the most powerful man in Sicily.

With the war over, the forties, fifties and sixties have the aura of a golden age.

Bosses.

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 CWA GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION'Reads like a mashup of The Godfather and Chinatown, complete with gun battles, a ruthless kingpin and a mountain of cash.

Underworld: n.

'A gripping murder mystery and a vivid recreation of Paris under German Occupation.

Gabriel Garc a M rquez's News of a Kidnapping is a powerful retelling of actual events from a turbulent period of Colombian history.

Shortlisted for the Book of the Year and Audiobook of the Year at the 2023 True Crime AwardsStreet kid turned undercover cop.

Sandra Gregory seemed to have the perfect life in Bangkok - until illness, unemployment and political unrest turned it into a nightmare.

Underworld: n.

The Second World War produced numerous acts of self-sacrifice, but it also made many people rich.

THE BLACK HAND is the true story of Rene Enriquez aka Boxer and his rise in a secret criminal organization a new Mafia that already has a grip on all organized crime in California and soon all of the United States.

Run, jump and play.

A sheriff investigates his own brother's murder, deep in the heart of Appalachia.

THE NEXT BOOK IN THE BESTSELLING INSIDE.

THE FASCINATING SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERAssaults.

AN IMPOSSBLE CHOICEJorge Salcedo was trapped.

Meth, murder and pirates: the coder who became a crime boss.

The unbelievable account of life as a hitman from a man who has been doing it for decades.

**Now a major BBC series starring James Norton**Have you ever bought a pirate DVD?

'Another stunner in the series.

_______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.

I could've died a thousand times.

When Great Britain took the moral high ground and banned its lucrative export of opium from Imperial India to China, it unleashed a century of criminality.

You can see them, but you don't know them.

Here is the most comprehensive introduction to and explanation of the most infamous crime organization in history.

'IN MY GAME, THE CHOICE IS A JAIL OR A GRAVE.

*This book is published in the US as Tracers in the Dark.

'An insightful and explosive expose' - Stephen Breen, author of The Cartel and The HitmenIreland's top crime journalist traces the flood of cocaine into Ireland and those behind its unprecedented growth.

The shocking true story of Mary Thompson, a Eugene, Oregon, anti-gang activist who secretly ran her own murderous mob of teenagers—including her own son.

Timed to coincide with the World Cup in Brazil and told in the style of a page-turning thriller, this is the book that will blow the lid off international match fixing in football: a pandemic that has struck at the heart of the 'beautiful game'It began as a series of disparate reports coming in from the corners of the football world: referees, players and managers were deliberately fixing results at the behest of illegal bettors.

Charles 'Lucky' Luciano was a vicious mobster who rose to become the multimillionaire king of the New York underworld.

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.

"e;So there I am, still not 13 years old, seeing everything the underground has to offer.

'I was hooked.

'Sacred, ferocious, and businesslike, Adelstein describes the Japanese mafia like nobody else' Roberto Saviano, on Tokyo ViceMakoto Saigo is half-American and half-Japanese in small-town Japan with a set of talents limited to playing guitar and picking fights.