This book aims to describe and demystify what makes organized criminal groups so culturally powerful. This new edition examines their codes of conduct, initiation rites, secret communication methods, origin myths, symbols, and lifestyles, and serves...Lasīt vairāk
This book provides a multidisciplinary analysis of the fentanyl supply chain, discussing the nature of criminal and state actors and the links between regions around the globe. Fentanyl will be an excellent resource to students and researchers acros...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Jul-2025, Izdevniecība: Apple Academic Press Inc., ISBN-13: 9781003597193)
Examines the issue of human trafficking and offers a blueprint for its eradication. Critically assesses existing anti-trafficking initiatives and introduces a novel approach rooted in a sociotechnical framework that models a multidisciplinary strate...Lasīt vairāk
This book explores a range of topics relating to the prosecution and trial of organised crime and the punishment, especially imprisonment, of members of organised criminal groups....Lasīt vairāk
The book critiques the pathologization of gangs in recent decades, particularly its negative consequences for democracy in an age of punishment, cruelty and coercive social control. It critically reviews gang theory and the enabling role of orthodox...Lasīt vairāk
This book expands the literature on social harm by applying the concept of zemia to international human trafficking. It draws attention not only to various structurally imbedded harms, but also to the wider consequences of such harms....Lasīt vairāk
Building on previous work in rural criminology, this book casts a global and comparative look across nineteen countries, drawing on themes of crime and victimization, safety and fear, practices of policing and police trust, and crime prevention prac...Lasīt vairāk
This book examines political responses to the problem of human trafficking, including proposals, actions (legislative and executive), and statements made by politicians, government agencies, and civil society organizations to solve or mitigate the c...Lasīt vairāk
The text examines the impacts of human trafficking panics perpetuated by media, including understanding the origins of human trafficking in the nineteenth century white slave panic, the ways that popular media perpetuates stereotypes, the reality of...Lasīt vairāk
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. It delves into the broader context of human trafficking, examining rel...Lasīt vairāk
This book takes a comprehensive approach to unraveling the intricacies and variations of organized crime, providing a detailed account of its many attributes....Lasīt vairāk
Presenting an original institutional approach, this book makes the case for an empirically-based crime economics that aims to guide the fight against crime within a logic of reasonable capitalism and the common good....Lasīt vairāk
This edited collection discusses the rule of law in the Amazon and the capabilities of the regions sovereign states to police their territory considering security matters....Lasīt vairāk
The book offers an important rapprochement between studies in organized crime and green criminology, and considers the operational differences between underworld and upperworld criminal economies....Lasīt vairāk
This timely, insightful, and data-led book fills a gap in gang scholarship by examining gangs in rural areas, specifically focussing on youth gang activity....Lasīt vairāk
Illicit business is big business. It covers a diverse range of activities from money laundering, drug trafficking and human trafficking through to the manufacture of counterfeit goods and the multiple activities in informal and shadow economies. Thi...Lasīt vairāk
This book meticulously examines how centers of illicit trade pose myriad threats to global security and sustainable development. It will be of great value to researchers in the fields of trade, economics, criminology, and international development....Lasīt vairāk
Everything you need to know to seek justice for victims and accountability for traffickers is in this approachable guide written by seasoned anti-trafficking professionals....Lasīt vairāk
Establishing a new framework for understanding insider risk by focusing on systems of organization within large enterprises, including public, private and not-for-profit sectors, this book analyses practices to better assess, prevent, detect, and re...Lasīt vairāk
This volume presents cutting edge research on outlaw bikers and outlaw biker clubs from countries all over the globe and reflects the different ways that academic researchers have approached the outlaw biker phenomenon from the theoretical and metho...Lasīt vairāk
