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This edited volume examines how political violence and coercion are central to state capture. Departing from accounts that largely emphasize economic influence, corruption, and institutional weaknes……続きを見る

This book investigates how African armies in post-conflict societies are evolving and adapting to new and emerging threats. In recent years, multiple extremely complex armed conflicts have contribut……続きを見る

This book offers a rare behind-the-scenes account of successful multi-agency working at a major event – specifically, how Liverpool planned and delivered the Eurovision Song Contest 2023, one of the……続きを見る

Oggi la magistratura è l’istituzione che sembra muovere i fili del nostro paese. Ma, prima di acquisire un’autonomia quasi illimitata, ha dovuto affrontare un cammino lungo e tortuoso, che da organi……続きを見る

Perché le intercettazioni continuano a essere la lingua della democrazia? Perché la distruzione di tante vite e reputazioni non basta a fermare la gogna? Alessandro Barbano risponde a queste domande……続きを見る

Una potente macchina di dolore umano non giustificato e non giustificabile, che adopera un diritto dei cattivi introdotto «dopo l’Unità d’Italia per combattere i briganti, usato a piene mani dal fas……続きを見る

Da qualche decennio è in corso un processo all’apparenza irreversibile: la trasformazione del nostro paese in una repubblica giudiziaria, dove giustizia e politica si intrecciano, si confondono, si ……続きを見る

This book discusses police education in Brazil and other countries of Latin America, with a focus on finding ways for police to maintain respect for citizenship and adhere to democratic values. Lati……続きを見る

The protection profession has evolved dramatically over the past two decades and is no longer confined to the shadows as bodyguards or operational security managers: today’s protectors are trusted a……続きを見る

This collection offers a critical and feminist media scholarship approach to the ongoing 21st-century true crime media boom. Including contributions from a range of media scholars with diverse areas……続きを見る

The insider account of America's border crisis that few others could write. Go inside the investigations, the wire rooms, and the desert corridors with the special agent who helped take down El Chap……続きを見る

Ten months after the Atticus Dobson murders, the phantom of fear still haunts Reese Valley. When a new wave of killings shatters the fragile peace, striking the same terror into the residents' heart……続きを見る

A groundbreaking history and critique of a little-explored aspect of American law enforcement: the often deadly 911 emergency response system 911 is largely promoted as a tool to save livesーyet too……続きを見る

Integrating Intelligence explores how the present, ad hoc U.S. federal, state, and local intelligence enterprise developed, and analyses its prospects for continued evolution. Examining the types of……続きを見る

Based on decades of research, this book reveals how the rule of the few can redirect your focus to create effective crime control policies. Many crime reduction strategies fail because they apply co……続きを見る

Viinatrokarien kauhun värikkäät muistelmat. Helsingin poliisin Malmin viinaryhmän vetäjä julistautui ”kylän uudeksi seriffiksi” ja kohtasi urallaan koko ammattimaisen rikollisuuden kirjon. Nuori ja ……続きを見る

A searing exposé on one of the most insidious and long-standing issues plaguing law enforcement: deputy gangs within the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Departmentーby award-winning investigative repor……続きを見る

A sobering exploration of the near unchecked power of sheriffs in the United States. Across the United States, more than 3,000 sheriffs occupy a unique position in the US political and legal systems……続きを見る

This book examines the various systems, processes, and agencies responsible for overseeing police conduct across Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and to a lesser extent, the Unite……続きを見る

The "Baltimore Plot" was an unsuccessful assassination attempt against 16th President of the United States Abraham Lincoln. Read in this informative book how the intelligence network of Pinkerton Na……続きを見る

Since the beginning of the twentieth century, governments around the world have expelled, en masse, more than 30 million people. Yet despite its prevalence, mass expulsion remains an understudied ph……続きを見る

The outlaw bandit depression era bank robber Baby Face Nelson was born to Belgian immigrant parents in Chicago, Illinois, on Dec. 6, 1908. This young man, who was frequently sent to the Illinois Sta……続きを見る

Read in this informative report how the CIA financed MK-ULTRA research through the front known as the Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology, based at Cornell University, so that doctors par……続きを見る

Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa rose to the top of this powerful organization that could shut the nation down with strikes by consulting Chicago mobster Paul Red Dorfman, who introduced Hoffa to the……続きを見る

The public was shocked to learn in the 1998-1999 that LAPD officer Rafael Perezーa member of Los Angeles Police Department's CRASH (Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums) Rampart Division anti……続きを見る

The head of the Buffalo crime family ordered two gunmen to carry out the kidnapping of former boss of one of the five families of New York Joe "Bananas" Bonanno after Bonanno stepped out of a taxi-c……続きを見る

A Fox News analyst and well-known commentator on urban violence examines the devastating rise in crime affecting American cities and tells how this public safety crisis has personally affected famil……続きを見る

Depression era outlaw gangster bank robber John Dillinger went on a bank robbery crime spree from 1933 to 1934 throughout the Midwest with fellow members of his Dillinger gangーHarry Pierpont, Charl……続きを見る

Privacy used to be protected by effort. To follow someone, you needed agents, wires, cameras, informants, files, and time. Then the digital world made watching cheap, storage endless, and personal d……続きを見る

Read about how Tampa crime Boss Santo Trafficante Sr. and his son Santo Trafficante Jr. were involved in the deadly game of Bolita and went to war against their rivals to dominate this illicit gambl……続きを見る