Criminology category: 4273 books
Drug War Mexico
Politics, Neoliberalism and Violence in the New Narcoeconomy
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Mexico is a country in crisis. Capitalizing on weakened public institutions, widespread unemployment, a state of lawlessness and the strengthening of links between Mexican and Colombian drug cartels, narcotrafficking in the country has flourished during the post-1982 neoliberal era. In fact, it has...
Going Up the River
Travels in a Prison Nation
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2001
The American prison system has grown tenfold in thirty years, while crime rates have been relatively flat: 2 million people are behind bars on any given day, more prisoners than in any other country in the world — half a million more than in Communist China, and the largest prison expansion the...
Organized Crime
From the Mob to Transnational Organized Crime
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Organized Crime: From the Mob to Transnational Organized Crime, Seventh Edition, provides readers with a clear understanding of organized crime, including its definition and causes, how it is categorized under the law, models to explain its persistence, and the criminal justice response to organized...
Deconstructing Organized Crime
An Historical and Theoretical Study
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
What is organized crime? There have been many answers over the decades from scholars, governments, the media, pop culture and criminals themselves. These answers cumulatively created a “Mafia Mystique” that dominated discourse until after the Cold War, when transnational organized crime emerged...
Invisible Punishment
The Collateral Consequences of Mass Imprisonment
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
In a series of newly commissioned essays from the leading scholars and advocates in criminal justice, Invisible Punishment explores, for the first time, the far-reaching consequences of our current criminal justice policies. Adopted as part of get tough on crime” attitudes that prevailed in the...
The Toughest Beat
Politics, Punishment, and the Prison Officers Union in California
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
In America today, one in every hundred adults is behind bars. As our prison population has exploded, 'law and order' interest groups have also grown -- in numbers and political clout. In The Toughest Beat, Joshua Page argues in crisp, vivid prose that the Golden State's prison boom fueled the rise...
Beyond the Twin Deficits: A Trade Strategy for the 1990's
A Trade Strategy for the 1990's
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
This study documents evidence of a decline trend in the international competitiveness of US industry. The analysis identifies three groups of countries that account for most of the US trade deficit in the 1980s: the surplus countries, Germany and Japan; the East Asian NICs; and the Latin American...
Constables, Marshals, and More
Forgotten Offices in Texas Law Enforcement
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Most students of criminal justice, and the general public as well, think of policing along the three basic types of municipal, sheriff, and state police. Little is known about other avenues of police work, such as the constable. In policing textbooks, when a position such as constable is mentioned, only...
by Lewis Hartshorn
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2013
This is a consensus-challenging history of the Alger Hiss–Whittaker Chambers controversy of 1948 to 1950, a criminal case in which Hiss was convicted of perjury after two long trials. Chambers claimed that Hiss had passed classified State Department documents to him in 1937 and 1938 for transmittal...
by Robert L. Snow
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
On December 1, 1971, the bodies of Robert Gierse, James Barker, and Robert Hinson were found in their blood-spattered Indianapolis home. All three had reputations as prodigious womanizers, hard-drinking bar fighters, and unscrupulous businessmen--the kind of men with more enemies than friends.
When...
The Trials of Eroy Brown
The Murder Case That Shook the Texas Prison System
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In April 1981, two white Texas prison officials died at the hands of a black inmate at the Ellis prison farm near Huntsville. Warden Wallace Pack and farm manager Billy Moore were the highest-ranking Texas prison officials ever to die in the line of duty. The warden was drowned face down in a ditch....
Forging the Star
The Official Modern History of the United States Marshals Service
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
What do diverse events such as the integration of the University of Mississippi, the federal trials of Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa, the confrontation at Ruby Ridge, and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina have in common? The U.S. Marshals were instrumental in all of them. Whether pursuing dangerous...
by Chavoret Jaruboon, Pornchai Sereemongkonpol
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2010
Bang Kwang Prison is one of the most notorious penal institutions in the world. Located seven miles north of Bangkok city in the Nonthaburi Province, the prison is home to over 8,000 inmates, among them ruthless killers, rapists, drug traffickers, conmen and thieves.
The Bangkok Hilton is...
by Misha Glenny
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2008
Misha Glenny's groundbreaking study of global organized crime is now the inspiration for an 8-part AMC crime drama starring James Norton (War and Peace), Juliet Rylance, and David Strathairn.
With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the deregulation of international...