Crime & criminology
Emne: history
Presents the story of the Sicilian mafia, the world's most famous, most secretive and most misunderstood criminal fraternity. This book reconstructs the history of the Sicilian mafia from its origins,...
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Tracing the history of the Sicilian mafia to its 19th-century roots, this text examines its late-20th-century involvement in urban real estate and construction as well as drugs. Based on research in t...
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London: Crime, Death & Debauchery is an alternative history of the darker side of Britain?s capital city. No other book on London covers this topic in such a complete fashion, with cases ranging from ...
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Tyburn Fields is the best known site of execution in London, but London may be aptly named the executioner's city, so many were the places where executions could and did occur. This work reveals the c...
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illustrated illustrations...
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Tracing its beginnings as an underground society which sprang up six hundred years ago in Sicily, to the Mob which went on to run organised crime throughout Italy and America, this work tells the stor...
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Chronicles the evolution of law enforcement in Las Vegas and Clark County from the days of night watchmen and cops who carted drunks to jail on horseback to today s acclaimed Metropolitan Police Depar...
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colour photos...
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The Mafia started as an alternative form of local government in the nineteenth century. But this first incarnation was crushed by Mussolini. This book examines these eras then addresses the 'third' Ma...
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The pre-dawn arrests of the last remaining mafiosi in December 2008 signalled the end of the Sicilian Mafia as we know it. This title charts the history of this criminal organisation, from its first i...
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