From offers 'too good to be true' to presenting false information, confidence schemes are employed worldwide for illicit financial gain. This work looks at the history of these moneymaking scams, how individuals and police can fight them, and what signs to look for to avoid being the next dupe on a con artist's list.

Organised crime has long posed one of the greatest criminal challenges to law enforcement. This book details the range of tactics police use to identify, combat, and prevent organised crimes.

The term 'white collar crime' refers to crimes committed by people in respectable social and professional positions, who commit a crime in the course of doing their job or by using the advantage of their position. This book explains the common types of crime committed.

'Drug Crime' looks at how drugs are produced, transported, and sold, and examines the many methods used by police around the world to combat the illegal drug trade.

What grandstand collapsed during a game, killing twelve? How high is the Green monster in Fenway? In what park was the outfield fence only 187 feet from home plate? Ballparks of North America is a comprehensive encyclopedia of the grounds, yards and stadiums used for organized baseball from the invention of the sport in the 1840s to the year 1988. Entries, listed alphabetically by community, cover everything from cornfields to Yankee Stadium. Each entry gives the location of the park, who played there and when, home run dimensions, seating capacity, architectural comments, attendance...

In recent years the lifecourse perspective has become a popular theoretical orientation toward crime. This book provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary research and theory on the life-course approach to crime, emphasising a conceptual understanding of this approach.

Con?rming the British genetic trait for writing and publishing (as well as acting), two English (Oxford and London) and a Scottish orthopaedic surgeon (Edinburgh) have produced a third edition of their comprehensive text, joined, as in the second edition by an editor from Germany, recognizing its part in the European community. The 62 physician contributors are drawn from pink-colored countries in our childhood geography books--the old British Empire from Australia to Zambia and two from the former colony, the USA. The original purpose of the book was to give residents or registrars an easily...