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The Valachi Papers
ISBN: 9780060507428 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. The First Inside Account of the Mafia In the 1960s a disgruntled soldier in New York's Genovese Crime Family decided to spill his guts. His name was Joseph Valachi. Daring to break the Mob's code of silence for the first time, Valachi detailed the organization of organized crime from the capos, or bosses, of every Family, to the hit men who "clipped" rivals and turncoats. With a phenomenal memory for names, dates, addresses, phone numbers--and where the bodies were buried--Joe Valachi provided the chilling facts that led to the arrest and conviction of America's major crime... The First Inside Account of the Mafia In the 1960s a disgruntled soldier in New York's Genovese Crime Family decided to spill his guts. His n... |
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69,91 zł |
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Indecent Exposure: A True Story of Hollywood and Wall Street
ISBN: 9780060508159 / Angielski / Miękka / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. When the head of Columbia Pictures, David Begelman, got caught forging Cliff Robertson's name on a $10,000 check, it seemed, at first, like a simple case of embezzlement. It wasn't. The incident was the tip of the iceberg, the first hint of a scandal that shook Hollywood and rattled Wall Street. Soon powerful studio executives were engulfed in controversy; careers derailed; reputations died; and a ruthless, take-no-prisoners corporate power struggle for the world-famous Hollywood dream factory began. First published in 1982, this now classic story of greed and lies in Tinseltown... When the head of Columbia Pictures, David Begelman, got caught forging Cliff Robertson's name on a $10,000 check, it seemed, at first, like a simpl... |
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69,91 zł |
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The Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece
ISBN: 9780060531188 / Angielski / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. In the predawn hours of a gloomy February day in 1994, two thieves entered the National Gallery in Oslo and made off with one of the world's most famous paintings, Edvard Munch's Scream. It was a brazen crime committed while the whole world was watching the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. Baffled and humiliated, the Norwegian police turned to the one man they believed could help: a half English, half American undercover cop named Charley Hill, the world's greatest art detective. The Rescue Artist is a rollicking narrative that carries... In the predawn hours of a gloomy February day in 1994, two thieves entered the National Gallery in Oslo and made off with one of the world's most f... |
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61,80 zł |
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Serpico: The Classic Story of the Cop Who Couldn't Be Bought
ISBN: 9780060738181 / Angielski / Miękka / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. The 1960s was a time of social and generational upheaval felt with particular intensity in the melting pot of New York City. A culture of corruption pervaded the New York Police Department, where payoffs, protection, and shakedowns of gambling rackets and drug dealers were common practice. The so-called blue code of silence protected the minority of crooked cops from the sanction of the majority. Into this maelstrom came a working class, Brooklyn-born, Italian cop with long hair, a beard, and a taste for opera and ballet. Frank Serpico was a man who couldn't be silenced -- or bought... The 1960s was a time of social and generational upheaval felt with particular intensity in the melting pot of New York City. A culture of corruptio... |
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65,86 zł |
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The Masters of Deception: Gang That Ruled Cyberspace, the
ISBN: 9780060926946 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. The bestselling account of a band of kids from New York who fought an electronic turf war that ranged across some of the nation's most powerful computer systems. "An immensely fun and -- one cannot emphasize this enough -- accessible history of the first outlaws in cyberspace."--Glamour
The bestselling account of a band of kids from New York who fought an electronic turf war that ranged across some of the nation's most powerful comput...
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69,91 zł |
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The Last Face You'll Ever See: The Culture of Death Row
ISBN: 9780060931032 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. In fascinating detail, Ivan Solotaroff introduces us to the men who carry out executions. Although the emphasis is on the personal lives of these men and of those they have to put to death, The Last Face You'll Ever See also addresses some of the deeper issues of the death penalty and connects the veiled, elusive figure of the executioner to the vast majority of Americans who, since 1977, have claimed to support executions. Why do we do it? Or, more exactly, why do we want to? The Last Face You'll Ever See is not about the polarizing issues of the death penalty --... In fascinating detail, Ivan Solotaroff introduces us to the men who carry out executions. Although the emphasis is on the personal lives of these m... |
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61,80 zł |
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Dangerous Doses: A True Story of Cops, Counterfeiters, and the Contamination of America's Drug Supply
ISBN: 9780156030854 / Angielski / Miękka / 479 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. In the tradition of the great investigative classics, Dangerous Doses exposes the dark side of America's pharmaceutical trade. Stolen, compromised, and counterfeit medicine increasingly makes its way into a poorly regulated distribution system--where it may reach unsuspecting patients who stake their lives on its effectiveness.
Katherine Eban's hard-hitting exploration of America's secret ring of drug counterfeiters takes us to Florida, where tireless investigators follow the trail of medicine stolen in a seemingly minor break-in as it funnels into a sprawling national... In the tradition of the great investigative classics, Dangerous Doses exposes the dark side of America's pharmaceutical trade. Stolen, compromi...
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110,44 zł |
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A Shadow in the City: Confessions of an Undercover Drug Warrior
ISBN: 9780156032537 / Angielski / Miękka / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. Joey O'Shay is a cop with a genius for the drug bust. But after more than two decades undercover, he's no longer so certain who the heroes of the drug war are, or what the fight is for. Still, he never feels so alive as when he's doing a deal. So this time he sets out to test himself against the elite of the drug business, the Colombians and their fine, pure heroin. Maybe he'll finally meet his match.
Charles Bowden, author of the critically acclaimed Down by the River, follows O'Shay as he sets the deal in motion. A Shadow in the City confirms Bowden's reputation as a bold, genre-bending... Joey O'Shay is a cop with a genius for the drug bust. But after more than two decades undercover, he's no longer so certain who the heroes of the drug...
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81,91 zł |
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Blood Justice : The Lynching of Mack Charles Parker
ISBN: 9780195054293 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Based on previously unreleased FBI and Justice Department documents, extensive interviews with many of the surviving principals involved in the case, and a variety of newspaper accounts, Smead meticulously reconstructs the full story of one of the last lynchings in America, detailing a grim, dramatic, but nearly forgotten episode from the Civil Rights era.
In 1959, a white mob in Poplarville, Mississippi abducted a young black man named Mack Charles Parker--recently charged with the rape of a white woman--from his jail cell, beat him, carried him across state lines, finally shot him, and... Based on previously unreleased FBI and Justice Department documents, extensive interviews with many of the surviving principals involved in the case, ...
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120,55 zł |
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Street Gang Patterns and Policies
ISBN: 9780195163445 / Angielski / Twarda / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In the past two decades, many prevention and suppression programs have been initiated on a national and local level to combat street gangs--but what do we really know about them? Why do youths join them? Why do they proliferate? Street Gang Patterns and Policies is a crucial update and critical examination of our understanding of gangs and major gang-control programs across the nation. Often perceived solely as an urban issue, street gangs are also a suburban and rural dilemma. Klein and Maxson focus on gang proliferation, migration, and crime patterns, and highlight known risk...
In the past two decades, many prevention and suppression programs have been initiated on a national and local level to combat street gangs--but what d...
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245,39 zł |
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Crime and Markets : Essays in Anti-Criminology
ISBN: 9780198268383 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This book examines a range of criminal activities conducted in different European contexts. Offences committed by individuals and groups endowed with different resources and status are examined. Each chapter contains an implicit rejection of generalizations and attention is paid to variations and differences. Rather than searching for a unified theory of crime, the author highlights the interpretive oscillations, which always occur when we are faced with criminal behaviour. In other words, each time we subscribe to one cause of crime we may realize that also the opposite cause possesses some...
This book examines a range of criminal activities conducted in different European contexts. Offences committed by individuals and groups endowed with ...
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1000,34 zł |
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Banking on Fraud : Drexel, Junk Bonds, and Buyouts
ISBN: 9780202304663 / Angielski / Miękka / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. In analyzing the fraud-facilitated leveraged buyouts engineered by Michael Milken and the firm of Drexel Burnham Lambert, the author suggests that such buyouts have multiple and extensive consequences for the organization of business and the economy. Zey also demonstrates how ordinary bond trading networks were linked to the extraordinary networks of the Boesky Organizations and Employee Private Partnerships in order to defraud bond issuers and buyers. This book debunks the myth of rational economic organization in the 1980s and establishes broad implications for theories of... In analyzing the fraud-facilitated leveraged buyouts engineered by Michael Milken and the firm of Drexel Burnham Lambert, the author suggests that ... |
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212,47 zł |
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Corrupt Exchanges : Actors, Resources, and Mechanisms of Political Corruption
ISBN: 9780202306001 / Angielski / Miękka / 329 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. Political corruption has traditionally been presented as a phenomenon characteristic of developing countries, authoritarian regimes, or societies in which the value system favored tacit patrimony and clientelism. Recently, however, the thesis of an inverse correlation between corruption and economic and political development (and therefore democratic "maturity") has been frequently and convincingly challenged. Countries with a long democratic tradition, such as the United States, Belgium, Britain, and Italy, have all experienced a combination of headline-grabbing scandals and smaller-scale...
Political corruption has traditionally been presented as a phenomenon characteristic of developing countries, authoritarian regimes, or societies in w...
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212,47 zł |
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Hate Crimes : New Social Movements and the Politics of Violence
ISBN: 9780202306025 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. In addressing a timely set of questions about the politics and dynamics of inter-group violence manifest as discrimination, this volume explores such issues as why injuries against some groups of people (Jews, people of color, gays and lesbians, and, sometimes, women, and those with disabilities) capture notice, while similar acts of bias-motivated violence against others continue to go unnoticed. Throughout, the authors develop a compelling argument about the social processes through which new social problems emerge, social policy is developed and diffused, and new cultural forms are...
In addressing a timely set of questions about the politics and dynamics of inter-group violence manifest as discrimination, this volume explores such ...
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212,47 zł |
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Robbing Drug Dealers : Violence beyond the Law
ISBN: 9780202306483 / Angielski / Miękka / 177 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. This volume fills a research gap of striking proportions by exploring the contingencies that mediate the crimes perpetrated on those who are themselves perpetrators. The notion that violence is something that happens only to law-abiding citizens is both widely held and inaccurate. The disproportionate share of victims of crime are, in reality, themselves involved in crime. Yet existing scholarship has failed to explore the contingencies that mediate offenses like drug robbery--from the forces that inspire it, to the methods used to select targets, to the means employed to generate... This volume fills a research gap of striking proportions by exploring the contingencies that mediate the crimes perpetrated on those who are thems... |
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212,47 zł |
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Courting Disaster : Intimate Stalking, Culture and Criminal Justice
ISBN: 9780202306629 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. In this fi rst book on the subject by a sociologist, Dunn offers a wide-ranging, thought-provoking, and sensitive examination of the lived experience of intimate stalking victimization. In exploring the ways in which we socially construct and confer meaning upon intimate violence, the author draws upon interviews with stalkers and victims, courtroom testimony, analyses of case reports, and an independent survey instrument that reveals ambivalence of the prevailing culture to the problem. Courting Disaster will be valuable in women's studies and counseling courses and a useful text in...
In this fi rst book on the subject by a sociologist, Dunn offers a wide-ranging, thought-provoking, and sensitive examination of the lived experience ...
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212,47 zł |
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White-collar Criminal : The Offender in Business and the Professions
ISBN: 9780202308951 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. In his presidential address to the American Sociological Society more than half a century ago, Edwin H. Sutherland advanced the idea that crime was being perpetrated by members of society who are considered "normal," "affluent," and "well-adjusted." This notion of a new criminal class played havoc with the traditional theories of crime causation and directed considerable research away from the criminal at war with society to the criminal nestled snugly in society's lap. Since then, the concept of "white-collar crime" has become even more important for the understanding not only of criminal...
In his presidential address to the American Sociological Society more than half a century ago, Edwin H. Sutherland advanced the idea that crime was be...
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212,47 zł |
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Improper Advances : Rape and Heterosexual Conflict in Ontario, 1880-1929
ISBN: 9780226167541 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. Why do men rape women? This is a question for which there are many political, psychological, and sociological answers, but few historical ones. "Improper Advances" is one of the first books to explore the history of sexual violence in any country. A study of women, men, and sexual crime in rural and northern Ontario, it expands the terms of current debates about sexuality and sexual violence.
Karen Dubinsky relies on criminal case files, a revealing but largely untapped source for social historians, to retell individual stories of sexual danger crimes such as rape, abortion, seduction,... Why do men rape women? This is a question for which there are many political, psychological, and sociological answers, but few historical ones. "Impro...
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121,25 zł |
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Inventing the Public Enemy : The Gangster in American Culture, 1918-1934
ISBN: 9780226732183 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. In this richly detailed account of mass media images, David Ruth looks at Al Capone and other "invented" gangsters of the 1920s and 1930s. The subject of innumerable newspaper and magazine articles, scores of novels, and hundreds of Hollywood movies, the gangster was a compelling figure for Americans preoccupied with crime and the social turmoil it symbolized. Ruth shows that the media gangster was less a reflection of reality than a projection created from Americans' values, concerns, and ideas about what would sell.
We see efficient criminal executives demonstrating the multifarious... In this richly detailed account of mass media images, David Ruth looks at Al Capone and other "invented" gangsters of the 1920s and 1930s. The subject...
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118,76 zł |
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Controlling Unlawful Organizational Behavior : Social Structure and Corporate Misconduct
ISBN: 9780226851747 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. Diane Vaughan reconstructs the Ohio Revco case, an example of Medicaid provider fraud in which a large drugstore chain initiated a computer-generated double billing scheme that cost the state and federal government half a million dollars in Medicaid funds, funds that the company believed were rightfully theirs. Her analysis of this incident why the crime was committed, how it was detected, and how the case was built provides a fascinating inside look at computer crime. Vaughan concludes that organizational misconduct could be decreased by "less" regulation and more sensitive bureaucratic...
Diane Vaughan reconstructs the Ohio Revco case, an example of Medicaid provider fraud in which a large drugstore chain initiated a computer-generated ...
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106,23 zł |