Lush Life: Constructing Organized Crime in the UK
ISBN: 9780199668281 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lush Life: Constructing Organized Crime in the UK opens 'the box marked do not open, too difficult to deal with', in the words of one Assistant Chief Constable, to explore the contested notion of British organized crime. The first book to trace the history and policing of British organized crime, it addresses how the interlocking processes of de-industrialisation, globalisation and neo-liberalism have normalised activity that was previously the exclusive domain of professional criminals.
With both historical and sociological analyses, informed by the author's long term connection to an... Lush Life: Constructing Organized Crime in the UK opens 'the box marked do not open, too difficult to deal with', in the words of one Assistant Chief ...
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Political Corruption : In Beyond the Nation State
ISBN: 9780415235556 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text argues that nation-state based analyses of political corruption no longer suffice in a world of globalized finance and international organized crime. Nor can political corruption be understood as something largely outside of the political process - a series of scandals to be dealt with by exposing and punishing miscreant individuals. Rather it involves the extension of many of the normal processes of day-to-day politics into illegitimate and unacceptable areas of activity. So focusing solely on flamboyant individual villains like Duvalier, Mobutu, Soeharto or Marcos is actually a...
This text argues that nation-state based analyses of political corruption no longer suffice in a world of globalized finance and international organiz...
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Transnational Organised Crime : Perspectives on Global Security
ISBN: 9780415300957 / Angielski / Twarda / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The perceived threat of transnational organised crime to Western societies has been of huge interest to politicians, policy makers and social scientists since 1990. This book considers the origins of this crime, how it has been defined and measured, and the appropriateness of governments' policy responses.
The perceived threat of transnational organised crime to Western societies has been of huge interest to politicians, policy makers and social scientis...
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Hate and Bias Crime: A Reader
ISBN: 9780415944076 / Angielski / Twarda / 540 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Soon after the September 11th attacks, a number of Sikh men were targeted and killed; mistaken as Muslims. Children at a Jewish daycare centre in California were attacked by an anti-Semitic gunman. This title looks at issues concerning hate and bias crime.
Soon after the September 11th attacks, a number of Sikh men were targeted and killed; mistaken as Muslims. Children at a Jewish daycare centre in Cali...
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Corruption and Democratisation
ISBN: 9780714649962 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 1990s have seen an upsurge of interest and concern about the problem of political corruption. At both national and international levels major initiatives continue to be launched by both governmental and non-governmental agencies. A prominent concern has been with democracy and the development of a strong civil society. The papers here collected examine, in a range of national contexts, the relationship between democratization and the task of combating corruption. Do the two processes complement each other or are they ultimately in conflict?
The 1990s have seen an upsurge of interest and concern about the problem of political corruption. At both national and international levels major init...
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Hackers: Crime and the Digital Sublime
ISBN: 9780415180719 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The practice of computer hacking is increasingly being viewed as a major security dilemma in Western societies, by governments and security experts alike.
Using a wealth of material taken from interviews with a wide range of interested parties such as computer scientists, security experts and hackers themselves, Paul Taylor provides a uniquely revealing and richly sourced account of the debates that surround this controversial practice. By doing so, he reveals the dangers inherent in the extremes of conciliation and antagonism with which society reacts to hacking and argues that a new... The practice of computer hacking is increasingly being viewed as a major security dilemma in Western societies, by governments and security experts al...
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Sex, Violence and Crime: Foucault and the 'Man' Question
ISBN: 9781904385929 / Angielski / Twarda / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What happens when you sex violent crimes? More specifically, what happens when you make men's violence against women the subject of a conversation or the focus of scholarly attention? The short answer is: all hell breaks loose. Adrian Howe explores some of the ways in which this persistent and pervasive form of violence has been named and unnamed as a significant social problem in western countries over the past four decades. Addressing what she calls the 'Man' question-so named because it pays attention to the discursive place occupied, or more usually vacated, by men in accounts of their... What happens when you sex violent crimes? More specifically, what happens when you make men's violence against women the subject of a conversation ... |
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Disability Hate Crimes: Does Anyone Really Hate Disabled People?
ISBN: 9781409407812 / Angielski / Twarda / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Disability hate crimes are a global problem. They are often violent and hyper-aggressive, with life-changing effects on victims, and they send consistent messages of intolerance and bigotry. This ground-breaking book shows that disability hate crimes do exist, that they have unique characteristics which distinguish them from other hate crimes, and that more effective policies and practices can and must be developed to respond and prevent them. With particular focus on the UK and USA's contrasting response to this issue, this book will help readers to define hate crimes as well as place them...
Disability hate crimes are a global problem. They are often violent and hyper-aggressive, with life-changing effects on victims, and they send consist...
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The Phantom Capitalists: The Organization and Control of Long-Firm Fraud
ISBN: 9780754645160 / Twarda / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book analyzes in detail how and why people become involved in long-firm (planned bankruptcy) fraud, the similarities and differences between long-firm fraud and other crimes, the links between bankruptcy fraudsters and other professional and organized criminals, the techniques that fraudsters use, and the social and commercial relationships that exist within the operational world of the long-firm fraudster. Extensively researched, the study uses interviews with and documentation from businesspeople, credit controllers, lawyers, judges, police, fraud investigators as well as fraudsters...
This book analyzes in detail how and why people become involved in long-firm (planned bankruptcy) fraud, the similarities and differences between long...
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Corruption in Urban Politics and Society, Britain 1780-1950
ISBN: 9780754637059 / Angielski / Twarda / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Despite much recent interest in the area of urban governance, little work has been done on the changing ethical standards of urban leaderships, 'governing' institutions or the policing of public life. Yet the issue of ethical standards in public life has become a central concern in contemporary public discourse; with issues of public probity, moral order and personal standards re-emerging as central features of political debate. This volume places these debates into their historical perspective by examining the linkages between processes of 'modernisation', urbanisation and the ethical...
Despite much recent interest in the area of urban governance, little work has been done on the changing ethical standards of urban leaderships, 'gover...
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The Hidden Order of Corruption: An Institutional Approach
ISBN: 9780754678991 / Angielski / Twarda / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When corruption is exposed, unknown aspects are revealed which allow us to better understand its structures and informal norms. This book investigates the hidden order of corruption, looking at the invisible codes and mechanisms that govern and stabilize the links between corrupters and corruptees. Concentrating mainly on democratic regimes, this book uses a wide range of documentation, including media and judicial sources from Italy and other countries, to locate the internal equilibria and dynamics of corruption in a broad and comparative perspective. It also analyses the Transparency...
When corruption is exposed, unknown aspects are revealed which allow us to better understand its structures and informal norms. This book investigates...
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Deleuze and Environmental Damage: Violence of the Text
ISBN: 9780754624912 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers a post-structuralist critique of the problems associated with modernist accounts of environmental harm and regulation. Through a notably detailed micro-political analysis of forest conflict, the author explores the limits of academic commentary on environmental issues and suggests that the traditional variables of political economy, race and gender need to be recast in light of four key modalities through which 'the environment' and 'environmental damage' are (re)produced. Focusing on vision, speed, lexicon and affect, the book engages a new ethic for categorizing and...
This book offers a post-structuralist critique of the problems associated with modernist accounts of environmental harm and regulation. Through a nota...
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Lynching: American Mob Murder in Global Perspective
ISBN: 9781409409083 / Angielski / Twarda / 442 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Addressing one of the most controversial and emotive issues of American history, this book presents a thorough reexamination of the background, dynamics, and decline of American lynching. It argues that collective homicide in the US can only be partly understood through a discussion of the unsettled southern political situation after 1865, but must also be seen in the context of a global conversation about changing cultural meanings of 'race'. A deeper comprehension of the course of mob murder and the dynamics that drove it emerges through comparing the situation in the US with violence that...
Addressing one of the most controversial and emotive issues of American history, this book presents a thorough reexamination of the background, dynami...
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The Internationalisation of Corruption: Scale, Impact and Countermeasures
ISBN: 9781409411291 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Corruption scandals hit the headlines all around the world, across a diverse range of institutional, organisational and cultural settings. Corruption is a major obstacle to political, social and economic development - its 'internationalisation' has had profound implications for counter corruption efforts. The Internationalisation of Corruption provides readers with an analytical framework with which to approach the issue of corruption in international affairs, from the perspective of international studies as an interdisciplinary space in the social sciences. The authors also examine the...
Corruption scandals hit the headlines all around the world, across a diverse range of institutional, organisational and cultural settings. Corruption ...
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Political Corruption in Comparative Perspective: Sources, Status and Prospects
ISBN: 9781409442509 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Political corruption adversely affects the efficiency and effectiveness of governments, slows the rate of economic development and poisons public attitudes towards the legitimacy of the state. Affecting governmental and non-governmental organizations, developed and developing nations and millions of people's lives, it is a subject of great interest to students from a wide variety of academic disciplines. Using a concise, comparative approach based on original case studies Political Corruption in Comparative Perspective: Sources, Status and Prospects provides context and clarity on this...
Political corruption adversely affects the efficiency and effectiveness of governments, slows the rate of economic development and poisons public atti...
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The Social Construction of Corruption in Europe
ISBN: 9781409402978 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The volume demonstrates the suitability of the theory of social constructivism in portraying and analyzing the diversity of the phenomenon of corruption. The approach of social constructivism taken in this volume is able to reconstruct the 'construction of corruption' both from a societal perspective, by assessing it as generally accepted or tolerated behaviour in more or less standardized rule-governed social situations, and from the perspective of actors who perceive corrupt behaviour as problem solving in everyday life. The volume proves the usefulness of a social construction perspective...
The volume demonstrates the suitability of the theory of social constructivism in portraying and analyzing the diversity of the phenomenon of corrupti...
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Criminal Resistance?: The Politics of Kidnapping Oil Workers
ISBN: 9781409449911 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Crude oil extraction in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria generates 96% of all foreign earnings and 85% of state revenues, making it crucial to the survival of the Nigerian state. Several generations of state neglect, corruption and mismanagement have ensured that the Delta region is one of the most socio-economically and politically deprived in the country. By the late 1990s there was a frightening proliferation of armed gangs and insurgent groups. Illegal oil bunkering, pipeline vandalism, disruption of oil production activities, riots, and demonstrations intensified and in 2003, insurgents...
Crude oil extraction in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria generates 96% of all foreign earnings and 85% of state revenues, making it crucial to the su...
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The Memorialization of Genocide
ISBN: 9781138932111 / Angielski / Twarda / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Divided societies, tormented pasts, and unrepentant perpetrators. Why are some countries more intent on vanquishing uncomfortable pasts than others? How do public and often unsightly attempts at memorialisation both fail the victims and valorize their oppressors? This book offers fresh and original perspectives on dictatorship, fascism and victimization from the bloodiest decades in Europe s, Australia s and Central America s colonial and modern history. Chapters include analyses of Francoist memorials in Spain, assessments of the El Mozote massacre in El Salvador, the forgetting of... Divided societies, tormented pasts, and unrepentant perpetrators. Why are some countries more intent on vanquishing uncomfortable pasts than others... |
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Plots and Paranoia: A History of Political Espionage in Britain 1790-1988
ISBN: 9781138954434 / Angielski / Twarda / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Britain's secret state exists to protect her from 'enemies within'. It has always aroused controversy; on the one hand it is credited with preventing wars, revolutions and terrorism and on the other it is accused of subverting democratically elected governments and luring innocents to death. What is the true story? The book, first published in 1992, delves beneath the myths and deceptions surrounding the secret service to reveal the true nature and significance of covert political policing in Britain, from the 'spies and bloodites' of the eighteenth century to today's MI5. This title will... Britain's secret state exists to protect her from 'enemies within'. It has always aroused controversy; on the one hand it is credited with preventi... |
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British Piracy in the Golden Age, Volume 4: History and Interpretation, 1660-1734
ISBN: 9781138751163 / Angielski / Twarda / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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