Sex Traffic: Prostitution, Crime and Exploitation
ISBN: 9781842776254 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Critically addressing gender relationships, the author gives a poignant account of the linkage between sexual exploitation, prostitution and human trafficking. Violence and gender is an old problem to which the author responds with a new awareness. Placing the emphasis on the pull factors and exploitation structures in the destination countries, she invariably takes the reader back to the root causes, among which patriarchal structures, the myth of male superiority and the mind-sets of men as well as the prevailing market mechanisms provide fuel for discrimination on the basis of sex and...
'Critically addressing gender relationships, the author gives a poignant account of the linkage between sexual exploitation, prostitution and human tr...
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245,28 zł |
The Abolition Of Liberty
ISBN: 9781843541493 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this volume Peter Hitchens argues that the time has come to re-examine the criminal justice system root and branch - to cope with rising levels of violent crime, and to restore public faith in society's ability to defend itself.
In this volume Peter Hitchens argues that the time has come to re-examine the criminal justice system root and branch - to cope with rising levels of ...
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Once Upon a Crime: I Grew Up in Britain's Hardest City, Where the Only Way to Survive Was on Your Wits.
ISBN: 9781843587606 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The transition from petty crime to armed robbery may seem unthinkable to some, but for a young boy from the east end of Glasgow it was an almost inevitable progression. Growing up surrounded by a hard and sometimes violent culture, Jimmy Cryans' criminal career began with the theft of a pair of die and ended in jail time.
The transition from petty crime to armed robbery may seem unthinkable to some, but for a young boy from the east end of Glasgow it was an almost inevi...
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One-eyed Baz: Barrington 'Zulu' Patterson, One of Britain's Deadliest Men
ISBN: 9781843588115 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In his turbulent teenage years, Baz adopted a criminal lifestyle. There were the tense early 1980s, when friction between police forces and ethnic communities often exploded. So it was in Birmingham, where Baz and other members of the black community took a stand that resulted in the Handsworth riots. This is his story.
In his turbulent teenage years, Baz adopted a criminal lifestyle. There were the tense early 1980s, when friction between police forces and ethnic com...
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Safety Crimes
ISBN: 9781843920854 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Concerned with crimes against worker health and safety, this book offers an account and analysis of this field. It uses case studies to illustrate key points and themes, including the high profile instances of safety crimes, as well as the larger number of 'routine' deaths, injuries, ill-health, prosecutions, and enforcement relationships.
Concerned with crimes against worker health and safety, this book offers an account and analysis of this field. It uses case studies to illustrate key...
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127,38 zł |
Issues in Green Criminology
ISBN: 9781843922193 / Angielski / Miękka / 317 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As all societies face up to the need to confront harms against environments, other animals and humanity, criminology will have a major role to play. This book acts as a resource on green criminology, focusing on the whys, the hows and the whens of the generation and control of the many aspects of harm to environments and animals, including humans.
As all societies face up to the need to confront harms against environments, other animals and humanity, criminology will have a major role to play. T...
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Flashback: Drugs and Dealing in the Golden Age of the London Rave Scene
ISBN: 9781843927914 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a detailed and close examination of the rave club drugs market as it took place in nightclubs, dance parties, pubs and bars and among friendship networks in London, in the mid to late 1990s. It focuses on the organizational features of drugs purchasing and selling and differentiates anonymous drugs trading in public nightclub settings, from selling among extended networks of friends and others. The stories of different people and friendship groups illustrate the varied drug selling roles and highlight the enterprise and entrepreneurship supporting their involvement. Told from...
This book is a detailed and close examination of the rave club drugs market as it took place in nightclubs, dance parties, pubs and bars and among fri...
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688,13 zł |
Leadbelly: The True Inside Story of an Underworld War
ISBN: 9781844541478 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For the last10 years, a war has raged on once-safe suburban streets that has stunned the world. The killings have been particularly callous and brutal: mothers gunned down with their babies sleeping beside them, fathers killed in front of their children, and couples shot down in cold blood. This is true crime at its most bloody, surreal, and terrifying."
For the last10 years, a war has raged on once-safe suburban streets that has stunned the world. The killings have been particularly callous and brutal...
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Scottish Hard Bastards
ISBN: 9781844544592 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Meet the hardest men from a country where the streets are the most dangerous and the gangsters and criminals are the scariest in Britain. These faces have seen it all: the guns. The knives, the fights and the hardship of life behind bars. This book will take you deep inside the mad, bad, drug-infested, cut-throat world of the Scottish prison system, bringing to light the last fifty years of infamous incidents. With a frightening in-depth look at the most notorious penal institutions and the most daunting and fearsome of inmates, as well as those on the outside, this compulsive guide covers...
Meet the hardest men from a country where the streets are the most dangerous and the gangsters and criminals are the scariest in Britain. These faces ...
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65,32 zł |
Vanished : The Truth About the Disappearance of Madeleine McCann
ISBN: 9781844546145 / Angielski / Miękka / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On the evening of May 3, 2007, Gerry and Kate McCann returned to theirresort apartment in Portugal's Algarve to every parents' worst nightmaretheir daughter, three-year-old Madeleine Beth McCann had vanished from her room. Her disappearance sparked a worldwide manhunt. Poster campaigns, distraught pleas from the parents, and frenzied media coverage all ensuedbut still Madeleine's whereabouts remain a mystery. Portuguese police initially commenced a search for Madeleine's abductor, but as the case dragged on the waters became muddied and controversy dogged the investigationBritish police were...
On the evening of May 3, 2007, Gerry and Kate McCann returned to theirresort apartment in Portugal's Algarve to every parents' worst nightmaretheir da...
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69,98 zł |
House of Horrors
ISBN: 9781844546961 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Millions of people around the world were shocked by the revelations about Josef Fritzl's abuse of his children. Separating the facts from the rumours, Nigel Cawthorne tells the story of what really happened in the cellar of Fritzl's suburban home in the quiet Austrian town of Amstetten.
Millions of people around the world were shocked by the revelations about Josef Fritzl's abuse of his children. Separating the facts from the rumours,...
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Britain's Ten Most Wanted
ISBN: 9781844547593 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Murder is rare. Rarer still are those killers who get away with itbut they are out there, walking our streets. This in-depth book includes some famous cases that generated enormous publicity, such as the disappearance of Susy Lamplugh and the murder of Jill Dando. Despite extensive coverage in the press and the police following thousands of leads, somehow the killers slipped away. Other cases are less well known, but are terrifying in their brutality. Like that of Janet Brown, a nurse, whose naked body was discovered at her home on a quiet morning in April. Or mother-of-four Sandra Phillips,...
Murder is rare. Rarer still are those killers who get away with itbut they are out there, walking our streets. This in-depth book includes some famous...
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Hoolies : True Stories of Britian's Biggest Street Battles
ISBN: 9781844549078 / Angielski / Miękka / 289 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Skinheads, Mods, Teddy Boys, Hell's Angels, Punks, Glory Boys, to name just a fewthis fascinating book is the definitive guide to hooligan history in the UK. It examines who the men behind the cults were, what made them tick, and why they fought their battles. These warring youth factions inspired copycat cultures around the globe. This in-depth book cuts through the myths that Fleet Street built up around the cults; it tells the truth about the young, angry Britain of the 1970s that inspired a kaleidoscope of chaos which continues to this day with copycat scenes everywhere from Argentina to...
Skinheads, Mods, Teddy Boys, Hell's Angels, Punks, Glory Boys, to name just a fewthis fascinating book is the definitive guide to hooligan history in ...
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In God's Name
ISBN: 9781845294960 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Denounced by the Vatican as 'fanciful and absurd', this title presents an investigation into Pope John Paul I's death just 33 days after his election. It is a tale of intrigue,murder and corruption. It reveals the dark heart of the Vatican via a trail of evidence that connects the papacy, the masons, Opus Dei and the mafia.
Denounced by the Vatican as 'fanciful and absurd', this title presents an investigation into Pope John Paul I's death just 33 days after his election....
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Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths Around Worcester
ISBN: 9781845630669 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The criminal cases vividly described by Anne Bradford in this gripping book take the reader on a journey into the dark secret side of Worcester's long history. This cathedral city has been the setting for a series of horrific, bloody, sometimes bizarre incidents over the centuries. From crimes of brutal premeditation to crimes born of passion or despair, the whole range of human weakness and wickedness is represented here. There are tales of forgery and betrayal, highway robbery and murder, riots and repression, public executions and instances of extraordinary domestic cruelty and malice that...
The criminal cases vividly described by Anne Bradford in this gripping book take the reader on a journey into the dark secret side of Worcester's long...
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Copper at the Yard
ISBN: 9781845631604 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Being a copper at the yard was definitely an exciting time for the author, John Woodhouse, but it did take it's toll on social and family life. From east end detective, to the Bomb Squad in London's fight back during the IRA bombings of the 1970s, to the Flying Squad in the fight against organised crime. But amongst all this there was a lighter side, from Morris Dancing, to a cross dressing debutante at Ascot's ladies day, to undercover cop is all in a days work, until out of the blue he was told he had terminal cancer and to go home and die. This book is an insight into the life of an...
Being a copper at the yard was definitely an exciting time for the author, John Woodhouse, but it did take it's toll on social and family life. From e...
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80,43 zł |
Essex Boy: Last Man Standing
ISBN: 9781845964993 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Two films and numerous books have attempted to tell the shocking story of two of Britain s most ruthless gangs. For 20 years, the Essex Boys firm and their successors, the New Generation, controlled a lucrative drugs empire in Essex and throughout the south east of England by using intimidation, gratuitous violence, and murder. Rampaging through the streets and clubland, they destroyed anything and anybody that dared to get in their way. Eventually torn apart by greed and paranoia, the gang members became victims of their own vile trade and hate-filled actions. Pat Tate, Tony Tucker, and...
Two films and numerous books have attempted to tell the shocking story of two of Britain s most ruthless gangs. For 20 years, the Essex Boys firm and ...
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69,70 zł |
No Angel: My Undercover Journey to the Dark Heart of the Hells Angels
ISBN: 9781847673497 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 2001 Jay Dobyns infiltrated a Hells Angels chapter operating in Arizona, in a highly secretive ATF investigation code named Operation Black Biscuit. This book lifts the lid on the world's most infamous underworld motorcycle gang.
In 2001 Jay Dobyns infiltrated a Hells Angels chapter operating in Arizona, in a highly secretive ATF investigation code named Operation Black Biscuit...
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Gypsy Empire
ISBN: 9781848271692 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Irish Travellers have never enjoyed a higher profile, at home and abroad, for good reasons and bad. This book delves into the heart of Traveller life, focusing on three aspects that have coloured perceptions of Travellers among the wider community: family feuds, bare-knuckle fights and trading.
Irish Travellers have never enjoyed a higher profile, at home and abroad, for good reasons and bad. This book delves into the heart of Traveller life,...
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Crime and Terrorism
ISBN: 9781849200325 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -In this important book veteran researchers Grabosky and Stohl draw on organized crime to illuminate the neglected terrain between terrorism and more ordinary forms of illegal behavior. The book is required reading for anyone interested in the critical intersection between political violence and illegal business.- - Gary LaFree, Director, National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, University of Maryland
-Jargon-free and bristling with thought-provoking examples from around the globe, Grabosky and Stohl have produced a lucid... -In this important book veteran researchers Grabosky and Stohl draw on organized crime to illuminate the neglected terrain between terrorism and more ...
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163,07 zł |