This edited volume is based upon a simple premise: Historical accounts of organised crime and terrorism offer critically important lessons for understanding and responding to contemporary threats and phenomena. The chapters provide cutting edge historical research into different elements of organised crime and terrorism, including exploring critical issues around the links between terrorism and organised crime, as well as exploring key case studies from a range of countries and periods. Critical 'lessons learned' are drawn out from each chapter, providing valuable insights for current...

How and when did forensic science originate in the UK? This question demands our attention because our understanding of present-day forensic science is vastly enriched through gaining an appreciation of what went before. A History of Forensic Science is the first book to consider the wide spectrum of influences which went into creating the discipline in Britain in the first part of the twentieth century.

This book offers a history of the development of forensic sciences, centred on the UK, but with consideration of continental and colonial influences, from around...