Crime & Criminology

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See also: True Crime

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  Lucky Luciano: Mafia Murderer And Secret Agent
  Timothy Newark - Paperback - Mainstream
  For the first 25 years of his criminal career, Charles 'Lucky' Luciano was a vicious mobster, king of the New York underworld. For the next 25 years of his life, Luciano was a legend, but a fake master criminal without real power, his evil reputation manipulated and maintained by the government agents who had put him behind bars.
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  Whisky Wars, Riots And Murder: Crime In The 19th Century Highlands And Islands
  Malcolm Archibald - Paperback - Black & White Publishing
  Although the 19th-century elite looked on the Highlands and Islands as a sporting paradise, for the indigenous population it was a turbulent place. Rather than a rural idyll, the glens and moors were home to poachers and whisky smugglers, while the towns were always ready to explode into riot and disorder. Even the Hebridean seas had their dangers while the islands seethed with discontent. 'Whisky Wars, Riots and Murder' reveals the reality behind the facade of romantic tartan and vast estates.
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  A Fine Day For A Hanging: The Ruth Ellis Story
  Carol Ann Lee - Paperback - Mainstream
  In 1955, Ruth Ellis shot dead her lover, David Blakely. After a trial that lasted less than two days, she was found guilty and sentenced to death, becoming the last woman to be hanged in Britain. Despite her infamy, Ruth's story has never been fully told. Here, Carol Ann Lee examines the facts without agenda or sensation.
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  The Cartel: The Inside Story Of Britain's Biggest Drugs Gang
  Graham Johnson - Paperback - Mainstream
  The Cartel is Britain's biggest drugs organisation - a shadowy network stretching from the banks of the Mersey to the marinas of Marbella, and from the coffee shops of Amsterdam to the trading floors of Canary Wharf. It is run by godfathers as rich as Branson but kept in line by a new generation of teenage killers. This is their story.
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  Crime And Community In Reformation Scotland: Negotiating Power In A Burgh Society
  Robert Falconer - Hardback - Pickering & Chatto
  Based on church and state records from the burgh of Aberdeen, this study explores the deeper social meaning behind petty crime during the Reformation. Falconer argues that an analysis of both criminal behaviour and law enforcement provides a unique view into the workings of an early modern urban Scottish community.
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  The Cocaine Diaries: A Venezuelan Prison Nightmare
  Paul Keany - Paperback - Mainstream Publishing
  When Paul Keany proceeded through Caracas airport in Venezuela with six kilos of cocaine hidden in his suitcase, he was expecting a holiday in the sun with a pay packet of 10,000 Euros: enough to pay off a bank loan and a few small debts. But Paul quickly realised he was in serious trouble.
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  A Glasgow Gang Observed
  James Patrick - Paperback - NWP
  In the 1960's a 26-year-old schoolmaster at a Scottish reformatory (List D) School, under the alias of James Patrick, went undercover with the help of one of his pupils to study the often violent behaviour of the teenagers in a gang in Glasgow. This book became one of the first published observations of a Glasgow gang. This new 3rd edition features a new preface from the author.
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  Constitutional Violence: Legitimacy, Democracy And Human Rights
  Antoni Abat I. Ninet - Hardback - Edinburgh University Press
  If constitutional legitimacy is based on violence, what does this mean for democracy? Almost every stat in the world has a written consitution. The great majority of these declare the constitution to be the law controlling the organs of the state. We tend to label western liberal political systems into a domain of politics where the people rule and a domain of law that is set aside for a trained elite. Legal, poltical and constitutional practices seem to be irreconcilable. Is good government feasible and is a constitutional system the best device to rule a country? Can the public and legal sovereignties be reconciled?
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  The Cartel: The Inside Story Of Britain's Biggest Drugs Gang
  Graham Johnson - Paperback - Mainstream
  The Cartel is Britain's biggest drugs organisation - a shadowy network stretching from the banks of the Mersey to the marinas of Marbella, and from the coffee shops of Amsterdam to the trading floors of Canary Wharf. It is run by godfathers as rich as Branson but kept in line by a new generation of teenage killers. This is their story.
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  A Fine Day For A Hanging: The Ruth Ellis Story
  Carol Ann Lee - Paperback - Mainstream
  In 1955, Ruth Ellis shot dead her lover, David Blakely. After a trial that lasted less than two days, she was found guilty and sentenced to death, becoming the last woman to be hanged in Britain. Despite her infamy, Ruth's story has never been fully told. Here, Carol Ann Lee examines the facts without agenda or sensation.