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Why We're Losing the War on Terror
Wiley 2013; US$ 64.95The war on terror is a lost cause. As the war heads towards its second decade, American security policy is in disarray - the Iraq War is a disaster, Afghanistan is deeply insecure and the al-Qaida movement remains as potent as ever with new generations of leaders coming to the fore. Well over 100,000 civilians have died in Iraq and Afghanistan, many... more...
Made Men
Penguin Group US 2003; US$ 7.99For years, the DeCavalcantes, the most powerful Mob family in Jersey, labored in the shadows of the more famous families in New York?the likes of the Gambinos and the Columbos. Dismissed by the big-city capos, the DeCavalcantes finally came into their own when they found their lives mirrored in the television hit, The Sopranos . Overnight it legitimized... more...
Preventing Ideological Violence
Palgrave Macmillan 2013; US$ 90.00Preventing Ideological Violence: Communities, Police and Case Studies of 'Success ' seeks to present the voices of police and community members who have been involved in engagement and partnership projects designed to prevent ideological violence whether that of paramilitaries, Al-Qa'ida inspired terrorists, or organized crime. more...
Remembering Josh
Allen & Unwin 2004; US$ 20.86A father's attempt to come to terms with the death of his son and his search for answers about his murder. more...
The Informal Economy and Its Links to Organised Crime
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008; US$ 199.00This e-book covers a variety of topics that are deliberately from different methodological perspectives, in order to illustrate the need for multidisciplinarity to show both the extent of the informal and criminal economies and their links to geographical and social context. The papers in this e-book reveal new theoretical insights on this rather unresearched... more...
The Mexican Mafia
Encounter Books 2007; US$ 17.95It has been called the most dangerous gang in American history. In Los Angeles alone it is responsible for over 100 homicides per year. Although it has fewer than 300 members, it controls a 40,000-strong street army that is eager to advance its agenda. It waves the flag of the Black Hand and its business is murder. Although known on the streets for... more...
Street Soldier
Steerforth Press 2010; US$ 14.95For decades the FBI let James “Whitey” Bulger get away with murder, allowing him continued control of his criminal enterprise in exchange for information. He went on the lam in 1995 and today follows top-ranked Osama bin Laden on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List. Edward J. MacKenzie, Jr. was a drug dealer and enforcer who would... more...
Zwischen Terrorismus und Politik - Sinn Féin im Wandel
Diplomica Verlag 2009; US$ 36.37Der Name Sinn Féin wird gemeinhin grob mit dem Nordirlandkonflikt, beziehungsweise der IRA assoziiert. Dem Fokus des Betrachters entzieht sich dabei leicht, dass die Partei Sinn Féin eine lange Entwicklung hinter sich hat. Das Prädikat "politischer Arm der IRA" umschreibt die vielen Facetten in ihrer Geschichte nur sehr unscharf. Dieses Buch zeichnet... more...
Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead
Hawthorne Books 2010; US$ 15.95Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead is Frank Meeink?s raw telling of his descent into America?s Nazi underground and his ultimate triumph over drugs and hatred. Frank?s violent childhood in South Philadelphia primed him to hate, while addiction made him easy prey for a small group of skinhead gang recruiters. By 16 he had become one of the most... more...
Prodigal Father, Pagan Son
St. Martin's Press 2011; US$ 15.99By the time he was thirteen, he already had attended thirteen funerals. Abandoned by his mother, and with his father, ?Mangy? Menginie?president of the Pagans Motorcycle Club, Philadelphia chapter?in jail, Anthony ?LT? Menginie is raised inside the Pagans and inducted into a life of sex, violence, drugs, and organized crime. ... more...









