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Investigating the countless crimes that have bedevilled Islington throughout its history, this book explores the area's transformation from idyllic village and middle-class pleasure ground, to unfashionable region of urban poverty, before its renaissance after the ravages of the Second World War. Here are the exploits of legendary highwayman Dick Turpin in Holloway. 'Brides in the Bath' killer George Joseph Smith, wife-murderer Dr Crippen, and teh crime gangs of Clerkenwell. Brimming with tales of street robbery, bigamy, fraud, martyrdom and terrorism, other less famous crimes are also in

Intro -- ORGANIZED CRIME: ASPECTS AND GLOBALIZED ELEMENTS -- ORGANIZED CRIME: ASPECTS AND GLOBALIZED ELEMENTS -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 ORGANIZED CRIME: AN EVOLVING CHALLENGE FOR U.S. LAW ENFORCEMENT -- SUMMARY -- INTRODUCTION -- ORGANIZED CRIME ADAPTING TO GLOBALIZATION -- Borders and Organized Crime -- Copycats and Smugglers -- Drug Trafficking -- Money Laundering -- Organized Crime and Technological Change -- Mass Marketing Fraud -- Cyberspace, Electronic Information, and Organized Crime -- Online Identity Theft and Sophisticated Credit Card Fraud -- Organized Retail Crime and Online Fencing -- Bulk Narcotics Smuggling and Technology -- Cross-Border Tunnels -- Exploitation of Ethnic Diaspora Communities -- Changing Structures -- Network Models -- Corruption -- "Ground-Level" Exploitation of Private Businesses -- Big Business and Organized Criminals -- Corruption of Public Officials -- ORGANIZED CRIME, A "NATIONAL SECURITY" AND "PUBLIC SECURITY" CONCERN -- Conceptualizing Organized Crime -- Transnational Organized Crime Defined -- Statutory Definition -- ISSUES -- Defining Organized Crime in Statute -- Congressional Commission -- Incentives for Investigating Organized Crime -- Implementing the National Strategy to Combat TOC -- Coordination of Domestic Efforts -- End Notes -- Chapter 2 ORGANIZED RETAIL CRIME -- SUMMARY -- INTRODUCTION -- CHALLENGES IN DEFINING ORGANIZED RETAIL CRIME -- Federal Definition -- OPERATION OF ORGANIZED RETAIL CRIME GROUPS -- Targeted Products -- Methods Used by Boosters -- Employee Collusion -- Fraud Schemes -- Cargo Theft -- Methods Used by Fences -- Impact of Globalization and Technology -- DOMESTIC IMPACT OF ORGANIZED RETAIL CRIME -- Economic Impact: A Lack of Consensus -- Public Health and Safety Risks -- Potential Links to Terrorism -- DOMESTIC EFFORTS TO COMBAT ORC -- Retailers -- Online Marketplaces

Esse artigo objetiva identificar, a partir das vozes e visões daqueles que a protagonizam - homens e mulheres privados de liberdade no Centro de Remanejamento do Sistema Prisional (Ceresp) de Ipatinga (MG) -, os fatores sociais, políticos, econômicos, históricos e culturais que os impelem a reproduzir o percurso crime-prisão-liberdade-crime, num círculo vicioso sem fim. O que importa é realizar tal análise sem, contudo, se eximir de responsabilidade analítica, teórica e política.

Dedication -- Series Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Author -- Abbreviations -- List of Tables -- 1: Introduction -- 1 Introduction -- References -- 2: Crimes as Scripts -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Scripts in Cognitive Science -- 3 Crime Scripts -- 4 The Notion of the Universal (Crime) Script -- 5 The Routinized yet Flexible Nature of Crime Scripts -- 6 Single-perspective versus Interpersonal Scripts -- 7 Disrupting the Crime-Commission Process -- 8 Crime Script Analysis in a Business Environment -- References -- 3: Crime and Criminality -- 1 Introduction

A work of reference to the sources of statistical material, both official and unofficial, on crime. It enables the user to discover what data are available, from where they may be obtained and what limitations there are to their use. A Quick Reference List of detailed information about statistical series is included and readers also have access to a computer held cumulative index for the entire series

City Crime Rankings provides easy-to-understand crime comparisons for cities and metropolitan areas throughout the United States. Numbers, rates, and trends for total crime, violent crime, murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, property crime, burglary, larceny-theft, and motor vehicle theft are presented in both alphabetical and rank order for all metro areas and cities of 75,000 or more. Numbers and rates of police in cities are also included. A revised introduction gives a summary of and notes about the data, as well as the methodology behind the overall rankings

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Rolf Harris: Australia's Forgotten Son -- Wrestling with Demons -- The Rise and Fall of the Disco King -- The Vampire of Holloway Drive -- Lord Lucan: The Twice-Dead Aristocrat -- Life of the Party -- Jim Fixed It: The Shocking Crimes of Jimmy Savile -- Garth Drabinsky: Theatrical Impresario to Convicted Fraudster -- The Blood Countess -- The Boy Who Thrived -- The Devil's Prophet -- Baretta in Cold Blood -- Alfredo Codona: The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze -- About the Editor -- About the Contributors.

Referencing a broad range of cases of state crime and international institutions of control, State Criminality provides a general framework and survey-style discussion of the field for teaching undergraduate and graduate students, and it serves as a useful general reference point for scholars of state crime

Crime is a phenomenon that arises from the interaction between social, political, economic, physical, psychological circumstances and geographical factors. Since crime occurs in geographical locations, the relationship between crime and location is worth discussing characteristics of a location occur in differents ways. Not only natural geographical factors but also human geographical factors may lead to crime. In this study, the situation, distribution of crimes in the cities which are in the police service zone are dealt with. In addition to crime dispersion in the cities and crimes committed to people and property, crimes committed by month is also studied. In this context, it is seen that since city centres are composed of dense population and urban functions, they feed crime, social control weakens in those areas and they create opportunities for criminals. This causes weakness in society and social capital apart from economic losses in cities. The number of crime incidents, which was 229,513 in 1995, in Turkey, has risen to 785,510 in 2006 with a 3.4 fold increase. 41% of the crimes which were committed in the year of 2006 were against people, 59% were against property.

Crime is a phenomenon that arises from the interaction between social, political, economic, physical, psychological circumstances and geographical factors. Since crime occurs in geographical locations, the relationship between crime and location is worth discussing characteristics of a location occur in differents ways. Not only natural geographical factors but also human geographical factors may lead to crime. In this study, the situation, distribution of crimes in the cities which are in the police service zone are dealt with. In addition to crime dispersion in the cities and crimes committed to people and property, crimes committed by month is also studied. In this context, it is seen that since city centres are composed of dense population and urban functions, they feed crime, social control weakens in those areas and they create opportunities for criminals. This causes weakness in society and social capital apart from economic losses in cities. The number of crime incidents, which was 229,513 in 1995, in Turkey, has risen to 785,510 in 2006 with a 3.4 fold increase. 41% of the crimes which were committed in the year of 2006 were against people, 59% were against property.

Intro -- Foreword -- The Disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa -- Murder in the Bahamas -- The Black Dahlia -- Who Was Bible John? -- The Vanished Lord -- Zodiac -- Karen Silkwood -- Series Glossary -- Chronology -- Further Information -- Index -- Picture Credits -- Blank Page.