Human Trafficking
An Organised Crime?
ISBN: HB: 9781787381285,
Hurst Publishers,
July 2019
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
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"Human trafficking" brings to mind gangsters forcing people, often women and girls, to engage in dangerous activities against their will, under threat of violence. However, human trafficking is not limited to the sex trade, and...
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Scripts of Terror
The Stories Terrorists Tell Themselves
ISBN: HB: 9781787380172,
Hurst Publishers,
June 2019
320 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
320 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
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This book explores terrorism as a strategic choice – one made carefully and deliberately by rational actors. Through an analysis of the terrorist groups of Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Yemen, it charts a series of different strategi...
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40.00 GBP
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Vory
Russia's Super Mafia
ISBN: PB: 9780300243208,
Yale University Press,
April 2019
344 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 16 black&white illus.
344 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 16 black&white illus.
Mark Galeotti is the go-to expert on organized crime in Russia, consulted by governments and police around the world. Now, Western readers can explore the fascinating history of the vory v zakone, a group that has survived and thrived amid the change...
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11.99 GBP
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Pelican Bay Prison and the Rise of Long-Term Solitary
ISBN: PB: 9780300240191,
Yale University Press,
November 2018
312 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 11 black&white illus.
312 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 11 black&white illus.
How America's prisons turned a "brutal and inhumane" practice into standard procedure Originally meant to be brief and exceptional, solitary confinement in U.S. prisons has become long-term and common. Prisoners spend twenty-three hours a day in feat...
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16.99 GBP
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Apartheid Guns and Money
A Tale of Profit
ISBN: HB: 9781787380974,
Hurst Publishers,
November 2018
448 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
448 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
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In its last decades, the apartheid regime was confronted with an existential threat. While internal resistance to the last whites-only government grew, mandatory international sanctions prohibited sales of strategic goods and a...
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Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism in China
Domestic and Foreign Policy Dimensions
ISBN: HB: 9781849048774,
Hurst Publishers,
October 2018
280 pp., 22,5x14,5 cm
280 pp., 22,5x14,5 cm
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China's problem with terrorism has historically been considered an outgrowth of Beijing's efforts to integrate the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region into the People's Republic of China. Since the end of the Cold War, however, t...
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This Present Darkness
A History of Nigerian Organised Crime
ISBN: PB: 9781787380271,
Hurst Publishers,
October 2018
336 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
336 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
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The late Stephen Ellis's last book is the first to chart this globally significant phenomenon, from "419" advance fees and fraud, to smuggling, and people trafficking.
"This Present Darkness" analyses how Nigeria acquired its...
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Burying Jihadis
Bodies Between State, Territory, and Identity
ISBN: HB: 9781849048859,
Hurst Publishers,
August 2018
288 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
288 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
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What should states do with the bodies of suicide bombers and other jihadists who die while perpetrating terrorist attacks? This original and unsettling book explores the host of ethical and political questions raised by this di...
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30.00 GBP
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Metamorphosis
How to Transform Punishment in America
ISBN: HB: 9780300230833,
Yale University Press,
June 2018
288 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm
288 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm
In the past few years, the need for prison reform in America has reached the level of a consensus. We agree that many prison terms are too long, especially for nonviolent drug offenders; that long-term isolation is a bad idea; and that basic psychiat...
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32.50 GBP
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Shooting Up
A History of Drugs in Warfare
ISBN: PB: 9781849048835,
ISBN: HB: 9781849045513,
Hurst Publishers,
August 2017
392 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
392 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
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"Shooting Up" is a comprehensive and original history of the relationship between fighting men and intoxicants, from Antiquity till the present day. Lukasz Kamienski explores why and how drugs have been issued to soldiers to in...
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