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Criminology

Scripts of Terror The Stories Terrorists Tell Themselves

Wilkinson Benedict

ISBN: HB: 9781787380172, Hurst Publishers, June 2019
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! 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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Criminology

Vory Russia's Super Mafia

Galeotti Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780300243208, ISBN: HB: 9780300186826, Yale University Press, April 2019
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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Law

Crime and Justice, Volume 48 American Sentencing

Tonry Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780226644912, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
512 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"American Sentencing" surveys what is known about the hottest topic in American criminal law reform. Massive efforts are underway to make sentencing more just and sentences more effective, and to reduce the use of imprisonment. The writers are the le...

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Criminology

On the Outside Prisoner Reentry and Reintegration

Harding David J., Morenoff Jeffrey D., Wyse Jessica J. B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226607641, ISBN: HB: 9780226607504, University of Chicago Press, February 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 line drawings, 8 tables

America's high incarceration rates are a well-known facet of contemporary political conversations. Mentioned far less often is what happens to the nearly 700,000 former prisoners who rejoin society each year".On the Outside" examines the lives of twe...

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Criminology

23/7 Pelican Bay Prison and the Rise of Long-Term Solitary

Reiter Keramet

ISBN: PB: 9780300240191, ISBN: HB: 9780300211467, Yale University Press, November 2018
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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Africa

Apartheid Guns and Money A Tale of Profit

van Vuuren Hennie

ISBN: HB: 9781787380974, Hurst Publishers, November 2018
448 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

For sale in CIS only! 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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Political Science

Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism in China Domestic and Foreign Policy Dimensions

Clarke Michael

ISBN: HB: 9781849048774, Hurst Publishers, October 2018
280 pp., 22.5x14.5 cm

For sale in CIS only! 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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Criminology

This Present Darkness A History of Nigerian Organised Crime

Ellis Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9781787380271, ISBN: HB: 9781849046305, Hurst Publishers, October 2018
336 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Nigeria and Nigerians have acquired an unfortunate reputation for involvement in drug-trafficking, fraud, cyber-crime and other types of criminal activity. Successful Nigerian criminal networks have a global reach, interacting...

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Asia

Criminology

Nightmarch Among India's Revolutionary Guerrillas

Shah Alpa

ISBN: HB: 9781849049900, Hurst Publishers, August 2018
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In one of the world's most intractable and under-reported rebellions, the Naxalites have been engaged in a decades-long battle with the Indian state. Presented in the media as a deadly terrorist group, the movement is made up o...

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Islam

Burying Jihadis Bodies Between State, Territory, and Identity

Kastoryano Riva

ISBN: HB: 9781849048859, Hurst Publishers, August 2018
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! 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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