This book, prepared by the foreign law specialists and analysts of the Law Library of Congress, provides a review of laws adopted in Argentina, Aus...

The United States, at the local, state, tribal, and Federal levels, has made a concerted effort to enhance, expand, and codify multiple measures de...

The global illegal drug trade represents a multi-dimensional challenge that has implications for U.S. national interests as well as the internation...

For millions of Americans, the heartbreak of watching a loved one struggle with Alzheimer's disease is a pain they know all too well. Alzheimer's d...

The imperative for the exchange of terrorism-related intelligence information among law enforcement and security officials at all levels of governm...

In life, people face challenges and storms that come in different forms and fashions. These personal storms vary in scope, size and gravity, and so...

This book presents current research in the study of basic human rights, with a particular focus on the crimes against human rights and the laws whi...

The first part of the book is entitled 'Family, Transition and Ageing' and addresses rapid social and economic changes in China through a kaleidosc...

Midnight, April 5, 1970. Minutes after a red Pontiac with two men in it was stopped, four young California Highway Patrolmen lay dead of gunshot wo...

Although the 9-1-1 system has been an unqualified success story for more than 30 years, changes in the public's use of technology, the saturation o...

Girls' delinquency has attracted the attention of federal, state, and local policymakers for more than a decade as girls have increasingly become i...

This volume covers Amado Carrillo Fuentes, Khun Sa and Raymond Chow. All three of these men are among the most colourful gangsters of recent times....

Includes a translator's preface, note on the text, and suggestions for further reading.

Includes a translator's preface, note on the text, and suggestions for further reading.

This book highlights some of the main issues currently being discussed within the international academic debate on organised crime: What constitute...

This book studies the causes and consequences of organised crime drawing on research from around the world including the countries of Colombia, Chi...

Organised crime has taken on an increasingly transnational nature, and with more open borders and the expansion of the Internet, criminals endanger...

This book presents and discusses information in the study of organised crime, gangs and trafficking on a global scale. Topics discussed include org...

Organised retail crime (ORC), also known as organised retail theft, typically refers to large-scale retail theft and fraud by organised groups of p...

Organized retail crime (ORC) involves the large-scale theft of everyday consumer items and potentially has much broader implications. Organized gro...

Recent years have seen a dramatic increase in children born out of wedlock. Such a situation is of great concern because the poorest demographic gr...

This self-directed journal-based guide recognises that grief is a process. Through well-written, practical information, it provides tools for nurtu...

Trafficking in persons, or human trafficking, refers to the subjection of men, women, and children to exploitative conditions that can be tantamoun...

The work presented here has the ambitious objective to analyse a highly topical issue not in the usual terms of finding an immediate answer to pres...