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  • Recognizing La Cosa Nostra

    The Enduring Saga of the Italian American Mafia in New York

    by Anna Sergi, Luca Storti ...
    Force may establish power, but recognition is what sustains it.This book offers a contemporary re-examination of La Cosa Nostra (LCN) in New York City, moving beyond outdated images of a monolithic criminal hierarchy to reveal startlingly flexible and adaptive social formations.Drawing on judicial records, investigative findings, and informal interviews, Anna Sergi and Luca Storti argue that the ... Read more

    $72.89 USD

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  • The Social Acceptance of Inequality

    On the Logics of a More Unequal World

    Edited by Francesco Duina, Luca Storti ...
    The world has staggering levels of inequality. Most people worry about this. Some, however, accept or even approve of those inequalities. Why? The Social Acceptance of Inequality offers the first comprehensive analysis of the logics people use in support of economic inequalities. Turning to case studies from across the globe, it examines four primary logics. Market/economic logics see people ... Read more

    $72.89 USD

  • Economies, Institutions and Territories

    Dissecting Nexuses in a Changing World

    Edited by Luca Storti, Giulia Urso, Neil Reid ...
    Series series The Dynamics of Economic Space
    Presenting multidisciplinary and global insights, this book explores the nexus between economies, institutions, and territories and how global phenomena have local consequences.It examines how original and innovative economic related processes embed themselves in societies at the local level; how boundaries between the state and the market are placed under stress by unexpected changes. It explores ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Ports, Crime and Security

    Governing and Policing Seaports in a Changing World

    by Anna Sergi, Alexandria Reid, Luca Storti, Marleen Easton ...
    The COVID-19 pandemic, Brexit and the US-China trade dispute have heightened interest in the geopolitics and security of modern ports.Ports are where contemporary societal dilemmas converge: the (de)regulation of international flows; the (in)visible impact of globalization; the perennial tension between trade and security; and the thin line between legitimate, illicit and illegal. Applying a ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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  • Identifying Citizens

    ID Cards as Surveillance

    by David Lyon ...
    Series series Themes for the 21st Century
    New ID card systems are proliferating around the world. These may use digitized fingerprints or photos, may be contactless, using a scanner, and above all, may rely on computerized registries of personal information. In this timely new contribution, David Lyon argues that such IDs represent a fresh phase in the long-term attempts of modern states to find stable ways of identifying citizens.New ID ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Transnational Organized Crime

    Edited by Felia Allum, Stan Gilmour ...
    This fully revised new edition provides a definitive and holistic overview of Transnational Organized Crime (TOC) in a world in which right wing populism has gained ground, trade wars are increasing, climate change is a reality and Covid poses a challenge for years to come.Updated to reflect the changing world environment, the book includes new chapters on issues such as criminal network analysis, ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Predict and Surveil

    Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing

    by Sarah Brayne ...
    The scope of criminal justice surveillance has expanded rapidly in recent decades. At the same time, the use of big data has spread across a range of fields, including finance, politics, healthcare, and marketing. While law enforcement's use of big data is hotly contested, very little is known about how the police actually use it in daily operations and with what consequences. In Predict and ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Development as Freedom

    by Amartya Sen ...
    By the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Economics, an essential and paradigm-altering framework for understanding economic development--for both rich and poor--in the twenty-first century.Freedom, Sen argues, is both the end and most efficient means of sustaining economic life and the key to securing the general welfare of the world's entire population. Releasing the idea of individual freedom ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Culture of Surveillance

    Watching as a Way of Life

    by David Lyon ...
    From 9/11 to the Snowden leaks, stories about surveillance increasingly dominate the headlines. But surveillance is not only 'done to us' – it is something we do in everyday life. We submit to surveillance, believing we have nothing to hide. Or we try to protect our privacy or negotiate the terms under which others have access to our data. At the same time, we participate in surveillance in order ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • Cultural Evolution

    by Ronald F. Inglehart ...
    Cultural Evolution argues that people's values and behavior are shaped by the degree to which survival is secure; it was precarious for most of history, which encouraged heavy emphasis on group solidarity, rejection of outsiders, and obedience to strong leaders. For under extreme scarcity, xenophobia is realistic: if there is just enough land to support one tribe and another tribe tries to claim ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Splintering Urbanism

    Networked Infrastructures, Technological Mobilities and the Urban Condition

    by Steve Graham, Simon Marvin ...
    Splintering Urbanism makes an international and interdisciplinary analysis of the complex interactions between infrastructure networks and urban spaces. It delivers a new and powerful way of understanding contemporary urban change, bringing together discussions about:*globalization and the city*technology and society*urban space and urban networks*infrastructure and the built environment*developed ... Read more

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  • Mafia and Organized Crime

    A Beginner's Guide

    by James O. Finckenauer ...
    Series series Beginner's Guides
    A compelling introduction to the global impact of organized crimeRuthless, cruel, and irresistibly cool: the Mafia has always appealed to the darker side of the imagination.But just what is the Mafia, how does it operate, and what can be done to combat it?In Mafia and Organized Crime: A Beginner’s Guide, James Finckenauer debunks the myths surrounding the Mafia to reveal the harsh realities of ... Read more

    $5.99 USD