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English
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Transnational crime and justice will characterize the 21st century in same way that traditional street crimes dominated the 20th century. This book brings together top scholars from around the world to offer perspectives on the laws, crimes, and criminal justice responses to transnational crime. This handbook is organized logically around four major themes: the problem of transnational crime; analysis of specific transnational crimes; approaches to...
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Women's murder club volume 18
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English
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Detective Lindsay Boxer and her husband Joe Molinari team up to protect San Francisco from an international war criminal in the newest Women's Murder Club thriller. For a trio of colleagues, an innocent night out after class ends in a deadly torture session. They vanish without a clue -- until a body turns up. With the safety of San Francisco's entire school system as stake, Lindsay Boxer has never been under more pressure at work and could really...
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Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"This book aims to describe and demystify what makes criminal gangs so culturally powerful. It examines their codes of conduct, initiation rites, secret communications methods, origin myths, symbols, and the like that imbue the gangsters with the pride and nonchalance that goes hand in hand with their criminal activities. Mobsters are everywhere in the movies, on television, and on websites. Contemporary societies are clearly fascinated by them. Why...
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United States Government Accountability Office
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Drug and human trafficking are longstanding and pervasive problems. Federal law enforcement agencies have noted the use of online marketplaces, such as social media sites and messaging platforms, in drug and human trafficking. Further, agencies have expressed concern about traffickers' increased use of virtual currencies--that is, digital representations of value that are usually not government-issued legal tender. This report examines what is known...
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Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
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For more than twelve years the Mexican border city of Juarez has been the center of an epidemic of horrific crimes against women and girls: kidnappings, rape, mutilation, and murder, with most of the victims conforming to a specific profile--young, slender, and poor. Speculation that the killer or killers are American citizens has led the U.S. government to send in criminal profilers from the FBI, but little real information about this international...
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United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere
Publisher
U.S. G.P.O
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
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