Beginning with the changing definition of organised crime, this history traces the complex links, trading and even homage which extends between the criminals of

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A fresh, new look at gangs in every part of the world which deliberately avoids the stories that have been done to death - about Capone, Dillinger, Bonnie and C

This book uses detailed case studies as a way of exemplifying and exploring more general questions of socio-cultural responses to murder and their explanation,

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