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   Forensic Medicine in Western Society: A History

   By Katherine D. Watson

   The first book of its kind, Forensic Medicine in Western Society: A History draws on the most recent developments in the historiography, to provide an overview of the history of forensic medicine in the West from the medieval period to the present day. Taking an international, comparative...

   October 2010 | 978-0-415-44772-0 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   A History of Drugs: Drugs and Freedom in the Liberal Age

   By Toby Seddon

   Why are some psychoactive substances regarded as ‘dangerous drugs’, to be controlled by the criminal law within a global prohibition regime, whilst others – from alcohol and tobacco, through to those we call ‘medicines’ – are seen and regulated very differently? A History of Drugs traces a...

   July 2010 | 978-0-415-58960-4 | Paperback (Routledge-Cavendish)
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   The Origin of Organized Crime in America: The New York City Mafia, 1891–1931

   By David Critchley

   While the later history of the New York Mafia has received extensive attention, what has been conspicuously absent until now is an accurate and conversant review of the formative years of Mafia organizational growth. David Critchley examines the Mafia recruitment process, relations...

   March 2010 | 978-0-415-88257-6 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   International Criminology: A Critical Introduction

   By Rob Watts, Judith Bessant, Richard Hil

   International Criminology is an easy-access critical introduction to how conventional criminologists in the international arena think about and research crime. By using examples from the US, UK and Australia, the authors outline key ideas, vocabulary, assumptions and findings of the discipline...

   2008 | 978-0-415-43179-8 | Paperback (Routledge)