Product Description: Police corruption is unquestionably one of the worst forms of corruption, as it can become a serious security issue and undermine a state's legitimacy.This single volume brings together the most informative scholarly and practitioner contributions on the subject in recent decades...read more

Product Description: Human trafficking is widely considered to be the fastest growing branch of trafficking. As this important book reveals, it has moved rapidly up the agenda of states and international organisations since the early-1990s, not only because of this growth, but also as its implications for security and human rights have become clearer...read more

Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.Organised crime has become a major problem globally. Its negative impact on economies, societies, politics, human rights and security is profound: fraud, money-laundering, drug, arms and human trafficking, and collusion with both law enforcement and terrorists, for example, are all significant issues. Yet specialists disagree not only on the scale and nature of organised crime, but even on its definition. This Advanced Introduction to Organised Crime explores these disagreements, examines the nature and causes of contemporary organised crime, and offers constructive suggestions on how to counter it.Key features include:- Emphasis on the rapidly changing structures of organised crime, its increasingly transnational nature and sophisticated use of the internet.- Psycho-social and cultural explanations, as well as system-related ones- Explores the latest techniques for measuring organised crime- Provides detailed analyses of six of the best known transnational organised crime syndicates- Focuses on human trafficking to exemplify many of the key points- Examines the many methods that can be used - not only by states and international organisations, but also by civil society and individuals - to combat organised crime. Accessible and comprehensive, the Advanced Introduction to Organised Crime is an ideal resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students studying criminology, political science, international relations, law and sociology. Its profound insights are invaluable to practitioners, including law enforcement officers, investigative journalists and criminologists.

Product Description: `I congratulate Leslie Holmes and the other contributors to this book. The chapters bring fresh insights and richly theorized findings. Together the authors contribute to an essential moving away from the stereotypical good-guy/bad-guy portrayal of serious criminals...read more

Product Description: Official corruption has become increasingly prevalent around the world since the early 1990s. The situation appears to be particularly acute in the post-communist states. Corruption—be it real or perceived—is a major problem with concrete implications, including a lowered likelihood of foreign investment...read more

Product Description: Official corruption has become increasingly prevalent around the world since the early 1990s. The situation appears to be particularly acute in the post-communist states. Corruption—be it real or perceived—is a major problem with concrete implications, including a lowered likelihood of foreign investment...read more

Product Description: Have you ever wondered, "Is there a God?" or "Where did I come from?" or "Is there life after death?" This book answers all of these questions and many more. Through these Life Lines, Dr. Holmes provides straightforward answers in easy-to-read language...read more

Product Description: Focuses on the dilemmas of citizenship and identity in the uncertain atmosphere of Europe in the 1990s. The various chapters analyze citizenship and identity from a number of perspectives, including those of citizens themselves in both Eastern and Western Europe; of national governments; of the EC/EU; and of academic players...read more

Product Description: This text analyzes the ever-changing boundaries and divisions of Europe. It examines the deepening and widening of the European Union, the disintegration of communist states, freedom of movement between East and West, concepts of citizenship and nationality, and civilizational boundaries...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Post-communism has been defined as the transition period following the breakup of the Soviet Union and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. In Post-Communism: An Introduction, Leslie Holmes presents a thematic discussion on the complex nature of post-communism...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The collapse of communist power may well be seen by future historians as the most significant event of the late twentieth century. It directly affected approximately twenty countries in three continents and brought about the eventual end of the Cold War...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Using an analytical, comparative approach that examines communist regimes from Moscow and Beijing to Havana and Kampuchea, Leslie Holmes argues that the extraordinarily rapid decline and collapse of communism in the USSR and Eastern Europe between 1989 and 1992 had its roots in the anti-corruption campaigns introduced in the early 1980s...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Although communism is a major political force in the modern world, there are very few books offering a comprehensive, up-to-date introduction to communist theory and practice. This book fills the gap by comparing communist theory with the diverse practices of more than twenty states under communist rule...read more

Product Description: Holmes presents a comparative study of the policy process in two communist states -- the USSR and the GDR -- as it is revealed in the rise in both countries of industrial associations. He compares the background to the 1973 legislation in both countries, its passing, and its practical results to answer such questions as; do there appear to be general laws governing the development of these two states? How does policy become reality in them? What differences exist between them? 'Holmes' study is systematic and painstaking, reflecting his detailed research in published Russian and East German sources as well as several extended interviews with Soviet economic officials...read more