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Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America's Psychic Spies

by Jim Schnabel

Remote Viewers is a tale of the Pentagon's attempts to develop the perfect tool for espionage: psychic spies. These psychic spies, or "remote viewers," were able to infiltrate any target, elude any form of...


Overblown: How Politicians and the Terrorism Industry Inflate National Security Threats, and Why We Believe Them

by John Mueller

Why have there been no terrorist attacks in the United States since 9/11? It is ridiculously easy for a single person with a bomb-filled backpack, or a single explosives-laden automobile, to launch an attack....


All the Centurions

by Robert Leuci

The bestselling book and acclaimed film Prince of the City told only part of Robert Leuci's story. In All the Centurions, he shares the full account of his years as a narcotics detective with the New York Police...


Report Writing for Criminal Justice Professionals

by Larry S. Miller & John T. Whitehead

So much of the process of criminal justice depends on good documentation, and criminal justice professionals can spend as much as 50-75% of their time writing up administrative and research reports. Much of...


Security as Practice: Discourse Analysis and the Bosnian War

by Lene Hansen

This important text offers a full and detailed account of how to use discourse analysis to study foreign policy. It provides a poststructuralist theory of the relationship between identity and foreign policy...


Criminal Investigation: A Method for Reconstructing the Past

by James W. Osterburg & Richard H. Ward

The seventh edition of Criminal Investigation presents the fundamentals of criminal investigation and provides a sound method for reconstructing a past event (i.e., a crime) based on three major sources of information...


Secret Intelligence: A Reader

by Richard J. Aldrich & Christopher Andrew

This Reader in the field of intelligence studies focuses on policy, blending classic works on concepts and approaches with more recent essays dealing with current issues and the ongoing debate about the future...


International Human Rights, Decolonisation and Globalisation: Becoming Human

by Shelley Wright

Covering a diverse range of topics, case studies and theories, the author undertakes a critique of the principal assumptions on which the existing international human rights regime has been constructed. She...


International Law and Civil Wars: Intervention and Consent

by Eliav Lieblich

This book examines the international law of forcible intervention in civil wars, in particular the role of party-consent in affecting the legality of such intervention.

In modern international law, it is a near...


Security and Loss Prevention: An Introduction

by Philip Purpura

The sixth edition of Security and Loss Prevention continues the tradition of providing introductory and advanced coverage of the security profession. Author Phil Purpura bridges theory and practice with new...


Guarding the Guardians: Civil-Military Relations and Democratic Governance in Africa

by Mathurin C. Houngnikpo

This book reviews the intrusion of the armed forces in African politics by examining contemporary armies and their impact on society. It revisits the various explanations of military takeovers in Africa and...


Drug War Crimes: The Consequences of Prohibition

by Jeffrey A. Miron

A balanced and sophisticated analysis of the true costs, benefits, and consequences of enforcing drug prohibition is presented in this book. Miron argues that prohibition’s effects on drug use have been modest...


Law & Disorder

by John Douglas & Mark Olshaker

From law enforcement legend John Douglas, the FBI's pioneer of criminal profiling and the model for Agent Jack Crawford in The Silence of the Lambs, comes a provocative and personal look at our criminal justice...


The Case for Capital Punishment

by Alfred B., Jr. Heilbrun

Does the prospect of possible execution save lives by deterring the act of murder? Heilbrun presents evidence concerning whether state death penalties demonstrate the two necessary properties of a true deterrent....


Deadly Beat: Inside the Royal Ulster Constabulary

by Richard Latham

'You go to work and you might be shot dead. You imagine being horribly maimed in a bomb blast. You come home and wonder if you'll be shot at the door. You go to bed with a revolver on the bedside cabinet. At...


Crime-Terror Alliances and the State: Ethnonationalist and Islamist Challenges to Regional Security

by Lyubov Grigorova Mincheva & Ted Robert Gurr

This book examines the trans-border connections between militant and criminal networks and the relationship between these and the states in which they operate.

"Unholy alliances" is a term used to describe hybrid...


A Question of Torture

by Alfred McCoy

A startling exposé of the CIA’s development and spread of psychological torture, from the Cold War to Abu Ghraib and beyond

    In this revelatory account of the CIA’s secret, fifty-year effort to develop...


NYPD Confidential

by Leonard Levitt

For years, the police commissioner and the mayor of New York City have duked it out for publicity, credit, and power. Some have translated their stardom into success after leaving office, while others have been...


Texas Tough

by Robert Perkinson

A vivid history of America’s biggest, baddest prison system and how it came to lead the nation’s punitive revolution

In the prison business, all roads lead to Texas. The most locked-down state in the nation...


Fear and Crime in Latin America: Redefining State-Society Relations

by Lucía| Dammert

The feeling of insecurity is a little known phenomenon that has been only partially explored by social sciences. However, it has a deep social, cultural and economic impact and may even contribute to define...