18 books like Maritime piracy

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Stealing Your Life Frank W. Abagnale · 2007 · 200p · ≈ 6h · Moderate The charismatic forger immortalized in the film Catch Me If You Can exposes the astonishing tactics of today's identity theft criminals and offers powerful strategies to thwart them based on his second career as an acclaimed fraud-fighting consultant.Consider these sobering facts: Six out of ten American companies and government agencies have already been hacked. An estimated 80… Shares: Prevention, True Crime

Violence at sea Peter Lehr · 2006 · 272p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Violence at Sea is an overview of maritime piracy, examining threats that piracy poses to global security and commerce, as well as measures and policies to mitigate the threat. The essays analyze piracy activities in key shipping lanes (including the African coast, the Arabian Sea, the Bay of Bengal, and the Straits of Malacca-South China Sea); piratical groups and their capabilities; case… Shares: Piracy, True Crime

Human Trafficking and Human Security Anna Jonsson · 2008 · ★ 1.0 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Moderate This text examines human trafficking from post-Soviet countries, exploring the full extent of the problem and discussing countermeasures, both local and at the global level, and considering the problem in all its aspects. Shares: International cooperation, Prevention, True Crime

Transnational Organised Crime Adam Edwards · 2003 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate The origins & perceptions of transnational organised crime are discussed in this book. The authors contend that the ways in which such crime is constructed as an 'external' threat obscures the reality that such crime is demand driven & they question whether law enforcement alone can contain it. Shares: International cooperation, Prevention, True Crime

Fake stuff Yi-Chieh Jessica Lin · 2011 · 92p · ≈ 3h · Moderate "The Anthropology of Stuff" is part of a new Series dedicated to innovative, unconventional ways to connect undergraduate students and their lived concerns about our social world to the power of social science ideas and evidence. Our goal with the project is to help spark social science imaginations and in doing so, new avenues for meaningful thought and action. Each "Stuff" title is a short (100… Shares: Piracy, True Crime

The Dynamics of Murder R. Barri Flowers · 2012 · 355p · ≈ 11h · Moderate In recent years, there has been a surge in school shootings, workplace homicides, hate violence, and deadly terrorist attacks in the United States. This has resulted in a greater focus on homicidal behavior, its antecedents, ways to recognize warning signs of at-risk victims and offenders, and preventive measures. It has also led to increased effor Shares: Prevention, True Crime

Governments, NGOs and anti-corruption Peter Larmour · 2008 · 270p · ≈ 9h · Moderate The purpose of this book is to understand the rise, future and implications of two important new kinds of "integrity warriors" - official anti-corruption agencies (ACAs) and anti-corruption NGOs – and to locate them in a wider context and history of anti-corruption activity.Key issues of corruption and anti-corruption are discussed in an integrated and innovative way; through a number of country… Shares: Prevention, True Crime

Invisible Darkness Stephen Williams · 1996 · ★ 4.0 · 553p · ≈ 18h · Moderate Invisible Darkness is the story of one of the more bizarre cases in recent memory--killings so sensational that they prompted the Canadian government, in the interests of justice, to silence its national press and to lock foreign journalists out of the courts.To all appearances, Paul and Karla Bernardo had a fairytale marriage--beautiful working-class girl weds bright upper-middle-class guy and… Shares: True Crime

Nice Girl Rachael Jane Chin · 2011 Nice Girl? is a 1941 American musical comedy film directed by William A. Seiter and starring Deanna Durbin, Franchot Tone, Walter Brennan, Robert Stack, and Robert Benchley. Based on the play Nice Girl? by Phyllis Duganne, the film is about a young girl who finds herself attracted to one of her fathers business partners who comes to town to give her father a scholarship for his dietary studies. Shares: True Crime

Outlaws Adam Shand · 2011 What's it like to be an outlaw biker? 'We're dd magnets,' one of them tells Adam Shand. 'Drunks in bars like to test themselves against a so-called outlaw.' Once seen as a free-wheeling, brawling, pleasure-seeking bunch of misfits rolling down the highways, bikers are now cast as social bogeymen. If you believe the dire warnings of the media and politicians, they are an organised crime threat on… Shares: True Crime

REVERSIBLE DESTINY JANE AND PETER SCHNEIDER SCHNEIDER · 2003 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Shares: Prevention, True Crime

Amerithrax Robert Graysmith · 2003 · ★ 4.0 · 480p · ≈ 16h · Moderate The first book on the unsolved case that terrorized a nation in the aftermath of September 11th is now updated with new material, including photos and transcripts of original anthrax letters that were received by "NBC Nightly News" anchor Tom Brokaw and Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle. Shares: Prevention, True Crime

Knowing your friends Martin S. Alexander · 1998 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Little attention has been paid to the murky, ultra-business of gathering intelligence among and forming estimates about friendly powers, and friendly or allied military forces. How rarely have scholars troubled to discover when states entered into coalitions or alliances mainly and explicitly because their intelligence evaluation of the potential partner concluded that making the alliance was,… Shares: International cooperation, True Crime

Corruption and Development Sarah Bracking · 2007 · ★ 4.0 · 310p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Since the 1990s, anti-corruption discourse and policy has become an unquestioned moral crusade, but campaigns that focus on eliminating corruption often have negative effects for good governance and political cultures across the developing world. This collection critically examines policy and practice in the field of corruption and anti-corruption, interrogating development assistance policy for… Shares: Prevention, True Crime

Western intelligence and the collapse of the Soviet Union, 1980-1990 David Arbel · 2003 · 338p · ≈ 11h · Moderate "When the worst terrorist atrocity in American history occurred on September 11, 2001, the intelligence agencies of the United States and most of the western world were taken by surprise. Ten years earlier, in 1991, those same organizations were surprised when the Soviet Empire collapsed. In both cases the intelligence establishment has invested enormous resources, compiled information, wrote… Shares: International cooperation, True Crime

The Authentic Life of Billy, The Kid Pat Garrett · 2008 · 128p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Hankering for a mostly true tale about the hard-living desperadoes who inhabited America's desert Southwest in the mid-1800s? This biography of the ill-fated gunslinger Billy, the Kid was written by Pat Garrett, the sheriff who shot Billy down. Although some historians now question the veracity of some of the self-aggrandizing bluster Garrett and his ghostwriter included in the book, The… Shares: True Crime

Last Yakuza Jake Adelstein · 2017 · ★ 4.4 · 408p · ≈ 13h · Moderate The Last Yakuza tells the history of the yakuza like it’s never been told before.Makoto Saigo is half-American and half-Japanese in small-town Japan with a set of talents limited to playing guitar and picking fights. With rock stardom off the table, he turns toward the only place where you can start from the bottom and move up through sheer merit, loyalty, and brute force — the yakuza.Saigo,… Shares: True Crime

Terrorist-Criminal Nexus Jennifer L. Hesterman · 2013 · 351p · ≈ 11h · Moderate "We are currently faced with a new national security challenge that is both vexing and complex. The once clear lines between the international drug trade, terrorism, organized crime, domestic terror, and Mexican drug cartels are blurring as groups increasingly join forces to further individual interests and goals. The synergistic potential of the alliance between nonstate actors and terrorists is… Shares: International cooperation, True Crime

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