In a world of shadows and deception, Paul Manning walked the line between loyalty and survival, infiltrating both the Mafia and the Hells Angels simultaneously - a dangerous game few dare to play. But the real betrayal didn’t come from the criminals he exposed. It came from within his own ranks.Uncover the gripping true story of an undercover officer who risked everything, only to face the ultimate test when corruption from inside the force threatened to destroy it all. This is mor...

In an era where public trust in police is fragile, Ethical Policing offers a powerful, insider perspective on how to restore integrity, accountability, and humanity to law enforcement. Written by a seasoned former undercover officer with decades of frontline experience across two continents, this book is a rare blend of practical guidance, lived insight, and unwavering moral clarity.Through real-world examples, candid reflections, and actionable strategies, Ethical Policing challen...

This field guide provides a practical, operational overview of anti-money laundering (AML), based on real-world investigative experience rather than theoretical or compliance-driven frameworks.Money laundering is not a secondary offence. It is the mechanism that allows criminal activity to scale, sustain, and reinvest. From organized crime groups and outlaw motorcycle gangs to fraud networks and transnational operations, the movement of money underpins everything.This guide...

In a world of shadows and deception, Paul Manning walked the line between loyalty and survival, infiltrating both the Mafia and the Hells Angels simultaneously - a dangerous game few dare to play. But the real betrayal didn't come from the criminals he exposed. It came from within his own ranks.Uncover the gripping true story of an undercover officer who risked everything, only to face the ultimate test when corruption from inside the force threatened to destroy it all. This is mor...

A concise field guide to outlaw motorcycle gangs (OMGs), based on real-world undercover and organized crime investigations.This guide breaks down how biker gangs operate—from structure and hierarchy to recruitment, criminal activity, and the role of violence in maintaining control. Nothing is off-limits, including firearms, explosives, drug trafficking, extortion, theft, and murder.Outlaw motorcycle gangs rely on intimidation, reputation, and opportunism to dominate territo...

Field Guide: Fraud breaks down how fraud actually works in the real world—beyond definitions and theory. Drawing on operational experience, this guide examines fraud as a structured, repeatable system rather than a one-off act of deception.It covers the core mechanics behind common fraud types, including romance fraud, investment scams, identity theft, contractor fraud, and business email compromise, showing how they follow consistent patterns of behaviour, communi...

In the remote highlands of the country of Georgia, a small group of mountaindwellers called the Khevsurs used to express sexuality and romance in ways that appear to be highly paradoxical. On the one hand, their practices were romantic, but could never lead to marriage. On the other hand, they were sexual, but didn't correspond to what North Americans, or most Georgians, would have called sex. These practices were well documented by early ethnographers before they disappeared completely by...

This edited collection from leading scholars in the fields of media, communications, cultural studies and a number of aligned areas looks to the intersection of capitalism, crime and the media. The text is founded on the principles of cultural criminology – that how we determine and understand crime lies in the social world and that the determination of crime and its mediation in popular culture have a political basis. The book consists of eleven chapters and is divided into three sections...

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News and News Sources offers a fresh introduction to the sociology of news.It is often suggested that the powerful dominate news agendas. Increasingly however, less powerful groups are employing sophisticated media strategies and new communication technologies to get their message across. The implications of this development are unclear. Do these developments herald a `democratisation′ of news arenas, or will they enable the powerful further strengthen their contro...

Drink, as an embodied semiotic and material form, mediates social life. This book examines the fundamental nature of drink through a series of modular but connected ethnographic discussions. It looks at the way the materiality of a specific drink (coffee, wine, water, beer) serves as the semiotic medium for a genre of sociability in a specific time and place.As an explicitly comparative semiotic study, the book uses familiar and unfamiliar case studies to show how drinks with simil...

This book examines the history of popular drug cultures and mediated drug education, and the ways in which new media - including social networking and video file-sharing sites - transform the symbolic framework in which drugs and drug culture are represented. Tracing the emergence of formal drug regulation in both the US and the United Kingdom from the late nineteenth century, it argues that mass communication technologies were intimately connected to these "control regimes" from the very ...