Private Sins, Public Crimes
Policing, Punishment, and Authority in Iran
ISBN: HB: 9780300275681,
Yale University Press,
January 2025
416 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 22 black&white illus.
416 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 22 black&white illus.
A groundbreaking scholarly study of crime and punishment in Qajar Iran.
Drawing on a rich array of primary sources in multiple languages, Farzin Vejdani argues that in Qajar Iran, the ambiguity in defining the boundaries between private and public...
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50.00 GBP
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Plotters
The UK Terrorists Who Failed
ISBN: PB: 9781805261636,
ISBN: HB: 9781787389298,
Hurst Publishers,
December 2024
320 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm
320 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm
An eye-opening account of the British terror attacks you've never heard of – because the perpetrators were caught in time.
Since 2017, the UK has seen fifteen terrible terrorist attacks. But the atrocities on our evening news are the tip of a vast...
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Under Cover of Darkness
Murders in Blackout London
ISBN: HB: 9780300270051,
Yale University Press,
October 2024
272 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 16 black&white illus., 1 map
272 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 16 black&white illus., 1 map
A gripping new history of London during the Blackout – revealing the violent crime that spread across the capital under the cover of darkness.
Fear was the unacknowledged spectre haunting the streets of London during the Second World War; fear not...
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22.00 GBP
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See What You Made Me Do
Power, Control and Domestic Abuse
ISBN: PB: 9781787388260,
ISBN: HB: 9781787383685,
Hurst Publishers,
May 2023
448 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
448 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
Winner of the 2020 Stella Prize
Every year in England and Wales alone, one in twenty adults suffer domestic abuse, two thirds of them women. Every week, two men kill a woman they were intimate with. And still we ask the wrong question: Why didn't...
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25.00 GBP
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Insecure Guardians
Enforcement, Encounters and Everyday Policing in Postcolonial Karachi
ISBN: HB: 9781787386884,
Hurst Publishers,
October 2022
328 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
328 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
An in-depth study of the policing practices of an insecure state, foregrounding the experiences of officers on the frontline of Pakistan's armed conflicts.
The police force is one of the most distrusted institutions in Pakistan, notorious for its...
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40.00 GBP
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Nightmarch
Among India's Revolutionary Guerrillas
ISBN: PB: 9781787385993,
ISBN: HB: 9781849049900,
Hurst Publishers,
November 2021
342 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
342 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
Winner of the 2020 Association for Political and Legal anthropology Book Prize
Shortlisted for the 2019 Orwell Prize for Political Writing and the 2019 New India Foundation Book Prize
A first-hand account of India's widespread leftist insurgency,...
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Transforming the War on Drugs
Warriors, Victims and Vulnerable Regions
ISBN: PB: 9781787381988,
Hurst Publishers,
September 2021
320 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
320 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
A stark reassessment of the merits of conventional anti-drugs policies for dealing with narcotics.
The war on drugs has failed, but consensus in the international drug policy debate on the way forward is missing. Amidst this moment of uncertainty,...
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25.00 GBP
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Criminal Contagion
How Mafias, Gangsters and Scammers Profit from a Pandemic
ISBN: HB: 9781787384460,
Hurst Publishers,
April 2021
304 pp., 19,0x12,6 cm
304 pp., 19,0x12,6 cm
Amid the chaos of the pandemic, mafias and scammers have been profiting from the misfortune of others.
Covid-19 is reshaping and challenging governments, societies and economies in previously unimaginable ways – but gangsters and profiteers have a...
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Bugsy Siegel
The Dark Side of the American Dream
ISBN: HB: 9780300226195,
Yale University Press,
March 2021
248 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
248 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
In a brief life that led to a violent end, Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel (1906-1947) rose from desperate poverty to ill-gotten riches, from an early-twentieth-century family of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants on the Lower East Side to a kingdom of his own maki...
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17.99 GBP
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Vagrant Figures
Law, Literature, and the Origins of the Police
ISBN: HB: 9780300241310,
Yale University Press,
February 2021
320 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 3 black&white illus.
320 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 3 black&white illus.
In this innovative book examining eighteenth-century literary treatments of policing and vagrancy, Nicolazzo reveals the narrative, textual, and rhetorical practices that shaped the purview and scope of policing long before the establishment of the m...
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