Книга Джона Дикки "Cosa Nostra: история сицилийской мафии" в настоящее время является самым объемным исследованием жизни тайного преступного сообщества Сицилии, переведенным на русский язык. Без налета кинемотографического романтизма описана ужасающая реальность преступной деятельности Коза Ностра на протяжении двух столетий: рэкет, торговля наркотиками, похищения и убийства невинных людей, политическая коррупция, террор. Мафия, описанная здесь, совсем не похожа на ее стилизованное отображение в фильмах и романах с мифами о "верности традициям" и благородстве "людей чести". Имя этой преступной организации давно стало нарицательным. Коза Ностра – не просто название, фактически это – криминальный бренд, олицетворение тайной власти, основанной на насилии и кровопролитии. Самая жестокая, самая неуловимая, самая эффективная преступная организация мира – такова сицилийская мафия, широко известная под именем Коза Ностра. Война с мафией, продолжающаяся почти двести лет, создала этой организации ореол неуязвимости, но, как показали события конца XX столетия, мафию все же возможно победить. Как мафия достигла своего могущества, чего она добивается и чьей поддержкой пользуется, каковы ее планы на будущее – обо всем этом рассказывается в уникальном исследовании Джона Дикки. Коза Ностре посвящено немало книг; тем не менее, работа Джона Дикки стоит особняком – до сих пор ничего подобного этой книге еще не было. Впервые под одной обложкой собраны все известные на сегодня сведения о Коза Ностре, все подробности жизни тайного преступного общества Сицилии: от мафиозного кодекса чести и обрядов посвящения до политической коррупции и деловых интересов мафиози, от методов управления этой криминальной организацией до «бизнес-модели», которой она придерживается. Если вы хотите узнать, какой мафия была и чем живет и дышит сегодня, составить представление о ее деятельности на протяжении двух столетий, понять, благодаря чему мафия добилась той степени влияния, которой она ныне обладает, тогда эта книга – для вас.

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кримінал -- злочинність -- мафія

Crime scenes associated with child sexual exploitation and trafficking in child pornography were once limited to physical locations such as school playgrounds, church vestibules, trusted neighbors' homes, camping trips and seedy darkly lit back rooms of adult bookstores. The explosion of Internet use has created a virtual hunting ground for sexual predators and has fueled a brisk, multi-billion dollar trade in the associated illicit material. Approximately half of the caseload in computer crimes units involves the computer assisted sexual exploitation of children. Despite the scale of this problem, or perhaps because of it, there are no published resources that bring together the complex mingling of disciplines and expertise required to put together a computer assisted child exploitation case. This work fills this void, providing police, prosecutors and forensic examiners with the historical, legal, technical, and social background for the laws prohibiting child exploitation, in particular, child pornography. The book will become an indispensable resource for those involved in the investigation, prosecution and study of computer-assisted child sexual exploitation.

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злочин -- дитина

Since the rise of Napster and other file-sharing services in its wake, most of us have assumed that intellectual piracy is a product of the digital age and that it threatens creative expression as never before. The Motion Picture Association of America, for instance, claimed that in 2005 the film industry lost $2.3 billion in revenue to piracy online. But here Adrian Johns shows that piracy has a much longer and more vital history than we have realized—one that has been largely forgotten and is little understood. Piracy explores the intellectual property wars from the advent of print culture in the fifteenth century to the reign of the Internet in the twenty-first. Brimming with broader implications for today’s debates over open access, fair use, free culture, and the like, Johns’s book ultimately argues that piracy has always stood at the center of our attempts to reconcile creativity and commerce—and that piracy has been an engine of social, technological, and intellectual innovations as often as it has been their adversary. From Cervantes to Sonny Bono, from Maria Callas to Microsoft, from Grub Street to Google, no chapter in the story of piracy evades Johns’s graceful analysis in what will be the definitive history of the subject for years to come.

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копірайт -- інтелектуальна власність -- неліцензійна продукція -- вільний доступ

The attached analysis, entitled PROJECT MEGIDDO, is an FBI strategic assessment of the potential for domestic terrorism in the United States undertaken in anticipation of or response to the arrival of the new millennium.

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тероризм

The 40% drop in crime that occurred across the U.S. from 1991 to 2000 largely remains an unsolved mystery. Even more puzzling then is the crime rate drop in New York City, which lasted twice long and was twice as large. This 80% drop in crime over nineteen years represents the largest crime decline on record. In The City that Became Safe, Franklin Zimring sets off in search of the New York difference through a detailed and comprehensive statistical investigation into the city's falling crime rates and possible explanations. If you listen to City Hall, aggressive police created a zero tolerance law enforcement regime that drove crime rates down. Is this self-serving political sound bite true? Are the official statistics generated by the police accurate? Zimring shows the numbers are correct and argues that some combination of more cops, new tactics, and new management can take some credit for the decline, but zero tolerance policing and quality of life were never a consistent part of the NYPD's strategy. That the police can make a difference in preventing crime overturns decades of conventional wisdom for criminologists, but Zimring points out the New York experience challenges the major assumptions dominating American crime and drug control policies that most everyone else has missed. First, imprisonment in actually New York decreased significantly from 1990 to 2009 and was well below the national average, proving that it is possible to have substantially less crime without increases in incarceration. Second, the NYPD sharply reduced drug violence (over 90%) without any reduction in hard drug use. In other words, they won the war on drug violence without winning the war on drugs. Finally, the stability of New York's population, economy, education, demographics, or immigration patterns calls into question the long-accepted cultural and structural causes of violence in America's cities. That high rates of crime are not hard wired into modern city life is welcome news for policy makers, criminal justice officials, and urban dwellers everywhere.

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злочинність -- культура -- безпека -- місто