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CRIMINOLOGY 2ND EDITION
Finding the Truth with Criminal Investigation Suspect, Subject, Defendant
Daniel A. Reilly, George Mason University What is the process for a successful criminal investigation? Finding the Truth with Criminal Investigation is intended to answer all of the questions of who, what, where, when, why and how a violent crime occurred and/or was committed. It is intended for students in the field of criminal justice who wish to become criminal investigators—exposing them to the tools and processes needed to conduct a proper criminal investigation, but also the reality of working to support others as a team. Author Daniel A. Reilly spent a great deal of his professional life working on homicide cases, and he offers students his expertise in criminal investigation by successfully incorporating real-world context throughout this book. Updates to this Second Edition include: UK June 2026 • US June 2026 - Updated illustrative cases reflecting current police investigations, to support theories and opinions about investigative steps 464 Pages • 51 bw photos, 5 bw illustrations and best practices HB 9798881801649 • £150.00 / $170.00 PB 9798881801656 • £43.99 / $59.95 - Additional content on crime scene investigation ePDF 9798216380665 • £39.59 / $53.95 - Updated scholarship and supporting data ePub 9798881801663 • £39.59 / $53.95 Bloomsbury Academic - New images, charts, and graphs
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Inside America's Opioid Crisis
12 Hard Lessons for Today’s Drug War Richard J. Baum, Georgetown University The country has been buffeted by four deadly overlapping waves of the opioid crisis, starting with prescription painkillers followed by heroin, fentanyl, and now dangerous drug combinations of opioids with methamphetamine, cocaine, and other substances, often sold as pills via social media. Fatal overdoses, reduced from peak levels, is still disturbingly high. Further, drug addiction, which impacts 28 million Americans, remains unchanged. Why are the country’s efforts to reduce overdoses, addiction and drug-related crime not working better? What can be done to get us back on track? This bold new book answers these questions—not with glib rhetoric or easy solutions—but with straight talk and a clear roadmap to take on the crisis. Major reforms are urgently needed, innovations in public health, justice and social policies are UK February 2026 • US February 2026 408 Pages • 30 b/w photos HB 9781538186404 • £90.00 / $120.00 PB 9781538186411 • £23.99 / $32.95 ePDF 9798881865832 • £21.59 / $29.65 ePub 9781538186428 • £21.59 / $29.65 Bloomsbury Academic
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spelled out throughout this book which address the opioid crisis and prepare us for whatever comes next. Each chapter focuses on a hard lesson, detailing past failures and then outlining a path forward based on the author’s lived experiences working on drug policy for over three decades, through both the crack cocaine and opioid epidemics and five administrations at the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP).
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Crime in the United States 2025 Edited by Shana Hertz Hattis Crime in the United States contains findings from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the offenses known to law enforcement. This reference is the most comprehensive official compilation of crime statistics in the United States and is an important addition to your library's collection. While the FBI no longer prints these findings, Bernan Press continues to provide this practical information in convenient book form. In this detailed source, legal and law enforcement professionals and researchers will find violent and property crime statistics for the nation as well as for regions, states, counties, cities, towns, and even college and university campuses. Crime in the United States includes statistics for: Crime in the United States UK December 2025 • US December 2025 676 Pages HB 9798892050937 • £115.00 / $190.00 ePDF 9798765154328 • £103.50 / $171.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Offenses known to police Violent crime offenses: murder, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault Property crime offenses: burglary, larcency-theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson Clearance data: crimes solved by police or cleared by exceptional means Persons arrested Police employees: sworn officers and civilian law enforcement personnel
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CRIMINOLOGY
Disrupting the Nexus of Neoliberalism and Carceral Reach Pursuing Contemporary Social Change
Edited by Sarah Gaby, University of North Carolina & Amy Magnus, California State University Neoliberalism fundamentally shapes how carceral systems and ideology emerge in our everyday lives. This volume illustrates not only the major frameworks at play, but the lived realities of how the carceral state insidiously infiltrates social institutions through neoliberal means. The authors evaluate and propose the ways that activism and other mechanisms of social change may reduce the damaging effects of these systems of power. The book features an interdisciplinary set of contributions from scholars, activists, and professionals with intimate knowledge of how the intersection of neoliberalism and carceral reach takes shape. The book will capture how these realities impact education, reproductive health and rights, housing justice, prison proliferation, and racial violence. The authors extend the UK April 2026 • US April 2026 224 Pages • 1 bw illustration HB 9781538188033 • £90.00 / $120.00 PB 9781538188040 • £23.99 / $32.95 ePDF 9781538188057 • £21.59 / $29.65 ePub 9798216389835 • £21.59 / $29.65 Bloomsbury Academic
frameworks of neoliberalism and carceral reach into other social institutions where we see hyperpunitiveness, targeting, and extreme social control of vulnerable groups. It explicates concrete strategies to disrupt these connections from people who have studied and worked in these institutions for decades.
The Ripple Effects of College Prison Programs Hope, Humanity, and Transformation Taffany Lim Thirteen men sentenced to die by incarceration at a maximum-security prison pushed themselves to enroll in the first faceto-face bachelor’s degree completion program for incarcerated students in the state of California. Sentenced to life without possibility of parole, they pursued higher education as the path toward rehabilitation and transformation, changing the trajectory of their lives. Based on in-depth interviews, each journey is at times heartbreaking, infuriating, and deeply inspiring, as the men work through early childhood traumas, learning disabilities, failures, and guilt. Author Taffany Lim also explores her own growth and evolution as a result of years of investment in each student’s personal success.
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Waiting to Die
One Man’s Journey on Death Row Feltus Taylor, Jr. Edited by Monique Morrison In his raw and unflinching memoir, Waiting to Die: One Man’s Journey on Death Row, Feltus Taylor, Jr., a young man from Louisiana, recounts the circumstances shaped by early trauma, instability, and devastating choices that led him to violence and ultimately to Louisiana State Penitentiary’s death row. Abandoned as an infant by a drug-addicted mother in and out of prison, Taylor’s first three years of his life remain mostly unknown, but what is known reveal clear signs of neglect and abuse. He was bow-legged, had a severe developmental disability, and a speech impediment. He lived with major depression, experienced dissociative seizures, and struggled to make sense of a world that often failed to make sense of him. UK April 2026 • US April 2026 256 Pages • 5 bw photos HB 9798765157299 • £25.00 / $32.00 ePDF 9798765157312 • £22.50 / $28.80 ePub 9798765157305 • £22.50 / $28.80 Bloomsbury Academic
Waiting to Die is not only the story of a convicted murderer; it is a rare and intimate portrait of a life, whom most would dismiss, seen in its entirety. Taylor embarks on a journey of self-discovery and personal growth through writing and spiritual healing. His words, written up to the morning of his death in 2000, reveal the quiet humanity that survives inside confinement and invite readers to sit with the life behind the sentence, challenging us to mourn the man he became just as he mourned the lives he forever harmed, even when redemption comes too late.
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Murder in the Fourth Estate
The Assassination of Investigative Journalist Don Bolles Jeremy Duda, Journalist and Author “They finally got me… Emprise…the Mafia…John Adamson. Find him.” Investigative reporter Don Bolles used his final words to name the people he believed had set the car bomb that had left him dying in a hotel parking lot in midtown Phoenix. In his fourteen years as one of Arizona's top reporters, Bolles took on the Mafia, land fraud kingpins, and corrupt politicians. And someone wanted him silenced. Murder in the Fourth Estate is the first definitive account of the case, which is the most infamous assassination of a journalist in American history. UK April 2026 • US April 2026 344 Pages • 15 bw photos HB 9798881805128 • £30.00 / $40.00 ePDF 9798216382454 • £27.00 / $36.00 ePub 9798881805135 • £27.00 / $36.00 Bloomsbury Academic
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Crime Films of the 1970s Contemporary Perspectives
Edited by David A. Mackey, Eric S. See & Sarah A. See The 1970s was a pivotal era for crime and criminal justice films in the United States. Many films produced during this period provocatively captured the tumultuous spirit of the era, while also shaping cinematic representations in the decades that followed. This edited volume offers a captivating exploration of the intricate connections between these films and the administration and social perceptions and attitudes toward justice, marginalized individuals, and the complexities of the criminal justice system. Each chapter delves into the intricate connections between these films and the administration of justice, the social construction of justice, as well as the social constructions of marginalized individuals and groups based on race, ethnicity, UK February 2026 • US February 2026 218 Pages PB 9798216383406 • £28.99 / $29.95 HB 9798881806620 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePDF 9798881867737 • £67.50 / $90.00 ePub 9798881806637 • £67.50 / $90.00 Bloomsbury Academic
gender, and sexuality. By examining these crime-based films through a critical lens, this book sheds light on how they have shaped societal perceptions and attitudes towards justice, marginalization, the complexities of the criminal justice system, and the views towards the larger political establishment.
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Jersey Boss
The Rise of Mafia Power Jerry Catena Scott M. Deitche, Author Jerry Catena propelled up the ranks, becoming the first New Jersey mobster to lead a New York crime family, and his decades-long reign left an unparalleled legacy of crime, violence, and corruption. Gerardo “Jerry” Catena was the boss of New Jersey. His reign lasted for decades, and he left an unparalleled legacy of crime and power and corruption. He was part of major moments of twentieth century America, from the founding of one of the biggest gaming companies in the world, to the mob’s infiltration of labor unions, to the mob control of Las Vegas and preCastro Cuba. Jersey Boss: The Rise of Mafia Power Jerry Catena is fast-paced and deeply researched look into the life of this enigmatic Mafia powerhouse. This book draws from law enforcement reports, interviews with former law enforcement UK April 2026 • US April 2026 248 Pages • 17 bw photos HB 9781538194607 • £25.00 / $32.00 ePDF 9798881865924 • £22.50 / $28.80 ePub 9781538194614 • £22.50 / $28.80 Bloomsbury Academic
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Power Corrupts
Cleaning Up America's Biggest Industry Richard Munson, writer Electric utilities have faced a few scandals over the past century or so, but corruption is growing as the power industry’s conventional business model is falling apart. Modern technologies challenge their monopoly mindsets and outmoded generators. Threatened utilities, in turn, gun for taxpayer- and ratepayer-funded subsidies, which they increasingly seek through fraud-filled, underhanded schemes. Corruption, however, can be challenged. In Power Corrupts: Cleaning Up America’s Biggest Industry, Richard Munson reports on blocked bailouts and options for increased transparency and ethics by exploring scandals that have dominated headlines. Munson highlights how power corruption proliferates, enabling outmoded generators to waste money, spew pollution, and block clean-energy innovations. UK June 2025 • US June 2025 184 Pages HB 9781538199398 • £25.00 / $34.00 ePDF 9798765154724 • £22.50 / $30.60 ePub 9781538199404 • £22.50 / $30.60 Bloomsbury Academic
Legal cases profiled include Chuck Jones of FirstEnergy, Anne Pramaggiore of Commonwealth Energy, and more. Munson argues misconduct is on the rise because modern technologies threaten power monopolies’ reliance on large nuclear and coal units. As solar and wind costs fall, power monopolies use bribes to survive. Customers and citizens are paying not only for the electricity they use but also the taxes that pay to regulate, subsidize, and investigate utility companies. Power Corrupts calls for competition and transparency, serving as an essential primer for readers interested in the dark history of the electric industry.
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The Future of Hacking
The Rise of Cybercrime and the Fight to Keep Us Safe Laura S. Scherling In a world, where cyber threats evolve daily, the line between hacker and hero is thinner than you think. Hacking is no longer just a shadowy underground activity—it’s an essential part of our digital world. The Future of Hacking explores the evolving landscape of cybersecurity, ethical hacking, and digital defense, revealing how hackers protect as much as they attack. Drawing on extensive research and expert interviews from around the world, Laura Scherling uncovers the real-world impact of cybercrime, internet freedom, and digital policy. This accessible yet deeply researched book challenges misconceptions about hacking, highlights the work of those defending our digital future, and helps readers UK July 2025 • US July 2025 232 Pages HB 9781538186619 • £25.00 / $34.00 ePDF 9798765160541 • £22.50 / $30.60 ePub 9781538186626 • £22.50 / $30.60 Bloomsbury Academic
understand why cybersecurity is now everyone’s concern. The future of hacking is here.
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Global Perspectives on Sex Offending Edited by Abiodun Raufu, Southern University and A & M College & Jiseun Sohn Sex offending is a multifaceted and pervasive phenomenon with far-reaching implications for victims, society, and the global community. This book examines the global and comparative perspectives on sex offending, particularly with regard to cultural variations and plurality of legal outlook that pose challenge to a global action. It offers a comprehensive exploration of the causes, prevalence, consequences, and the differential responses to sex offending across the world. With contributions from leading experts in psychology, law, sociology, and criminology, this multidisciplinary edited volume encompasses such disciplines as criminology, gender studies, law, psychology, cultural studies, and sociology. It is a compelling and timely resource for policymakers, practitioners, students, researchers, and anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the complex dynamics of global sex offending. Global Perspectives on Sex Offending serves as a beacon of hope in the fight against this silent epidemic, urging us to shine a light into the shadows and stand in solidarity with UK January 2026 • US January 2026 306 Pages • 1 bw illustration PB 9798216377078 • £30.00 / $39.95 HB 9798881807290 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePDF 9798881867546 • £81.00 / $108.00 ePub 9798881807306 • £81.00 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
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Race, Crime, and Criminal Justice
Breaking the Cycle of Black Overrepresentation in Crime Statistics Anita Kalunta-Crumpton One of the most controversial topics on the subject of race, crime, and criminal justice is the disproportionate representation of Blacks in the criminal justice system as offenders and prison inmates. Rather than portraying Blacks as perpetual victims of racism in which societal institutions are solely responsible for reform, this book seeks to put the power of change in the hands of Blacks. It focuses on the preventative role that Blacks might play and considers solution-oriented ways to stop this vicious cycle.
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Justice at Trial
Courtroom Battles and Groundbreaking Cases James J. Brosnahan Follow a trial lawyer’s career through the demanding, often controversial, and suspenseful world of jury trials, tension-filled appeals and the different worlds of courtrooms, jail cells, corporate boardrooms, and law firms. Each of the cases in the nineteen chapters were selected from a total of his 150 jury trials to reflect issues of current importance, including refugees on the Mexican border, gargantuan gender battles inside one of the largest corporations in the world, sexual taboos on national television, accusations of terrorism, government agents who cheat, innocent prisoners in our jails, the constitutional right to speak and print the truth, bringing law to a war zone, poverty and murder on Native American Reservations, current problems of hunger in America, and more. UK September 2025 • US September 2025 288 Pages • 16 b/w photos HB 9781538174432 • £32.00 / $38.00 PB 9798216368762 • £15.99 / $21.95 ePDF 9798765172629 • £14.39 / $19.75 ePub 9781538174449 • £14.39 / $19.75 Rowman & Littlefield
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Mass Incarceration in America A Reference Handbook
Rachel M. Durso, Washington College, USA On a per capita basis, the United States incarcerates a higher percentage of its population than any other nation in the world. This book explains the social, economic, and political forces that account for this controversial distinction through features that include context-setting introductory chapters, illuminating primary documents, informative biographical and organizational profiles, a detailed timeline of events and trends related to incarceration in the USA, and personal essays contributed by administrators, researchers, educators, and people with firsthand experience of life behind bars.
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The Murder of Angela Mischelle Lawless
An Honest Sheriff and the Exoneration of an Innocent Man Stephen R. Snodgrass In a small Missouri town in 1992, the body of 19-year-old Mischelle Lawless was found in her car, stalled on the side of a road. 18-year-old Josh Kezer was arrested and charged for her murder—even though he was in a different state at the time, as proven by witnesses—and spent the next 16 years of his life in prison. How was Josh imprisoned for a crime he didn’t commit? Author Stephen R. Snodgrass expertly unveils the web of manipulation and corruption that led to Josh’s conviction. Everything that could go wrong in the American criminal justice system did, from witnesses who were coached by law enforcement to lie, to withheld exculpatory evidence, and an UK September 2025 • US September 2025 320 Pages • 10 b/w photos HB 9781538172063 • £32.00 / $38.00 PB 9798216369028 • £15.99 / $21.95 ePDF 9798765177723 • £14.39 / $19.75 ePub 9781538172070 • £14.39 / $19.75 Rowman & Littlefield
unscrupulous prosecutor knowingly using false, recanted testimony. Snodgrass draws on interviews with Josh himself, the research of Sheriff Rick Walter, the first responder to the scene, and his own legal analysis, to reveal the truth behind the case, the conviction, and the exoneration. This book is a timely, compassionate work of true crime that calls for better and more equitable justice for all.
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Crime, Punishment, and Video Games Kristine Levan & Steven Downing Moving beyond discussions of potential linkages between violence and video games, Crime, Punishment, and Video Games examines a broad range of issues related to the representation of crime and deviance within video games and the video game subculture. The context of justice is discussed with respect to traditional criminal justice agencies, but also expanded throughout to include issues related to social justice. The text also presents the potential cultural, social, and economic impact of video games. Considering the significant number of video game players, from casual to competitive players, these issues have become even more salient in recent years. Regardless of whether someone considers themselves a gamer, video games are undoubtedly relevant to modern society, and this text discusses how the shift in gaming has impacted our perceptions of deviance, crime, and justice. The authors explore past, present and future manifestations of these connections, considering how the game industry, policy makers, and researchers can work toward a better understanding of UK September 2025 • US September 2025 244 Pages • 3 textboxes; HB 9781793613370 • £85.00 / $110.00 PB 9781793613394 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9781978759145 • £26.09 / $35.95 ePub 9781793613387 • £26.09 / $35.95 Lexington Books
how and why video games are an important area of study for criminologists and sociologists, and how games will present new promises and challenges in the years to come.
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Backbeat Gangsters
The Rise and Decline of the Mob in Rock Music Jeffrey Sussman During the early days of rock and roll the mob used every tactic they could, from creating their own record labels, bribing radio DJs and stacking jukeboxes with their own artists, to exploiting and intimidating performers, and creating their own black market of bootlegged records, to make millions. In the 1950s, when rock and roll music burst upon the scene, the major established record companies thought that the new music was a passing teenage trend, but mobsters were there and pounced on the new business opportunity. They opened small independent record companies, signed ambitious young singers and musicians, and produced truckloads of 45 rpm records. To make sure that their records would be successful, the mob bribed disc jockeys in major cities to play the records UK April 2025 • US April 2025 190 Pages • 1 BW Photo, 1 Table HB 9781538190265 • £25.00 / $34.00 ePDF 9798881855307 • £22.50 / $30.60 ePub 9781538190272 • £22.50 / $30.60 Rowman & Littlefield
and made sure jukeboxes, which were already mob-controlled, were filled to capacity with the new music. Whatever it took to gain airtime and repeated plays of their songs, the mob made sure it happened. Backbeat Gangsters includes the stories of the most sinister people who took control of the record business during the early days of rock and roll, as well as those of the numerous, young performers who were exploited and received threats and beatings instead of the compensation they were promised. In yet another well-researched and thorough account, Jeffrey Sussman, details how the mob was able to infiltrate and control another aspect of American culture with devastating results.
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Brooklyn's Jane Doe
The Mishandling of a Sexual Assault Investigation S. A. Mathers “I have had the misfortune of being raped twice—once in the park and again in the media,” wrote “Jane Doe,” the victim of an infamous stranger rape in Brooklyn, New York. Two decades later, detective S. A. Mathers reopened Doe's case to bring her justice. In April 1994, the horrific details of Jane Doe’s assault were widely covered by New York City newspapers following misleading information from NYPD officials to Pulitzer Prize-winning crime reporter Mike McAlary. Convinced that Doe, a queer woman of color, was fabricating her account for political amplification, McAlary launched a journalistic smear UK September 2025 • US September 2025 192 Pages • 4 bw photos HB 9798881808198 • £20.00 / $30.00 ePDF 9798881848927 • £18.00 / $27.00 ePub 9798881808204 • £18.00 / $27.00 Bloomsbury Academic
campaign against her. Permanent harm was done to Jane Doe, who was ridiculed and gaslighted publicly, and thus to all survivors who faced the silencing specter of being disbelieved. Twenty-three years later, as the lead investigator on the case, retired detective S. A. Mathers helped Doe achieve the apology and closure she had long desired when her case was finally allowed to be reopened and reinvestigated. Brooklyn’s Jane Doe tells her story and highlights the struggle for justice that so many survivors face.
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Chase the Devil
Murder and Obsession on Florida's Gulf Coast Tony Adame A police detective and an investigative journalist team up in secret to try and solve a series of rapes and murders from the early 1980s on Florida’s Gulf Coast, hoping to crack the cold case that has passed through generations of detectives. On December 31, 1984, Tonya Ethridge McKinley was out with friends celebrating New Year’s Eve and the start of her new life in Pensacola, Florida. Finally free from an abusive relationship, she was just weeks from her 24th birthday and moving toward becoming the person she’d always wanted to be. When Tonya’s body was found dumped on the side of the road, half-naked, raped, beaten, and choked to death in the early-morning hours of New Year’s Day, it was the first of two unsolved rapes and murders in the same area in the first two months of the year. UK May 2025 • US May 2025 198 Pages • 8 b/w photos HB 9798881805265 • £25.00 / $32.00 ePDF 9798881863012 • £22.50 / $28.80 ePub 9798881805272 • £22.50 / $28.80 Rowman & Littlefield
Chase the Devil takes readers back to that rainy December night in 1984 and barrels forward like a freight train, moving across the decades and diving into the details of the crime and inside the lives of the victims and their families, the suspects, and the law enforcement officers who kept the case alive. With original reporting and unprecedented access to investigators, case files, and FBI reports kept hidden for decades, investigative journalist Tony Adame immerses readers in the investigation and tries to answer the questions of what really happened to Tonya that night and who took her life.
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The Practice Run
How a Failed Art Heist Provided a Blueprint for the World's Largest Art Robbery Frederick J. Fisher On Saint Patrick’s Day, 1990, one of the largest art thefts in the world took place—the heist of Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in which thirteen works of art, worth over half a billion dollars, were stolen by two thieves posing as policemen. Had there been a prior practice run for this theft? Ten years earlier two thieves who posed as delivery men, after hijacking a FedEx van and etherizing its female driver, were thwarted in their attempt of a nearly identical robbery at The Hyde Collection in Glens Falls, New York—an art museum modeled after a one in Boston. The mastermind of these crimes was Brian McDevitt of Massachusetts. Prior to his failed heist he spent two months ingratiating himself to the museum’s director, the author of this story, in hopes of extracting vital UK May 2025 • US May 2025 230 Pages • 8 b/w photos HB 9798881805951 • £25.00 / $34.00 ePDF 9798881858810 • £22.50 / $30.60 ePub 9798881805968 • £22.50 / $30.60 Rowman & Littlefield
information that would aid in his crime. The book investigates the planning and execution of The Hyde’s attempted robbery and traces McDevitt’s various escapades following his jail sentences in New York State and one in Massachusetts over a previous bank heist. This story also explores the history of these two sister museums that were jolted into the recognition of their vulnerabilities, following one thwarted and one actual theft. And even more fascinating is the possibility that a single individual might have been the mastermind of both crimes.
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Vanishing Act
A Crashed Airliner, Faked Death, and Backroom Abortions Jerry Jamison, Advertising Copywriter Over a span of 39 years, 25 aliases, 28 arrests in 20 cities, and nearly a dozen imprisonments, Robert Spears lived a con artist's life of unparalleled adventure and intrigue. But that is far from the end of his story. Shortly before Thanksgiving Day in 1959, a plane exploded in mid-air, killing all forty-two passengers and crew and leaving scattered debris and bodies across the otherwise tranquil Gulf waters. Listed on the manifest was Dr. Robert Spears—once the highly regarded president of the Texas Naturopathic Association. Father of two small children with a lovely, societyminded wife and an elegant home in an exclusive neighborhood, it was a monumental tragedy for his family as it was for all the souls lost that day. Less than two months later, Robert Spears miraculously “rose from the dead” in Phoenix where he UK April 2025 • US April 2025 288 Pages • 31 BW Photos HB 9798881802936 • £30.00 / $36.00 ePDF 9798881865269 • £27.00 / $32.40 ePub 9798881802943 • £27.00 / $32.40 Rowman & Littlefield
was promptly arrested. Headlining newspapers nationwide—“Man Downs Airliner to Fake Death”—Spears was discovered to have cleverly switched identities and persuaded a friend, Al Taylor, to fly with his plane ticket. Asking him to carry “a package” on board, Spears drove away in his buddy’s car with his wallet and driver’s license. As the FBI began to investigate, they uncovered a stunning, mind-bending tale of murder, abortion rings, and false identities, as well as insurance scams and medical fraud that stretched over decades. Methodically and carefully researched through FBI records, Vanishing Act fully tells the complete and shocking story of con man Robert Spears for the first time.
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Jukebox Empire
The Mob and the Dark Side of the American Dream David Rabinovitch An aspiring tycoon partners with a racketeer to build a jukebox that makes millions, then takes the fall for the largest money laundering scheme in history. Caught between the Mob and the feds in a plot to save the casinos in Havana from Castro’s revolution, Wolfe Rabin pulls the biggest money-laundering scheme in history, but his hubris leads to the conspiracy unraveling in a sensational trial. At a time when there was a jukebox in every restaurant, diner, bar, barracks, arcade, and canteen, Rabin’s trajectory from inventor to promoter to outlaw is set against the Mob’s growing infiltration of the jukebox industry. In a world of music, machines, and money, popular culture and organized crime collide in an epic drama of invention and greed. David Rabinovitch’s UK September 2025 • US September 2025 248 Pages • 18 b/w photos HB 9781538172599 • £18.99 / $24.95 PB 9798216369189 • £14.99 / $19.95 ePDF 9798216257202 • £13.49 / $17.95 ePub 9781538172605 • £13.49 / $17.95 Rowman & Littlefield
investigation into his own family history pieces together an epic puzzle that begins in Chicago with the invention of a jukebox and spans the casinos of Havana and the financial giants of Europe, leading to what the FBI called “the biggest bank robbery in the world.”
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Sin City Gangsters
The Rise and Decline of the Mob in Las Vegas Jeffrey Sussman Sin City Gangsters is a whirlwind account of how the mob created Las Vegas, building and controlling gambling casinos and buying the favors of influential politicians. The book features such mobsters as Bugsy Siegel, Meyer Lansky, Moe Dalitz, Sam Giancana, Tony Accardo, and Nick Civella, along with their agents and hired guns: Tony Spilotro, Lefty Rosenthal, and Donald Angelini. The casino owners transformed Vegas into an entertainment capital by building billion-dollar-plus resorts and hiring entertainers, such as Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley. Sin City Gangsters is the only book that charts Vegas from early mob-owned casinos to billion-dollar resorts; its cast of characters were exceedingly ambitious risk takers who created a glittering mecca of sin and pleasure. UK September 2025 • US September 2025 240 Pages • 11 b/w photos HB 9781538161234 • £30.00 / $40.00 PB 9798216368618 • £15.99 / $21.95 ePDF 9798765180266 • £14.39 / $19.75 ePub 9781538161241 • £14.39 / $19.75 Rowman & Littlefield
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The Berman Murders
Unraveling the Mojave Desert's Most Mysterious Unsolved Crime Doug Kari For true crime readers obsessed with learning the full story, get the book that Publishers Weekly calls a "stirring account," and says, "dogged reporting and expert pacing make this a good bet for true crime fans." At daybreak on January 6, 1986, a couple on a camping trip in the Mojave Desert set out for a stroll and never returned. The local sheriff eventually discovered that Barry and Louise Berman had been murdered. As years passed and the double homicide remained unsolved, the Berman case spawned speculation and conjecture. To date there’s never been an arrest in the case—let alone a conviction. This is the first book to tell the full story of the Berman murders and uncover a likely suspect.
UK February 2026 • US January 2026 264 Pages • 10 bw photos HB 9781538186381 • £26.00 / $35.00 PB 9798216392224 • £15.99 / $19.95 ePDF 9798216332206 • £14.39 / $17.95 ePub 9781538186398 • £14.39 / $17.95 Rowman & Littlefield
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