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Cosa Nostra
Stunning photographs illuminate the bloody story of the first 150 years. This is the story of the Cosa Nostra: from its origins in Sicily in 1863, through the great wave of Italian immigration to America, to prohibition and the formation of the first mafia families, and to the harsh realities of fascism and the postwar years in Italy where the Cosa Nostra thrived. The image of the mafioso as a “man of honor”—good to the weak, above the laws of the state but subject to a precise code—was firmly rooted in the collective imagination until the 1980s when light was shed on the structure of the vast organization, its unsavory objectives, and the cold-blooded strategies behind its actions. Culled from thousands of archival images, more than 250 photographs and detailed captions tell the story not only of the criminals who have entered popular legend but also of the people who have been victims of the mafia: the judges, police officers, and private citizens who fought back.
Lone Wolves
As the attacks in Norway, Munich and most recently Christchurch have shown: a new threat is now shaking liberal Western societies. Radicalized right-wing extremists – so-called lone wolves – are engaging in individually planned terror attacks. Written by an expert on terrorism and populism, this book highlights the dynamics of this new breed of terrorism. By providing in-depth insights into the biographies of individual perpetrators, it illustrates the changing profile of the typical lone terrorist. This new kind of terrorist engages in violence without being a member of a party or organization, yet is radicalized by a global right-wing subculture that communicates in virtual networks. This startling and well-written book reveals the ideological roots of lone wolf terrorism and urges governments and civil society to take the threat seriously and implement suitable countermeasures.
Murder Made in Italy
Looking at media coverage of three very prominent murder cases, Murder Made in Italy explores the cultural issues raised by the murders and how they reflect developments in Italian civil society over the past 20 years. Providing detailed descriptions of each murder, investigation, and court case, Ellen Nerenberg addresses the perception of lawlessness in Italy, the country's geography of crime, and the generalized fear for public safety among the Italian population. Nerenberg examines the fictional and nonfictional representations of these crimes through the lenses of moral panic, media spectacle, true crime writing, and the abject body. The worldwide publicity given the recent case of Amanda Knox, the American student tried for murder in a Perugia court, once more drew attention to crime and punishment in Italy and is the subject of the epilogue.
Methods of Murder
Past traces the roots of the twentieth-century literature and cinema of crime to two much earlier, diverging interpretations of the criminal: the bodiless figure of Cesare Beccaria's Enlightenment-era On Crimes and Punishments, and the biological offender of Cesare Lombroso's positivist Criminal Man
Profiling Hackers
Complex and controversial, hackers possess a wily, fascinating talent, the machinations of which are shrouded in secrecy. Providing in-depth exploration into this largely uncharted territory, Profiling Hackers: The Science of Criminal Profiling as Applied to the World of Hacking offers insight into the hacking realm by telling attention-grabbing ta
Differences, Deceits and Desires
Italian crime fiction (known as gialli in Italy) has developed from a popular genre to a fully-fledged literary genre; and in the past thirty years it has gradually become the focus of growing interest from literary critics as well as the reading public. This collection of twelve essays is the first one in English to deal exclusively with Italian crime fiction. The essays are scholarly yet accessible contributions to the growing research in this field. They analyze texts by well-known authors (such as Umberto Eco, Leonardo Sciascia and Andrea Camilleri) as well as works by younger writers. They bring together four of the most significant strands of Italian gialli: the way gialli develop or subvert the tradition and conventions of the crime genre; regional specificity within Italian crime fiction; gialli by and about women, lesbians and gay men; and representations of Italy in gialli written by English-speaking writers.
Manuale del cacciatore di libri
Questo è un manuale pensato per il cacciatore di libri, sia esso libraio, collezionista, bibliofilo, editore, scrittore o giornalista. Nel corso degli anni ho frequentato librai, collezionisti e altri colleghi "cacciatori", molti di loro mi hanno scritto dopo la lettura dei miei libri e sono nate corrispondenze interessanti. Ho fatto mie molte loro segnalazioni, e soprattutto ho dato voce alle più diverse esperienze maturate in questo campo. Ognuno ha il suo "metodo", ognuno ha i suoi contatti e il suo stile di ricerca. Io ho cercato di estrapolare da ciascuno quei caratteri che possano valere da guida generale principalmente per coloro i quali si accostano al nostro mondo per la prima volta. Il collezionista di libri vedrà confermate o rivoluzionate le sue personali convinzioni. Il libraio forse si riconoscerà in talune situazioni; perdoni, magari, alcune ingenuità ma tenga conto che il manuale si rivolge prima di tutto al neofita. I cacciatori di libri professionisti affineranno gli artigli.
L'omicidio seriale in Italia
Manipolazione, dominio, controllo. La ritualità del delitto, quella sorta di celebrazione di una cerimonia orrida e oscura si ripete immutata, a volte anche per molti anni con un meccanismo ciclico. Il rituale del serial killer è un po' la sua firma, ciò che gli consente di trarre piacere dall'atto in sé e di conseguenza l'assassino seriale lo prolungherà il più possibile perché interrompendolo, il piacere potrebbe esaurirsi. Nelle più recenti statistiche mondiali nelle nazioni più colpite da questa forma di criminalità, l'Italia è collocata al quinto posto dopo Stati Uniti, Germania e Francia ma negli ultimi tempi la stampa, sembra attribuirgli il terzo posto. Nonostante l'ampiezza di tale fenomeno, fino agli anni Ottanta nel nostro Paese l'idea che si potesse uccidere senza altra motivazione che il denaro o la passione è stata vigorosamente contrastata. L'opera vuole proporre ai lettori, un lavoro di ricerca basato su fatti realmente accaduti, precedentemente studiato e servito da stimolo.
