In the United States, the popular symbols of organised crime are still Depression-era figures such as Al Capone, Lucky Luciano, and Meyer Lansky - thought to be heads of giant, hierarchically organised mafias. In Double Crossed, Michael Woodiwiss challenges perpetuated myths to reveal a more disturbing reality of organised crime - one in which government officials and the wider establishment are deeply complicit. Delving into attempts to implement policies to control organised crime in the US, Italy and the UK, Woodiwiss reveals little-known manifestations of organised crime among the political and corporate establishment. A follow up to his 2005 Gangster Capitalism, Woodiwiss broadens and brings his argument up to the present by examining those who constructed and then benefited from myth making. These include the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, opportunistic American politicians and officials and, more recently, law enforcement bureaucracies, led by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Organised crime control policies now tend to legitimise repression and cover-up failure. They do little to control organised crime. While the US continues to export its organised crime control template to the rest of the world, opportunities for successful criminal activity proliferate at local, national and global levels, making successful prosecutions irrelevant.

Featuring two exclusive bonus chapters on the trial of Basil, the last Hatton Garden gang member to be caught. ONE LAST JOB was the only book on the Hatton Garden Heist to correctly predict the identity of Basil. This new edition reveals the full story of Michael Seed, Reader's mysterious protege, by the only writers to cover his recent trial in full. The son of a Cambridge DNA pioneer, he inherited his father's brilliant mind, but used it for a career in crime after meeting Reader. Branded The Master - and a Gentleman Thief - Brian Reader is a true character from the old school of British crime. This book marks the end of the era of big set-piece raids that captured the public imagination. At the age of 71, Reader masterminded a break-in at Mayfair jewellers Chatila, containing safes holding more than GBP40 million worth of jewellery. Charting his criminal career from his first arrest at the age of 11, ONE LAST JOB recounts Reader's dry run for the Hatton Garden job in unprecedented detail. EXCLUSIVE interviews with the friends and associates of Brian Reader - Britain's most prolific and enigmatic thief, linked to crimes worth GBP150m.

This book explores how the 'new' Asian criminal entrepreneurs in Canada, known as The Big Circle Boys (BCB), competitively dominated the Canadian heroin market in the 1990s without a formal organisation or explicit hierarchical structure. Drawing on the market resilience framework, it examines how the BCB smuggled drugs by using social capital, shared resources, and trust effectively through their ethnicity. How did they counter external security challenges and promote internal competitive cooperation? Were they able to resolve disputes peacefully by managing internal relations? These questions are answered through an analysis of their networking processes and illustrated in the structural properties and dynamics of their mono-ethnic criminal network. For the first time, the BCB players that contributed to the 2001 Canadian and Australian heroin droughts are revealed through intercepted telephone calls and court testimonies. It shows how the BCB collectively switched from heroin to ecstasy since the year 2000. The operation logistics of drug importation and local trafficking are scrutinised. This book speaks to those interested in how a collective of ethnic-Chinese career criminals succeeded and failed in the international drugs trade, particularly for scholars and students of social sciences disciplines.