Gary M Potter

Organized Crime (4th Edition)

Dispelling current myths regarding organized crime, Lyman and Potter’s fourth edition reveals a truer picture of organized crime and criminal activity today. Providing scholarly treatment and a social perspective, the authors explore the concept of organized crime, the historical foundation for its...

Principles and Techniques of Horse Training and Management

World Wide Weed

For the majority of its history, the cultivation of cannabis did not stand out, at least compared to the cultivation of other illegal plants. Cannabis plantations, like coca bush or opium poppy plantations, were typically large in size, grown by local farmers in a handful of developing (producing) c...

Violence, Conflict, and World Order: Critical Conversations on State Sanctioned Justice

This is an ethnographic collection of 12 edited talks and conversations from a conference on violence, conflict, and the world order held at Eastern Kentucky University. The conference was organized by Carole Garrison, Chair of Criminal Justice and Police Studies at EKU, who arranged for video recor...

Wicked Newport: Kentucky's Sin City

Controlled by the heavy hand of the mob and fueled by government corruption, Newport evolved through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries into a notoriously robust center of criminal activity. With top political and law enforcement officials often on the take, the seedy status quo became so excess...

The Mythology of Crime and Criminal Justice

Now in its fourth edition, this widely used and superior alternative to traditional criminal justice books continues both effectively and clearly to debunk myths cited in the popular literature regarding the problems of criminality in the U.S. It serves as a solid foundation for readers to probe ben...

After the Boston Heresy Case

To go after something is to inquire into it, to be in search of it, to seek the truth about it. In this book, veteran Catholic journalist Gary Potter goes after the truth concerning one of last century s principal religious controversies, the so-called Boston Heresy Case, and its chief figure, Rev. ...

Controversies in White-Collar Crime (Controversies in Crime and Justice)

Original writings explore the issue of white-collar crime and the controversies that surround it, focusing on the vastness of state-corporate and white-collar crime, the victimization that results, and the ways these crimes affect society environmentally, politically, economically and personally.The...

Organized Crime

Organized Crime

Drugs in Society: Causes, Concepts and Control

Drugs in Society Causes, Concepts and Control: Causes, Concepts and Control

Drugs in Society: Causes, Concepts and Control

Criminal Organizations: Vice, Racketeering, and Politics in an American City

The Mythology Of Crime And Criminal Justice

Constructing Crime: Perspectives on Making News and Social Problems