This book provides a short, comprehensive and accessible introduction to Ultra-Realism: a unique and radical school of criminological thought that has been developed by the authors over a number of years. After first outlining existing schools of thought, their major intellectual flaws and their und[...]

This study builds on first-hand experiences of working among bouncers and criminals to provide an analysis of male identity in the world of organized crime. Setting individual criminal careers in a global context, the book looks at the changing meanings and motivations of criminality.[...]