Bøger af Michael Levi

This is an updated guide to the range of drugs commonly unused in the treatment of psychiatric disorders

The world of crime demonology once seemed so simple. There was the Underworld, consisting of full-time criminals emanating principally from the ΓÇÿdangerous classesΓÇÖ who, depending on particular conditions, might form ΓÇÿorganised crimeΓÇÖ groups ranging from Mafias to looser collaborative networks. At the other end of the social spectrum there was the primarily law-abiding Upperworld, whose elite black sheep might occasionally stray. Sutherland sought to puncture this bifurcated model intellectually by his stress on criminality as learned behaviour and assertion that white-collar crime was ΓÇÿorganisedΓÇÖ crime. From Libor manipulation to international bribery, from corporate fraud to money laundering, the concept of white-collar crime incorporates a diverse array of criminal activities, all of which usually involve deliberate deception or dishonesty to obtain an advantage, usually financial. However, the organisation of such criminal phenomena remains intellectually under-conceptualised. This book reconceptualises the debate around white-collar crime, providing an advanced analytical framework for comprehensively understanding how such crimes are organised, why they are organised as they are, and the key factors and conditions that shape their ΓÇÿorganisationΓÇÖ over time and in particular places.

Levi takes us inside nuclear terrorism and behind the decisions a terrorist leader would confront in pursuing a nuclear plot. He shows how a defense integrating weapon and materials security, law enforcement, intelligence, border controls, diplomacy, and the military can compound the possibility that nuclear terrorists will fail.

Analyzes how and why people become involved in long-firm fraud; the links between long-firm fraud and other crimes; and the links between bankruptcy fraudsters and other criminals. It also analyzes the techniques that fraudsters use; and the relationships that exist within the operational world of the long-firm fraudster.

Covers various classes of drugs, and for each individual drug, provides the principle mode of action, indications and adverse effects. This book includes 35 peer-reviewed clinical vignettes, focussing on psychopharmacological treatments which play a major part in management. It is useful for junior hospital psychiatrists and general practitioners.

A study aid for junior hospital psychiatrists, general practitioners and medical students, psychiatric nurses, psychiatric social workers, psychiatric occupational therapists and clinical psychologists.