The world is changing faster and faster, with increasing uncertainty and threat of disruption in every business and nonprofit segment. Conventional approaches to strategy development and problem solving no longer work—there is no stable industry or market equilibrium structure that we will return to “when change abates.” Most company planning processes are fantasy; market conditions are changing too quickly for arm-chair strategizing to be useful. As a consequence, many management teams ar...

Drawing on extensive life-history interviews with serious violent offenders, this book offers a unique socio-historical analysis of gang membership and gang evolution in Glasgow, Scotland’s largest city. The book chronicles the lives of young men in and around Glasgow from early childhood to present day and examines the lived experience of family, friendship, community, and crime. It demonstrates how street reputations are won and lost and how gang membership is not a single event but an e...

Drawing upon unique empirical data based on interviews with high-profile ex-offenders and experts, this book sheds new light on drug markets and gangs in the UK. The study shows how traditional methods of tackling gang violence fail to address the intertwined nature of those criminal activities which can overlap with other organised crime spheres. McLean sparks new debate on the subject, offering solutions and alternatives.

This brief sheds light on evolving drug markets and the county lines phenomenon in the British context. Drawing upon empirical research gathered in the field between 2012-2019 across two sites, Scotland’s West Coast and Merseyside in England, this book adopts a grounded approach to the drug supply model, detailing how drugs are purchased, sold and distributed at every level of the supply chain at both sites.The authors conducted interviews with practitioners, offenders, ex-offender...

For nearly twenty years, Glasgow has been coined Europe’s murder capital, and identified as having the continent’s highest drug harms. The Contemporary History of Drug-Based Organised Crime in Scotland examines converging multiple complexities that contributed to Scotland’s criminal modus operandi concentrating on drug-based organised crime.Glasgow is the most populous city in Scotland. The region is likewise responsible for a disproportionate number of the country’s crime...

Scaling Impact introduces a new and practical approach to scaling the positive impacts of research and innovation. Inspired by leading scientific and entrepreneurial innovators from across Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Middle East, this book presents a synthesis of unrivalled diversity and grounded ingenuity. The result is a different perspective on how to achieve impact that matters, and an important challenge to the predominant more-is-better paradigm of sc...

Combining a compulsive read with rigorous academic analysis, this book tells the real-life stories of drug dealers involved in county lines networks, including their methods, motives and misfortunes. Conventional wisdom surrounding county lines often portrays drugs runners as exploited victims and gang proliferation as a market-driven exercise, and suggests a business model facilitated exclusively by smart phone technology and routinely regulated by violence.Aimed at students, scho...

Consistently effective strategic problem-solving has always been a challenging goal to achieve for leaders. And whether you operate in the business, nonprofit, or policy sector, you've undoubtedly noticed that the problems you face are becoming more complex, multifaceted, and difficult.In The Imperfectionists, a team of veteran executives and strategists deliver an original and compelling examination of what sets exceptional problem solvers apart from the rest of us. In th...

Robbery can be planned or spontaneous and is a typically short, chaotic crime that is comparatively under-researched. This book transports the reader to the streets and focuses on the real-life narratives and motivations of the youth gang members and adult organized criminals immersed in this form of violence.Uniquely focusing on robberies involving drug dealers and users, this book considers the material and emotional gains and losses to offenders and victims, and offers policy re...

JINN is an action packed adventure novel set in Benghazi Libya and Houston Texas. A young Texas Tool Push working in Libya stumbles on a lost treasure of Nazi gold coins believed to be protected by evil jinn spirits putting the young man’s life in mortal danger. Romance, treachery, betrayal, actual historical events and the clash between Arab and American cultures play out in this pot boiler of a book. If you are a fan of Wilbur Smiths’ African sagas, then Jinn will be a 100% match for you...

Text-book of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology is a comprehensive and authoritative guide that delves into the principles and practices of forensic medicine and toxicology, serving as an essential resource for medical students, practitioners, and legal professionals. The book systematically covers the medico-legal aspects of death, injury, and poisoning, providing detailed explanations of post-mortem changes, identification of bodies, and the various causes and types of death, including asp...

R. J. M. Buchanan's revised guide to forensic medicine and toxicology is a practical handbook for medical students and junior practitioners confronting the legal side of medicine. It ranges across coroners' duties, suspicious deaths, post-mortem investigation, wounds, drowning, poisoning, pregnancy, infanticide, insanity, and testamentary capacity, showing how medical judgment can shape justice at every stage. The opening chapters stress the physician's civic responsibility to certify deat...