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About Mark Lauchs
NBN Episodes hosted by Mark:
April 12, 2019
Mafias on the Move
Tonight we are talking with Federico Varese about his new book Mafias on the Move: How Organized Crime Conquers New Territories (Princeton University …
February 13, 2015
Deception
Mark Standen was a hero to drug enforcement police. Not only was he a great guy but he was an extremely effective police officer. Unfortunately, he al…
October 9, 2014
Drugs on the Dark Net
I am old enough to realise that we have entered a science fiction world in which the old systems of the market place are being sidestepped by new tech…
September 8, 2014
Organized Crime in Chicago
Chicago would be one of the first places that people think of when the topic of organized crime is raised. Al Capone made the city famous during prohi…
August 8, 2014
The Way of the Knife
There are many movies about evil CIA agents assassinating supposed enemies of the US. Those who saw the latest Captain America movie will have witness…
July 1, 2014
Mafia Republic
Mafia Republic: Italy's Criminal Curse (Sceptre, 2013) is the second book by John Dickie on the history of the three organized crime groups from South…
March 29, 2014
Thai Stick
Reading Peter Maguire and Mike Ritter's book Thai Stick: Surfers, Scammers and the Untold Story of the Marijuana Trade (Columbia University Press, 201…
February 6, 2014
Patched
Jarrod Gilbert is very lucky that he comes from a country the size of New Zealand. With only 4 million people he could carry out a project that would …
January 31, 2014
Deconstructing Organized Crime
Joseph Albini and Jeffrey S. McIllwain, Deconstructing Organized Crime: An Historical and Theoretical Study (MacFarlane, 2012) is not, as some academi…
October 25, 2013
Counterstrike
There are many books about the war against Al Qaeda. Most of these focus on counter-terrorism or counter insurgency military tactics or espionage oper…
September 20, 2013
Lush Life
There is a fascinating area of study of how communities around the world realized there was such a concept as organized crime. This topic is driven by…
September 10, 2013
German Jihad
I have read quite a few books on terrorism but always from an English language perspective. This has meant that I was missing the alternative stories …
August 19, 2013
El Narco
Today I spoke to Ioan Grillo about his book El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency (Bloomsbury, 2012). This book is an excellent introduction t…
June 19, 2013
They Wished they were Honest
Anyone who studies police corruption will be aware of the Knapp Commission that examined allegations of police corruption in New York City in the 1970…
April 26, 2013
Lone Wolf Terrorism
It was timely to record this interview just after the Boston Bombing. Lone Wolf terrorists are individuals operating outside organized groups. If the …
April 17, 2013
Gangster Squad
Gangster Squad (St. Martin's Press, 2012) the book is not Gangster Squad the movie. One is a detailed and thoroughly researched account of organized c…
April 9, 2013
Mafia Brotherhoods
John Dickie is an historian of Italian organized crime who has a fairly unique perspective as he writes in English but is able to read the Italian sou…
March 28, 2013
The Fertile Soil of Jihad
Patrick Dunleavy is the author of The Fertile Soil of Jihad: Terrorism's Prison Connection (Potomac Books, 2011). He provides us with a fascinating in…
March 7, 2013
Cartels at War
The violence in Mexico is receiving a lot of media attention internationally. Paul Rexton Kan has produced a book that provides us with a comprehensiv…
November 13, 2012
The Fix
Today we are talking to Declan Hill about his new book The Fix: Soccer and Organized Crime (McClelland & Stewart, 2010). Most of my research focus…
October 23, 2012
Terrorism and Counter-Intelligence
Today we talked to Blake Mobley about his new book Terrorism and Counter-Intelligence: How Terrorist Groups Elude Detection (Columbia University Press…
October 16, 2012
State Violence, Collusion and the Troubles
Today we spoke to Maurice Punch about his new book: State Violence, Collusion and the Troubles: Counter Insurgency, Government Deviance and Northern I…
September 5, 2012
The Art of Coercion
Today we have been talking to Antonio Guistozzi about his new book The Art of Coercion: The Primitive Accumulation and Management of Coercive Power (H…
July 9, 2012
Suicide Bombing
Suicide Bombings is a Routledge Shortcuts version of Riaz Hassan's longer book Life as a Weapon: The Global Rise of Suicide Bombings (Routledge, 2011)…