A comprehensive investigation of organized crime in Australia, this study discusses the entire history of crime on the continentfrom the forgeries and robberies of early convicts to the recent gangland slayings in Melbourne. Famous faces of Australian crime, such as Squizzy Taylor and Sydney’s East Coast Milieu, along with the con men, robbers, drug dealers, and hoodlums are featured. An examination of the role police officers, lawyers, and politicians have played and their attempts to curb criminal activities, is also included.

Gangland Australia

History

Lobez, Susanna

Morton, James

Australia & Oceania

Melbourne University Publishing

Detailed and objective, this reference documents Australia and New Zealand’s criminal activity from early colonial times through the present day. Based on newspaper accounts and court records, this comprehensive guide outlines in alphabetical order every crime and criminal in the region's recorded history. Topics include murders, cons, gang violence, drug deals, sex offenses, dock wars, and many more. The victims, police, lawyers, and judges involved in these crimes are also showcased, making this a must for crime fanatics.

Dangerous to Know: An Australasian Crime Compendium

Reference

A fast-paced examination of organized crime, this account details the exploits of an unforgettable cast of villains, crooks, and mobsters who have made up the criminal and gangland scene in Australia. Tracing the developments in and the shifting dynamics of Australia's criminal underworld from the early 1800s until the Melbourne gangland killings of recent years, this vivid and explosive reading also investigates the role of police, politicians, and lawyers who have helped and hindered the growth of criminal empires. Anyone interested in true crime will appreciate this meticulously researched chronicle.

Gangland Australia: Colonial Criminals to the Carlton Crew (Gangland series)

Victory Books

With its intake of English criminals in the 18th and 19th centuries, Sydney had a ready-made criminal class in operation. From the Razor Gang Wars of the 1920s and 1930s through the rise of the East Coast Milieu in the 1970s and the intense rivalry between outlaw motorcycle gangs in the 1980s, this account places Sydney’s criminal past under the microscope. Under examination is Sydney’s notorious crime hotspot Kings Cross as well as the role of the New South Wales police force in both helping and hindering the growth of Sydney’s criminal empires. Anyone interested in true crime will appreciate this meticulously researched chronicle.

Gangland Sydney (Gangland series)

A comprehensive investigation of organized crime in Queensland, Australia, this study heads north of the border to tell the exploits of a colorful pantheon of mobsters, shysters, club owners, drug dealers, Black Hand gangs, crooked police, and bikers throughout the last century. Beginning with the drug and sex trades of the early 1900s—and including the infamous fire at the Whiskey Au Go Go club, the explosive revelations of the Fitzgerald Inquiry, and organized crime syndicates such as Japan’s Yakuza—this account discusses these topics in forensic and fascinating detail.

Gangland Queensland (Gangland series)

Legal proceedings against a former police officer have forced parts of this book to be redacted. Bent law officers exist in every era, sabotaging the work of their colleagues and putting the community at risk. James Morton and Susanna Lobez have illustrated, in several Gangland books, that Australia almost certainly has out-ganged other countries. Now their spotlight is turned on corruption within the police services and identifying which state wins the bent cop handicap. The authors examine the problems that started with the First Fleet and spread through to the present day, looking at the trouble caused by greed, power, alcohol, sex, money, and, most recently, drugs. They compare the experience in Australia with corruption in America, England, and Hong Kong, concentrating in particular on organized corruption at the highest levels, including judges, lawyers, and politicians, through to the petty criminals who work the streets. Which state has the shadiest cops? The answer will surprise you.

Bent: Australia's Crooked Cops

Biographies & Memoirs

True Crime

Melbourne University Press

Dangerous to Know documents murders known and not so well known, conmen and their victims, street gangs of the early twentieth century, crime lords of the 1920s, dock wars of the 1970s, bikers, sex offenders, and the drug gangs of today as well as the wrongly accused and wrongly convicted. They're all here, as well as some of the police, lawyers and judges who have tried to deal with them.

Dangerous to Know Updated Edition: An Australasian Crime Compendium

Tales of the great escapees who have driven, walked, pedalled, swum or sailed away from custody. Since the arrival of the First Fleet, thousands of prisoners have escaped from prison, police stations, courts, prison vans and hospitals--even dentists' chairs. They have driven, walked, pedalled, swum or sailed away from custody. Some have killed or been killed in the process; a few have gone overseas or escaped from foreign prisons, and a handful have remained at home, undetected. Gangland- The Great Escapes is filled with tall tales of crims--Ronald Ryan, Jockey Smith, Brenden Abbott, Julie Wright and Annie Davis, and many others--who have been recaptured in minutes and those who have stayed on the run.

Gangland: The Great Escapes

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