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Lush life : constructing organized crime in the UK
Title:
Lush life : constructing organized crime in the UK
Author:
Hobbs, Dick, 1951- author.
ISBN:
9780191760563

9780191645266
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xvi, 309 pages)
Series:
Clarendon studies in criminology

Clarendon studies in criminology.
Contents:
Dubious ideologues and illegal entrepreneurs -- A malady of modernity : constructing organized crime in the UK -- Malignant cosmopolitanism : precursors of organized crime -- Mutant proletarians : class and territoriality -- The houses in-between : the neighbourhood firm on a shifting terrain -- Small faces : entrepreneurial youth and the state of dogtown -- Populating the underworld : armed robbery -- The same money? : locating the entrepreneurial habitus -- A sense of order : violence, rumour and gossip -- The cosmopolitan criminal -- Conclusion. A community of practice.
Abstract:
An in-depth sociological, historical, and personal analysis of the concept and reality of organized crime in the UK. With interviews from thieves, dealers, and criminal entrepreneurs the book explores the flexible nature of the criminal market the constructed nature of the notion of organized crime, and the normalization of criminality.
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