This book covers organized crime groups, empirical studies of organized crime, criminal finances and money laundering, and crime prevention, gathering some of the most authoritative and well-known scholars in the field.
The contributions to this book are new chapters written in honor of Professor Dick Hobbs, on the occasion of his retirement. They reflect his powerful influence on the study of organized crime, offering a novel perspective that located organized crime in its socio-economic context, studied through prolonged ethnographic engagement. Professor Hobbs has influenced a generation of criminology researchers engaged in studying organized crime groups, and this work provides a both a look back and this influence and directions for future research.
It will be of interest to researchers in criminology and criminal justice, particularly with a focus on organized crime and financial crime, as well as those interested in corruption, crime prevention, and applications of ethnographic methods.
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Illegal Entrepreneurship, Organized Crime and Social Control is a festschrift comprised of 19 chapters written primarily by leading European scholars who have done research on organized crime and criminal markets. This volume is a welcome addition to the literature in highlighting both new insights into understanding organized crime and also the importance of the ethnographic method as a path to get there. The book should bring new attention to Hobbs work and contributions . (Jay S. Albanese, Rutgers University, clcjbooks.rutgers.edu, March, 2017)
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Part I `Organized Crime': Theoretical Perspectives, Structures and Empirical Manifestations |
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1 Towards a Theory of Organized Crime: Some Preliminary Reflections |
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2 The Ties That Bind: A Taxonomy of Associational Criminal Structures |
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3 Globalisation, Locale and Bankruptcy Fraud: A Historical Exploration |
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4 North Brabant: A Brief History of a Hotbed of Organised Crime |
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5 `Struggling, Juggling and Street Corner Hustling': The Street Economy of Newham's Black Community |
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6 `Earth, Water, Air, and Fire': Environmental Crimes, Mafia Power and Political Negligence in Calabria |
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7 Sharks in Sheep's Clothing: Modalities of Predatory and Illegal Lending in Bulgaria |
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8 Women in Criminal Market Activities: Findings from a Study in China |
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Part II Criminal Finances |
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9 The Financial Flows of Transnational Crime and Tax Fraud in OECD Countries: Some Empirical Facts |
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10 The Monty Python Flying Circus of Money Laundering and the Question of Proportionality |
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Part III Dealing with `Organized Crime' |
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11 Smuggling in the Dodecanese Under the Italian Administration |
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12 "The Big Scare": Bikers and the Construction of Organized Crime in Norway |
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13 The Innovative Containment of Organized Crime Problems in Amsterdam's Inner-City, 1996--2015 |
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14 Trafficking and the "Victim Industry" Complex |
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15 Bred and Meet: Gangs and God in East London |
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16 EU Fraud and New Member States: Is It a Case of the Curate's Egg? |
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17 Where There's Muck, There's Brass---and Class: Financial Market Regulation and Public Policy |
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Part IV Dick Hobbs' Influence on Theory and Methods |
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18 "Keeping It Real": Dick Hobbs' Legacy of Classic Ethnography and the New Ultra-realist Agenda |
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19 "In There Like a Dirty Shirt": Reflections on Fieldwork in the Police Organization |
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Georgios A. Antonopoulos obtained his doctorate from the University of Durham in 2006. He is currently Professor of Criminology at the School of Social Sciences, Business and Law of Teesside University. His teaching and research interest include the criminality, criminalization and victimization of minority ethnic groups, qualitative research methods, and organized crime/illegal markets. He is an associate of the Cross-Border Crime Colloquium, associate editor of the journal Trends in Organized Crime (published by Springer), and member of the editorial boards of the journals Global Crime, Journal of Financial Crime, Journal of Money Laundering Control and the British Journal of Criminology. In 2009 he won the European Society of Criminology Young Criminologist Award. In 2014 he was executive director of the International Association for the Study of Organized Crime (IASOC).
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