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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 10 January 2013
- ISBN 9780199668281
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages328 pages
- Size 150x222x22 mm
- Weight 518 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
An in depth sociological, historical and personal analysis of the concept and reality of organised 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 organised crime, and the normalisation of criminality.
MoreLong description:
Lush Life: Constructing Organized Crime in the UK opens 'the box marked do not open, too difficult to deal with', in the words of one Assistant Chief Constable, to explore the contested notion of British organized crime. The first book to trace the history and policing of British organized crime, it addresses how the interlocking processes of de-industrialisation, globalisation and neo-liberalism have normalised activity that was previously the exclusive domain of professional criminals.
With both historical and sociological analyses, informed by the author's long term connection to an ethnographic site called 'Dogtown', a composite of several overlapping neighbourhoods in East London, this book critically addresses clichés such as criminal underworlds and the notion of the criminal firm. It considers the precursors to British organized crime, as well as the careers of famous crime families such as the Krays and the Richardsons, alongside the emergence of specialised law enforcement institutions to deal with this newly discovered threat. It also focuses on the various ways in which violence functions within organised crime, the role of rumour in formulating order within crime networks, the social construction of organised crime, the development of the cosmopolitan criminal and the all-inclusive nature of the contemporary criminal community of practice. Permeating throughout is a discussion of the flexible nature of the criminal market, the constructed nature of the notion of organised crime, and the normalisation of criminality.
Underpinned by rich, context-specific examples, case studies, stories, and other qualitative evidence based on ethnographic research and interviews, Lush Life follows on from the author's work on normal crime (Doing the Business), and professional crime (Bad Business).
This is an intense, serious, theoretically engaging and timely book whose empirical veracity introduces the reader to a convincing series of interlocking narratives that would do justice to a thriller. The scholarly breadth and ambition of this book alone makes it exceptional
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Dubious Ideologues and Illegal Entrepreneurs
A Malady of Modernity: Constructing Organised Crime in the UK
Malignant Cosmopolitanism: Precursors of Organised 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 Habitas
A Sense of Order: Violence, Rumour and Gossip
The Cosmopolitan Criminal
Concluding: A Community of Practice
