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Illegal Entrepreneurship, Organized Crime and Social Control

Essays in Honor of Professor Dick Hobbs

  • Explores organized crime networks from a socio-economic perspective
  • Provides overview of financial crime, corruption and crime prevention
  • Explains applications for ethnographic research methods
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Studies of Organized Crime (SOOC, volume 14)

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
  2. Criminal Finances

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 141-141
    2. The Monty Python Flying Circus of Money Laundering and the Question of Proportionality

      • Petrus van Duyne, Jackie Harvey, Liliya Gelemerova
      Pages 161-186
  3. Dealing with ‘Organized Crime’

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 187-187
    2. Smuggling in the Dodecanese Under the Italian Administration

      • Filippo Marco Espinoza, Georgios Papanicolaou
      Pages 189-203
    3. Trafficking and the “Victim Industry” Complex

      • Paraskevi S. Bouklis
      Pages 237-263
    4. Bred and Meet: Gangs and God in East London

      • Gary Armstrong, James Rosbrook-Thompson
      Pages 265-289

About this book

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, andapplications of ethnographic methods. 

Reviews

“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)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Teesside University, Middlesbrough, United Kingdom

    Georgios A. Antonopoulos

About the editor

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). 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Illegal Entrepreneurship, Organized Crime and Social Control

  • Book Subtitle: Essays in Honor of Professor Dick Hobbs

  • Editors: Georgios A. Antonopoulos

  • Series Title: Studies of Organized Crime

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31608-6

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-31606-2Published: 27 May 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81077-5Published: 30 May 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-31608-6Published: 16 June 2016

  • Series ISSN: 1571-5493

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 360

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Financial Law/Fiscal Law

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eBook USD 84.99
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  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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