Overview
- Draws on multiple research methods to offer novel insights into homicide and organised crime
- Argues that fatal violence is used as an alternative form of criminal justice by these criminal groups
- Examines the social embeddedness of organised crime in the West Midlands
- Identifies precursors to homicide within organised crime groups
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Risk, Crime and Society (PSRCS)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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About this book
This book offers rich ethnographic and narrative accounts of men who have been engaged in serious violence and organised crime in the West Midlands of England, using several theoretical paradigms. Through case study examples, it also considers contract killers and the nefarious position that ‘hitmen’ occupy in the criminal underworld. By charting insider perspectives from retired law enforcement agents, informants, ex-military personnel and ex-offenders, this book speaks to those who have a vested interest in violence, organised crime and ethnography.
Reviews
“In Homicide and Organised Crime, Mohammed Rahman offers readers a rare glimpse inside the hidden world of extra-legal violence. Biographical case studies and rich narratives from several underworld actors shed light on the complex mechanisms behind street justice and contract killings, whilst Rahman’s own ‘dash-cam ethnography’, a research innovation, helps contextualise and reconstruct the violence discussed. In a world obsessed with sensationalised true crime stories, Rahman lets violentoffenders speak their truth, unscripted, which yields important new insights. Students and scholars of criminology will delight in this book.” (Professor James Densley, Metropolitan State University, USA)
“There is an audience for narratives of mayhem and murder. Mohammed Rahman’s book is distinctive, in that he goes beyond the spectacular and the popular to drill down into a patch of the West Midlands, England. He also connects back those local particularities to global changes and wider constructions of masculinities. Furthermore, he mirrors some of the nefarious street-level activities of the men he investigates with his own ‘dash-cam ethnography’. This allows him, and us, to ride along or just drive by” (Dr Nic Groombridge, University of South Wales, UK)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Homicide and Organised Crime
Book Subtitle: Ethnographic Narratives of Serious Violence in the Criminal Underworld
Authors: Mohammed Rahman
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Risk, Crime and Society
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16253-5
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-16252-8Published: 28 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-16253-5Published: 14 June 2019
Series ISSN: 2946-2517
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2525
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 151
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Violence and Crime, Policing, Research Methods in Criminology, Victimology, Crime Prevention