Lush life : constructing organized crime in the UK / Dick Hobbs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hobbs, Dick, 1951-

Series:

Clarendon Studies in Criminology

Clarendon studies in criminology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Organized crime--Great Britain.

Organized crime.

Gangs--Great Britain.

Gangs.

Organized crime--Great Britain--Prevention.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Abbreviations""; ""1. Introduction: Dubious Ideologues and Illegal Entrepreneurs""; ""Making a Case""; ""The Cache of Association""; ""Lush Life""; ""Personal Archives: Being Lucky""; ""2. A Malady of Modernity: Constructing Organized Crime in the UK""; ""Here Comes the Nice""; ""Elephants with Tentacles: You Will Know It When You See It""; ""A Global Orthodoxy""; ""Security in the Shadow of the Skyscraper""; ""Inventing Organized Crime in Europe""; ""The Normal Run of Things""; ""Mapping and Ordering""; ""Outside of Normal Bounds""

""Conclusion: On the Global Beat""""3. Malignant Cosmopolitanism: Precursors of Organized Crime""; ""Precursors""; ""Beyond the Pale""; ""Chinatown: Sex, Dope, and the Other""; ""French Lessons: Inter-war Soho""; ""Vice Lords? The Messina Brothers""; ""Conclusion: An Exclusionary Logic""; ""4. Mutant Proletarians: Class and Territoriality""; ""Marquee Criminals""; ""Racing Certainties: The Sabinis""; ""Thieves� Paradise: London in Wartime""; ""Going up West""; ""The Low Spark of High-heeled Boys: The Krays""; ""The Richardson Brothers: Scrap and Metal""

""London Boys: Making an Underworld""""Bad Manors""; ""A Special Competence""; ""5. The Houses in Between: The Neighbourhood Firm on a Shifting Terrain""; ""The Empty Kennel""; ""Once Upon a Time in Dogtown""; ""The Political Economy of the Family Firm""; ""Shifting Terrain""; ""Suburban Life""; ""Peripheral Vision""; ""The Wrong Un""; ""Chez Cash""; ""6. Small Faces: Entrepreneurial Youth and the State of Dogtown""; ""Clean Living under Difficult Circumstances: The British Orthodoxy""; ""Steve: On and On""; ""The State of Dogtown""; ""The People�s Game""; ""Gang UK""

""�Let�s go get paid� (Sullivan 1989: 163)""""One for the Money""; ""Buy to Let""; ""Enter the Dragon: Neoliberal Related""; ""7. Populating the Underworld: Armed Robbery""; ""Armed Robbery""; ""Craft""; ""Enter the Blagger""; ""Talking and Walking: Supergrasses""; ""Wining and Dining: Robbery as Subculture""; ""Big Hits""; ""Decline""; ""Fantasy and Innovation""; ""8. The Same Money?: Locating the Entrepreneurial Habitus""; ""Miller�s Tale""; ""Cascading Enterprise""; ""Traffickers""; ""Team Games: Chris�s Tale""; ""The Obvious Distinction of Price""; ""Conforming to the Milieu""

""Fortune�s Always Hiding: Dud""""9. A Sense of Order: Violence, Rumour, and Gossip""; ""Violence: Punching Above Weight""; ""The Nail Banger""; ""Narratives of Inaction: Criminal Gossip""; ""A Rumoured Order""; ""Benny and the Trojan Container""; ""Reefer Madness""; ""Norman the Dog Killer""; ""Some Sort of Mastermind: Jim, the Quantitative Easer""; ""Conclusion: A Rumour of Order""; ""10. The Cosmopolitan Criminal""; ""Mapping Crime, Class, and Ethnicity""; ""Vernacular Cosmopolitanism""; ""Pirates""; ""Cosmopolitan Leisure: Queen�s Club""; ""A Turk on the Firm""

""Empire of the Sun: Impetigo Bay""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-176056-0

0-19-164526-5

OCLC:

846652363