Homicide and Organised Crime Ethnographic Narratives of Serious Violence in the Criminal Underworld /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Rahman, Mohammed (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Σειρά: Palgrave Studies in Risk, Crime and Society
• Θέματα: Violence.; Crime.; Police.; Criminology.; Research.; Victimology.; Crime prevention.; Violence and Crime.; Policing.; Research Methods in Criminology.; Crime Prevention.

This book offers rich ethnographic and narrative accounts of men who have been engaged in serious violence and organised crime in the West Midlands, England, drawing on several theoretical paradigms. Through case study examples, it considers contract killers and the nefarious position that 'hit...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction and Methodology
• 2. History, Homicide, Organised Crime and Theory
• 3. Contract Killers and Glocal Organised Crime: A Case Study of the 'Baby-Faced' Assassin
• 4. Drugs, Guns and Organised Crime: A Case Study of the Journeyman Hitman
• 5. Violent Men: Trauma, Humiliation and Scenarios of Harm
• 6. Homicide and Organised Crime in Birmingham, West Midlands: Future Directions and Closing Comments.