Organized crime : policing illegal business entrepreneurialism
Dean, GeoffAuthor
Fahsing, IvarContributor
Gottschalk, PetterContributor
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2010.
Organised crime in the twenty-first century is a knowledge war that poses an incalculable global threat to the world economy and harm to society - the economic and social costs are estimated at upwards of £20 billion a year for the UK alone (SOCA 2006/7). This book offers an approach to the tackling of this area by exploring how it works through the conceptual framework of a business enterprise.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Organised crime in the twenty-first century is a knowledge war that poses an incalculable global threat to the world economy and harm to society - the economic and social costs are estimated at upwards of £20 billion a year for the UK alone (SOCA 2006/7). This book offers an approach to the tackling of this area by exploring how it works through the conceptual framework of a business enterprise.
Description based on print version record.
Entrepreneurialism of organized crime -- Criminal enterprises, markets, and industries -- Establishing the crime business -- Expanding the crime business -- Consolidating the crime business -- Positioning the crime business -- Knowledge-managed policing : principles and practices -- Policing criminal businesses -- Future policing of "organized crime."
Organized crime
Entrepreneurship
Business enterprises
Organized crime investigation
Commercial crimes
Social Sciences
Criminology