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

Author
Hobbs, Dick, 1951-
Published
Oxford : Oxford Univ Press, 2013.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Description
xvi, 309 pages ; 23 cm.

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Machine generated contents note: 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 -- Dave Peters -- `Doing Well': Brits Abroad -- Going Missing -- El Plunger -- Jack Partner -- Glocal Crime -- Smoking and the Bandits -- An Ambiguous Trade -- 11.Conclusion: A Community of Practice -- Police and Precursors -- Old Wine in New Suburbs -- Extortionate Platforms -- Over the Pavement and across the Entrepreneurial Divide -- Cosmopolitan Community: Crime as an Inclusive Morality -- A Community of Practice -- Unlicensed Capitalism -- Banal Entitlement.
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ISBN
9780199668281
0199668280
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [253]-291) and index.
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