Dick Hobbs is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Criminology Centre at the University of Essex, and Professor of Sociology at the University of Western Sydney. He previously held Chairs at the University of Durham and the London School of Economics. An ethnographer by trade, he is sceptical of the rise of criminology and has published widely on the sociologies of deviance, of East London, organized and professional crime, the night-time economy and the 2012 Olympics. His previous publications include Doing the Business (Oxford, 1988), Bad Business (Oxford, 1995), and Bouncers (Oxford, 2003 with Philip Hadfield, Stuart Lister and Simon Winlow). He is currently working on a number of publications based upon the 2012 London Olympics.

This is an intense, serious, theoretically engaging and timely book whose empirical veracity introduces the reader to a convincing series of interlocking narratives that would do justice to a thriller. The scholarly breadth and ambition of this book alone makes it exceptional

• 1. Introduction: Dubious Ideologues and Illegal Entrepreneurs ; 2. A Malady of Modernity: Constructing Organised Crime in the UK ; 3. Malignant Cosmopolitanism: Precursors of Organised Crime ; 4. Mutant Proletarians: Class and Territoriality ; 5. The Houses In-Between: The Neighbourhood Firm on a Shifting Terrain ; 6. Small Faces: Entrepreneurial Youth and the State of Dogtown ; 7. Populating the Underworld: Armed Robbery ; 8. The Same Money?: Locating the Entrepreneurial Habitas ; 9. A Sense of Order: Violence, Rumour and Gossip ; 10. The Cosmopolitan Criminal ; 11. Concluding: A Community of Practice

Dick Hobbs is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Criminology Centre at the University of Essex, and Professor of Sociology at the University of Western Sydney. He previously held Chairs at the University of Durham and the London School of Economics. An ethnographer by trade, he is sceptical of the rise of criminology and has published widely on the sociologies of deviance, of East London, organized and professional crime, the night-time economy and the 2012 Olympics. His previous publications include Doing the Business (Oxford, 1988), Bad Business (Oxford, 1995), and Bouncers (Oxford, 2003 with Philip Hadfield, Stuart Lister and Simon Winlow). He is currently working on a number of publications based upon the 2012 London Olympics.

This is an intense, serious, theoretically engaging and timely book whose empirical veracity introduces the reader to a convincing series of interlocking narratives that would do justice to a thriller. The scholarly breadth and ambition of this book alone makes it exceptional

• 1. Introduction: Dubious Ideologues and Illegal Entrepreneurs ; 2. A Malady of Modernity: Constructing Organised Crime in the UK ; 3. Malignant Cosmopolitanism: Precursors of Organised Crime ; 4. Mutant Proletarians: Class and Territoriality ; 5. The Houses In-Between: The Neighbourhood Firm on a Shifting Terrain ; 6. Small Faces: Entrepreneurial Youth and the State of Dogtown ; 7. Populating the Underworld: Armed Robbery ; 8. The Same Money?: Locating the Entrepreneurial Habitas ; 9. A Sense of Order: Violence, Rumour and Gossip ; 10. The Cosmopolitan Criminal ; 11. Concluding: A Community of Practice

Dick Hobbs is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Criminology Centre at the University of Essex, and Professor of Sociology at the University of Western Sydney. He previously held Chairs at the University of Durham and the London School of Economics. An ethnographer by trade, he is sceptical of the rise of criminology and has published widely on the sociologies of deviance, of East London, organized and professional crime, the night-time economy and the 2012 Olympics. His previous publications include Doing the Business (Oxford, 1988), Bad Business (Oxford, 1995), and Bouncers (Oxford, 2003 with Philip Hadfield, Stuart Lister and Simon Winlow). He is currently working on a number of publications based upon the 2012 London Olympics.

This is an intense, serious, theoretically engaging and timely book whose empirical veracity introduces the reader to a convincing series of interlocking narratives that would do justice to a thriller. The scholarly breadth and ambition of this book alone makes it exceptional

• 1. Introduction: Dubious Ideologues and Illegal Entrepreneurs ; 2. A Malady of Modernity: Constructing Organised Crime in the UK ; 3. Malignant Cosmopolitanism: Precursors of Organised Crime ; 4. Mutant Proletarians: Class and Territoriality ; 5. The Houses In-Between: The Neighbourhood Firm on a Shifting Terrain ; 6. Small Faces: Entrepreneurial Youth and the State of Dogtown ; 7. Populating the Underworld: Armed Robbery ; 8. The Same Money?: Locating the Entrepreneurial Habitas ; 9. A Sense of Order: Violence, Rumour and Gossip ; 10. The Cosmopolitan Criminal ; 11. Concluding: A Community of Practice