Mohammed Rahman is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Nottingham Trent University, UK.  Previously, he was Lecturer in Criminology at Birmingham City University.  Mohammed’s academic work concerns serious crimes — especially organised crime and gangs.  Regularly, he uses his teaching and research experiences to inform the public, media and international press about crime, harm and crime control.  In 2018, he was awarded his PhD.

• 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.