Illegal Entrepreneurship, Organized Crime and Social Control

Georgios A. Antonopoulos obtained his doctorate from the University of Durham in 2006. He is currently Professor of Criminology at the School of Social Sciences, Business and Law of Teesside University. His teaching and research interest include the criminality, criminalization and victimization of minority ethnic groups, qualitative research methods, and ‘organized crime’/illegal markets. He is an associate of the Cross-Border Crime Colloquium, associate editor of the journal Trends in Organized Crime (published by Springer), and member of the editorial boards of the journals Global Crime, Journal of Financial Crime, Journal of Money Laundering Control and the British Journal of Criminology. In 2009 he won the European Society of Criminology Young Criminologist Award. In 2014 he was executive director of the International Association for the Study of Organized Crime (IASOC).

“Illegal Entrepreneurship, Organized Crime and Social Control is a festschrift comprised of 19 chapters written primarily by leading European scholars who have done research on organized crime and criminal markets. … This volume … is a welcome addition to the literature in highlighting both new insights into understanding organized crime and also the importance of the ethnographic method as a path to get there. The book should bring new attention to Hobbs’ work and contributions … .” (Jay S. Albanese, Rutgers University, clcjbooks.rutgers.edu, March, 2017)

• IntroductionGeorgios A. AntonopoulosPart I – ‘Organized crime’: Theoretical perspectives, structures and empirical manifestations1.Towards a theory of organized crime: some preliminary reflectionsLetizia Paoli2.The Ties that Bind: A Taxonomy of Associational Criminal Structures Klaus von Lampe3.Globalisation, Locale and Bankruptcy Fraud: A Historical ExplorationMike Levi4.North Brabant: A Brief History of a Hotbed of Organized CrimeToine Spapens5.'Struggling, Juggling & Street Corner Hustling': The street economy of Newham's Black communityKenny Monrose6.‘Earth, Water, Air, and Fire’: Environmental Crimes, Mafia Power and Political Negligence in CalabriaAnna Sergi & Nigel South7.Sharks in sheep’s clothing – modalities of predatory and illegal lending in BulgariaAnton Kojouharov & Atanas Rusev8.Women in Criminal Market Activities: Findings from a Study in ChinaAnqi Shen & Georgios A. AntonopoulosPart II – Criminal Finances9.The Financial Flows of Transnational Crime and Tax Fraud in OECD Countries: Some Empirical Facts10.The Monty Python Flying Circus of Money Laundering and the Question of ProportionalityPetrus van Duyne, Jackie Harvey and Liliya GelemerovaPart III - Dealing with ‘Organized Crime’11.Smuggling in the Dodecanese under the Italian AdministrationFilippo Marco Espinoza & Georgios Papanicolaou12.‘The big scare’: Bikers and the construction of organized crime in NorwayPaul Larsson13.The innovative containment of organized crime problems in Amsterdam’s inner-city, 1996-2015Cyrille Fijnaut14.Trafficking and the “Victim Industry” ComplexParaskevi S. Bouklis15.Bred and Meet: Gangs and God in East LondonGary Armstrong & James Rosbrook-Thompson16.EU Fraud & New Member States – Is it a case of the curate’s egg?Brendan Quirke17.Where there’s muck, there’s brass – and class: Financial market regulation and public policyNicholas DornPart IV – Dick Hobbs’ Influence on Theory and Methods18.‘Keeping It Real’: Dick Hobbs’ legacy of classic ethnography and the new ultra-realist agendaSteve Hall and Simon Winlow19.‘In there like a dirty shirt’: Reflections on fieldwork in the police organizationJames Sheptycki