The concept of professional crime enjoys a certain ambiguity within academic and popular culture, often overlapping with studies of organized crime, white-collar crime and, more recently, related sub-groups such as drugs and youth gangs. This book sets out to define the centrality of the concept, and unravel its ambiguous connotations. Research into the field poses problems, since professional criminals operate in an environment that thrives on its ability to avoid exposure. This volume utilizes a range of sources, ...
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The concept of professional crime enjoys a certain ambiguity within academic and popular culture, often overlapping with studies of organized crime, white-collar crime and, more recently, related sub-groups such as drugs and youth gangs. This book sets out to define the centrality of the concept, and unravel its ambiguous connotations. Research into the field poses problems, since professional criminals operate in an environment that thrives on its ability to avoid exposure. This volume utilizes a range of sources, including ethnography, life histories, oral histories, biographies, autobiographies and journalistic accounts. It stresses the need to provide a structural frame for the activities of professional criminals for, like all economic actors, they operate within a specific cultural milieu that is defined and framed by a coalition of historical precedents.
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Good. Size: 7x1x10; No dust jacket. Ex-library book with typical stickers and stampings. Priority Mail is available on this item. No international shipping.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. Book contains pencil markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Library sticker on front cover. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 1000grams, ISBN: 1855214148.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 1000grams, ISBN: 1855214148.
