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- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright
- © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
- ISBN
- 978-3-030-16252-8
- Pages
- 89 –108
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-16253-5_4
- Publisher site
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Abstract
[This chapter explores the 2010 assassination of Richard Deakin that was executed by David Harrison in Chasetown, West Midlands. The case study uses this murder to consider those contract killings which have been described as the work of ‘Journeymen’ hitmen (MacIntyre et al. in The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice 53: 325–340, 2014). In the previous chapter, I stated that there has been little academic research about ‘hitmen’ and the phenomenon of ‘contract killing’, with Schlesinger (Journal of Forensic Science 46: 295, 2001) forced to describe this form of murder as a ‘poorly understood type of homicide’. In this chapter, the tragic murder of Richard is used to reflect on criminal interactions in organised crime within the West Midlands and the nexus that organised crime has with fatal violence.]
Published: Jun 15, 2019
Keywords: Case study; Contract killing; David Harrison; Drugs; Entrepreneurship; Guns; Hitman/Hitmen; History; Homicide; Interviews; John Anslow; Journeyman; Murder; Narratives; Nexis; Organised crime; Richard Deakin; Typology; Violence; West Midlands