Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Homicide and Organised CrimeHistory, Homicide, Organised Crime, and Theory

Homicide and Organised Crime: History, Homicide, Organised Crime, and Theory [This chapter offers insight into post-war Birmingham, new waves of working-class masculinity, organised crime and conceptual ambiguities. Furthermore, this chapter also considers homicide broadly as well as within the context of criminal networks. It does this by drawing upon the different forms of homicide, and argues how homicide conducted by members of illicit networks in not necessarily restricted to one form or type, but in some cases a fusion of two or more. The term ‘organised crime’ has been around for over a century, however, to date there is still no set universal definition of the concept. Thus, I offer a critical definition, which I believe justifies and strengthens some of ongoing scholarly debates about organised crime. The chapter concludes by considering the keystones theories that will help make sense of violent practice within criminal groups. ] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Homicide and Organised CrimeHistory, Homicide, Organised Crime, and Theory

Download PDF
36 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/springer-journals/homicide-and-organised-crime-history-homicide-organised-crime-and-TJBBi5VAmo

References (86)

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
25 –61
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-16253-5_2
Publisher site
See Chapter on Publisher Site

Abstract

[This chapter offers insight into post-war Birmingham, new waves of working-class masculinity, organised crime and conceptual ambiguities. Furthermore, this chapter also considers homicide broadly as well as within the context of criminal networks. It does this by drawing upon the different forms of homicide, and argues how homicide conducted by members of illicit networks in not necessarily restricted to one form or type, but in some cases a fusion of two or more. The term ‘organised crime’ has been around for over a century, however, to date there is still no set universal definition of the concept. Thus, I offer a critical definition, which I believe justifies and strengthens some of ongoing scholarly debates about organised crime. The chapter concludes by considering the keystones theories that will help make sense of violent practice within criminal groups. ]

Published: Jun 15, 2019

Keywords: Birmingham; Bourdieu; Class; Consumerism; Criminal undertakers; Cultural homicide; Definition; Ego; Fatal violence; Field; Freud; Gangs; Government; Habitus; History; Homicide; Id; Industrial revolution; Industry; Kray Twins; Instrumental homicide; Law enforcement; Legislation; Masculinity; Murder; Neoliberalism; Organised crime; Peaky blinders; Psychoanalysis; Situational homicide; Special liberty; Super ego; Richardson gang; Sloggers; Theory; Ultra-realism; Working class; Violence

There are no references for this article.