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ORGANIZED CRIME
POLICING ILLEGAL BUSINESS ENTREPRENEURIALISM |
| By: |
Geoff Dean, Ivar Fahsing, Petter Gottschalk |
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Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0199578435 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780199578436 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
26 August, 2010 |
| Pages: |
238 |
| Description: |
This is an accessible guide for police training to help investigators understand how organized crime works, and how to tackle it, by using the conceptual framework of a business enterprise. The authors discuss each phase and where, how and when to disrupt and dismantle a criminal business activity through current policing practices and policies. |
| Synopsis: |
Organized crime in the twenty-first century is a knowledge war that poses an incalculable global threat to the world economy and harm to society - the economic and social costs are estimated at upwards of GBP20 billion a year for the UK alone (SOCA 2006/7). Organized Crime: Policing Illegal Business Entrepreneurialism offers a unique approach to the tackling of this area by exploring how it works through the conceptual framework of a business enterprise. Structured in three parts, the book progresses systematically through key areas and concepts integral to dealing effectively with the myriad contemporary forms of organised crime and provides insights on where, how and when to disrupt and dismantle a criminal business activity through current policing practices and policies. From the initial set up of a crime business through to the long term forecasting for growth and profitability, the authors dissect and analyse the different phases of the business enterprise and propose a 'Knowledge-Ma |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Oxford University Press |
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