Lush Life: Constructing Organized Crime in the UK

by Dick Hobbs

Lush Life: Constructing Organized Crime in the UK opens 'the box marked do not open, too difficult to deal with', in the words of one Assistant Chief Constable, to explore the contested notion of British organized crime. The first book to trace the history and policing of British organized crime, it addresses how the interlocking processes of de-industrialisation, globalisation and neo-liberalism have normalised activity that was previously the exclusive...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199668280
• ISBN13: 9780199668281
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.6"