Organized crime [electronic resource] : policing illegal business entrepreneurialism / Geoff Dean, Ivar Fahsing and Petter Gottschalk.
Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010Description: 1 online resource (xx, 216 p.) : ill.ISBN: 9780191807268.Subject(s): Organized crime | Commercial crimes | Organized crime -- Prevention | True Crime | Social services & welfare, criminologyAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780199578436DDC classification: 364.106 Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: Organised 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 £20 billion a year for the UK alone (SOCA 2006/7). This book offers an approach to the tackling of this area by exploring how it works through the conceptual framework of a business enterprise.Item type | Current library | Class number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Organised 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 £20 billion a year for the UK alone (SOCA 2006/7). This book offers an approach to the tackling of this area by exploring how it works through the conceptual framework of a business enterprise.
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Description based on print version record.