Georgios A. Antonopoulos obtained his doctorate from the University of Durham in 2006. He is currently Professor of Criminology at the School of Social Sciences, Business and Law of Teesside University. His teaching and research interest include the criminality, criminalization and victimization of minority ethnic groups, qualitative research methods, and 'organized crime'/illegal markets. He is an associate of the Cross-Border Crime Colloquium, associate editor of the journal Trends in Organized Crime (published by Springer), and member of the editorial boards of the journals Global Crime, Journal of Financial Crime, Journal of Money Laundering Control and the British Journal of Criminology. In 2009 he won the European Society of Criminology Young Criminologist Award. In 2014 he was executive director of the International Association for the Study of Organized Crime (IASOC). 

Introduction

Georgios A. Antonopoulos

Part I - 'Organized crime': Theoretical perspectives, structures and empirical manifestations

1.Towards a theory of organized crime: some preliminary reflections

Letizia Paoli

2.The Ties that Bind: A Taxonomy of Associational Criminal Structures

Klaus von Lampe

3.Globalisation, Locale and Bankruptcy Fraud: A Historical Exploration

Mike Levi

4.North Brabant: A Brief History of a Hotbed of Organized Crime

Toine Spapens

5.'Struggling, Juggling & Street Corner Hustling': The street economy of Newham's Black community

Kenny Monrose

6.'Earth, Water, Air, and Fire': Environmental Crimes, Mafia Power and Political Negligence in Calabria

Anna Sergi & Nigel South

7.Sharks in sheep's clothing - modalities of predatory and illegal lending in Bulgaria

Anton Kojouharov & Atanas Rusev

8.Women in Criminal Market Activities: Findings from a Study in China

Anqi Shen & Georgios A. Antonopoulos

Part II - Criminal Finances

9.The Financial Flows of Transnational Crime and Tax Fraud in OECD Countries: Some Empirical Facts

10.The Monty Python Flying Circus of Money Laundering and the Question of Proportionality

Petrus van Duyne, Jackie Harvey and Liliya Gelemerova

Part III - Dealing with 'Organized Crime'

11.Smuggling in the Dodecanese under the Italian Administration

Filippo Marco Espinoza & Georgios Papanicolaou

12.'The big scare': Bikers and the construction of organized crime in Norway

Paul Larsson

13.The innovative containment of organized crime problems in Amsterdam's inner-city, 1996-2015

Cyrille Fijnaut

14.Trafficking and the "Victim Industry" Complex

Paraskevi S. Bouklis

15.Bred and Meet: Gangs and God in East London

Gary Armstrong & James Rosbrook-Thompson

16.EU Fraud & New Member States - Is it a case of the curate's egg?

Brendan Quirke

17.Where there's muck, there's brass - and class: Financial market regulation and public policy

Nicholas Dorn

Part IV - Dick Hobbs' Influence on Theory and Methods

18.'Keeping It Real': Dick Hobbs' legacy of classic ethnography and the new ultra-realist agenda

Steve Hall and Simon Winlow

19.'In there like a dirty shirt': Reflections on fieldwork in the police organization

James Sheptycki

This book covers organized crime groups, empirical studies of organized crime, criminal finances and money laundering, and crime prevention, gathering some of the most authoritative and well-known scholars in the field. 
The contributions to this book are new chapters written in honor of Professor Dick Hobbs, on the occasion of his retirement. They reflect his powerful influence on the study of organized crime, offering a novel perspective that located organized crime in its socio-economic context, studied through prolonged ethnographic engagement. Professor Hobbs has influenced a generation of criminology researchers engaged in studying organized crime groups, and this work provides a both a look back and this influence and directions for future research.

It will be of interest to researchers in criminology and criminal justice, particularly with a focus on organized crime and financial crime, as well as those interested in corruption, crime prevention, and applications of ethnographic methods.