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, andapplications of ethnographic methods. 

IntroductionGeorgios A. Antonopoulos

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

1.Towards a theory of organized crime: some preliminary reflectionsLetizia Paoli

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

3.Globalisation, Locale and Bankruptcy Fraud: A Historical ExplorationMike Levi

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

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

6.'Earth, Water, Air, and Fire': Environmental Crimes, Mafia Power and Political Negligence in CalabriaAnna Sergi & Nigel South

7.Sharks in sheep's clothing - modalities of predatory and illegal lending in BulgariaAnton Kojouharov & Atanas Rusev

8.Women in Criminal Market Activities: Findings from a Study in ChinaAnqi 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 ProportionalityPetrus van Duyne, Jackie Harvey and Liliya Gelemerova

Part III - Dealing with 'Organized Crime'

11.Smuggling in the Dodecanese under the Italian AdministrationFilippo Marco Espinoza & Georgios Papanicolaou

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

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

14.Trafficking and the "Victim Industry" ComplexParaskevi S. Bouklis

15.Bred and Meet: Gangs and God in East LondonGary 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 policyNicholas 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 agendaSteve Hall and Simon Winlow

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

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
, J
ournal 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).