🦃 Cozy up with autumn reads! Let our AI Librarian pick your perfect fireside book 🍁
Explore the literary world of this author
Talking with thieves, gangsters and dealers
Professor Dick Hobbs is a leading commentator on the culture of crime and criminality. East End born and bred, he is a fascinating dichotomy of the cr...
Constructing Organized Crime in the UK
An in-depth sociological, historical, and personal analysis of the concept and reality of organized crime in the UK. With interviews from thieves, dea...
A Sociological Introduction
Building on the success of the second edition, Criminology: A Sociological Introduction offers a comprehensive overview of the study of criminology, f...
Violence and Governance in the Night-time Economy
This text is an attempt to understand Britain's night-time economy, the violence that pervades it, and the bouncers whose job it is to prevent it. Bri...
Reconfiguring London for 2012 and Beyond
Often seen as the host nation's largest ever logistical undertaking, accommodating the Olympics and its attendant security infrastructure brings seism...
Legacy and Social Exclusion
The summer Olympic Games are renowned for producing the world’s biggest single-city cultural event. While the Olympics and other sport mega-events h...
Entrepreneurship, the Working Class, and Detectives in the East End of London
This is a colourful and lively - but scholarly - examination of the relationship between the cultures of the East End and the CID. The author focuses ...
Professional Crime in Modern Britain
Written by a leading commentator on the culture of crime and criminality, this is a hard-hitting and disturbing insight into the activities and attitu...
...