Organized 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 ยฌยฃ20 billion a year for the UK alone (SOCA 2006/7)….
Organized Crime: Policing Illegal Business Entrepreneurialism offers an approach to the tackling of this area by exploring how it works through the conceptual framework of a business enterprise.
Structured in three parts, the book progresses systematically through key areas and concepts integral to dealing effectively with the myriad contemporary forms of organised crime and provides insights on where, how and when to disrupt and dismantle a criminal business activity through current policing practices and policies. From the initial set up of a crime business through to the long term forecasting for growth and profitability, the authors dissect and analyse the different phases of the business enterprise and propose a ‘Knowledge-Managed Policing’ (KMP) approach to criminal entrepreneurialism.
About the authors
Geoff Dean, Associate Professor at the School of Justice, Faculty of Law, Queensland University of Technology, Ivar Fahsing, Assistant Professor and Detective Superintendent at the Norwegian Police University College, and Petter Gottschalk, Professor of Knowledge Management, the Norwegian School of Management.
Chapters
Business of Crime
1: Entrepreneurialism of Organised Crime
2: Criminal Enterprises, Markets and Industries
Crime Business Phases
3: Establishing Crime Business
4: Expanding Crime Business
5: Consolidating Crime Business
6: Positioning Crime Business
Policing Crime Business
7: Knowledge-Managed Policing: Principles and Practices
8: Policing Organised Illegal Business Entrepreneurialism
9: Future Policing of ‘Organised Crime’.
Organized Crime: Policing Illegal Business Entrepreneurialism, by Geoff Dean, Ivar Fahsing, and Petter Gottschalk. Published 2010 by Oxford University Press, 240 pages, ISBN 978-0-19-957843-6. Paperback, £39.99. Visit –
