Organized Crime: Policing Illegal Business Entrepreneurialism
Geoff Dean, Ivar Fahsing, and Petter Gottschalk
Abstract
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. 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 ... More
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. 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 book dissects and analyses the different phases of the business enterprise and propose a ‘Knowledge-Managed Policing’ approach to criminal entrepreneurialism. Combining conceptual and practical issues, this is a reference for all police professionals, policing academics, and government policy makers who are interested in a strategy-led, intelligence-supported, knowledge-managed approach to policing illegal business entrepreneurialism.
Keywords:
organised crime,
business enterprise,
criminal entrepreneurialism,
policing,
Knowledge-Managed Policing,
illegal business entrepreneurialism
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2010 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780199578436 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: April 2015 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199578436.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Geoff Dean, author
Associate Professor at the School of Justice, Faculty of Law, Queensland University of Technology
Ivar Fahsing, author
Assistant Professor and Detective Superintendent at the Norwegian Police University College
Petter Gottschalk, author
Professor of Knowledge Management, the Norwegian School of Management
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