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Politicising and Policing Organised Crime
Drawing on international fieldwork, this book challenges existing assumptions and accepted understandings of organised crime and explores the ways in which it is amplified and reconstructed for political purposes.
| Author(s) | By Monique Mann (Queensland University of Technology, Australia). |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Format | Hardback |
| Pages | 174 |
| Published in | United Kingdom |
| Published | 7 Aug 2019 |
| Availability | Available |
Drawing on international fieldwork, this book challenges existing assumptions and accepted understandings of organised crime and explores the ways in which it is amplified and reconstructed for political purposes.
Part 1: Contexts, constructs and contestations; 1. The origins of organised crime; Part 2: Metaphors, monsters and moral entrepreneurs; 2. The politics of organised crime; 3. Organised crime and global (in)security; Part 3: Infrastructures, empires and en
Dr Monique Mann is the Vice Chancellor's Research Fellow at the School of Justice, Faculty of Law at Queensland University of Technology. She is advancing a program of socio-legal research on the intersecting topics of police technology, surveillance, and
