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Professional Crime: Change, Continuity and the Enduring Myth of the Underworld
- Source :
- Sociology. 31:57-72
- Publication Year :
- 1997
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 1997.
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Abstract
- Based on a recent ethnographic study of professional crime (Hobbs 1995), this paper is concerned with juxtaposing the contemporary enacted environment of serious crime with the most potent device that is utilised to explain and contain its practices and ideological frameworks: the underworld.
- Subjects :
- Sociology and Political Science
Conceptualization
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05 social sciences
Social environment
Mythology
Criminology
Social practice
0506 political science
0502 economics and business
Ethnography
050602 political science & public administration
Ideology
Organised crime
Sociology
050207 economics
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Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14698684 and 00380385
- Volume :
- 31
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Sociology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........de587be1e5b0dca1a4e7de54b0b73aea