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 criminal and the intellectual world, allowing him a unique insight into a subject that holds fascination for so many.
When he was growing up, the East End was rocking with dock strikes, thievery and the kind of family values practiced by the Krays the Tibbs and a few dozen other outlaw clans. Violence was everywhere Crime was an unavoidable fact of life. However, his real education in Plaistow taught him that the real essence of illegal capitalism is to be found amongst the poor bloody infantry of the crime world; the jump up merchants, lorry highjackers, warehouse thieves, and middle-market drug dealers. These are the people with whom he has spent most of his professional life, and along with more exalted villains such as Mad Frankie Frazer and Charlie Richardson, these are the characters who will feature in the book, weaving the stories of these fearsome gangsters with the history and evolution of the UK underworld.
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Dick Hobbs pulls back the curtain to show us how career criminals think, behave, and how the do 'The Business'
| Introduction: Researching Skulduggery |
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Chapter 1 Once Upon a Time in Plaistow: A Stroll Down Felony Lane |
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Chapter 2 The City Arms: East End in Miniature |
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Chapter 3 Ducking, Diving and Jumping Up: Terry Jackson |
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Chapter 5 Mad World: Frank Fraser and the Richardson Brothers |
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Chapter 6 Nostalgia, Celebrity and Murder: Thekrays |
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Chapter 7 Gangbusting With Bert: The Post-Kray City |
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Chapter 8 Heavy Hands and Violent Work |
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Chapter 9 Thieves are Us: The Professionals |
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Chapter 10 Craft and Crackers: Special Skills |
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Chapter 11 Other People's Money: Armed Roddery |
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Chapter 12 Make Your Moneymaker: Drugs and Violence |
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Chapter 13 Back in the City: Staying Sharp in Difficult Circumstances |
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Chapter 14 Bouncers: Minding the Doors of Deception |
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Chapter 15 People Who Need People: Dealing in the Night-Time Economy |
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Chapter 16 Dealing With Reality: Work, Family and Fantasy |
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Chapter 17 Mrs Popeye and Her Sisters |
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Chapter 18 A Place Called Abroad |
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Chapter 19 Trucks and Boats and Planes: Transport |
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Chapter 20 Smoking and the Bandits |
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Chapter 21 `I Can Get it Wholesale; Getting Into a Business Like no Other |
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| Epilogue: The Business |
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| References |
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| Acknowledgements |
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Professor Dick Hobbs was born in Plaistow, East London. After leaving school and working in many clerical and labouring jobs, he attended night school before working briefly as a schoolteacher. As a mature student, he then gained qualifications from the London School of Economics and the University of Surrey before embarking on an academic career that took in the Polytechnic of Central London, the universities of Oxford, Durham, Essex and Western Sydney as well as the LSE. During his career, Dick Hobbs received a number of awards for his research on criminal life, including the Abrams Prize, the Radzinowicz Prize and the IASSOC Outstanding Publication Award. In 2016 he received the Outstanding Award from the British Society of Criminology. He lives in London with his family.
